Republican farmer., 1919-08-22
AMERICA STANDS
 HIGH IN SUGAR
 BEET PRODUCING

DEEE FnUVUUElSU The United States will this year take second rank amoung the na- | tions as a producer of beet sugar. While this new and greatly advanc- | ed rank that we hold is in part result of the political encouragement | of the best sugar producing areas or | Europe coupled with a marked fall | off in production of beet sugar in i that continent, it at least is interest | ing and at the same time illustra-
 tive of the wonderful growth of beet sugar production in the United | States
 At the beginning of the war, ac- | cording to a statement by the Ma tional City Bank of New York, the United States held only fifth rank among the beet sugar producing countries of the world and in fact produced but about per cent. of the beet sugar of the world. The marked fall off in the European product coupled with the slight increase in our own brought our share of the
 worlds beet sugar production to
 about 16 per cent. last year with a
 prospect that the crop of the cur
 rent year will be larger than that of
 last year and form a slightly larger percentage of the worlds total out
 put.
 Latest estimates by sugar authori-
 ties indica.e that our crop in the
 current year will be larger than that
 of last year but may fall slightly
 below that of the high record of
 1915, the figures of the current year being based upon estimates obtained
 from the editors Of two accepted su-
 gar authorities, the Weekly Stat
 istical Sugar Trade Journar' and
 Facts about Sugar"
 While this new rank which the United States holds among the su-
 gar producers of the world is due
 in part to increased production on | our part and the decreased produc- ton in Europe, it is all due in part to the recent events which have es- !, tablished new political divisions within the beet sugar areas of Europe Prior to the war, Germany held first rank as a beet sugar producer . Austria Hungary second. Russia third, France fourth. and the United States fifth. As a considerable par
 of the production of Austria Hun
 gary occurred in the section now l designated as Czecho-Slovakia and 2
 considerable proportion of that O. y ! Russia occurred in the areas nov
 known as Ukraine and Poland. thu . rank of European production b! 2 political divisions has been entirel! u disarranged and it seems probable tha no one of the European countrie
 except Germany will this year pro v duce as much beet sugar as does tn 1 4acy Ya11 , U the production of Germany abou 400, 900 tons, while that of Czecho
 Slovakia, Ukraine and Poland will ap - parently fall materially below tha
 of the United States.
 Our beet sugar production in tn
 current year seems likely to be abou 1,750,00O,0OO pounds against 1885, :. 000,000 in the year before the wal
 1925, 100000 in 1910, 484,O00,0 900 i
 1905, 163,000,0 900 in 1900, 45,00o,
 900 in 1895, and 5,00O,0OO in 1896 5 The cane and sugar crop, which is un - usually low, seems likely to form les = than one-fifth of the total output o - the country.
 y Sugar beets, according to the Bank ,t statement, now produce only abou d 25 per cent. of the sugar supply c N the world as against 50 per cen | I and 1897. Normally, beets suppl . about one-half of the sugar of tn ! world, their large percentage in 19O and the years immediately preced "a ing being due to the very sma
 production of cane sugar in Cub ,I- during and Immediately followin "a her war with Spain. With the re turn to normal production of can - sugar in Cuba, the share which beet - were producing of the worlds suI ply dropped from 65 per cent. to 5
 per cent. in 1911 and 1913, 47 pc .. cent. in 1914, A per cent. in 1911 is 35 per cent. in 1916, 33 per cen . in 1917, 26 per cent. in 1918, an 70 is estimated at about 25 per cent. of 1919, this change being due in pal ~, to the fall off of beet sugar produt ye ton in Europe and in part to the ir of creased production of cane sugar o- Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, the PhiliI = pine Islands and Java.
 The worlds production of sugs o+ in the current crop year will prot o+ ably be about 37,ooO,00O,0OO pound 1d against 42,OOo, 100000 in 1914, an n the share produced from beets abol ne 25 per cent. as against AT per cen ,d in 1914.