Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-07
Our "Su7ar Soree."

The assertion that the United States has gone on sugar spree" since the advent of prohibition lends interest to a series of compilations by The National City Bank of New York which compare our sugar consump- tion in 1919 with that of previous years. They show that the quantity of sugar consumed in the United States in the fiscal year ending with June 1919 was greater than in any year in the history Of the country and the sums paid for it double those in the year preceding the war.
 The quantity of sugar consumed by our people. says the Banks statement, aggregated nearly 100000 900 pounds in the fiscal year 1919 against about s. OO0. 900 900 last year, $500: :000,O0o pounds in the year plI1r to the war, a little over 7,50c 900 GOO in 1910, 6 l. GOO, ,00O, 900 Ill 1905 o000 000.00o in 1902, and 4,500, 100000 in 1900, all of these being of course, in very round terms. Thus the 1919 consumption is about double that of 1900, although the popu- lation meantime shas increased only 33 per cent. The average per capita consumption in 1919 was S3 pounds against IT pounds per capita in 1918, 78 in 1916, 59 in 1900. 50 in 1890. 40 in 1880, and B pounds per capita in 1870 In fact our 100 100000 people, although forming about 6 per cent. of the worlds population. consumed last year nearly 25 per cent. of the worlds pro- duction.
 The sums paid for sugar by our people in 1919 were far in excess of those of any earlier year. The aver age import price for the raw product brought in from foreign countries averaged a little more than 5 cents per pound (exclusive Of duty) as against an average of 2 cents per pound in 1914, and the sums paid by the consumers for all sugar purchased during the year will approximate s1,- 000,000,000 s against a little more than third of that sum in the year prior to the war
 About one-fourth of the nearly g. 00,000,000 pounds of sugar consumed in the United States in the fiscal year 1919 was, according to the Banks statement, produced in the UnitedI States, another one-fourth was pro- duced in our islands and the remainder drawn from foreign countries, chiefly Cuba. About hree-fourths of the quantity produced in our own fields was from beets, and only fourth from cane, while all of that brought in from our islands or from foreign countries was produced from cane. The average import price paid for the raw sueG- coming from Cuba was 5.04c per po/1d Exclusive of tariff) as against % per pound in 1914; the average price paid for that entering the coun- try from Hawaii in the fiscal year 1919 was Gle per pound and from Porto Rico 6.Sc per pound. these figures be- ing in all cases those of the raw pro- duct. which is refined in the United States before entering consumption. The above figures, says the Banks statement, are necessarily in very gen. eral terms. The exact figures of con sumption, passing the aggregate upon production at home, quantities brought from our islands. imports from foreign countries. minus the quantity exDorted | after refinement. was 385O00e 900 hounds; the import value, exclusive of duties. s435 ,o00.o GOO. and the quantity
 exported in the refined state 1,116, ,0o0,-
 900 pounds. and in the unrefined state i about 9000.O00 pounds. Of the 1919 1 oxnorts about one-third went to Great 1 Britain. third to France, and the i remainder chiefly 10 Belgium, Neither | lands, Spain and Switzerland. with smaller quantities to Argentina and 1 certain other South American coun- :. tAet ,1lDlUAJaIz.s,l lsss ls.g,4SyYs ,, sVll