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Sugar---Crystals maximum per 100 lbs. $18.31. Molasses Sugar 89° test, no quotation. Cotton, Middling Upland, at i.iverpool per Jb. 26 61-100 d. ty>xchange, New York and London, 60 days’ sight $3.90 Exchange New York and London, sight - LonwDON, July 3rd 1920. Sugar, Demerara Crystals, Govt. con- trolled price for July. Duty paid per ewt. 1465. 3d. Qugar-Demerara Urystals, (free of Govt. . control) duty paid per ewt. 150s. od. Moscovado Govt. controlied price for July duty paid 141s. 6d. - Lo Moscovado free of Govt.. cantrol duty paid 110s. od. 120s. od. : : Sugar Muscovado, (free of Govt. contro! price for July) duty paid per-ewt. 150s. 0d (German Beet 887/¢ f.o.by no sales | ‘White Java sugar cif United Kingdom 130s. od. Demerara tum, per gal. nominatl.. . Trinidad Cocoa, Good Middling Red per ewt 120s. od. os. od. Cotto Medium Fine Sea Island, at Liv- ernool per Ib. nominal Bank of England rate of Discount per cent. 7. Consols 463. Three per cent rentes in Paris [es. 56.75. All prices subject to correction. The exports of honey from Jamaica achieved a remarkable rgcord during the vear 1918-19, owing to the demand for it in the United Kingdom.- The records show that 1;175 tons of honey were ex- ported, to the value of- £154,700." [The West India Committee Circular. The colony of British Honduras was of material use to the Empire in the prose- cution of the war, by supplying large quantities of mahogany for making aero- plane propellers. The export of the wond was conserved and controlled s»-le- ly for military uses. A representative of the Admiralty was present in the colony to make contracts foi the purchase of the yefar’s ouiput.—Colonial Reports. The Louisiana Planter, April 3, 1920 states that heavy rainfall, which was very much desired, seems to have occur- ved throughout Ciba, though perhaps not in a sufficient volume to meet all the requirements. A year ago it was predicted that the Cuban sugar crop of this campaign would amount to 4,500,000 tone. Last December this estimate was revised to 4,300,000 tons, and the gen- eral opinion at present seems to be that, owing to unfavourable weather condi- tions, it willhardly be more than 3,900,- 000 tons.—lbid. : According to Facts about Sugar, April 3rd, 1920 a large refinery is being erect- ed in connexion with Central Limones s . e BL X A VIS in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. The refining plant is to b: situated close (o the Central, making it possible for the raw suZar to b 2 conveyzad to it by machi- nery; thereby reducing labour expenses. The refinery willhave a capacity of some 5,000 barrels of sugar a.day, and the plant will also comprise a barrel factory, a bag dactory, and a ecarton factory, so shat sugar may be put up in any form desired The owners of Limones believe. that their plans will enable them to qut thg refined prodfet in a desirable form on the Euro- ‘pean market. lbid. According to official returns, the pros- pects of the tobacco crop in Southern Rhodesia this year are exceedingly good. The area planted in this crop, chiefly in Mashonaland, is 6,000 acres. [.ast year the area was 4,000 agres. Itis antici- pated, moreover, that the yield per acre generally, will be at least 50 per cent. higher than last year, and the quality of the leaf is expected to be the best pro- duced for a number of years.—The York- shire Post. = " The report on the production of tea in India in 1918, recently issued by the In- dian Department of Statistics, states that the total area under tea in that year was 678,500 acres, a net inecrease on the previous year of 11,500 a~res. The to- tal produciion of boih biack and green teas in 1918 is reported to have been 380,349,000 Tb. It is a noteworthy fact that, while the area under cultivation in- creased by 27 per cent. in the decade 19U8-19, the increase in production was no less than 56 per cent. —The Board of Trade Journal. Sugar-cane, varieties, remove varying amox?lts ?)?%ne‘ vital elements from the soil. *, It is; estinfated from ‘analyses of the total ¢anciplant, except vaots, made in the Agricyltural *Laboratory, ~Queens- land,{that -the variety ‘known" as:{lark’s seedfng, .sixteen months old, tesk from the SEHGB tb. of potash; 83%b. .phesphor- ic acid, ..and 961b. of nitrogen, while the variety known as Badia, of the same age, took out of the land 139 . of po- tash, 44 . of jphosphoric acid, and 107 tb. of nitrogen.—(The Queensland Agri- cultural Journal.) The New Zealand Journal of Agricul- ture, February 20, 1920, contains a note on experiments made with aluminium honey combs. These metal combs are ‘not merely sheets of foundation but are Langstroth frames, in which thin strips of aluminium are ingeniously worked into the shape of worker cells. It is claimed that these metal combs tend to greater production of honey, owing to the saving of time in building the wax; also that they extract cleaner, and save the loss of broken combs, destruction of insects, etc. Judging from the results of the ex- periments, it is stated that these claims do not appear unreasonable.— Ibid. The necessggy yarns for air-craft fa- brics are constructed from super fine combed Sealsland cotton. These fabries possess the maximum strength combined with elasticity, and are able fully to withstand the immense air-pressure caus- ed when air-craft are flying at the high- est - possible speed. 'The production of this frabric is a specialty of the large business of Messrs. Heaton, which op- erates about 300,000 spindels of Sea Is land yarn for manufacture into aero- plane canvas, fine laces, muslins, cam- bries, and the best qualities of sewing threads. —(Supplement to the Owverseas Daily Manl. In a note on the South African cotton industry, which appears in Production, March 1920, it is mentioned that the ex- port of cotton from South Africa last crop was 71 tons, while this crop it was 700 tons. The note goes on to point out the probability of cotton beinga profit- able crop for some years to come. When it is remembered that 500 bof cotton was used for making one shell it will easily be recognized that the short- age of cotton will continue: for some time before the enormous -quantity used during the war for military purposes 1s made good —7sid. The Board of Trade Journal, Narch 11, 1920, states that statistics of the traffic of the Panama Canal during 1919, show that it exceeded that of any brevi- ous'year, 2,396 ships of 7,128,000 net tons, in addition to naval vessels displecing 1,000,000 tons, having passed through the water-way.= The British flag ryre dominated over all others in the tntal number of vesseis utilizing the canal from August 1914, when" the canal was opened to traffic, to the end of October 1919. During that period 8,618 ships passed through the canal, of which 3,147 were British, 2,910 American, and the rest of other nationalities lbid. And Noises In The Head. IFF YOU ARE A SUFFERE—Go to your Local Druggist and order ‘CON- CENTRATED SOURDAL,’ price 4/6 per tin. This New remedy gives almost immediate relief, and quickly eJects a permanent cure. It penetrates to the actual seat of the complaint, and has completely cured many cases which were considered hopeless If your Chemist does. not yet stock ‘SOURDAL’, do not accept any substitute, but send money- order for a supply direct to the ‘SOUR- DAL’ ‘DISTRIBUTING CO. 85 STA- TOIN ROAD, CROYDON, SURREY, ENG., and a package will be mailed per return with full directions.