The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24
COFFEE-W WORLD PRODUCTION;
 UNITED STATES CONSUMPTION

Government control of coffee fm-
 ports into the United States recently
 announced from Washington lends in-
 terest to some figures of the worlds
 coffee production and the share con-
 stunned in the United States, recently
 presented In a lecture before the class
 in International Trade and Commer-
 cial Geography in the Educational
 department of The Nationa; t-ITv Bank of New York. The worlds coffee crop, according
 70 the lecturer, averages about 2,5OO,-
 Oo0,OOO pounds a year of which the United States consumes more than
 one-third-in fact about 40 per cent.
 The value of the worlds crop at the
 place of growth is about $500 900 600 per annum and the value of the cof-
 lee Imported into the United States
 average a little more than S1OO OOO
 OOO per annum-has averaged in inc
 last five years about $113,OOO. .O00 ner
 annum, the fiscal year 1918 havino'
 been S1O3,000,000 or slightly below
 the normal. The quantity imported
 Into the United States Is a little oyer
 one billion pounds, having averaged
 Tor the past five years, 1,175,OOO. 900
 pounds, per annum though the 1918 figures fell slightly below this nor nal having been 1,144, 100000 pounds.
 The average annual consumption of coffee in the United States Is about
 10 pounds for each person, though this fluctuates somewhat having been In 1913 a little less than pounds per capita, and in 1917 little more than 12 pounds per capita. There has been a steady increase, however
 in the average coffee consumption. the consumption of 1870 being stated officially at 6 pounds per capttal.r 1880: S.S pounds; 1900 9.S pounds: 1915. 1O5 pounds, while 1917 made the highest record 12.2 pounds her capita, the 1918 figures showing an average of about Ii pounds per capi- ta.
 Brazil is, of course, the worlds chief coffee producer, supplying in fact nearly three-fourths of the cof- fee of the world. In the coffee year 19O0-01 Brazil produced 11,2S5,O0O bags (of 132 pounds each) of the world production of 15,O7O,O0O; in 1911 10,548,00O out of the world pro- auction of 14, 4,524, 900, and in the-cof- Tee year 1917-18, according to the pest estimates now available, Brazil's product was 17.00O, 900 bags out of n world total of 22,OOO,00O, the 1917-18 crop both in Brazil and in the world at large having Teen larger than in any preceding year except in 19O6-7 when the worlds total was 23.7S6.OOO | ho o% bags.
 Quite naturally the United States looks to Brazil for her chief supply of i coftee though she also takes consider able quantities from her other Latin American neighbors. The quantity of coffee imported from Brazil in the fiscal year 1918 was 744,0OO,OO0 lbs. rom Central America as whole 66, 100000 pounds, from Colombia 100000 pounds, Venezuela 5O.- )OO,OO0 pounds, Mexico 31, 900, 900 rhs tnd the West Indian Islands 3O.OOO.- 100, while from the Dutch East h. lies, (Java and Sumatra) the ouan- 1ty was extremely small as compar- "a with that of any of the Latin american countries, having been in 91S but 4,6Ss,O00 pounds and in 917, the year of our largest impor- ation of coffee, 4,O21, 900 pounds.
 The average import price per 'ound Of coffee from the Dutch East nd1es is of course, higher than that rom the Latin American countries veraging about 16 cents per pound n 1918 against a little over S cents er pound for that coming from Bra il, and about 10 cents per pound for hat from Central America. The av- rage import price of all coffee i'm orted into the United States in 1900 7as 6.7 cents per pound, 1910 79 ents per pound, 1912 13.3 cents ] ropping again to 9.6 cents per f ound in 1915; 1O.1 cents per pound ( 1917, and 9.1 cents in the fiscal l ear. 1918. The above figures of inn ort: prices. of coffee are in all cases ne prices of the coffee in the conn y from which exported to the Unit l States, and therefore do not in I Iude cost of transportation and the | harges Of importers and dealers, as ( i'll be apparent from a mental com , arison of the above average import c rices compared with those paid by f le average consumer.
 The stated value of the imports of le fiscal year 1918 was, for that oming from Brazil $6O,S89, 900, from entral America $16,4SS,O0O. and9 ( om the Dutch East Indies s739,886 i The United States is entirely depen- k ent upon other countries for coffee V icept that supplied by her own isl l. nds, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the a The quantity of coffee l. mt from Porto Rico to the United 2