BULLETIN OF THE 



No. 66 



Contribution from the Bureau of Statistics, L. M. Estabrook, Chief. 

 March 10, 1914. 



STATISTICS OF SUGAR IN THE UNITED STATES AND 

 ITS INSULAR POSSESSIONS, 1881-1912. 



Compiled under the direction of Frank Andrews, 

 Assistant Chief of the Division of Crop Estimates. 



INTRODUCTION. 



This bulletin was compiled primarily to have in convenient form 

 data to answer numerous inquiries concerning the statistics of 

 sugar in the United States and its insular possessions. Much of the 

 data were obtained from existing publications, but it was found 

 advisable to compile a number of new tables in order to present 

 other facts of timely importance. 



There was a great increase in the consumption of sugar in con- 

 tiguous United States during the period covered by the bulletin, 

 1881-1912. The average consumption per capita in the latter 

 part of this period was nearly double that of the early eighties* 

 The average annual consumption, which in the fiscal years 1881-1885 

 was 46 pounds per capita, was more than 78 pounds in 1906-1910 

 (Table 2). The total annual consumption increased from an average 

 of 2,500,000,000 pounds in 1881-1885 to practically 7,000,000,000 

 pounds in 1901-1910, and in the fiscal year 1912, to a total of 7,900,- 

 000,000 pounds (Table 2). 



The large increase in consumption was coincident with a greater 

 home production. The cane-sugar output increased considerably, 

 while beet sugar, the production of which amounted to little in the 

 early eighties, far exceeded that of cane sugar in contiguous United 

 States in the last few years. The term "contiguous" applies to the 

 United States proper, and excludes all outlying possessions. 



The sugar supply of the United States proper has always been 

 derived chiefly from abroad, and, even with a greatly increased 

 home production in 1906-1910, the portion of supply received from 

 domestic factories made only 23 per cent of the total consumption; 

 this was more than twice the corresponding percentage for 1881-1885. 

 The insular possessions — Hawaii, Porto Rico, and the Philippine 



NoTK. — This bulletin, which indicates the amount and sources of the sugar supply of the United 

 States, is of especial interest ia sugax-producing regions, also to persons concerned with problems of 

 iood supply. 



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