The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-18

capita, but the total amount consum-
ed annually is much greater than
that of any other country aggregating
as above indicated, more than seven
billion pounds per annum, against
about four billion pounds in England
and about three billion pounds in
Germany.
About one-half of the sugar consum-
ed in the United States is brought
from foreign countries, about one
fourth from our own islands, and the
remaining one-fourth produced in this
country. The total production of SUI
gar in the United States now
amounts to one three-fourths billion
pounds a year, of which more than
one billion pounds is beet sugar and
about three-quarters of a billion cane
sugar. 1t is only recently that the
production of beet sugar in the Unit
ed States has come to exceed that of
cane sugar. In 1900 domestic produc-
ton of cane sugar was twice as great
as that of beet sugar and 20 years
ago was more than GO times as great;
but the growth of beet sugar pro-
duction 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.
OF the sugar brought from other
countries, nearly all is made from
cane. While about half of the world s
sugar is made from beets, most of it
is produced in Europe and consumed
in the country of production or in
other parts of that grand division,
most of the world outside Of Europe
obtains its sugar supply from cane,
grown of course, in the tropical and
subtropical sections. OF the cane su
gar which we consume, most of that
coming from foreign countries is
drawn from Cuba, the Dutch East In
dies, and smaller amounts from the
West Indies, Mexico, Central and
South America All of that coming
from our own islands-Porto Rico,
Hawaii and the Philippines-is cane
sugar, while of the domestic prod |
uct about 40 per cent is produced
from cane. The beet sugar of the
United States is grown chiefly in
Colorado, California and Michigan,
and some in Utah, Idaho and Wiscon-
sim while most of the cane sugar
is produced in Louisiana, with small
er quantities in Texas, Florida, Geor-
gla and South Carolina.
The sugar habit is evidently a
one with the people of the
United States and probably with
those of other countries, since the to-
tai world production of sugar, includ- |
ing all countries for which statistics
are available, has increased 90 per
cent in the last decade and about
doubled in 10 years. In our own
case the consumption has shown a
rapid growth, the per capita con-
having been, in 1880, 40
pounds; in 1890, 81 pounds; in 1900,
50 pounds; and in 1910, approximate
ly 81 IL pounds.
What is the cost of this enormous
quantity of sugar consumed in the
United States? This is more diff
cult to answer. The valuation of that
brought from foreign countries and
our islands is set down at about 175 .
million dollars in 1910, and the stat
ed value of that produced in the
United States, at approximately 70
million dollars; though this compara-
tNely high figure when considered by
the price per pound, is due to the
fact that the valuation is based upon
the refined article, while that of the
sugar from abroad is the value of the
unrefined article in the country of
production. If, however, we accept a
average of five cents per
pound as the retail price paid by our
people for the 7 1-3 billion pounds OF
sugar consumed by them in 1910, we
should get total of 1866, 100000, or
IN average of approximately $1,000
700 a day paid for sugar by the people
D. the United States.