The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-10-02
ASWEET- T-TOOTHED NATION.
United States Consumption of
Sugar Has Increased Greatly.

United States Consumption o
Sugar Has Increased Greatly.
The United States consumes nov
eight times as much sugar per capit'
as in the first quarter of the last cen
tury, four times as much rs the average
per capita during the decade ending
with 1850, and twice as much III III any
year prior to 1870.
| From 1870 TO 1880 it averaged abou
40 pounds per capita, from 1880 tC
1890, so pounds per capita in 1891
the figure was GG pounds per capita
and has ranged from G2 to GS pounds
per capita since that time, the figures
for 1901 being G4.4 pounds.
This year growth in the consumption
of sugar is evidently not confined tC
the United Staros. The increase seems
to have been equally rapid in other
parts Of the world. Figures recently
published showed that the sugar pro-
duction of the world was nearly eight
times as great in 1900 as in 1910, the
figures for 1910 being l,l5O,OOO tons,
and that for 1900, $500, 900 tons.
This increase III production ami con-
sumption has come largely through the
development of the boct sugar indus
try, which increased from production
of so 900 tons III 1910 to 200, 900 tons
in 1850, 83l 900 tons in 1870, ,4O2,-
600 tons III 1880, 3,GG3 900 tons in
1890, and $3.50, 900 tons in 1900.
During the same time cane sugar
production increased from LOO 900
tons IN 1910 to 1850, 900 tons in 1900.
Bcets in 1910 supplied 4.35 per cent.
Of tho total sugar product of the world :;
in 1850 they supplied ID % per cent !;
in 1860, 20.43 per cent i'll 1870, 81. 40
por cent in 1890: G3.70 per cent. and
in 1900, GIL per cent.
The per capita consumption Of sugar
III the United States is greater than
that of any o:hcr country, except in
the United Kingdom, where the an
nual consumption ranges from S5.9l
pounds per capita.
An interesting report describing the
probable effect of the abnornally cold
and wet summer which Germany has
experienced, has been made public at
the State Department. The report is
from Consul General Mason, at Berlin,
that September is sunshiny, the report
says, the growing crop of sugar will be
converted to one of the largest on rec
ord, in proportion to the area under
cultivation. The sugar producers of
Germany, and of Austria, also, says
the consul general, are entering on a
new campaign under very discouraging
conditions. Aside from the very low
price of sugar and an utterly stagnant
market, there is the still more dcpress-
ing fact, he says, that the surplus of
last years sugar carried over ia greater
than at the beginning of any recent
campaign.
The situation in Germany, it ls stat
cd, is somewhat better than in Austria,
from the fact that Germany consumes
at home more sugar than Austria, and =,
therefore, is less dependent on exports.
The sugar consumption por capita for
Germany is 2S pounds, while in Aus
tria it is only l7.G pounds, both figures
meager and insignificant compared with
the per capita of consumption i'll the
United States and Great Britain. The
consul general continues
"The effect of the export bounty
system has been to tax sugar out of
the reach of largo proportion of tho
working classes in Europe, and tho
two most important results aimed at
by the Brussels conference were to
repeal tho cause of countervailing
duties in America and reduce the retail
price Of homegrown sugar in the Eu-
ropeah markets"
Summing up the situation with re-
gard to crops as whole, Mr.. Mason
says that the German grain crop this
year will be fully up to The average in
quantity, but that it's quality has been
moro or less seriously damaged by the
unfavorablc weather.