286 The Sugar-Beet in America 



use seems only reasonable, since it supplies a wholesome 

 and nourishing food, which is relished by all classes of 

 people. ^ 



USE IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES 



The annual per capita consumption of sugar in the 

 United States and the leading countries of Europe is 

 shown in Fig. 33. It varies from 89.59 pounds for each 

 individual in the United Kingdom to 8.94 pounds in 

 Italy. According to their use of sugar, the countries 

 come in the following order : United Kingdom, Denmark, 

 United States, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden, Germany, 

 Netherlands, France, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, Russia, 

 Spain, and Italy, — the people of the British Isles using 

 ten times as much as the Italians. Figures compiled by 

 Palmer ^ show the following percentage increase per 

 capita in sugar consumption during the twenty-six-year 

 period from 1889 to 1915 in the countries mentioned: 

 Germany, 323; Netherlands, 198; Russia, 188; Austria- 

 Hungary, 187; Switzerland, 150; Denmark, 144; Bel- 

 gium, 102; United States, 71; France, 54; Spain, 46; 

 United Kingdom, 22 ; and Italy, 16. 



He also compiled Table XXII, which shows the total 

 consumption of sugar in the United States and several 

 European countries. This table shows that in less 

 than thirty years the use of sugar has increased several 

 hundred per cent in most countries. France is the 

 only one in which it has not more than doubled in that 

 time. 



'Palmer, Truman H., ''Concerning Sugar" (1916). 



