Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-20

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country of the world except England,
for which the latest figures show
consumption averaging sc pounds per
capita, against our own average of 81 y
pounds per capita. The next largest
per capita consumption is in Denmark,
772 pounds; followed by Switzerland, GA
pounds; Sweden, 81 pounds; and Ger
many and Holland, each about 49,
pounds.
Not only is the United States the
second largest sugar consumer per
capita, but the total amount consumed
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 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 this
country. The total production of sugar
in the United States now amounts to
II billion pounds year, of which more
than one billion pounds is beet sugar
and about three-quarters of billion
cane sugar. 1t 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, exceeded in
quantity that produced from cane and
has so continued since that time.
Of the sugar brought from other
countries, nearly allis made from cane.
While about half of the worlds sugar
is made from beets, most of it is pro-
duced in Europe and consumed in the
country of production 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
sections. OF the cane 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, 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 pro-
duct about 40 per cent is produced from
cane. The beet sugar of the United
States is grown chiefly in Colo
RADIO, California, and Michigan, and
some in Utah, Idaho, and Wisconsin,;
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 grow
ing one with the people of the United
States and probably with those of other
countries, since the total world pro-
duction of sugar, including all coun-
tries for which statistics are avail
able, has increased 80 per cent in the
last decade and about doubled in Is
years. In our own case the consump-
IlOn mas SHOWil Tdplu CROWN, the per
capita consumption having been, in 1880,
40 pounds; in 1890, 81 pounds; in 1900,
SO pounds; and in 1910, approximately
81 IL pounds.
What is the cost of this enormous
quantity of sugar consumed in the
United States? This is more difficult to
answer. The valuation of that brought
from foreign countries and our islands
is set down at about IT'S million dollars
in 1910, and the stated value of that
produced in the United States, at APP
proximately rs million dollars; though
this comparatively 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 unrefned article in the
country of production. If, however,
we accept general average of FIVE
cents per pound as the retail price paid
by our people for the 1-3 billion pounds
of sugar consumed by them in 1910, we
should get total of 1866, 900, 900, or an
average of approximately $1,000, 900 a
day paid for sugar by the people of the
| United States.