Vol. XI. No. 264. 



THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



179 



The table to ■wLich reference ia made in the above 

 article appears below. It presents results, for the purposes 

 of illustration, calculated from data, chosen at hazard, given 

 in the Annual Reports on Agricultural Experiments Con- 

 ducted in Barbados, and in the Annual Reports on Experi- 

 ments Conducted in Antigua and St. Kitts, for the years 

 mentioned. 



In the table, the numbers in brackets refer to the num- 

 bers designating the experiments as they are detailed in the 

 reports. Further, X 1' and K denote experiments with 

 artificial manures supplying chiefly nitrogen, phosphoric acid 

 and potash, respectively. 



It is to be understood that, for the purposes of illustra- 

 tion, the results given in the table have been reviewed in 

 a perfectly general manner. 



li.\Rl!.\DOS. 17 YE.VK.s' EXrEKI.MDXlV AT iMiDDS, 1891-1910. 

 PL.^Xr CANE>. 



Tons cane, Difierence. I'robable Probable 

 average. error of error of 



average. one ex- 

 periment. 

 Ten manure 240 — 076 31 



Pen manure and I 27..^ 34 83 3-4 



Pen manure and! 



40 lb. X and 30-5 6-5 0.79 33 



40 ft. K. I 



LLKWAl'.li ISLAXD.S. AVKUAGE OF £.\ I'KRIMENT.S, 1901-G. 

 i'LAXr CANE.''. 



(1) Pen manure* 24*8 — 044 4-& 



(4) 40 lb, N and I .,7.8 3-0 0-63 48 



Iv and P J 



BUCKLEYS, ST. KITTS, 1900-6. l>LAKrC.\NES. 



(1) Pen manure 323 — O'SO 47 



(2) Pen manure 32 4 01 I'OO 4-9 

 (6) N.P.K. 33-9 1-6 140 49 



(14) N. 324 0-1 lo3 5-3 



(18) N.K. 34-5 2-2 1-60 55 



(26) X.P. 34-1 1-8 1-35 4-7 

 r,ucKi.EV.s, 1902-7. i;atoon canes. 



(1) No manure 15.7 — 1.81 40 



(2) Pen manure 17f) I't* 2-12 4-7 

 (6) N.P.K. 21-2 5-5 111 3-5 



(14) N. 22-0 6-3 Ml 35 



(18) N.K. 22-1 6-4 131 4-1 



(26) X.P. 20-9 5-2 1-47 47 



In regard to the silk industry of Europe and Japan, 

 u statement issued by the International Institute of Agri- 

 culture, Rome, is to the effect that the condition of the 

 mulberry trees, during the past season was satisfactory in 

 Austria, Croatia and Slavonia, and .Japan, and bad in Italy. 

 The quantity of .silk worm eggs placed for incubation was in 

 Austria 29414 oz. of 00 to 36 grammes; in Bulgaria 14336 

 hectogrammes or 96 per cent, of last year's figure; and .Japan 

 521 000 hectogrammes, the latter being 102 per cent, of the 

 amount placed for incubation last year. 



*In the e.xpLTinients in the Leeward IslanJ.s, Nn. (Ij which 

 i.- described in the report.s as no ninnure actu.illy receives, as 

 plant canes, a dressing of pen manure. Tlic nihnurial constitu- 

 ents referred tfi under the subseiiiient nundjers arc ajiplied in 

 addition to pen manure as received by No. (1). In ratoons, 

 Jiowever, No (1) actually receives no maiuire at all. 



SUGAR IN THE UNITED STATES, 

 1911. 



Sugar consumption in the I'nited States in the calendar 

 year 1911 exceeded that of any earlier year. The total 

 quantity consumed in continental I'nited States was, accord- 

 ing to the latest estimate of the Bureau of Statistics, bepart- 

 ment of Commerce and Labour, 7,670 million pounds, or an 

 average of 81 78 pounds ^jer capita, against the former high 

 record of 81 19 pounds per i-apita in the fiscal year 1907. 



These figures are official so far as relates to the quantity 

 brought into continental United States during the calendar 

 year from Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines and from 

 foreign countries. To this the Bureau has added the latest 

 estimates of sugar produced in the country during 1911, and 

 by subtracting the official figures of exports from the grand 

 total of imports and domestic production obtains a total of 

 7,670 million pounds, or practically 82 lb. per cajnfa, as the 

 indicated consumption of the calendar year 1911. Ten years 

 ago, in the fiscal year 1901, the indicated consumption was 

 5;', billion pounds, or 72 R. per capita; twenty years ago, 

 in 1S91, 3^ billion pounds, or 61 lb. per capita; thirty 

 years ago, in 1881, 2| billion pounds, or 43 lb. per capita; 

 and forty years ago, in 1871, li billion pounds, or 36i ft. 

 per capita. 



The import valuation of the sugar brought from foreign 

 countries in 191,1 was, speaking in round terms, $90,000,000; 

 from the non-contiguous territories, $78,000,000; and the 

 estimated value of that produced in continental Ignited State.i, 

 •590,000,000. The Bureau of Statistics estimates the duty 

 paid on sugar imported from foreign countries in 1911 at 

 $50,000,000. 



t)ne striking fact which comes to the .surface in this 

 study of sugar consumption in the United States is found 

 in a comparison of production and growth in production of 

 cane and beet sugar respectively. While exact figures of 

 domestic production in 1911 have not yet been completed, 

 the latest and best available estimate puts the production of 

 beet sugar at 1,105 million pounds, and that of cane sugar 

 at 700 million pounds, the production of beet sugar thus 

 exceeding that of cane sugar by more than 50 per cent. 

 Prior to 1907, the production of beet sugar was never as great 

 as that of cane sugar. In 1901 the quantity of beet sugar 

 produced was less than one-third that of cane; in 1906 it 

 nearly equalled that of cane; in 1907 it exceeded that of cane, 

 and has continued greater in each year since that time, being 

 in the year just ended, as above indicated, more than 50 

 per cent, in excess of the cane sugar produced. 



Approximately one-fourth of the sugar consumed in the 

 United States is of domestic productioi), another quarter is 

 brought from the non-contiguous territories, and the re- 

 mainder from foreign countries, chiefly Cuba, from which the 

 importations in the calendar year 1911 were 3,193 million 

 pounds out of a total of 3,732 million pounds from all 

 foreign countries. The next largest foreign contribution to 

 the sugar supply of the United States was the Dutch East 

 Indies— 353 million pounds in 1911. The contributions 

 from islands belonging to the United States were, from 

 Hawaii, 1,136 million pounds; Porto Rico, 654 million; and 

 the Philippines, 402 million; and of sugar produced in con- 

 tinental United States, 1,105 million pounds from beets, and 

 from cane, 700 million pounds, the figures of domestic produc- 

 tion being necessarily estimates. (In the Modern Sii/jar 

 Planter for March 2, 1912; from a Special Report of the 

 United States Department of Commerce and Labour.) 



