New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1921-11-15
SUGAR BEET IS
FAST RETURNING
Is Now Producing Great Part Of
Worlds Supply

The sugar beet is slowly coming
back TO its proper share IN world
sugar productioe, Twenty years ago.
I says the Trade Record of the Nation
al City Bank of New York. II was
| producing two thirds Of the sugar Of
the world, the percentage of world
sugar output supplied by beets hay-
ing ranged from 81 and 66 per
cent during the period lS97-1902,
though this was during a period in
which Cuba's can sugar production
was unusually low Normally adds
the banks statement the beet supplied
lust one half OF the worlds produc-
ton, down to about the beginning OF
the great European War Then with
the reduction in the European crop
for Europe was the worlds chief beet
sugar producer in pre-war days-the
share which the beet supplied Of the
worlds sugar feel from 40 per cent
in 1918 to % per cent in 1918 and
- per cent in 1919-20. In that low
record year, 10000, Europes out
turn of beet sugar had fallen, accord
ing to Willett & Gray, the well known
sugar statisticians to 2,594 900 tons
as against S,3410 00 in the sugar year
1928. In the sugar year 1920-21
the United States, which had been
producing about $50 600 tons Of beet
sugar per annum, suddenly increased
its outturn to $4,000 tons, while
Europe also increased its outturn of
the beet product TO 3,719000 tons.
bringing the share which beet sugar
formed of the world total output in
1920-21 up to IS per cent, while for
the crop year 1921-22 the authorities
above named estimate the beet sugar
crop at about 81 per cent of the total
sugar output Of the world
Cuba of course has played a very
important part in supplying the
shortage of world sugar which would
otherwise have occurred as a result
! of the fall Off in the outturn of Euro
pean beet sugar-for practically all
Of the sugar produced in Europe is
from beets. Cuba's outturn. exclusive
ly cane sugar, advanced during the
European shortage from 2,429,000
tons in the crop year 1912-1S to g.
: 97l, 900 1918-19, and 100000 in
1921, and is estimated by the
above quoted sugar authorities at
about 100000 tons for the crop
year 1921-22. Their estimates Of the
worlds total sugar output for the
y crop year 1921-22 is 15,620.000 tons
+ against 1S,773,00o in the sugar year
/ 1913-14. which was the high record
S year of world sugar production. This
S estimate, if JUSTIFIED by future de-
e velopments, would put the outturn of
e the current crop year at about II per-
t cent below the worlds high record,
[ that of the crop year 1913-14.
One especially interesting fact, adds
the banks statement. in this consid-
Grafton of world sugar production for
the current year comes to the sur
= face at this moment in the latest re-
) port of the department of COM
| merce which shows that the average
import price of raw sugar entering
the United States in September 1921
was but 2.92c per pound against l5c
per pound in the same month of last
year, the average import price of raw
sugar entering our ports in Septem-
Der Of the current year having been,
according to the department of COM
! merce figures, less than in any month
since January 1915 when the average
import price was 2.S3c.
The outturn of sugar under the Am
erican flag in the crop year 1921-22 is
estimated by the above quoted au-
thorities at 1,971,000 tons, out of the
. world estimated total of 15,620000.
our beet output being estimated at
900, 900 tons, the cane outturn of
Louisiana and Texas being 291, 900
tons, that of the Hawaiian Islands
100000, Porto Rico 5000. and the
Virgin Islands 5000, making the es-
timated outturn under the American
flag in 1921-22 approximately 12la
per cent of the worlds total.
The principal world producers of
sugar in the crop year l921-22. ac-
cording to the estimates of the au-
thorties above named, will be: Cuba
S,000,oo0 tons, India 2,2O0,ooo. Java
100000, Germany 100000, con-
tinental United States 100000,
Czecho- Slovakia $4,000, the Hawaiian
Islands $4,000, Formosa and Japan
1926 900. and Porto Rico 415.000 tons
The production Of Cuba, India, Java
the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico and
Formosa is from cane, that of Ger
many and all Europe in fact is from
beets, and of the 10000 tons es-
timated for the United States 900
are from beets. Europe's total for
1921 is estimated at 3,913,000 tons
against 2,594,0oo in her low record
year. and $4,000 in the crop year