The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-20
Sugar Exports in
 1916 $1O0, 900, 900

, Nearly a half billion dollars worth ; of sugar passed through the ports or Continental United States in 1916. a About $2SO,000,000 worth of this was raw sugar from foreign countries, chiefly Cuba; $125, 5,000,000 worth of raw sugar from our own islands, ana ' S1O0. ,OOO worth of refined sugar sent out of the United States, chiefly to Europe.
 IA compilation by the Foreign Trade Department of the National City Bank of New York shows that the value or sugar exported from the United States in the calendar year, 1916, was in round terms $1OO,000,000 against 343,000,000 worth in 1915, $1S,0001- GOO in 1914, and less than $2,000,0O0 in 1918, the year immediately preced- ing the war Indeed the United States had never been an exporter of sugar in any considerable quantity until the exikencies of the war rendered inac- .cessible the sugar producing area from which Western Europe had been accustomed to draw it's supplies. Ger many, Austria Hungary and Russia as the worlds great producers of beet sugar had met all the sugar require ments of the remainder of Europe, but when their supplies became no long CT available by reason of war cond1- tions, and those of France and Bel gium were greatly reduced the re- mainder of Europe necessarily turn ed to the cane sugar section of the world for it's supply, Cuba, Java. the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico and the Philippines are the worlds largest producers of cane sugar for exporta- (Tv1t fcr c hIIf has none for exportation), and as Java distributes most of it's ourpu, 70 adjacent Asiatic countries, and Cuba, Porto Rico and Hawaii send practi- ca1ly all of their sugar direct to the United States, our own market be- came the chief source from which Europe could draw sugar, especially In the refined form, since the cane producing islands of the world ex- port most of their product in the raw state. AS a consequence the quantity of sugar exported from the United States jumped from 52,000,0 900 pounds in 1913 to 390,0OO,00 pounds in 1914, 963,0OO,000 pounds in 1915, and approximately 50,000, ,0O0 pounds in 1916, while the advance in prices meantime put the total value of refined sugar exported in 1916 up to about $100,000, 000
 The quantity of sugar entering Sone tinental United States in 1916 was from Cuba about 5000, ,000.0 900 pounds from Hawaii 1,25O,OOO, 900 pounds, from Porto Rico nearly 1,- 000,0O0,O00 pounds, from the Philip pine Islands about 250,0O0,000 pounds, while our own field produced about 1,750, 100000 pounds of beet sugar, and over 500,000,000 pounds of cane sugar. Thus the total quantity of sugar handled, in the United States in- cluding the product of our own fields, that of our own islands, and that brought from foreign countries, was about 9,750,000.000 pounds, of which about 1,750, 100000 pounds was ex- ported, leaving the amount retained for consumption about S,O00J000. 900 pounds, against an average of about $500, 100000 pounds in the years inn 1nediately preceding the war, this slight reduction in domestic con- sumption being presumably due to the great advance in prices which, as is we'll known, are materially higher than than. that which was considered normal prior to thc war.
 This would bring the consumption in the United States for 1916 down to an average of about 80 pounds per capita as against so pounds per capita in 1915 and S9 pounds in 1914, the high record year in per capita con- sumption. The average per capita consumption of sugar in the United States has steadily grown, from B pounds per capita in 1870 to 39 pounds in 1880. 51 pounds in. 1890, 59 pounds in 1900, 80 pounds in 19l0 S9 pounds in 1914, dropping with the advance in prices to 86 pounds per capita in 1915 and about 80 pounds in 1916