people of the United States 
half their own weight in 
every year. This may seem a 
@ statement, but if we take 
antity of sugar produced in 
vited States and add to this 
ant tity brought from our own | 
d the quantity imported 
ign countries, and_ sub- 
a grand total of consider- 
e than 7 billion pounds 
ied in the country; and by 
g the population into this 
“o tal, we get an average of 
ow nds : per capita, speaking in 
ms, for 1910, and about 
otity for 1909. It is not 
aed, of course, that each per- 
necessarily consumes sugar 
; one-half his individual 
t; but taking the total con- 
n and comparing it with the 
opulation in the section 
continental United States, 
yerage yearly consumption of 
s found to be about 8114 
fa ct, the people of the United 
s are larger consumers of su- 
capita than those of any 
untry of the world except 
, for which the latest fig- 
IW a Consumption averaging 
ounds per capita, against our 
average of 8114 pounds per 
consumption is in Denmark, 
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The vext largest per ecap- 
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“SUGAR C CONSUMPTION I IN THE UNITED STATES. 
7734 pounds; followed by Switzer- 
land, 64 pounds; Sweden, 54 
pounds ; and Germany and Holland, 
each about 43YS pounds. 
Not only is the U. S. the second 
largest sugar consumer per capita 
but the total amount consumed an- 
nually is much greater than that of 
any other country, aggregating, as 
above indicated, more than 7 billion 
pounds per annum, against about 4 
billion pounds in England and about 
3 billion pounds in Germany. 
About one-half of the sugar con- 
sumed in the United States is 
brought from foreign countries, 
about one-fourth from our own is- 
lands, and the remaining one-fourth 
produced in this country. The total 
production of sugar in the United 
States now amounts to 134 billion 
pounds a year, of which more than 
1 billion pounds is beet sugar and 
about three-quarters of a billion cane 
sugar. It is only recently that the 
production of beet sugar in the 
United States has come to exceed 
that of cane sugar. In 1900 domestic 
production of cane sugar was twice 
as great as that of beet sugar, and 
20 years ago was more than 60 times 
as great; but the growth of beet su- 
gar production has been very rapid 
in recent years, and in 1907, for the 
first time, exceeded in quantity that 
produced from cane and has so con- 
tinued since that time. . 
Of the sugar brought from other 
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. duced from cane. 
countries, nearly all is made from 
eane.’ While about half of the 
world’s sugar is made from beets, 
most of it is produced in Europe and 
consumed in the country of pro- 
duction or in other parts of that 
grand division, while most of the 
world outside of Europe obtains its 
sugar supply from cane, grown of 
course, in the tropical and subtro- 
pical sections. Of the cane sugar 
which we consume, most of that 
coming from foreign countries is 
drawn from Cuba, the Dutch East 
Indies, and smaller amounts from 
the West Indies, Mexico, Central 
and South America. All of that 
coming from our own islands—Por- 
to Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines 
—is cane sugar, while of the domes- 
tic product about 40 per cent. is pro- 
The beet sugar 
of the United States is grown chief- 
ly in Colorado, California, and 
Michigan, and some in Utah, Idaho, 
and Wisconsin; while most of the 
cane sugar is produced in Louisana, 
with smaller quantities in Texas, 
Florida, Georgia, and South Caro- 
lina. - 
The sugar ‘‘habit’’ is evidently a 
growihg one with the people of the | 
United: States’ and probably with 
those of other countries, since the 
total world production of sugar, in- 
cluding all countries for which sta- 
tistics are available, has increased 
50: per cent. in the last decade and 
about doubled in 15 years. In our 
own case the consumption has shown 
a rapid growth, the per capita con- 
sumption having been, in 1880, 40 
pounds; in 1890, 51 pounds; in 1900, 
59 pounds; and in 1910, approxi- 
mately 81144 pounds. 
What is the cost of this enormous 
quantity of sugar consumed in the 
United States? This is more diffi- 
cult to answer. The valuation of 
that brought from foreign countries 
and our islands is set down at about 
175 million dollars in 1910, and the 
stated value of that produced in the 
United States, at approximately 75 
million dollars; though this com- 
paratively high figure when consid- 
ered by the price per pound, is due 
to the fact that the valuation is bas- 
ed upon the refined article, while 
that of the sugar from abroad is the 
value of the unrefined article in the 
country of production. If, however, 
we accept a general average of 5c 
per pound as the retail price paid 
by our people for the 7 1-3 billion 
pounds of sugar consumed by them 
in 1910, we should get a total of 
$366, 000 ,000 
