Show OUR SUGAR consumption IOA het sugar now more mora than total production of 0 tho the moro more than 1200 millio dollars worth of merchandise brough in to the united states during tho the last year more than million dol 01 arlis worth was sugar sugar forme by far tho the largest single item in this arg est cat importation which the ur ted staton stat hpe hp 3 over ever mado mada in my any a si year the he 17 cited states lg Is iacre ing steadily and rapidly its colsum consumer ion of sugar the sugar producers at homo home are increasing their out pu of both cano cane and beet sugar but i von their rapid increase in product production io Is is not keeping paco pace with tho the luct ea ing homo home demand and as a cons the iho quantity of sugar brou hr ought gift into the country increases from year to 3 par mr it has doubled in tho the last twenty y irs while population meant me antimo me iacre zed aed but 50 60 per cent the annual ahoi importation during tho the lire year pe led kaiding taiding with 1885 was wai I 1 as and 1 ing tho the live five year polloi e enc ing with 1305 tho the annual average was 2 06 tons despite tho the fact that the chasu IL r production at home had grown fr ft from om in tons in 1885 to approximately e ay tons la in 1905 the united states la Is the largest sugar bugar country in the tha world though the per capita const IM ral this country tg la not as aa great jaa as in the united kingdom the total con sump L V 4 U INT OF A MAIL CAR alon in 1901 1904 aggregated tons making an average ce raga consumption for each cach individual for tho the year oi of about 75 pounds J j during the halt half century prior 91 to 1830 beet sul auar ar formed a small proportion of tha air worlds sugar production tho the percentage age which beets SUP of the worlds sugar product being la in 1840 but 43 per cent in 1850 per cent in 1890 1800 per cent while 1900 showed for beets tho the highest proportion in the worlds production ol of sugar per cent |