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Show "Why do you always buy your clothes on the installment plan?" "They try" to give me stuff that will last until the last installments are all paid." Boston Transcript. DID YOU KNOW that the largest production Of bect sugar in the U. S. was .in 1915 and amounted to 1,748, 000,000 pounds, and was just enough to supply ihe U. S. eleven weeks, liiv.. average consumption of sugar in 1914 was S9 lbs. per capita and iu 1917 it was 82. In 1917 the United States consumed S,500,000,o.- pounds of sugar. In normal times Denmark consumes 93 pounds, England 90, United States j'j, Geri-iany 75, Netheiia... way and Sweeden 60, France 40 Russia Rus-sia 30, Spain 15, Italy 10. About 48 per cent of our sugar was imported in 1917. The value of sugar sug-ar entering the United States in 1914 was $155,000,000 and in 1917 it was $34S,000,000. In 1917 we exported $77,000,000 worth, a larger part of which went to France, where our soldiers sol-diers created an extra demand. TO R ' |