The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-06-23
Nations Candy Bill
Over Five Hundred
Millions a Year


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The world has had q sweet tooth"
for many ages. People have been
eating sugar from time immomorlnl
Il would seem. and growing SUGAR
cane IN an industry so old that ID an
tedates he Christian era hy many
centuries, At least that is what we
gather from an article by Edward
AlOes in the May number uf the
Monthly Bulletin OF the Pan American
Union, Washington. u. c.. which gives
70 comprehensive account OF the cane
'ugur industry in the Americas a1d
incidentally omhodies an iutorcf,ing
resume 81 what H. actually known u
the history of the industry through
out the world from the very dawn uf
civilization To- the present.
scientists admit they do not know
Just where the zane originated,
he writes. "f0r nowhere mas 81 nccn
found iu its Wild tate. IL has been
O. cultivated product for many CEN
turtles and the first mention Co Doe
found i1 written records BE- in the
sacred books OF the Hindus. 4 have
crowned thee with q shooting sugar
zane. 80 that thou shalt not bc aNyrsc
Go me- was written many o%rnturiDt
before the Christian era. In he train
81 Alexander she Great during his
Asintir conqucsts were some ubsory-
ant pc-uns who made notes ul what
thcy saw. when not too busy killing
OF the Inhabitants. ana iu these writ
ten documents. according To- letter
writers Who fell heir Ia them. b. told
the story of 70 reed growing In India
which produces honey without b"cs.
Thus sugar cane was evidently we'll
Enuwn boz that country before 500
o.. e..
AZ TO the manufactured product
ui the cane, the first kind cf sugar ot
which mention is made was q con-
contracted canc juice called CUR Boo
India Cgud' iu SanskriJ, ana this
seems Go have been known us "a food
| from prehistoric times. That its nan
uDcturc was q well established in
dustry In India In the seventh ,cn-
fury ia uttcstcd hv the old Chinese
encyclopedia. the pcn-tsao-kang-mu ma,
i1 which states that the Emperor
~T"nltsung. who rcigncd from go 10
$50 s. d., sent somc o! his people To
Hohar 20 learn the art of e max
iur. The manufacture OF sugar even
boo the early centuries ct the Christian
era was not restricted 20 the mere
| evaporation Of the juice Of the cane
Co.. dryncs- for the Arabs and Egypt
ia1s had soon learned how to purify
raw sugar by capitalization, ana
incidentally how 90 make a great
variety of sweetmcnts, or candy, OUT
u. the product"
The author tells Of the intrnduo'
lion of the cane into sicily hy the
Arabs IN 1O3. whence Il was taken ga
Africa, to spain. ana an along the
coast of the Mediterranean sea as
well as to the islands and borders oi
the Indian ocean. The Crusaders
found extensive sugar-cane plauta-
lions IN Tripod. Mcsopotamia. Syria,
Antioch. o. cyprus, ana by the
fourteenth %'egtury the cane was be-
ing cultivated in every part of the
known world where soil and climate
were propitious.
Il came 10 south America by being
introduced into Brazil by the Portu.
pueye, who brought d from Madeira,
ard thence IL spread Co nearly an the
other countries of that continent.
! Columbus is said 10 have brought IL
to the island Of Sunto Domingo.
J whence il sprend TO Mexico ana cuba.
n was intrndu ed into the other
Islands of the West Indies aE soon az
they came under European domino
I tlon. The nrst sugar cane came "a
I louisiana by being sent 10 the Jcs-
uits from Sauto Domingo. In 1851.
some English authorities Swing the
date as 1891.
Although practically all Of inc
countries Of the pan American Union
cultivate the Canc cuba is the fr'ai
est producer Of caIc sugar not onlS
In the western hemisphere but In inc
world. The total production 81 TN
! western hemisphere for he 1881
seas,n amounted to I919,Stf tons. oi
which cuba produced 2,ted722 tons