Imperial Valley press., 1919-08-30
j. S. ADVANCES
IN PRODUCTION
OF Beet SUGAR

The United States will this yeal
take second rank among the nations
as producer of beet sugar. While
this new and greatly advanced rank
that we hold is in part a result OF
the polictical Encouragement of the
beet sugar reducing areas of Europe
coupled with marked fall off in pro-
duction of beet sugar in that continent
it at least is interesting and at the
lsame time illustrative of the wonder
full growth of beet sugar pproductior
in the United States.
At the beginning of the war, accrod-
ing to statement by the National
City Bank of New York, the United
States held only fifth rank among the
beet sugar producing countries of the
world. The marked all off in the
Euroean product coupled the slight
| increase in cur 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 current
year will be larger than that of last
year and form slightly larger per-
centage of the worlds total output.
Latest estimates by sugar authori-
ties indicate that our crop in the cur
rent year will be larger than that of
last year but may fall slightly be-
low that of the high record of 1915,
the figures for the current year being
based upon estimates obtained from
the editors of two accepted sugar
authorities, the Weekly Statistical
Sugar Trade Journal and Facts About
Sugar.
While this new rank which the Unit
ed States holds among the sugar pro-
ducers of the world is due in part to
increased production on our part and
the decreased production in Europe,
it is also due in part to the recent
events which have established new
political divisions within the beet su-
gar areas of Europe. Prior to the war
Germany held first rank as a beet
sugar producer, Austria Hungary sec
ond, Russia third, France fourth, and
the United States fifth. AS consider
able part of the production of Aus
| tria- Hungary occurred in the section
no designated as Czech -Slovakia and
a considerable proportion of that of
Russia occurred in the area now known
as Ukraine and Poland, the rank of
European production by political divi-
sions has been entirely disarranged
and it seems probable that no one of
| the European countries except Ger
many will this year produce as much
beet sugar as does the United States.
Latest estimates put the production
of Germany at about 100000 tons,
while that of Czecho Slovakia, Ukra-
inc and Poland will apparently fall
materially below that of the United
States which, for the current year,
will range between 100000 and $780,
/ 900 tons, estimated upon known fig
ures of acreage and dependent to a
considerable degree of course, upon
weather conditions for the remainder
of the year, but indicating clearly that
our total will exceed that of any coun-
try except Germany, and that we are
likely to retain indefinitely and per-
APPS permanently this new second rank
among the worlds producers of beet
sugar.
Sugar beets, according to the banks
statement, now produce only about 25
per cent of the sugar of the world as
against so per cent in 1911, and .65
per cent in 1900, and 1897 Normally,
beets supply about one-half of the
sugar of the world, their large per-
centage in 1900 and the years imme-
diately preceding being due to the
vary small production of can sugar
in Cuba during and Immediately fol-
lowing her war with Spain. With the
return to normal production of cane
sugar in Cuba, the share which beets
were producing of the worlds supply
dropped from So per cent to so per
cent IN 1911 and 1918, Al per cent in
1914, "A per cent in 1915, 35 per cent
IN 1917, 28 per cent in 1918, and is
estimated at about Is per cent in
1913, this charge being due in part
to the fall off of beet sugar production
in Europe and in part to the increas-
ed production of cane sugar in Cuba.
Porto Rico, Hawaii the Philippine Is
lands and Java.
! The worlds production of sugar in
the current crop year will probably be
about 37,0OO,OO0,OOO pounds against
42,OOO,OOo,OO0 in 1914, and the share
produced from beets about 25 per
cent as against AZ per cent in 1914
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