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SUGAR
NOTES.
-
Tha:
\"rexico
is ¢chminz
baek
and that
the
rehabilitation
is
in
progress
i 3 evi-
denced
on
more
sides
than
one.
Just
4
now tne repois
show
that
the sugar
out-
put
is 110,000 tons,
more
than
the
eoun-
try has producel
[or a number
of years.
The
country
reallv
needs
200,000
tons
and
when
the
revolution
broke
out
in
1911
Mexico
wss
about
ready
to pro-
duce
tonat
tonnage.
Since
then
the
in-
ternal
affairs
have rent
industry and
fi-
nancz
asunder
and
the
Mexicans
are
just
discovering
thaf
a
peace
policy is
far beiter
than
a war policy
Domestic
tranquility will do wonders
for the
sugar
industry.
Louisiana
Plnnter.
*
The
Sugar
Jorporation of India is
the
new
adventuring
enterprise
that is ain-
ing
to
travel
unbeaten
sugar
tracks
in
India,
and
if thev
suceceed
it will
mean
a joit i%
more
than
one
section.
It will
"
me=an
the agopy’'of
Inew
ideain
some
minJs,
when
modern
mills and
factories
with irr'gation,
schemes
will disturb
the
cemi-tropical region of the
vast
eommon-
wealsh.
The “Indian House
of Tatas
of
Bombay
is credited
with the
new
ven-
ture.
They
have a capital of
£5,000,000
and
the first offering f stock
is £200,000.
which
was subseribed
seven
times
over
and
shows
what
faith Indians
have
in
their owh
possibilities.
Experts
will be
bired
to
direct the activities.
Traets of
500 .and
1,000
acres will be
made
avail-
-gble for the manufacture
of gubr,
and
!
when larger tracts
can be
~btained
up to
2,000
acres
then
centrifugal
factories
will
be
established.
This
is the
most
gigantic
scheme
ever
thought
out
for
India
and
it will
mean
a
new
day for
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