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Show Mod ern Methods VVHi Make I Possible Larger Exports to United States MANILA, P. I., April 27. The sugar su-gar crop of 1910-1920 in tho Philippine Philip-pine Islands, now being harvested, aggregates ag-gregates 225,000 tons for export and between 75,000 arfd 100,000 tons for homo consumption, according to figures fig-ures compiled by chambers of commerce com-merce and manufacturers and exporters. export-ers. Centrifugal sugar, 9C per cent pure, forms only a small percentage of the production of the Islands, tho bulk of the sugar produced being muacava-dos, muacava-dos, In which a largo percentage of molasses remains aftor being produced by the open boiler process. Out of tho 225,000 tons estimated available for export this year, 75,000 tons are centrifugals and 150,000 mus-cavados. mus-cavados. Practically nono of tho lat-cter lat-cter variety is exported to the United States, China and Japan taking the most of it. Growers and manufacturers, however, how-ever, predict that within a short umc the ratio of centrifugals to muscAva-dos muscAva-dos will be reversed, by reiu:.jii of ihe modern methods of manufacture boir.g Introduced. There aro at present twenty sugar centrals in operation In the Philippics, Philip-pics, and eight others aro undo. con-strocllon con-strocllon or are planned for immediate immedi-ate declopmenL Tho labor problem is becoming sorl-ous, sorl-ous, according to producers and manufacturers. man-ufacturers. Many of the natives Have left the islands. Some havo gone to tho Alaska fish canneries, others hie taken up a seafaring life, whHo a number have migrated to the Hawaiian Ha-waiian sugar fields. The tractor has replaced tho cara-bao cara-bao In somo localities. Producers and manufacturers assert that double the present output could bo cared for if the supply of common labor could bo obtained to plant and harvest Iho cane. Efforts aro being made to induce the government to render assistance along the line of-more lntensivo cultivation culti-vation of the soil. According to statistics, statis-tics, yie yield per acre has been stationary sta-tionary for many years, as little' moro than threo-quartcrs of a ton, while In somo can producing countries five tons an aero are obtained. In the Island of Formosa, under Japanese methods of Intensive cultivation, cultiva-tion, a yield of one and a half tons an aero is obtained, and growers claim that tho soil and climatic conditions there arc Inferior to those In tho Philippines. Phil-ippines. While figures on local consumption rnjimlll Jiy ' ' UU i ill 1 1 1 U-l't I ISJ of sugar aro not gven as exact, various vari-ous authorities place tho quantity at between 15 and 20 pounds per capita, a year, as against a consumption of about 90 pounds per capita in the United Uni-ted States. "The introduction of 60,000 Chinese into the sugar industry of the Philippines Philip-pines would, through the application of moro intensive methods of agriculture, agricul-ture, which are not possible under existing ex-isting conditions, double tho present sugar production from the area at prcsent under cultivation for cane," j said Georgo H. Fairchild. a large ex- I porter, in a review of tho sugar situation, situa-tion, published In tho April bulletin of the PuJilpplne chamber of commerce. com-merce. oo |