The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27

Statistics With Sc Pounds to Uni..c
States s1L2, but Total is but 4,coo,,
100000 Pounds to Yankees 100000.
900 and Germany's 3,ooo,ooo,Ooo.
The people of the United States con
sumo half their own weight in sugar
every year. If one takes the quantity
of sugar produced in the United States
and adds to this the quantity brought
from its islands and the quantity i'm.
ported from foreign countries and sub.
tracts therefrom the amount exported
he will get a grand total of consider
ably more than 7,000,000,000 pounds
consumed In the country.
By dividing the population into this
grand total the figurer gets an average
of eighty-one and a half pounds per
capita, speaking in round terms, for
1910 and about like quantity for 1909.
Taking the total consumption and com
pairing 1t with the total population in
the section known as continental Unit
ed States, the average yearly consump-
ton of sugar is found to be about
eighty-one and a half pounds per cap
ita
England Leads America.
In fact, the people of the United
States are larger consumers of sugar
per capita than those Of any other coun-
try of the world except England, for
which the latest figures show a con-
sumption averaging eighty-six pounds
per capita. The next largest per capita
consumption is in Denmark, seventy
seven and three-quarter pounds. fol.
lowed by Switzerland with sixty-fouI
pounds, Sweden fifty-four pounds and
Germany and Holland each with about
forty-three and a half pounds.
Not only is the United States the
second largest consumer per capita,
but the total amount consumed an
nually is much greater than that of
any other country, aggregating, as
above indicated, more than 100000
600 pounds year against about 4,000,-
100000 pounds in England and about
3,0OO,OO0,OO0 pounds in Germany.
About one-half of the sugar consum-
ed in the United States is brought
from foreign countries, about one
fourth from its own islands and the
one-fourth produced in this
The total production of
sugar in the United States now
amounts to 1,750,00O,OOO pounds a
year, of which more than 1,000,000,000 |
pounds is beet sugar and about 75O,
600, 900 cane sugar
Beet Sugar FORCES Ahead.
1t is only recently that the produc. |
ton of beet sugar in the United States
has come to exceed that of cane sugar.
In 1900 domestic production of cane
sugar was twice as great as that of
beet sugar and twenty years ago was
more than sixty times as great, but
the growth of beet sugar production
has been very rapid in recent years
and in 1907 for the first time exceeded
N quantity that produced from cane
and has so continued since that time.
The sugar habit is evidently a grow
ng one with the people of the United
States and probably with those of 9th
IT countries, since the total world pro-
luction of sugar, including all coun-
ries for which statistics are available,
las increased 80 per cent in the last
en- years and about double in fifteen
ears. In our own case the consump-
ion has shown a rapid growth, the
yer capita consumption having been
n 1880 forty pounds, in 1890 fifty-one
POUNDS, in 1900 fifty-nine pounds and
n 1910 approximately eighty-one and
half pounds.