Show CAR in the ot 01 sn tion in various C countries ounces a year tor for each toe cyp has been the unvarying averton consumption in the united states for twenty five years yeam eng lands jard 8 average for the same period has been eighty ounces for each inhabitant or fa four ur times greater tea drinkers ax as IL a rule use more sugar than coffee drinkers do tea drinking countries we are the greater consumers of sugar in spain where chocolate is more popular lar as K drink than t tea ea an and d in france where coffee is proverbially popular and supposedly best made sugar is relatively less lees used the annual consumption of sugar in the he united states is now tons which is about sixty five pounds a person of the total the united states produces tons tona being imported the united states pay annually over tor for foreign sugar and tor for the domestic article the american product of sugar has increased 50 per cent in twelve years the english consumption of sugar Is at the rate of seventy pounds per capita the average of holland and denmark being thirty pounds and of france franc and switzerland twenty three pounds the expression enormous often erroneously used by statisticians intent upon establishing a proposition or destroying an adverse contention to is correct in the case of holland as a coffee consuming country tor for the total consumption of coffee in a year amounts to tons and the total area of holland is square miles milea less than halt half the size of west virginia on the basis of the population the coffee consumption of holland is in ounces yearly tor for each inhabitant and the other countries with which a comparison is made have the averages following united states germany 90 france 70 austro hun gary 35 italy 17 great britain anit and ireland 15 spain 9 and russia 3 the english taste for tea haz has never extended to the united states but oddly enough in those portions of canada in which the inhabitants are of english descent the consumption of tea Is just as large as in either england or ireland in tea and coffee drinking the united states follow rather france and germany than england though the reason for this preference is not altogether clear new york sun |