The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-11-29
THE WORLDS ShUGAR BOWL.
Cuba AunuaiIy...COntribntes More Than
One.Sixth Of all the Sugar
Produced in The World.

n 'oii VI sugar weighs Z,Z4
pounds, so that the 100000 ton
estimated annual output of suga
from the little island of Cub,
AMOUNTS to 6,72O, OGO, 600 pound
or more than 60 pounds o
sugar for every inhabitant of tn,
United States.
Cuba, home of Havana cigar
and famous for its tobacco, ex
ports annually eight times al
many dollars worth of sugar anC
molasses as it does tobacco.
Although only about as large
as the state of Pennsylvania
Cuba is producing more than one
sixth of the worlds total output
of 40, 900, 600, 600 pounds, the av.
erage annual production since
1913. Cuba's possible su gar
acreage is said to be only one.
fifth developed. If all the sugar
lands available were under cul-
tivation, it is estimated tn a
Cuba could easily supply one.
third of the demand for sugar
from the entire world.
The Worlds Sugar Bowl" is
a well-merited title for Cuba.
THE HIGH PRICE OF SUGAR.
An explanation of the present
price of sugar, the highest since
the Civil War, is given by a
prominent sugar authority who
is quoted as saying:
Stocks Of sugar in United
States and Cuba amounts to
SO, 032 tons, against 200, 844 tons
at the same time in 1916, a de.
crease of 131,8l tons. Tn e
shortage of stocks is due to sew
eral factors, the most important
of which is the export by Cuba
to the United Kingdom of 262,-
CAT tons more than in 1916, and
2O7, 543 tons less to the ports Of
United States north of Hatteras
in the same year.
Shipments to New Orleans
increased "a, ,SS4 tons and the op-
ening of the new Savannah Sug-
ar Refinery, at Savannah, Ca,
increased shipments to that port
1852 tons. In addition to this,
consumption of sugar during the
first half of 1917 in the United
States showed an increase of 200,-
900 tons compared with the cor
responding period a year ago.
This is attributed in part to a
large amount of canning and pre-
serving, and in some instances,
possibly, to hoardings."
In the United States the con-
sumption of sugar per capita has
increased more than fourfold
since 1850, in which year it was
figured each person consumed
1873 pounds. In 1870 the per
capita consumption was 32.7
in 1S9Oit was 50.7 pounds
in 1900, $50 pounds; in 1910,
1913 pounds. In 1918 it was SO
pounds.
But it will be seen that the in
crease in consumption has far
outstripped the increase in pop
ulation of the United States. In
the decade ended with 19l2-1913,
the total consumption of sugar
was AZ per cent. greater than in
the preceding decade, against
an increase of Fl per cent. in
for the same period.
DEMAND FOR SUGAR INCREASED
FoURF6LD.
Within two short generations
we have developed a national de-
mand for sugar equivalent to
four times our former supply.
The sugar production of the
world is equivalent in market
value to three times the value of
gold mined annually; four times
as great as the production of pc
troleum; three times as great as
the production of tobacco; four
times as great as the production
Of rubber; and is greater than
the entire cotton crop of the
world.
1t has been figured that if the
demand for sugar increases in
The next fifty years as it has in
creased in the past fifteen, facil-