The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-20
SUGAR SUPPLY
and CONSUMPTION
More Used In The United States Last
Year Than Ever Before In
Its History.

any earlier year. The total quantity
consumed in continental United States
was, according to the latest estimate
OF the Bureau of Statistics, Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, 1910
million pounds. or an average of S1.7S
pounds per capita, against the former
high record of S1.19 pounds per capita
in the fiscal year 1907.
These figures are official so far as
relates to the quantity brought into
continental United States during the
calendar year from Hawaii, Porto
Rico, the Philippines, and from foreign
countries. To this the Bureau has
aided the latest estimates of sugar
produced in the country during 1911,
and by subtracting the official figures
of exports from the grand total of i'm
ports and domestic production, OBJ
tains a total of 1870 million pounds,
or practically 80 pounds per capita,
as the indicated consumption of the
calendar year 1911. Ten years ago,
in the fiscal year 1901, the indicated
consumption was IL billion pounds,
or 70 pounds per capita; twenty years
ago, in 1891, ga billion pounds, or
81 pounds Per capita; thirty years ago,
in 1881, IA billion pounds, or 40
pounds per capita; and forty years
ago, in 1871, 1 IL billion pounds, or
Sc 10 pounds per capita.
This very large total consumption
of sugar in the country in 1911 accom-
panied an unusually heavy production
both in continental United States and
it's sugar-producing islands, Hawaii,
Porto RIGA and the Philippines. The
quantity brought from Hawaii,
Porto Rico and the Philip
pines in 1911 exceeded in
each case that Of any earlier year,
and the estimated production of beet
sugar in the country in 1911 was the
largest on record. thought that of cane
sugar was slightly below the average
Of recent years. While the quantity
OF sugar imported from foreign coun-
tries in 1911 fell somewhat below the
figures of 1910, the aggregate of pro-
duction in continental United States,
production in the non-contiguous ter
ritories, and imports from foreign
countries exceeds that of any earlier
year, while the quantity exported was
smaller than in the Immediately pre-
ceding year.
The import valuation of the sugar
brought from foreign countries in 1911
was, speaking in round terms, 80 mil
lion dollars; from the non-contiguous
territories, rs million; and the esti-
mated value of that produced in con-
tinental United States, 90 million dol
lars. The Bureau of Statistics esti-
mates the duty paid on sugar import
ed from foreign countries in 1911 at
so million dollars.
One striking fact which comes to
the surface in this study of sugar
consumption in the United States is
found in a comparison of product on
and growth in production of cane and
of beet sugar respectively. While
exact figures OF domestic production
in 1911 have not yet been completed,
the latest and best available estimate
puts the production of beet sugar at
1,105 million pounds and that of cane
sugar at 700 million pounds, the pro-
duction of beet sugar thus exceeding
that of cane by more than so per
cent Prbr to 1907 the production
of beet sugar was never as great as
that of cane sugar. In 1901 the guam
tity of beet sugar produced was less
than one-third that of cane: in 1906
it nearly equaled that of cane; in 1907
it exceeded that of cane, and has con-
tinued greater in each year since that
time, being in the year just ended, as
ABOVE indicated, more than so per
cent In excess of the cane sugar pro-
duced.
The quantity of sugar brought from
Hawaii, Porto Rico, and the Philip
pines has also increased greatly dur.
ing the decade, that from Hawaii hav-
ing been in 1901 but sos million
pounds, against 1,136 million in the
year just ended; and from Porto Ri
co, 1853 million pounds in 1901, against
654 million in 1911. From the Philip
pine Islands the increase has been es-
pecially rapid since the enactment of
the present tart law which permits
the importation free of duty of limited
quantities of Philippine sugar, and as
a result the quantity of sugar i'm
ported from the Philippines in 1911