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Show TWELVE BILLION POUNDS OF SUGAR USED IN 1925 K During 1925 the American people used 12,157,004, G40 pounds of sugar, or an average of 107 pounds for every person in the country, according to figures compiled bp the weekly trade journal, Facts About Sugar. This is the largest amount 'of sugar ever consumed in one year bp anp nation and represents an increase of seven pounds per person over the consumption consump-tion of 1924. Even with the record breaking quantity of sugar used in the United States during the past year Americans Ameri-cans cannot claim to be the champion cham-pion sugar eaters of the world as individuals. The annual per capita consumption in Australia and New Zealand is over 130 pounds. Of the total amount of sugar used in 1925 a little less than half or v 5,7000,000,000 pounds was produced in i various parts of the United States, including the sixteen states Ifrom Michigan and Ohio in the east to alifornia and Washington in the west in which sugar is made from sugar beets, the states of Louisiana, Teaxs and Florida in the south and various insular territories Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines and the .Virgin Islands. The balance, about 6,500,000,000 pounds, was supplied by Cuba. The total sugar bill cf the American Ameri-can peopl-3 last year, taking the average retail price in New York as the basis of computation, was round-'ly round-'ly $790,000,000 or over $2,000,000 a day. This of course is the amount paid by consumers. The value! of the crop to producers was much less, ! about $485,000,000, the difference representing rep-resenting the cost of refining and distributing and the profits of the wholesale cmd retail dealers1. The sugar imported was brought into the country in ' a raw state and was refined re-fined by American refineries - but even so it epresented a payment to foreign producers of over half a million mil-lion dollars a day for this one item in the nation's diet. |