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Glucose and maltose require 20 minutes or more before they become important in 

 metabolism." 



"In experiments at the Minnesota Experiment Station it was found that 5 ounces 

 of sugar a day added to the ordinary diet increased the available energy of the ration 

 by 25 per cent. There was increased economy in the utilization of protein by 25 per 

 cent with the added sugar — although sugar contains no protein. 



"A study of American dietaries in 500 representative families shows that sugar 

 in the various forms of food provides 10 per cent of the total energy. A man receives 

 in his food and expends in heat and muscular work between 2,500 and 3,500 calories 

 a day. Multiply this by 110,000,000 people and 365 days, make due deduction for 

 women and children and you will get the total human energy of the United States. 

 Divide this by ten and you will see how much we owe to sugar. 



"Sugar beets stand at the head of all the crops of the temperate zone in the amount 

 of food energy that can be produced in a given area. They are the most efficient of 

 all our machines for the fixation of solar energy in a form so that it can be used 

 in the human body to produce muscular power. An acre of sugar beets may pro- 

 duce nine million calories of energy; more than twice as much as potatoes (four million) 

 three times as much as barley (2.7), or oats (2.5) and more than four times as much as 

 wheat (2.2) or rye (2)." 



Sugar a "Pure" Food 



"Sugar differs from almost all of our other foods in being pure. When a chemist 

 uses the word 'pure' he does not mean freedom from dirt or immorality, but freedom 

 from any ingredients except the main substance. Pure water we have in the rain 

 and pure salt in the rock crystal. But the foods we get from plants and animals are 

 all very much mixed and each contains many or all the various kinds of compounds we 

 need for nutrition, the fats, carbohydrates, proteins of several sorts, mineral salts, and 

 vitamines. But the chemist has learned how to separate these complex natural mix- 

 tures and extract in practically pure form the particular substance he wants. This 

 refining process was first applied to sugar, but now we have corn starch and gelatin and 

 will have more such pure foods in the future. This gives us concentrated nutriment in a 

 neat, attractive, portable, and preservable form." — Facts About Sugar. 



Hawaiian Sugar Crop Planters have pointed out that the value 

 "King Sugar," monarch of Hawaiian of the Hawaiian sugar crop approximately 

 products will pour approximately $70,000,- equals the production of silver in the 

 000 into the territory this year, an increase United States which usually averages be- 

 ef almost 40 per cent over the gross return tween $50,000,000 and $60,000,000 annu- 

 from this product last year, according to ally, although it rose in 1915 to $77,036,170. 

 the estimates of prominent planters. With the large increase in the sugar m- 

 AU except a few mills in the territory come, it is estimated that Hawan's exports 

 have completed their grinding for the sea- to the mainland United States this year 

 son, and the combined output is certain to will aggregate $100,000,000 as the pme- 

 exceed 500,000 tons, a decrease of approxi- apple pack will bring $25,000,000 and 

 mately 100,000 tons from the production other miscellaneous products appro.ximately 

 last year, which is laid to the plantation $5,000,000. 

 laborers' strike of 1920, when most of the 

 1923 crop was planted. Indo-China Sugar 



The average price for last year's crop. Concessions are being granted for sugar 



however, was $92.96 a ton, as compared cultivation in connection with the in- 



with this year's estimated average price of creased interest throughout the country 



between $130 and $140 a ton. in varied agricultural pursuits. 



