The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-04
SUGAR

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of the country aggregates a million dol
lars for every day of the year.
These assertions are justified by a
statistical statement just prepared by
the Bureau of Statistics of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, which
/ shows the quantity of sugar produced
in the United States, the quantity
brought from our own islands, the
quantity imported from foreign coun.
tries, and the quantity exported, show
| ing total consumption of from 6 to
Z billion pounds year, the total for
the latest year, 1907, being 1859, 667 ,075
pounds. Calculating this enormous
total at the average retail price of IA
cents per pound we get total of 372
million dollars as its cost to the con-
sumner, or more than "a million dollars
for each of the 1865 days of the year.
Dividing this total of 7,0S9,667, 975
pounds by the 1907 figures of popula-
| ton, we get an average consumption
| for 1907 of 50 3-5 pounds per capita,
|
average per capita weight of the peo-
pie of the country, including men, wo
men and children in this calculation.
One-fifth of this enormous total of z
billion pounds, speaking now in very
general terms, is produced at home,
one-fifth is brought from our own ISL
| ands, and the remaining three-fifths
from foreign countries. Speaking
more accurately, the Bureau Of Statis-
tics statement shows that 213 per cent
of the sugar consumption of the coun-
try in 1907 was of home production,
IT. per cent from our own islands,
and the remaining 81 per cnt same from
foreign countries. The home prod
uct amounted to 1,511 million pounds,
that brought from the islands, 1854
million pounds, and that from foreign
countries, 4,367 million pounds. or
the 1911 million pounds produced at
home, 544 millions was produced from
cane and 967 millions from beets. Of
the 1854 million pounds brought from
our own islands, 40S millions was from
Porto Rico, 821 millions from Hawaii,
and 25 millions from the Philippines.
OF the 1887 million pounds brought
from foreign countries, 1926 millions
was cane sugar from Cuba, 1872 mil
| lions from other cane sugar countries,
| and 1913 millions beet sugar produced
in Europe. Meantime, 43 million
dc ha
tai consumption at home, as above in
| Dictated over billion pounds.
The sugar record of the United States
in 1907 was unique in several parti-
I culars. The quantity of sugar import
ed from foreign countries was larger
than ever before, the quantity brought
from our own islands was larger than
in any former year, the quantity pro-
duced at home exceeded that of any
other year, the quantity exported was
larger than in any year of the past
decade, and the per capita consumption
was the largest ever recorded, an aver
age of 80 6 pounds for each man, wo-
man, and child of continental United
ture of this record year of 1907 was
the fact that the production of beet
sugar, for the first time exceeded the
production of cane sugar; the product
of the year being, cane sugar 544 mil
lion pounds; beet sugar, 967 million
pounds.
The increase in the production OF
beet sugar in the United States has
been very rapid in recent years.
decade ago, in 1897, the production Of
beet sugar was about "a million pounds
against 644 million pounds of cane SUI
gar. Five years later, in 1902, the
beet sugar production was 1863 million
| pounds, against 729 million pounds OF
cane sugar; in 1907, beet sugar pro-
duction was 967 million pounds, against
| 544 million pounds of cane sugar, the
beet sugar production of 1907 being
| greater than that of cane sugar in any
year in the history of the country.
The record of sugar brought from
the tropical islands now under the
| American flag is also interesting. The
quantity brought from Porto Rico In
1907 was 40S million pounds, or more
than in any year except 1906; that from
the Hawaiian Islands, 821 millions, or
more than in any years except 1905;
and that from the Philippine Islands,
| 20 million pounds, or less than that
during any of the past 20 years except
1901, 1902 and 1903, when the quanti-
ties were abnormally small. The
quantity brought from Cuba in 1907
was also larger than in any earlier
year, being 1926 million pounds,
against $500 millions in the former
high-record year, 1904. The quantity
of sugar brought from Porto Rico in
1907 was about five times as much as
the average before annexation; the
quantity brought from the Hawaiian