The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-02-19
CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR.

Uncle Sam has q sweet tooth. It
has been suspected for some time;
now there are figures to show it.
The latest statistics reveal the fact
that the United States consumes
more sugar than any other nation
in the world. Year by year the
human family has been developing
its taste for sweet things, the con-
sumption of sugar of various kinds
/ having steadily grown faster than
the race has multiplied. And year
by year the states and territories
making up this hustllng Yankee
nation" have in their use of sugar
been as steadily gaining on the
average consumption per capita,
until now our ga millions are
found to have beaten the record,
not only in the total amount con-
sumed as a country, but probably
in the average per inhabitant as
well. 1t seems that we used about
so pounds each, last year, or, to be
more exact, nearly 100000, 900
pounds in all. The rest of the
world consumed nearly 10,000,00O,-
900 pounds. 1t will doubtless be
news to a great many people in the
United States to learn that of this
vast quantity of su gar consumed
by the different nations, ever 60
per cent. is made from beets. 1t is
only few years since beet sugar
was first brought into the market,
but from the time of its introduce
ton the quantity of it used has
steadily gained on that of cane
sugar. In 1884 and 1885 the guam
tity of each was about equal; the
season of 1856 placed beet sugar
in the lead, and each years work
has given it little advantage. UNI
til now the world consumes 7,7O0,-
100000 pounds of sugar made from
beet,as against SOL, 100000 pounds
of sugar made from cane. The
relative quantity of the two kinds
66qflp9ss anBmq in the United States at
than one-ffifth OF the whole
amount. But there are strong in
dications of very rapid change in
this respect. For instance, we i'm
port four ifths of all the sugar we
use; the amount of cane sugar
imported last year was no
larger than that of the year
before, while the Importation OF
beet sugar was nearly four times
greater than it was the previous
year. This was an exceptional in
create, to be sure, but the growth
has been steady for some years
past; and when to these significant
facts are added the successful COM
mencement of beet sugar making
and the tremendous interest now
being taken IN the possibilities OF
the industry, it will be seen that
the probabilities are altogether in
favor of both the production and
consumption of beet sugar in this
country soon exceeding that OF
sugar made from cane. The
position of beet sugar among
European products is thus stat
ed in a pamphlet issued by
the Oxnard Beet Sugar Company,
of Grand Island, Neb.: "Beet sugar
paid the Prussian war debt in
France and has done more to make
the people wealthy than any other
thing. Last year Germany pro-
duced 100000 tons of beet sugar
more than any other nation.
Austria followed with 100000 tons,
France with 100000 tons, Russia
4SO, 900 tons, Belgium with $4,000
tons, Holland $4,000 tons. Total
production 3,445, 900 against 2,764,-
457 tons in 1888 and 2,45l, 900 tons
in 1887. This is the most success
full agriculture in Europe. 1t will
soon make the farmers of Nebraska
who raise sugar beets rich and
stimulate all other interests..-[E Elk.