The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-10-17
SIZE OF SUGAR CROP.

Just few lines as to sugar and the
sugar situation in the United States
today.
The sugar crop of 1914 was the
largest in the history of the universe,
being some eighteen million FIVE hun
dred thousand (18,5O0,O00) tons, and as
a consequence sugar sold very cheaply
throughout the world, and especially
so in America Louisiana raw sugar
sold as low as $2.S21a per hundred
pounds In New Orleans at the docks
and Cuban sugar sold as low as $1.S7R
per hundred pounds cost and freight
delivered in New York on the wharves
plus the duty of 1880 per pound. These
low prices were due to the fact that
the worlds output of sugar was little
more than its consumption. AS the
pendulum swings one way so it swings
back, and that this is so is best evil
denced by the fact that sugar is now
higher by nearly 100 per cent than nine
|monthssago, due to the following facts
Of the 18,500,000 tons of sugar pro-
duced in 1894, nearly half or about
100000 tons were produced in Europe
from sugar beets. Practically all the
nations raising these beets are now at
war and the beet crops are being
trampled under foot or used for food,
and therefore the European 1914-15
yield of sugar will be cut down by
many millions of tons, and for the first
time in the history of this country we
find England buying sugar from the
United States, her consumption being
Iabout two million tons, large part of
which formerly came from the beet
sugar countries of Europe.
Owing to low prices the tropical cane
producing countries of South America
and the Orient have also curtailed their
production and in North America the
sugar crop is about 100000 tons short
as follows: Cuba, owing to drouth is
20 per cent or 100000 tons short; the
western beet crop of the United States
is 20 per cent or 10000 tons short;
the Louisiana cane crop is 33 per cent
or 100000 tons short; the Hawaiian
crop is 20 per cent or 100000 tons
short and Porto Rico is rs per cent or
$4,000 tons short. The United States
possessions being short due to adverse
| Legislation. In addition to this the
Mexican crop will be, owing to war,
about $4,000 tons short, thus totaling
nearly 100000 tons in the northern
part of the Western Hemisphere, and
being a grand total of many millions
of tons short in the worlds production
for 1914-15. Therefore, sugar is higher
than it has been in years past and will
| go much higher due to very short
production and an abnormal demand;
the consumption of the United States
being about 100000 tons for. 1914.
Consumers will not be able to buy
cheap sugar for good many years to
come, due not only to the shortness of
the 1914-15 crop, but also to the fact
that there will be but small amount
of beet seed harvested and saved, and
therefore the world for the next few
years will have to depend on cane
sugar for it's wants as but little beet
sugar will be made in the countries
which formerly produced it for some
time to come. In the meantime and
for the present, European countries
have forbid the expectation of any Of
the remainder of the 1884 crop owing
to the uncertainty of harvesting any
part of the 1914-15 crop.
e. F. DICKINSON.
Mathews P. O., La.