Show I NE V ERA IrJ SUGAR Worlds Output Greatest In History STATISTICS OF FIVE YEARS Output of Cane Sugar Exceeds that Made From Beets First Time in Half a Century That Beet Product Has Not Been at Top of the List I Washington Nov 15Thc Department of Agriculture in Its official Crop Re jjorlor for November announces that the Indications arc that the world has entered I on a new era In the production ofcane I sugar The department quotes estimates placing the total sugar production of the world In the year 11031 at 10J25SOO tons of 2210 pounds each including 1312500 tone I of cano sugar and COS3000 tons of beets beet-s 1ln 1 and says as to cane sugar 1 WORLDS SUGAR INCREASE I Duilng the past five years the worlds output of this product has Increased from 3COOOOO to more than 1000000 tons Quantitatively the greatest Increase ever made in any fiveyear period In the history his-tory of this industry Moreover for the first time In a half century the ratio of Increase In the worlds production of cane sugar has exceeded that of sugar lade from beets the percentage of in crane In the former product for the 1o i years being about double that of the latter lat-ter v 4 vRECORDBREAKING i RECORDBREAKING YEARS The four years from 190001 to 19034 Inclusive were each In Its turn record caking years for the production of j sugar The previous high record crop k t1610000 tons was that of S94M > the ci irop made just before the outbreak of the revolution In the most Important producer pro-ducer Cuba I The high record crop In the history of the worlds beet sugar production was I that of 180CS Since that date there has been a decline In production In Europe amounting In all to about J000000 tons t but the present years estimates output still shows a considerable Increase over that or five years ago CUBA AND JAVA LEAD I The report says that about SO per cent p of the cane sugar of the world Is now ant an-t nually produced on tropical and semitropical semi-tropical islands The prospective output kl for 19034 of the lending Hlnsrlc producers d Cuba and Java constitutes 15 per cent of ii the worlds cano sugar |