The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-24
UNITED STATES SUGAR SPREE
Total Quantity Consumed in Fiscal
Year Nearly 1000, 100000 Pounds.

The assertion that the United States
has gone on sugar spree" since the
advent of prohibition lends interest to
series Of compilations by the Nation
al City bank of New York City, which
compares our sugar consumption III
1919 with that of previous years. They
show that the quantity Of sugar con
sumed in the United States in the fiscal
year ending with June, 1919, was great
er than in any year in the history OF
the country and the sums paid for 1t
double those in the year preceding the
war The quantity of sugar consumed
by our people, says the banks state
ment, aggregated nearly 00,000 600
pounds in the fiscal year, 1919, against
about S,000,000,000 last year, S,o0o,-
100000 pounds in the year prior to the
war. little over 7500,000,000 in 1910,
5000 900 900 in 1905, 5,000,000O00 in
| 1902. 5000. 5000 in 1905, 5000, 0000 900
in 1902, and 1900 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 population meantime has increased
only SO per cent. The average per
capita consumption in 1919 was So
! pounds against " pounds per capita in
| l0ls, rs in 1916, 50 in 1900, so in 1890,
| 40 in 1880, and 80 pounds per capita in
4 1870. In fact, our l0O000,000 people.
although forming about six per cent of
the worlds population, consumed last
year nearly % per cent of the worlds
sugar production.
! The sums paid for sugar by our peo-
pie in 1919 were far in excess of those
4 of any earlier years. The average inn
( port price for the raw product brought
/ in from foreign countries averaged a
! little more than five cents per pound
/ Exclusive of duty as against an aver
! age of two cents per pound in 1914, and
/ the sums paid by the consumers for all
sugar purchased during the year will
approximate 81 900, 100000 as against
little more than one-third of that
I sum in the year prior to the war
About one fourth Of the nearly o.
000,000,000 pounds Of sugar consumed
/ in the United States in the fiscal year,
I 1919, was, according to the banks
statement, produced in the United
/ States, another one fourth was pro-
duced in our islands and the remainder
drawn from foreign countries, chiefly
Cuba. About three fourths of the guam
I tity produced in our own fields was
from heets, and only one-fourth from
cane, while all the sugar brought in from
our islands or from foreign countries
was produced from cane, The average
import price paid for the raw sugar
from Cuba was 5.04 cents per pound
! Exclusive Of tariff as against cents
per pound in 1914; the average price
paid for That entering the country from
Hawaii in the fiscal year, 1919, was
81 cents per pound and from Porto
Rico SIS cents per pound, these figures
being in all cases those Of the raw
product. which is refined in the United
States before entering consumption.
The above figures, says the banks
statement are necessarily in very gen
I eral terms. The exact figures Of con.
sumption, basing the aggregate upon
production AZ home, quantities brought
4 from our islands, imports from foreign
countries, minus the quantity exported
after refinement, was $3.50, 900, 900
pounds; the import value, exclusive Of
duties, $435, 100000, and the quantity
exported in the refined state l,ll6O00,-
900 pounds, and in the unrefined state
about 100000 pounds, OF the 1919
exports about one-third went TO Great
Britain, one third to France, and the
remainder chiefly to Belgium, Meth
erlands, Spain and Switzerland, with
smaller quantities to Argentina and
certain other South American coun.
tries.