REPORT OF THE STATISTICIAN. 



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SUGAR PliODUOTiON. 



The sugar supply of this country is becoming a matter of great im- 

 portance. With increase of population there has also been a tendency 

 to a larger consumption per man. In times of low prices we consume 

 40 pounds to each inhabitant, besides a large supply of saccharine mate- 

 rial in tbe form of molasses of cane and sorghum, sugar and sirup 

 from maple, not to mention glucose from corn and other products, which 

 may to a limited extent take tbe place of cane-sugar. The advance in 

 price, and probably the hard times, have checked consumption, so that 

 but G38,000 tons only have been taken for consumption the past year 

 in the Atlantic ports, against 710,000 in 1871. There was a dehciency 

 in the world's production of cane-sugar in 1875 of 200,000 tons, in part 

 made up by increase of 171,738 tons of beet-sugar ; but by the shrinkage 

 of the beet-sugar crop of 1876 a marked rise in price was induced. The 

 commercial estimate of the supply of the past year is as follows : 



Tons. 



Cane-sugar, domestic and foreign G38, 300 



Cane-sugar received on the Pacific coast 28, 300 



Cane-sugar made from molasses 43, GOO 



Maple-sugar l?j 9^0 



Domestic beet, sorghum, &c 



^,000 



Taken for consumption in 187G 725, 269 



Taken for consumption in 1875 773, 002 



On the basis of a population of 45,000,000 the consumption would be 

 36 pounds to each in 187G, and 38 for the population of 1875. The sugar 

 supply of the commercial world in 1875 was 3,457,G23 tons, of which 40 

 per cent, was beet-sugar made in Europe. Cuba produced one-third 

 of the cane-sugar ; the other West India islands, and Brazil, Java, and 

 Mauritius, are all prominent sources of supply. The following is an 

 estimate from high authority of the quantities produced-of both kinds 

 in 1875 : 



Ccme- sugar. 



Toiia. 



Cuba 700,000 



Porto Rico 80,000 



British, Dutch, .lud Danish West 



Indies 250,000 



Java 200,000 



Brazil 170,000 



Manila i:i0, 000 



China 120,000 



Mauritius 100,000 



Tons. 



Martinique and Gnadaloupo 100, 000 



Louisiana 75, 000 



Peru 50,000 



Egypt 40,000 



Central America and Mexico ... 40, 000 



Reunion 30,000 



British India and Peuaug 30,000 



Honolulu 10,000 



Natal 10,000 



Australia 51,000 



Totaltons 2,140,000 



Bed-root sugar. 



Tods. 



German Empire 340,040 



Franco 462, 259 



Russia and Poland 245, 000 



Tons. 



Austr i a and Hungary 1 53, 923 



Belgium 79,79(3 



Holland and other countries SOi'OOO 



Totaltona 1,317,023 



