Arizona republican., 1909-02-22

! try in the Dutch East Indies were suc- cessfully combated and the production
 and exportation of coffee shortly re-
 sumed, suggests that the Philippines ' may, with proper attention, again be-
 come large producers and exporters of
 coffee
 The United States is the worlds
 largest consumer of coffee and cacao,
 but not of tea. Coffee importations by the principal countries of the world in 1906, the latest year for which statis- tics are available, amounted, accord ing to a statement of the department of agriculture, to 2,577 100000 pounds, of which 9S5,000,000 millions were i'm ported by the United States, 412, ,000,- 900 by Germany, 256.OO0OO millions by the Netherlands, 216,000,000 by France, 119,000,000 by Belgium, and 113,000, 900 millions by Austria Hungary, while in no other country does the total reach as much as 100.000,000 pounds.
 Of the 336,00O,O0O pounds of cacao imported by the principal countries of the world in 1908, eighty millions were imported into the United States, seven ty-five and a half millions entered
  ions entered France, forty-seven mill ions into the United Kingdom, and twenty four and a half millions into the Netherlands, making the United States the worlds largest importer of cacao as well as coffee.
 Of tea, the United States stands third in the rank imported; the quan- tity of tea imported into the United Kingdom in 190 being. according to the same authority, two hundred and seventy million pounds; Russia, one hundred and thirty-six millions; United States, eighty-six millions; Australia, twenty nine millions, and Canada, twepty-six million pounds. The United Kingdom. it will be seen, is therefore by far the largest importer of tea its colonies, Australia and Canada, be- ing also large importers in proportion to population.
 The coffee habit" has evidently grown upon the people of the Uinted States. Twenty years ago, in 1888. the quantity of coffee imported was 423,- 0OO, 900 pounds. and in 1908. S90, 0,000,000 pounds, though the quantity has fluc- tuated from year to year, having in 1902 and again in 1905 exceeded 1,000.- 100000 pounds The per capita con which in 1868 was 6.52 pounds. in 1878, 6.24. and in 1888, 6.s1, was in 1898, 1I6S pounds, and in 1908, 1004 pounds. In tea the per capita has somewhat reduced that of 1878 having been 1.33 per capita; 1888, IA pounds; 1899, 0.94 of one pound, and in 1908. | 1.07 pounds per capita. In cacao the | growth in per capita consumption has been even more rapid than that of cof- | fee, the quantity imported having l grown from 25,000,000 pounds in 1898 | to s3,0OO,0 900 pounds in 19s. having thus i more than trebled in the | short space of ten years.
 The United States is thus the worlds 1 largest consumer of coffee and cacao, | and holds third rank among the inn porting nations in the importations of tea; her imports amount to more than | e-third of the coffee, nearly one fourth of the cacao, and about one seventh of the tea entering the inter national markets of the world.
 The prices at which the coffee of he United States was imported in 1908 averaged but 7.6 cents per pound. That from Brazil averaged 6.9 cents per from other South American states, sS cents; from Central Amer ca, III cents; from Mexico, 11.5 cents; rom the East Indies, 12.6 cents, and rom the Netherlands, 15.3 cents per prices being the whole ale market price in the countries whence exported to the United States, md therefore not including freight, in iurance and other added charges on Lrrival at the ports in this country The average price of 7.6 cents in 1908 s slightly lower than that of the three ears ending with 1907, and slightly higher than that of the period from s9s to 1904, but much below that of he period from 1892 to 1897, when the import price averaged about double hat of 1908.