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THE CUBA REVIEW 



Europe— Beet sugar crops Sept.- Jan. 3,483,085 4,856,337 5,077,760 



United States-Beet (1918-19, 655,000) July-Jan. 682,867 734,577 779,756 



Canada— Beet (1918-19, 17,000) Oct.-Dec. 11,250 12,500 17,641 



Grand total cane and beet sugar Tons 16,707,709 16,981,596 16,548,680 



Estimated decrease in the world's production Tons 273,887 



— Weekly Statistical Sugar Trade Journal, August 29, 1918. 



U. S. SUGAR CONSUMPTION 1917-1918 



The International Sugar Committee has 

 given out its statistical report for the 

 first quarter of 1918, covering the period from 

 January 1 to March 31, inchisive, together 

 with a report on the consumption of sugar in 

 the United States during the calendar year 

 1917. These figures, which are the first to be 

 made available giving statistics of consump- 

 tion from officially authenticated sources, 

 show that the amount of sugar, in terms of 

 refined going into consumption in the 

 United States during 1917 was 4,137,115 

 ordinary tons, and in the first three months 

 of 1918, 973,748 tons. 



Per Capita Consumption_^S3 Pounds. 



The consumption per capita, as indicated 

 by these figures, was 83 pounds for the year 

 1917, or just under 7 pounds per person per 

 month, and about 20 pounds for the opening 

 quarter of the present year, a slightly lower 

 rate. The following table shows the sources 

 from which consumption requirements were 

 supplied during 1917: 



To7is of 



Supplied by 2,000 lbs. 



Cane sugar refiners 3,022,952 



Beet sugar manufacturers 879,288 



Southern plantations 289,001 



Foreign and insular, unrefined .... 29,175 



4,220,416 

 Less plantation sugar shipped to 

 refiners 83,301 



4,137,115 



With the exception of the item of foreign 

 and insular sugar consumed -^v-ithout refining, 

 the figures are compiled from reports made 

 directly to the International Sugar Committee. 

 The figure for the item mentioned is obtained 

 by deducting from actual imports shown by 

 customs house figures the amount reported as 

 distributed by refiners. Consumption of 

 maple sugar, not included in the above table, 



is estimated by the committee at about 11,000 

 ordinary tons during 1917. 



For the first quarter of 1918 the sources of 

 supply were: 



Tons of 

 2,000 lbs. 



Cane sugar refiners 757,709 



Beet sugar manufacturers 192,248 



Direct consumption raw and 



washed sugars 23,791 



973,748 



In this table the amount supplied by cane 

 sugar refiners is determined upon the basis 

 of 93% of their meltings as reported to the 

 committee. The figure for beet sugar is sup- 

 plied by the Food Administration Sugar Dis- 

 tributing Committee in Chicago, and that for 

 raw and washed sugar consumed without 

 refining is obtained from import license re- 

 ports in the case of foreign sugar and from 

 the reports to the International Sugar Com- 

 mittee in the case of domestic sugar. 



The raw and washed sugars going into 

 direct consumption came from the following 

 sources: Cuba, 10,615 tons; other foreign 

 countries, 4,375 tons; Louisiana plantations, 

 5,975 tons; Porto Rico, 917 tons; Philippine 

 Islands, 1,909 tons. 



No reckoning is made of receipts of refined 

 sugar from Hawaii, since these arrivals were 

 approximately balanced by exports of refined 

 from the United States during the same period. 



Added interest is given to the figures at the 

 present time by the fact that the Food Ad- 

 ministration at Washington on May 20 gave 

 out a statement on the sugar consumption of 

 the United States during the first "war year," 

 April, 1917, to April, 1918. Consumption 

 for this period of twelve months is reckoned 

 4,109,291 tons, or 27,824 tons less than for 

 the calendar year 1917, indicating that do- 

 mestic consumption for the first three months 

 of 1917 was greater than that for the first 

 three months of 1918 by this amount. ^ 

 Purchases and Allotments. 



The committee's report for the quarter 



