Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-03-23
Consume Nearly Twice as Much
Annually as England.
half OF SUPplY is FOREIGN.
British Lead In Yearly Per Capita
Statistics With IS Pounds to United
States 81I2, but Total Is but 4.00o.-
oOo,Co0 Pounds to Yankees 1000 ,6oo,-
ooo and Germany's 100000 GOO.

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 in-
ported from foreign countries and sub
tracts therefrom the amount exported
he will get grand total of considers
ably more than 7,OO0.OOO,OOO pounds
consumed In the country
By dividing the population into this
grand total the tlgurer 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
paring 1t with the total population in
a,s section known as continental Unit
~ States. the average yearly consump-
Jon of sugar is found to be about
jeighty-one and half pounds per cap
! ita.
England Leads America.
In fact, the people of the United
States are larger consuners 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-four
pounds, Sweden tiftyfour 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 7,0o0,0OO,-
600 pounds year against about 4,000,-
100000 pounds in England and about
3,0OO,000,0OO pounds in Germany.
About onehalf OF the sugar consum-
ed In the United States is brought
from foreign countries, about one
fourth from its own islands and the
remaining one-fourth produced in this
country The total production Of
sugar in the United States now
amounts to 100000 pounds
year, of which more than 1,OOO,OOOOOO
pounds is beet sugar and about $780,
| 100000 cane sugar
Beet Sugar Forges Ahead.
| 1t is only recently that the produc-
I 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
in quantity that produced from cane
! and has so continued since that time.
The sugar habit Is evidently grow
ing one with the people Of the United
States and probably with those OF 9th
er countries, since the total world pro-
duction Of sugar, including all coun-
tries for which statistics are available,
has increased so per cent in the last
ten years and about double In fifteen
years. In our own case the consump-
ton has shown a rapid growth, the
per capita consumption having been
in 1880 forty pounds. in 1890 fifty-one
pounds, In 1900 fifty nine pounds and
In 1910 approximately eighty-one and
q },alf ponnds