, 1902-03-28
sUGAR FIGURES
MONOGRAPH ISSUED BY THE
TREASURY BUREAU OF
STATISTICS.
Rapidly Increasing Proportion Of
Worlds Enlarged Sugar consump-
ton Supplied BY Beets- In
crease Of Nearly Twelve Thou
sand Per Cent In Sixty Years.

sand Per Cent In Sixty Years.
Washington, D. c., March 2S.-
Especial to The Republican.)-'The
Worlds Sugar Production and Con.
sumption, 1SOO-19OO" is the title of a
monograph just issued by the trea'
sury bureau of statistics. 1t discusses
the sugar production and consump-
ton of the world during the past Cen,
fury, and especially during the last
half century, in which the burden of
Isugar production has been transferred
from cane to the sugar beet, and
in which the world has so largely
increased its consumption of sugar.
| The wold's sugar production has
grown from 1,15G,oOO tons in 1910
to 8.S0O,O00 tons in 1900. During
the same period the worlds pop
ulation has grown according to
the best estimates from $780,
600, 900 to about 1,5OO,O 600, 900. Thus,
sugar production has increased about
$50 per cent while population was in
creasing but about SO per cent. Com
ing nearer home mi considering the
United States alone, it is found that
the consumption Of sugar which in
1850 was only % pounds per capita,
was in 1901 over 68 pounds per capita.
One especially striking fact shown
by the statistics presented in his
study is the rapidly Increasing proper
ton of the ~srfd,s enlarged sugar con-
sumption which IL supplied by beets.
According to the figures presented by
this study. beets, which supplied in
1910 less than s per cent of the worlds
sugar, In 1900 supplied 81 per cent of
the greatly increased consumption:
while cane, which then supplied 95 per
cent Of the worlds sugar consumption,
now supplies but SO per cent. Stated
in quantities, 1t may be said that the
worlds can sugar supply has grown
from 100000 toni IN 1870 to 1885,
900 tons in 1900, an Increase of $50
per cent: while that of beets has
grown from 50, 900 tons in 1910 to g.
$50, 900 tons in 1900, an increase Of
1880 per cent.
The figures above quoted include
that portion which enters into the
worlds statistical record Of sugar
production, and does o include the
large quantities Of cane sugar produc-
ed in India and China exclusively for
home consumption, and in a consider
able number of the tropical countries
does no. include that portion of the
sugar consumed at home. Even II
these. figures Of cane sugar produc-
ton for home consumption were OBJ
tainable. the production from beets
would still show a much more rapid
growth during the last half century
than that from cane. This is, appar-
emily, due to two great causes: ()
the elimination of slavery in the trop-
les, the seat Of the principal sugar pro-
d~uction; and (2) the intelligent study
of, and government aid to the produc-
ton of beet sugar In the Temperate
zone, especially In European coun-
tries.
One effect Of this enormous increase
and the competition which has accom-
panied the developments above allud-
ed to has been a great reduction in
prices to the consumer. The figures
of the bureau Of statistics obtained
from statements supplied by import
ers Of the cost in foreign countries Of
the sugar which they import show that
the average cost Of the sugar import
ed in 1912 was 5.37 cents per pound,
and In the year 1S99-19OO, 2.49 cents
per pound.
The sugar production of France has
grown from $4,000 metric tons In the
sugar year 1S3s-40 to s05,0O0 tons in
%1s99-19O0; that Of Germany, from H.
| $50 metric tons in 1S39-4O to 1876, 900
tons in 1%9O0-1901; Austria-Hungary
from $4,000 metric tons in 1855, the
earliest date for which figures are OBJ
tainable, to 1,120.0 0 tons in 1s99-1900;
Russia, from $4,000 metric tons In
1885 to 5000 0 tons in 1S99-1900;
Belgium, from $4,000 metric tons in
that year to 100000 tons in 1s99-1900;
Holland, from 1000 metric tons in
ls6o-61 to 10000 tons in 1Ss9-1900
Turning to the cane sugar producing
areas, in which the statistics are MOI
available for SO long = period, 1t il
found that the exports from the Phil
Iippine Islands increased from 23,41e
metric tons in 1860 to $4,000 metric
toas In 1884,. From Cuba the exports
In 1860 were 5s7 ,491s tons and In 1891
ses,7S0; in Hawaii the production hal
grown from 1890 tons In 1876 to 243,
40 tons in 1889. lava produced II
1854, 3ss.sss tons and IN 1901. 7s5,
90 tons; and Brasil, which In 1888
producsd sss,ssb tons, produced II
1sel. s1syeee tons.
TIE tahss which follows shows IA
Ivossd's preduction q sugar from can
1T testh r~espscttvsly. = dscsnnia
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