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Show THE WAR AND SUGAR PRODUCTION Tho effect of tho present wnr In Kuropo on tho geogrnpliy of tho world's Biigar production Is strikingly striking-ly shown in a stntement Just Issued by tho National Ooogrnphlc Society. Tho statement follows: "Flfty-threo out of ovcry hundred pounds of sugar produced In the world nro grown In tho countries now at war and their colonics. Tho total production of tho world Is estimated at approximately 18,000,000 tons. This production Is mndo up of cano sugar and beet sugar, the total yield of cano sugar hnvlng been U.G4G,000 tons, nnd of beet sugar, 3,438,000 tons In 1013. "One of tho peculiar facts connected connect-ed with tho sugar map of tho world Is that whllo Kuropo produces more than nlnoty-threo out of every one hundred pounds of beet Biigar grown It yields only ono pound out of ovcry six hundred of cane sugar. Of Europe's Eur-ope's total production of beet sugar, amounting to 7,808,000 tons, C,GCC,000 tons grow lu belligerent territory In 1013. Nearly nil of this product Is now entirely Isolated from tho out-'sldo out-'sldo world, being grown mainly In Germany, Austria Hungary and Hus sla. 'What this means to tho world Is rovoalcd by tho fact that moro than two thirds of tho world's sugar Is not consumed In tho country of Kb origin, this condition arising from tliu fact that thn great sugar using nations na-tions are principally outsldo of tho belts of sugar production. "Any scarcity of sugar growing out of tho war will affect tho United States moro seriously thnu any other country, for tho reason that American peoplo aro per capita, tho heaviest users of sugar In tho world. With ono sixteenth of the world's population, popula-tion, tho United States consumes moro than ono fifth of Its wigar. How rapidly this country Is becoming a nation of Biigar oators Is rovoalcd by u reforenco to tho tnblcs of Biigar consumption of tho last half century. Kitty j ears ago tho peoplo of tho United States ato IS pounds of sugar per capita. Plvo years later, In 1S70 they were using 33 pounds per capita. cap-ita. In 18S0 tho per capita consumption consump-tion had gone up to -10 pounds, Twon-ty-llvo years ago it had rlson to M pounds. In 1900 It had climbed still higher, to 59 pounds. Hy 1910 tho sugar su-gar consumption reached 80 pounds. Today tho por capita consumption exceeds ex-ceeds 85 pounds, "It appears that tho cano sugar Industry In-dustry will suffer ltttlo In tho matter of tho total crop yield as n result of the wrtr. On tho other hand, tho beet sugar buolness will suffer very henvlly. Tho present Russian croy has been nlmost entirely tied up by Inability to get exports out of tho country, whllo next yenr'a crop Is threatened with a. shortngo resulting from tho destruction of tho Industry ! In Poland, where bo much of Uussla's Biigiir Ib produced. Tho voports from Prnnco indlcnto that tho rich sugar boot lauds of the northern section ' woro harvested last season under the direction of tho Oermnnu, and thnt most of tho sugar factories In thU territory hnvo been dismantled to got their coppor for tho manufacture of wnr munitions . "Information from Oermnny nidi- 1 entes that tho Kmplro will plant only ! thrco fourths of Its normal area In sugar beets thla year. This would result lu cutting down Germany s sugar su-gar yield by moro than 050 jnna. "Of course the piospcctlvo shortage short-age In beet sugar production will be somewhat offset by tho falling off In sugar consumption Incident to tho II-unnclal II-unnclal stringency of tho world, caused hy tho war, Orent Britain, Mi-nually Mi-nually buying nearly 4,000,0u0 tons of sugar, nnd probably cut down her consumption ns much as Oermany i will cut down hor production " i |