The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-11

of refined sugar from the United
 States by order of the United States Sugar Equalization Board, In order to correct local deficiencies and pre- vent the upward movement of local prices. lends interest to a statement just compiled by The National City Bank of New York showing the ex- portation of refined sugar from the United States during the last 50 years. It shows that the quantity of refined sugar exported from the United States in the five years since the beginning of the war is more than double that of the half century preceding the war. The quantity sent out of the country in the years ending with June, 1919, is, in round terms, 5000 100000 pounds against 2,OOO, 100000 pounds in the half century preceding the war and the value in the year
 war period was s29O, ,O00,000 against S12O, 100000 in the half celtury prior to the war.
 The sudden demands upon the Unit : ed States for for refined sugar which came with the beginning of the war, says the Banks statement, is duo to the fact that most of the European ! countries which had formerly relied 1 for their sugar upon the beet fields | of Germany, Austria-Hungary and | Russia found their usual supplies cut ! off by the war and were compelled to | look to the cane sugar area of the world for their supplies The cane ! sugar area is chiefly Cuba, Porto ! Rico. Hawaii, the Philippine Islands. Java and India. Cuba and our own | islands send their raw sugar to the
 United States to be refined; India | consumes all of it's sugar locally; ! and Java. exports a large proportion | of her product in the raw state to | her neiEhbors in the Orient, especial fly India Australia and Japan. The | Lntin-American countries which pro- | duce about 1,0O0.00O tons annually have little for exportation. This left | Cuba and the islands belonging to the | United States as the chief available source for cane sugar, and as all of | these islands have been sending their
 raw product to the United States for | refining, quite naturally the Euro ] pean countries requiring sugar turn | ed to this country for supplies of the | refined article.
 As a consequence of this condition | the quantity of refined sugar exported q i from the United States in our fiscal year 1915. the first year of the war,
 was $50. 100000 pounds. in 1916, l. ] 630, ,O0O.OO0, in 1917, 1,250, 100000, in 1918, SIS. 100000 and in 1919, ap- ! proximately 1,OoO,OOO,OOO pounds. ' This makes for the year war period ! approximately 5,OOO,OOO,OO0 pounds | of refined sugar exported. while the ! Banks statement shows that in the | so years prior to the war the quanti- | ty of refined sugar exported was. in 1 round terms, 100000 900 pounds. The value of the 5,00O,OoO,OOO | pounds exported during the war pe- ! fiod was about s29O,0 100000 against | approximately 2o,oOO,0OO in the 50 | years prior to the war.
 1 While export prices during the war | period were much higher than those
 in the period immediately preceding
 the war they were materially less | than those in the early part of the | 50 year period to the war. The av- ! craze export price of the refined su- | gar sent out of the United States dur ! ing the war ranged from 4.7c per [ pound in 1915 to about 7.1 cents in | 1919, while the average export price l in 1871 was 13.2 cents per pound, in | 1875 1o.s cents, in 1880 90 cents, in | 1890 TO cents, 1900, 4.5 cents, 1905. | 3.5 cents, and in the fiscal year 1914, | all of which preceded the war.
 3.6 cents.
 | While most of the exportation | from the United States has gone to
 Europe, the other parts of the world
 are gradually turning to the United
 States as a new source of supply. and
 1 the exports of refined sugar ir the fs-
 ! cal year 1918 were to Argentina e3.- { 900, 900 pounds, Uruguay 21,OOO,O0O,
 Mexico 1s.ooo.ooO. Canada 12,O0O,- 900. Africa 4.50e.ooo, and to Asia ! (chief1y Japan and India) nearly l. | 0O0.0 pounds.
 This habit of the cane sugar pro-
 ducers of America of sending their l product to the United States to be re- | fined grew out of the fact that the | United States was the chief consumer | of their product. while Europe the 1 other great sugar consuming section | of the world. was supplied from the
 beet fields, especially those of oh,r- | many, Russia, and Austria Hungary. l The United States consumed at the
 beginning of the present century one | fourth of the sugar of the world but
 with the great enlargement of world l xuhirh fOIlONyai 1,n.