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sugar production of the world. The development of the beet su 
industry is brought out in the most remarkable way. At the beginn 
of the period it formed only one eighth of the total sugar production ; 
t five years, while the import of raw beet 
sugar showed little increase, that **of refined in the same period has 
" n over three million ewts., or as much as the total imports of 
* refined from beet countries five years ago.” 
The production of cane sugar in British possessions show * that that 
* production does not find an outlet in the market of the United 
Kingdom, as it formerly did, its place being there taken by beet 
é susra dd 
The figures with regard to home consumption are very striking. 
* The 8 million ewts. consumed 30 to 35 years ago, inclusive of 
* duty, were as costly to the consumers of the United Kingdom as 
* the 22 million ewts. annually consumed in the last two or three 
és years." 
b | to resume 
operations on an abandoned sugar estate in the tropics, except at a 
os dertaking. — 
do not justify 
ri in 
optimistic one. It is 
ich should be applied to the improvement 
of manufacturing processes and machinery is, under t circum- 
stances, prudently diverted to the mere t 
