The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
SUGAR CONSUMPTION IN
THE UNITED STATES

sugar every year. This may seem
a startling statement, but II we take
the quantity of sugar produced in
the United States and add to this
quantity brought from our own is
from foreign countries, and subtract
therefrom the amount exported, we
get grand total of considerably
more than seven billion pounds con-
sumed in this country; and by d.
viding the population into this grand
total, we get an average of 81 "
pounds per capita, speaking in round
quantity of 1909. 1t is not assumed,
of course, that each person necessar-
lily consumes sugar equal to one-half
his individual weight; but taking the
total consumption and comparing it
with the total population in the Sec
ton known as continental United
States, the average yearly consump-
! IlOu vi Ou6dl 10 louhu W UC opout
SIN 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 England,
for which the latest figures show a
consumption averaging SO pounds
per capita, against our own average
of S1h pounds per capita. The next
largest per capita consumption is in
Denmark, TIN pounds; followed by
Switzerland, Ga pounds, Sweden, "a
pounds; and Germany and Holland,
each about 43h pounds.
Not only is the United Statesthe
second largests sugar consumer per
capita, but the total amount consum-
ed annually is much greater than
that of any other country, aggregat-
ing, as above indicated, more than
seven billion pounds per annum,
against about billion pounds in
England and about three billion
pounds in Germany.
About one-half of the sugar con-
sumed in the United States is brought
from foreign countries, about one
fourth from our own islands, and the
remaining one-fourth produced in
&c Tho fol nroI,,nfi0y,
of sugar in the United States now
amounts to x billion pounds a year,
of which more than 1 billion pounds
is beet sugar and about three-quar-
tiers of billion cane sugar. 1t is
beet sugar in the United States has
come to exceedtha of cane sugar.
In 1900 domestic production of cane
sugar was twice as great as that of
beet sugar, and 20 years ago was
was more than 60 times as great; but
the growth of beet sugar production
has been very rapid in recent years,
and in 1907, for the first time, ex-
ceeded in quantity that produced
from cane and has so continued since
that time.
Of the sugar brought from other
countries, nearly all is made from
cane. While about one-half of the
worlds sugar is made from beets,
most of it is produced in Europe and
consumed in the country of produc-
ton or in other parts of that grand
division, while most of the world
outside of Europe obtains its sugar
supply from cane, grown, of course,
in the tropical and subtropical Sec
tons. Of the can sugar which we
consume, most of that coming from
foreign countries is drawn from Cuba.
the Dutch East Indies, and smaller
amounts from the West Indies, Mexi-
co, Central and South America. All
of that coming from our own islands
Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Phil
ippines-is cane sugar, while of the
domestic product about 1000 is pro-
duccd from cane. The beet sugar Of
the United States is grown chiefly in
Colorado, California and Michigan,
and some in Utah, Idaho and Wiscon-
sin; while most of the cane sugar is
produced in Louisiana. with smaller
quantities in Texas, Florida, Georgia
and South Carolina.
The sugar habit" is evidently
growing one with the people of the
those of other countries, since the
total world production of sugar, in
Guiding all countries for which statis-
tics are available, has increased 500
in the last decade and about doubled
in Is years. In our own case the
has shown arapid
growth, the per capita consumption
having been, in 1880, 40 pounds; in
1890, 81 pounds; in 1900, SO pounds;
and in 1910, approximately, S1h
pounds.