The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-03-28
The smear culture.

The Boston Journal Of the 9th has an in
teresting article on the culture and con-
sumption of sugar, from which we Gull some
valuable statistics. The writer notices that
the increase in the growth and consumption
OF sugar has been no less great and sur
prising during the last century than that Of
cotton, and that the demand of the civilized
world for these two articles, for which we
are dependent upon slave labor has out
grown the demand for every other great sta
pie. The labor hitherto employed upon
these products has hitherto suficed to sup
ply the world with all that is requisite for
their wants. But the demand is now out
running the supply. Either slave labor must
be increased or sugar must be cultivated by
those who are nominally or really free. The
Chinese might be substituted, if it were not
that they are averse to the labor of growing
sugar, and in reality have now raised enough
on their own soil, with all the advantages
they have for its culture to form an article of
export competing to any extent with slave
grown sugar.
Hayti, under French rule, was prosper
Gus sugar-growing country. Up to 1889,
nearly 20 years ago the average annual ex-
port of sugar from Hayti was 100000
pounds, an amount then constituting large
portion of the entire product of the world,
for no longer than twenty years ago the to-
tai consumption of sugar in the world, in
Guiding the indigenous production, was only
about 1000 millions of pounds.
1t is said that it was not until after the
Crusades that sugar was known at all in
Northern Europe. For long time after it
was an article of luxury that the affluent
only could afford to use.
The culture of the cane was unsuccessfully
attempted in the South of Europe. It's in
PRODUCTION into the West Indies in the first
half of the fifteenth century was the initia-
ton of successful and prolific culture.
When the whites were driven from Hayti, at
the time the blacks obtained the ascendancy
there, they carried the culture to Louisiana.
The culture in Hayti under black rule has so
declined, that the inhabitants now import
sugar for their own consumption.
The total consumption of sugar in the
world in 1855 was about two thousand seven
hundred and sixty million pounds, of which
the United States consumed 72O,OOO,OOO
pounds, and Great Britain about the same
showing that more than half the sugar pro-
duced in the world is consumed by the fifty
million people in England and the United
States. The German nations, including
Belgium and Holland, consumed 52O,OOO,OOO
pounds, France, 26O,OOO,OOO; Spain, $780,
100000 and Russia, l26,OOO,OOO; Portugal,
100000, Sweden and Norway, Is, 100000,
and Denmark 100000. 1t is estimated
that in the United States about one-third of
the consumption is furnished by the cane
sugar of the South and the maple of the
North. In 1850, according to the census
returns, the sugar cane crop of the United
States was about 247 100000 pounds. The
maple crop was 81, 100000 pounds. Last
year the domestic production, cane and ma
pie, was about 2so,OOO,OOO pounds, while
the imported, after deducting re-exports,
reached 100000, 900 pounds. These figures
give 90 pounds per head to our population.
The population of Great Britain consumes
twenty-four pounds per head, showing that
the Anglo-Saxon is the sugar eating race
Belgium stands next, 1S pounds per head !;
Holland, II France, 8; Denmark, 6 !; Ger
man States 81 Sweden and Norway 81 );
Austria nearly 3; and Russia something
over two pounds per head.
The following table shows where the SUI
CARS imported into the United States come
from. 1t will be seen what a fertile pro.
Queer for us Cuba is -2
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