The Sidney herald., 1957-08-08

900 tons. Cane sugar sellers, OF
the other hand, have marketed al
: most 100000 tons less than at thi
time a year ago. Some of the mos
significant increases in beet Sugal
deliveries this. year have been il
the states on or Just beyond the
eastern fringe of the industry.
normal marketing territory. Fol
example, most recent trade figure:
show that compared with 1856
beet sugar deliveries in 1857 arc
up 144 percent in Ohio, 100 per.
cent in Iidiana and 16 percent in
Illinois-in view of the heavy beef
distribution in June these percent
ages no doubt will be significantly
higher when the June figures are
available.
The crop report issued by the
Department of Agriculture just
last Wednesday indicates than SUI
gar beet production this year,
from ii percent more acres than
last year, will be large enough to
provide an all-time high quantity
of beet sugar-2,150,0 900 to 2,200,-
600 tons of sugar, topping all pre-
viouS production records by l50.-
900 to 200, 600 tons. With adequate
stocks on hand and the harvest of
this huge crop to begin in a few
weeks, the beet sugar industry's
ability to market its full pppor-
tomato share OF whatever volume
of sugar consumers may need this
year is at an all-time high.
For the obvious purpose OF af-
fecting sugar prices in the north
east, the Department of Agricul-
ture has set total marketing quotas
this year at an admittedly inflated
figure of 9,300. 900 tons. This Is
500, 900 tons higher than the de-
partment's own estimate of actual
consumption and distribution for
the year. The beet sugar quota re-
sulting from the departments ac-
ton is now 2,101, 900 tons-about
10000 tons greater than the rec
ord beet sugar quota and market
ing of 1855, 900 tons in 1856.
The 1856 amendments to the Su-
gar Act merely gave American SUI
gar producers the opportunity to
share with foreign suppliers in
filling the increase In sugar re-
quirements of a growing nation.
Part of the increased need for III
gar arises because of the VESTS
fast growing population. 1t was
both natural and imperative that
that increase be supplied In con-
siderable part by increased quotas
to the beet sugar industry, which
in the midwest and west
There has been and is plenty of
sugar available for every hamlet
and every consumer in the United
States and there will continue to
be ample supplies to meet all
American demands. Thanks to the
present Sugar Act, the average
prices of sugar to U. S. consumers
has resisted the upward pressure
of prices to a much greater extent
than have the prices of virtually
all other food products. While
there has been a moderate advance
in the sugar price level, 1t has not
proportionately with liv-
ing costs and Is even below the
level considered reasonable and
fair a. measured by the Labor De-
partment's consumers price indi-
ces which the Sugar Act author
ICES as a gauge. Because of the
present Sugar Act, American con-
sumers have been protected from
the skyrocketing world sugar mar
ket, on which prices. more than
doubled in the last few months of
1856. Since last November, the
world market price has been above
he United States price-much of
he time, substantially above. The
beet sugar industry's increased
narketings and its prospective
greater output for this year-both
Of which are direct results of the
1855 amendments to the Sugar
continue to help give
positive assurance of adequate
supplies and reasonable prices for
all American sugar consumers.