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Show " , " THE SUGAR 'WB USE, More than 5,0(W,000,Wl) pounds of I iitgar, vnluevl nt over I00.0(K1,0(K), was brought into the United State in the fiscal year Just ended. This is a larger impoit.ulon of sugar than In imy pre ceding year in tho lilstoiy of the oouu-try. oouu-try. Tho total niunber of pounds of sugar brought into America during- the year was, as shown by thu leiordhof the Department of Commerra nnd l.n'.ior, 6,217,077,001, while In no rarller year in the history of the count) y has the Importation of sugar ever lenchcd r,000,'JUi),000 pounds. Tho largest im.virlitlan In any t-arller j'-ar was that of I807, wheii the total waa 4,1118,1)05,7.1.1 pound?, Adding to the enoiuious importation of 11)03 000,000,000 pounds ns the domestic production, pro-duction, would give n total sugar supply sup-ply f G817 million pout.dR for the year, or mtlk'KMit to (urnith an averuire of ievenly-two pounds for each individual in tho United States, estimating tbo present population at 80,000.000. The records of sugar importations for the year d lifers materially In certain nspocts from that of earlier years. The total Importation of toot sugar during tho year was only 87,000,030 pounds against 263.000,000 In tho fiscal y-ni 100-', and 003,000,000 In tlie.llsc.il j.hi 1001. Cane sunnr. Of course, composed tho remainder, and I ho cane eugiir Ini portntionsnf the fiscal year, exclusive of that brought from Porto, Kiro and tin llnnaihin islam)t, nnipuiitdd to 4076 million pounds, against 2085 Vulllloiis in tho Kscal year 100-', nnd 2dt(l ullltoils' in 100U i'rotn Torlo Itlco tjio total tujsr liroujlit into the United Stuttf amounted to lifi, (11.508 pounds, valued qt f 7, 130,570, "nnd from the liawniian islands, 771,825,120 'pounds, valued at tUO.Gftl. Thus tlio total quantity of sugar nipplfnd liy Torto Ilico Riid the Hawaiian ithindB aniountid to 1,000, 000,000 pounds or about one- ilfi'ti of tho 'tftal l)rooghUintoUbe.coH!iU'y-,-ltthvalu. tTiiig nearly 33,0J0,000 It woulirseira that, as n Nation, we are. fond "u( (tent uieais. Harper's Weekly. |