The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-12
Average Tamil y Uses
 465 Pounds Of Sugar

The average American family con- Fumes 465 pounds of sugar Der year, 116 pounds of which is produced in Anericas BOP pounds comes from Cuba and the balance from Hawaii Porto Rico and the Philippines. Cuba, lies SD near inc United States that during the war, when shipping was hard to procure, practically the whole crop was marketed here
 Prior to the war Great Britain had obtained her sugar from Germany and Austrian; but during the war this supply was not ootaina.bae and the ravages of the conflict destroyed 8 large part of the fte1ds and factories of France and Russia These for 1ner sugar producing areas are mot now producing half of their former output, but merely enough to take care of Their own requirements
 During the war the cane -sugstr countries increased their pr reduction from 10,0O0, 900 to 18, 8,eO0, 900 tons pea, year, in partial offset of the reduction Of output of the beet sugar countries from 10,0O04N0O tons per year to about 5,0G0,G toms per year. It is estimated that in the Fall of 1919 the net situation was that at the conctu- sion of the canning season the world had about 4,ONO 900 tons less on hand than is usual. Directly after the armistice and f01 several months following tLle times were not good in the United States or anywhere, and the allotted American two- thirds of the Cuban srIEaa, crop did not find ready purchasers. Ad- dtiona1ly the Atlantic Coast retinerieS and warehouses were crowded witI Inc Allies allotted one-third, sen
 
 ls.tors who understood the real sit nation secured options upon inrnaeHsS quantities, and concealed it with tht sure knowledge that in 1929 they would be able to make great profit! upon it.
 The close of the 1919 canning sea son found the American portion O. the Cuban crop gone, but the Ware houses still bursting with the suga, which had been reserved for th Allies, and to which they were ea titled. Since then we have been On sugar rampage.
 During the war the United State was Cuba's only direct customer; bu when it came to dispoSng of tn 1920 crop she refused to be governe any longer by the war arrangement and, before Uncle Sam knew wha she was about, had sold half of he crop to foreign buyers. So it hap pened that in the F'sll of 1919 eFe wer short of sugar, largely through tn activities of SpeeulateFs, and we Sha t,e mol e short in the Fall of 1920, fe Europe is to get still more of tn Cuban crop than in 1919.
 Some estimate the shortage as faF ming to several million tons and al fearful that the price to the COT sumer may go te 35 cents per poun :The experts agree that there is a actual sugar shortage in the wori due te the destruction of EuFopea fields and factories and that it wi be some years before new fields ar factories, there and here, can me the situation.
 In the end the sugar scare viii . good thing for the United State It will encourage sugaF-beet faTTniR which will improve vast areas of ne urprehtrS-& land. The Sugar-be tops and pulp, when returned to | soil, enrich it aad make it suitat for production of other efeBs.
 TSe United States has only 514,6 acres in sugar beets, while Euro has e,006,000 acres but there enough available sugaF-beet aerea in the United States te raise all | sugar in the whole world, Mea time, even at present high prices, it best for Golden Age readers to b sugar during Mareh, April. and Ms when it will bel on hand in go