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Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $46.50 Sugar---Cry::.ais {Confirmed by Brokers) per 100 lbs. $7.28. Molasses 89° tesc pr 190 ibs. no quotation Cotton, Mid ilingUpiand, at Liverpo>l per Ib. 24 78-100 d. mxchange, New York and Londecn, 60 days’ sight §4.08% “xchange New York and London, sight $£.114 : LLo::DON, Nov. 14th 1919, sugar-Demerara Crystals daty paid price. fixed by the Royal Commission per cwts 06s. od. -7€s. od. *Muscovado, 39°/- basis, tlqating terms in bord, Dit o duty paid. 635. 3d. -81s. od. German Bec( 887/¢ f.o.b. no further sales during toe war Java 96°/ (ibraltaror Channelfor Crders ‘cating 1< ms, no quotations. Demc¢rara k', per gal. nominal. Trinilad Cueoa, Good Middling Red per ew: 1275. od. 180s. Od. Cot:c Mecium Fine Sea llsland, at Liv errool noininal per lb. Bank of Evland rate of Discount per cent. 0. Consols &1 Thiree: per ¢ i rentes in Paris Fes. 60.40 Allorices asubject to correction. WANT SA« JUAN TO JOIN FPREE Z 0 W ASSOCIATION. Rota v Ciub Asks Chamber of Cominerce to jon it ir. Seeking Membership in Or- ganization. Tha Char bher of Tommerce has bzen askec. by tie San Juan Rotary Club to join ia seek .2 membership for San Juan in (he Natonal Free Zone Assoc ation whie': is wo ‘king for the passage o: leg: islation at SVashington authnrizing the estabishme 1t of free zones in American por:s. K'ree zcnes are considered oane of the vital steps necessary in facilitating the cstablisting of additional {race for the United Hiates, ' This aeti:a was taken by the Club aft. its luncheon Tuesday, following the re- ceipt of areport (rom a q:>mmittee com- posed of F. C: Holmes, chairman, Eduardo Ferrer, Dicnisio Trigo, and B. O, Clare. In its report the committee said: - “*We have the bonded warehouses where good; intended for reexport may be entered and held free of duty, but the purpose of the free zone is to encourage and expedite tha® part of a nation’s for- eign trade w “schits (Government \.VIS]NE‘S to free from tl ¢ restrictions necessitatad by customs duties. It aims to foster the dealing in fereign goods that are.import—- eds not for domestic consumption but for reexport to foreign markets, and for conditioning. or for combining with dom- estic producis previous to export. “‘Afree zone may be defined as an iso- lated, inclosed, aud polieed ares, in or ad- jacent to a port of entry, without resid- ent population, furnished with the neces- ST L ROlX AN ]S sary facilities so. loading and unloading, for supplying fiel and ship’s stores,for storing goods and for reshipping them by land, and water; an area within which goods may be landed, stored, mixed, blended, repacked, manuiactuccd, and reshipped withou* payment of duties and without the intervention of customs officials.”’ The National Free Zone Association has in its membership not only indivi- duals and corporations but aiso eommer- cial b>dies in the leading porrs through- out the United States. Amiong the cities represented n the association are:— Bal- timore, Boston, Chicago. Detroit, Los Angelis, New Orleans, N:w Portrews, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Savannah, Seattie. Taco.na and other important cities. The association main- tains an office at Washingt o which keeps in close touen with all lezi-laiion tending to improve trading condiions through tae llncr2aasing of porc [.cilities in the United States.—Porto Rico Progress, Oct. 17th. BUILDING ASSOC ATION INCORPORATIS. Articles of incorporation of the Porto Rico Buildinz and Loan Association have been approved by the Secre rary of Porto Rico ang a committee of the in:orpor- ators are now drafting by-laws to be presented at a meeting of stock holders and incorporators to be he lin the next few days The incorporatcrs number 15 and they were chosen at a (-eeting sever- al weeks ago which was attended by men interested in the fornarion of such an organizatier.—lbid. RECENT WORK IN PiYSIOLOGY. Experiments receive attcntion in Phy- stological Abstracts for Jun: 1919, which tend to establish the prin:iple that in- sects inhabiting fermentine ar d decaying subscrata of low protein content, like flies and maggots in manure and meat, usualiv feed upon the micro-organisms present and thus benefit by the power of the fungi to extract, ab:orb and syn- thesize wany non-proiein vitrogenous compound. Another note in the san2 jonrnal re- fers to the poisonous priiciple in the Tetrodon or Globe fish tiat oecurs in West Indian waters. This unstance, te- trodin, is 1 crystaliine con pocund and a powertui nerve poison. e :th probably results from a direct action upon the re- spiratory centre. The tox'n, ina con- centration of 0.00002 per cent, paralyses a nerve fibre in 30 minutes. —Agricultu- al News. THE VALUE OF CULTIVATING. —The Trinidad ezneSeld, reported n August to tiie Board of Agriculiure, as showving distinetly the beneficial effect of forking the land, continues to show the same differences in favour of the culti- vated part. The ecanes on this part of the field which were at first a little smal- ler than those on the unforked arears are now as big if not bigger than the latter, and much healthier. This indi- cates the value of inereased cultivation as a remedy against froghopper and other maladies of the sugar-cane in Trinidad. —lbid. THE PROPER BURNING OF FUEL Uil At present prices of oil the method and appliances adopted for burning fuel oil becomes of paramcunt importance, as their edecliveness has an imvportant bearing on the cost of factory operation. In Louisiana, where 01l has been burned in the sugar factories for about twenty years, the proper appliances tor the han- aling and combustion of this fuel have been carefully studied and year by year greater effectiveness bas been secured. The Rogers-Higgins Company Hibernia Building, New Orleans, are among the makers of fuel oil burning equipment who have grown up, as it were with fuel oil development in Louisiana, and during the past many years they have studied the whole fuel oil burning question, es- pecially in its relation to sugar factcry practice, and they believe that their "‘Rogers-Higgins’’ burner, as now de- signed, is extraordinarily effective, es- pecially in sugar house work. They have issued "‘Circular 102"’, which they want 7o place in the hands of sugar fae- tory owners, engineers and administra tors in Cuba and all othevr countries where the consumption of fuel oil is in vogue. This circular gives some valuable data on fuel oil burning, especially in sugar factories, and should be asked for by alj who buin fuel oil, no matter whether they contemplate installing Rogers-Hig- gins equipment or not. Lowisiania Plan- ter, Oct. 11th. It seems hardly possible that the total sugar supply in August for every person in the United States was only 5.8 nounds per capita, estimating the country’s pop- ulation at 105,000,000 people. The su- gar distributed for consumption in this month was 272,000 and for the first eight months was 2,884,000 tons. Last year the increase was 385,000 tons less for the same period and the inerease is 8.2 pounds more per capita. The total con- sumption per capita in the eight months is put at 61.5 pounds. It is .estimated that 750,000 tons are available {for the balance of the year. This will allow only 4 pounds per month per capita with no allowance for exports, but Louisiana crops and new beet crops are not in this caleulation.—lbid.