Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-01-20
CONSUMPTION IN
THE UNITED STATES

The people of the United States
consume half their own weight in
sugar every year. This may seem a
startling statement, but If we take
the quantity OF sugar produced in
the United States and add to this the
quantity brought from our own Is
lands and the quantity imported
from foreign countries, ad subtract
therefrom the amount exported, we
get grand total of considerably
more than 7.00O,00O,OO0 pounds
consumed In the cuntry; and by d.
viding the population into this grand
total, We get an average OF S1ls
pounds per capita, speaking in round
terms, for 1910, and about like
quantity for 1909. 1t Is not assumed.
OF course, that each person neces-
sarily consumes sugar equal to one
half his individual weight; but TAX
ing the total consumption adm COM
pairing 1t with the total population
In the section known as continental
United States, the average yearly
consumption Of sugar Is found to be
about S1h pounds per capita.
In fact, the people of the United
States are larger consumers of sugar
per capita than those of any other
country Of the world except Eng
land, for which the latest figures
show a consumption averaging SO
pounds per capita, against our own
average of S11s pounds per capita.
The next largest per capita consump-
tion is In eDnmark, TIN pounds;
followed by Switzerland, Ga pounds;
Sweden, 54 pounds, and Germany
and oHlland, each about 43h
pounds.
Not only Is the United States the
second largest sugar consumer pei
capita, but the total amount con
sumed annually is much greater thar
that of any other country, aggregat
ing, as above indicated, more thar
7,000,000,000 pounds per annum
against about 100000, 900 pounds
In England and about 5000 900, ,00t
mounds In Carn,onv
About one-half of the sugar con
sumed In the United States 1
brought from foreign countries
about one-forth from our own islands
: and the remaining one-fourth pro
duced In this cnuntry. The total pro
duction of sugar In the United State
: onw amounts to 1850, 700, 90
pounds year, of which more tha
U 1,000, 1000, 900 pounds is beet suga
4 and about 750, 100000 cane suga
It is only recently that the productio
of beet sugar In the United State
% has come to exceed that Of car
o sugar. In 1900 domestic productio
of cane sugar was twice as great {
:. hat Of beet sugar, and 20 years ae
was more than 60 times as grea
. but the growth OF beet sugar produ
y tion has been very rapid In recel
: years and In 1907, for the first tim
: exceeded in quantity that produce
:" from cane and has 80 continued sin,
that time.
" or the sugar brought from 9TH
: countries, nearly all is made fro
cane. While about half OF Il
worlds sugar is made from beet
most of 1t is produced In Europe al
, consumed in the country OF produ
q tion or in other parts OF that graz
II division, while most OF the wor
s. outside OF Europe botalns its sug
~ supply from cane, grown, OF cours
ID In the tropics and subtroplcal Sc
~ tions. OF the cane sugar which v
consume, most Of that coming fro
foreign countries Is drawn from Cub
III the Dutch East Indies, and small
10 amounts from the West Indies, Me'
co, Central America. All Of tn
coming from our own island-Por
Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines
Is cane sugar, while OF the domest
~ product about 40 per cent Is pr
duced from cane. The beet sugar
. the United States Is grown chief
IT, in Colorado, California, and Micl
10 gan, and som in Utah, Idaho, al
Wisconsin,; while most OF the ca