The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1914-09-16
WAR HAS UPSET
SUGAR | I A : WORLD
European Struggle Raging in Worlds
Greatest Sugar Growing Terri
tory Sends Prices Up.
WHY SUGAR is NOW so HIGH
Discontinuance of Manufacture, Due
to Tariff Reduction One~of -...-
the Main Causes.


sugar map of yesterday. Comparing
the territory devoted to sugar grow.
ing with the area of war operations
it appears at once that the two are
nearly identical. Such cOmparisonn
in itself is sufficient explanation of
the worldwide disturbance that has
taken place in the ordinary adjust
ment of sugar supply to sugar de.
mand. ....-......
The normal sugar crop of Europe
is a little over 100000 long tons. In
the past year the number OF tons pro
duced in the countries now engaged
in war was as follows:
Germany .......... 80. 2.73S 900
Russia ........... 80. 80 100000
Austria Hungary $40. -. l.7lO,OOO
France .'....... ...... 100000
Belgium ........ ...... z3o,ooo
Servia ... 80. $500
1924, 500
AS will be seen from the above,
nearly so per cent of Europe's sugar
usually is grown by the nations that
have abandoned implements for weap-
Ons. The entire sugar crop of the
globe last year was 1S,5OO,000 tons.
Six OF the European countries now at
war normally produce 40 per cent of
all the sugar grown in the world.
In the, latter part of July, just be-
fore the outbreak OF hostilitics, it was
estimated by f. o. LIGHT, the fore
most sugar statistician of Europe, that
the probable, crop of the continental
countries for the coming year would
be fS,245, 900 tons. The season for the
beet harvest is now on, and in most
of the contending nations every avail
able, able bodied man is being called
to the colOrs. The labor of tending
and harvesting the beets may be per-
formed in part by women and chill
dren as is done in ordinary times
throughout Europe, but the lack Of
men to perform the heavy labor in
the fields and the skilled work in the
factories is certain to be felt severely.
Fighting in Sugar Fields
Much OF the sugar producing area
is directly in the zone of war opera
tons. The principal beet growing
districts of France lie to the north
east OF Paris, between that city and
the Belgian border. This is the
ground over which two of the great
est armies ever assembled have been
fighting for the past several weeks.
In Belgium the most important sugar
growing provinces are Liege, Brab-
ant and HainaIt, the latter lying
south. of Brussels. along the French
border. This territory was the the
alter of the first heavy fighting Of the
war. SlEs.!t.' -
Germany is the greatest sugar pro-
ducing nation Of Europe, and beets
are grown in many parts of the en-
pire. An important seat of the in
dustry is in the sections along the
Russian border which have been the
scene of severe engagements be-
tween the Russian and German forces.
The Baltic states, which also produce
much sugar, have escaped the fight
ing thus far. Austria Hungary's SUI
gar crop is turned out chiefly in the
interior of Hungary and in Bohemia.
Russia grows sugar beets over a wide
range of territory, including Poland,
Volhynia, Podolia and Besserabia on
her western frontier.
E;Of all the European sugar growing
countries, kussia's crop seems likely
from the present outlook, to be least
affected While those OF France and
Belgium probably will suffer most Sc
werely, However much the produc-
.tian of Germany, Russia and Austria
Hungary is cut down, consumption
probably will be forced to adapt itself
to It. They are not likely to import
sugar. France and Belgium may Sc
cure some sugar abroad. The one
great change in the sugar situation,
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