The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-04-23
SUGAR. GEOGRAPHY
AFFECTED BY. WAR
National Geographic MAGAZINE
Informs Its Readers Of Seri-
BUSINESS Of Sugar Outlook

The National Geographic society has
issued statement in the April npmEer
Of its magazine on the effect Of the pre-
sent war in Europe on the geography
Of the world S sugar prodaetioHsa lt
states that "fifty-three out Of every
hundred pounds Of sugar produced ~.
the world are grown In the countries
now at war and their colonies, The
total production OF, the world Is osti'
mated at approximately 100000 tons,
This production is made up Of cane
sugar and, beet sugar, the total yisld
Of cane sugar having been 9,545, 900
tons and Of beet Sasar, s'4Ss,pQet t0nS
in 1913. =. ~. 4, +. ~. III, "
Nc Cane IN Europe IN
| Zone Of the peculiar facts connected
| with the sugar may of the world Is that
while Europe produces more than nine.
/ ty-three out of every one hundred
pounds of beet sugar grown. it yields
only one pound out Of every six hund.
red Of cane sugar. OF Europe 3 total
production of beet sugar amounting
to 100000 tons, 5,666,000 tons grew
in beiligerent territory in 1913. h..
''Nearly all of this product Is now
entirely isolated from the outside
world, being grown mainly in Germany,
Austria Hungary and, Russia. What
this means to the world is revealed BY
the fact that more than two.thirds OF
the world g sugar is not consumed in
the country of its origin, this condition
arising from the fact the great sugar
using nations are principally outside of
= the belts of sugar production. = =, Il
The American Sugar Tooth 2
| ANY scarcity of sugar growing out
Of the war will AFFECT the United States
more seriously than any other country
4 for the reason; that. American people
are per capita the heaviest users OF
sugar in the world. With one-six'
teenth of the worlds population, the
United States consumes more than one
fifth of its sugar,
| "How rapidly this country is becom,
ing n nation of sugar eaters is revealed
by reference, TO the tables Of sugar
consumption of the last half century
Fifty years ago the people Of the Unit:
ed States ate eighteen pounds Of sugar
per capita. Five years later, in 1870
| thay were using thirty,three pounds
per capita. InlSS0 the per capita con
sumption had gone up to forty pounds
Twenty-Five years ago it had risen u
fifty-one pounds, In 1900 it had climb
ed still higher, to fifty nine pounds
BY 1910 the sugar consumption reach
cd eighty pounds, Today the per eapits
consumption exceeds eighty tive
pounds.
Factories Dismantled for Copper
1T appears that the cane sugar in
dpstry win suffer very little in the mat
ter. Of the total crop yield as a re
suit Of the war! On the other hand
the beet sugar business will suffer very
heavily. The present Russian cToT
has been almost entirely tied up by in
ability to get exports out of the comp
try, while next years. crop is threaten
ed with shortage resulting from tn
destruction Of the industry in Poland
, where so much of Russia 5 sugar - pro
duced.
"The reports from France indicate
that the rich sugar beet lands of the
!, northern section were harvested last
season under the direction Of the Ger
mans and the most of the sugar fact
cries in this territory have been dis
mantled to get their copper for the
manufacture Of war munitions.
Beet Areas Reduced
A. " Information. from Germany iudi
Gates that the Empire will plant only
) three-fourths of its normal area in
sugar beets this year. This would re
suit in cutting. down Germany 5 sugar
yield by more than 100000 tons.
:" OF course the prospective shortage
in beet sugar production viii be some
what offset by the falling of in sugar
consumption incident TO the financial
stringency Of the world, caised by the
war, Great Britain, annually buying
nearly 100000 tons of sugar, and pro
badly will cut down her consumption al
much as German win cut down her pro
duetion, ,> ~ lar Pr.