Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-01-19
SUGAR CONSUMPTION IN I. $.
People of the United States Consume
Half Their Own Weight.

sugar every year. This may seem 4 |
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
islands and the quantity imported !
from foreign countries, and sub
tract therefrom the amount export
ed. we get a grand total of consid-
erably more than seven billion pounds
consumed in the country; and by di-
viding the population into this grand
total we get an average Of 81 y lbs
per capita, speaking in round num-
bers for 1910 and about like guam
tity for 1909. It is not assumed OF
course, that each person necessarily
consumes sugar equal to one-half
his individual weight but taking
the total consumption and compar-
ing it with the total population in
what is known as continental United
States. the average yearly consump-
ton of sugar is found to be about
S11k 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 an
average consumption Of SO pounds
per capita, against our own average
of 81 y pounds per capita. The next
largest per capita consumption is in
Denmark, TN pounds per capita.
followed by Switzerland. GA pounds;
Sweden, 54 pounds and Germany and
Holland, each about AZ Y pounds.
Not only is the United States the
second largest sugar consumer per
capita. but the total amount consum-
ed annually is much greater than
that of any other country, aggregating
as above indicated, more than sew
en- million 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 inlands, and
the remaining one-fourth produced in
this country. The total production )f
sugar in the United States now am
cunts to IL billion pounds a year,
of which more than billion pounds
is beet sugar and about three-quar-
ters of billion cane sugar. II is
only recently that the production 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 20 years ago 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 othei
countries. nearly all is made from
cane. While about half of the worldf
sugar is made from beets, most of i
is produced in Europe and consumed
in the country of production or =
other parts of that grand division
while most of the world outside o
Europe obtains its sugar suppl
from cane, grown of course, in tn
tropical and subtropical sections. o
the cane sugar which we consume
most of that coming from foreig
countries is drawn from Cuba, tn
utch East Indies, and smaller am
cunts from the West Indies, Mexico
Central and South America All o
that coming from our own islands
Porto Rico, Hawii and the Philippine
lis cane sugar, while of the domesti
product about 40 per cent is pre-
duced from cane. The beet sugar c
the United States is grown chief
in Colorado, California and Mich
gan, and some in Utah, Idaho, an
Wisconsin; while most of the can
sugar is produced in Louisiana, wit
smaller quantities in Texas. Floridi
Georgia and South Carolina
The sugar habit is evidently
growing one with the people of tn
United States and probably with tho.
Of other countries. since the tot
world production of sugar, includir
all countries for which statistics al
available. has increased so per eel
in the last decade and about dout
ed in IS years. In our own case II
consumption has shown rap
growth. the per capita consumptiC