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Show Twelve Sugar Factories to Close This Year General Hcmiiuc of Sugar ImliMrj far llti:i-l!)ll. Following Is nu interesting icpoit of the sugar buulness of America for the past year, taken from "Sugar," the national sugar luagiixlne: "The Department of Agriculture has lust published statistics concerning he domestic beet sugar Industry foi the 1!U ;t-ll campaign. Accoidlng to the figures or tho deparlnient, the beet sugar output for this campaign w.is the largest on tccor.d, amuuiitlug to Jiiii.lOl short tons, or iO.Sir. tons In excess of the previous year. It Is ox-tiemely ox-tiemely tuitiirf umilo Hint with the ptogress being mndu by this Indiistrj, it suddenly should be th win ted by a reduction In tho tariff and free sugiii staring It In tho faco In lulti. Slnci he hint campaign twelve fnctorlct. hnvo closed their doors and will no' operate during the coming campaign which will menu a great i eduction 1 , domestic beet sugar production loi PJ1I-15. According lo iiuthentle dntu I lie following fnctorlcs huve decided -i i cense operations- Fremont and Ot lawn, Ohio, Jauesvllle, Wis ; Marin- , 'ily. .Mich.; Holly, Las Animas am. Lamar, Colo.; Hnmlltoii City nnd Al- nrdo, Cat.; Gloudale, ArU.; Fallon. Nov., and Wnvcrly, lovvn. These foe orlos have nn average aggregate drills slicing capacity or over 7.000 tonB oi beets, and tholr closing down meaiih that about D8.000 acirs or sugar beei .ml will have lo be devoted to nlliei roiis, nnd the loss lo HU"'tr beet farm-..rs farm-..rs or u market ror no: 00.00(1 ton- or beets. "Dining tho year 1IH " weie veuD-oiie CiieUirles In ' n'111 the" average length or e was -lghty-nvc dnys The b aK1; .nnouiitcd to .iSO.000, or tin . "r i,iO ,k n-H oer last -jear 'its ereage r.o5 li2 short Ioiib were produced, the overage vice, i t ncie beniB 'J 'b toiin, as aualust J U tons in 1912.13. Tho averago valuo of bccli) per ton on tho farm was $5. HI, a docronsc of IS cents per tun from the previous yenr. The farmers received $UO,222,000 for beets during tho laBt year, while lu PJ12-13 they received I30.-tori.000. Tho pcrcentago of sugar extraction was slightly lower during tho past year than the previous one, being 12.90 ns against 13.21! per cent in 1012 13. "The department figures show thnt about 2,r00 pounds of refined sugar wero yellded on nu uverago by an acre or beets, and Tor each ton or beets tho uverngo for tho past three yearn lins ranged from 237 to 2C.P pounds ot retlned sugar. The uverago valuo of nu acre of sugar beets during tho past threo years was from ?G2.12 to C8.74. Tho average output por factory Increased In-creased from 9,083 short tons orBiignr In UH2-13 to 10,330 short toiiB In 1013-II, 1013-II, while" tho averago quantity of beets used by each factory lu 1913-1 1 ranged rang-ed from, 71.C67 to 79,711 tonn. The nrcn from which each factory drew Its supply of beets ranged from 7,180 to 8.IC8 acres. "According to UiIb report, tho total amount of sugar produced within. the United Stutcs proper from the crops of 1913 exceeded 1,000,000 short toiiB. In tho provlous yonr, owing to crop fnlluro lu Louisiana, tho sugar production pro-duction of tho United States proper was only nbout 885,000 tons. "Tho average cousuinptlou of sugar in tho United States for tho two fiscal years ending Juno 30, 1012 and 1913, 'wna nbout 4,000,000 short tons. Of this amount, domestic sugar supplied 15 per cent In tho former year and 10 lu tho latter, while lioulsiann sugar was represented In tho formed year by 9 and In tho latter year by 4 per cent. Our Insular possessions turn- yU Ishcd 30 and 24 per cent, respectively, MM of our total consumption, lu 1911-12, 'HI 45 por cent or our total consumption uH consisted of foreign sugar (Including tWm Cuba) and In 1912-13, 55 per cent was ft drawn from Culm and other foreign Ml countries, the Increased consumption HB of Cuban sugar accounting for tho mm incrensed por cent In tho latter year. Ijfjj Taking tho totnl domestic producctloti flD us a basis, beet sugar constituted, in E5 1013-14, 71 per cent and enno sugar ggjj 29 per cent. 9JI |
