. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 33 PLANTATION WHITE SUGAR Mr. Frank Schaffer, president of Hugh Kelly & Co., owners of the Central Teresa, Oriente Province, was recently in Cuba visiting the properties of the company. According to an interview in the Havana Post, Mr. Schaffer will consider the ad- visability of making white sugar at the plantation. This product under the new United States tariff can enter that country free of extra duty. Mr. Schaffer, however, suggests caution for the new venture and advises against undue haste in the changing of sugar mill machinery or in making expens
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 33 PLANTATION WHITE SUGAR Mr. Frank Schaffer, president of Hugh Kelly & Co., owners of the Central Teresa, Oriente Province, was recently in Cuba visiting the properties of the company. According to an interview in the Havana Post, Mr. Schaffer will consider the ad- visability of making white sugar at the plantation. This product under the new United States tariff can enter that country free of extra duty. Mr. Schaffer, however, suggests caution for the new venture and advises against undue haste in the changing of sugar mill machinery or in making expensive and new installations required by the process as the product cannot be used for every purpose, as refined sugar can when by the bone char process. He further declared that "the changes, commercial conditions and inconveniences which will undoubtedly have to be met and to be borne in the disposi- tion and distribution of such a product, may not prove exactly satisfactory to the ; President Menocal has sent Dr. Gasteona Cuadrado to Louisiana for the purpose of studying the process of making pure white sugar direct from cane juice. DEMANDS OF COLONOS There is an agricultural association of colonos at Gtiines, who are seeking an agri- cultural education, money cheaper than at 12 per cent and 18 per cent, a return to the conuco system (i. e., the privilege of plant- ing an eighth of a caballeria of land to vegetables, etc., for their own consump- tion), and a fixed price for cane payable in sugar or money as the colono may prefer. This "fixed price" the association de- mands is 7% per cent—undoubtedly the very best percentage paid in Cuba. Most mills in the Guines district have acceded to their demands except Sr. Gomez Mena. Lands upon which to establish an agri- cultural school in Camaguey have been pur- chased by the government. The price paid was $3,000, and the plot contains about three caballerias of CARROS DE MOTOR DE LA COMPANIA BUDA
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