And this in the long run must be a losing game. 
40 
At pr 
resent the 
fact stands that West Indian sugar has to a large extent been driven 
om the home market to that 
should lose that, its fate apparently is sealed. 
t of the United States. 
If in time it 
T. ie 
TOTAL PRODUCTION or DIFFERENT Kiyps or Sucar, 1853-87. 
e 1853-55. 1886-87. Increase. 
Tons, Tons. Tons. 
“British cane sugar - s ~ 261,000 580,000 319,000 
Foreign cane sugar - - 972,000 2,174,000 1,202,000 
1,233,000 | 2,754,000 1,521,000 
Beetroot sugar - - « * 190,000 2,433,000 | 2,243,000 
Total - - | 1,423,000 5,187,000 | 3,764,000 
` * Qut of a total i increase of production amounting to 33 million tons, 
no less than 21 million tons, or about 60 per c 
beet sugar, whic ch has in fact changed its position : as $9 
production altogether, ig | now reached the point of be 
equal to cane sugar, whereas a 
only about one-eighth of the total production. 
ME and foreign. cane sugar have 
s an increase o 
r in the 
early 
the beginning of the period it PUE 
Both British 
more than doubled in the same 
cane 
ially 
omitted ; 
easily be FAS if thought necessary 
in a comparison extending over so a a peri 
& is the Men. Ed the progress when 23 beginning and end of 
the whole period, 1 are compared. In the Ankeren of five 
years, between 1850-82 aud 1886-87, the figures are 
* INCREASE OF PRODUCTION or DIFFERENT Hoa OF SUGAR, 
1880-87. 
87 
; (deducti 
— 1880-82. 1886-87. | Increase. mutica if: Increase. 
eluded sin 
1884). 
"Tons. Tons. Tons. 
* British cane sugar . 419,000 580,000 161.000 ie tl. 
Foreign cane sugar -  -| 1,499,000 | 92,174,000 675,000 1,973,000 474,000 
,918,000 2,754,000 836,000 2,504,000 586,000 
Beetroot sugar - * | 1,646,000 | 2,433,000 787,000 2,433,000 787,000 
Total- - - | 3,564,000 | 5,187,000 | 1,623,000 4,937,000 1,373,000 
