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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1902)
Lttlv < - Afff * ' ' , \'J7 ' Conservative * u West generally. Tlieso articles will consist as far as possible of the lan guage of the travelers themselves , and will bo sufficiently copious to Rive an idea of the personality of the writer , as well as of some important episode in his western career. They will he accompanied by such notes as are deemed needful to put the matters dealt with in a proper light. We entertain a hope that this series may prove of value to people who feel an interest in the story'of the last hundred years in the West , but who have not access to the authorities ; to people who are just beginning to take notice of the great drama of the pioneers neers , as the first of its centennials draws near ; and to the schoolchil dren , who may , wo hope , bo led to study the history , as yet but little prized , of their own race and country , in preference to that of other and dis tant lands and peoples. SUGAR STATISTICS. "The World's Sugar Production and Consumption , 1800-1900" is the title of a monograph just issued by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics. It dis cusses the sugar production and con sumption of the world during the past century , and especially during the last half century , in whidli the burden of sugar production has been transferred from cane to the sugar beet , and in which the world has so largely increased its consumption of sugar. The world's sugar production has grown from 1,150,000 tons in 1840 to 8,800,000 tons in 1900. During the same period the world's population has grown , according to the best es timates , from 950,000,000 to about 1,500,000,000. Thus , sugar production has increased about 650 per cent , while population was increasing about 50 per cent. Coming nearer homo and considering the United States alone , it is found that the consump tion of sugar which in 1850 was only 22 pounds per capita , was in 1901 over 68 pounds per capita. One especially striking fact shown by the statistics presented in this study is the rapidly increasing pro portion of the world's enlarged sugar consumption which is supplied by beets. According to the figures pre sented by this study , beets which supplied in 1840 loss than 5 per cent of the world's sugar , in 1900 sup plied 07 per cent of the greatly in creased consumption ; while cane , which then supplied 95 per cent of the world's sugar consumption , now supplies but 33 per cent. Stated in quantities , it may be said that the world's cane sugar supply has grown from 1,100,000 tons in 1840 to 2,850- 000 tons in 1900 , an increase of 160 per cent ; while that of beets has grown rom 50,000 tons in 1840 to 4 * - > w 5,950,000 tons in 1900 an increase of 11,800 per cent. The figures above quoted include hat portion which enters into the world's statistical record of sugar production , and does not include the largo quantities of cane sugar pro duced in India and China exclusively for homo consumption , and in a con siderable number of the tropical coun tries does not include that portion of the sugar consumed at home. Even if these figures of cane sugar produc tion for homo consumption wore ob tainable , the production from beets would still show a much more rapid growth during the last half century than that from cane. This apparent ly , is due to two great causes : (1) ( ) the elimination of slavery in the tropics , the seat of the principal sugar production ; and (2) ( ) the intelligent study of and government aid to the production of beet sugar in the tem perate /.one especially in European countries. One effect of this enormous increase and the competition which has ac companied the developments above alluded to has been a great reduction in prices to the consumer. The fig ures of the bureau of statistics ob tained from statements supplied by importers of the cost in foreign countries of the sugar which they import show time the average cost of the sugar imported in 1871-2 was 5.37 cents per pound and in the year 1899- 1900 , 2.49 cents per pound. The sugar production of Franco has grown from 23,000 metric tons in the sugar year 1889-40 to 805,000 tons in 1899-1900 ; that of Germany from 12,659 metric tons in 1839-40 to 1,875- 000 tons in 1900-1901 ; Austria-Hun gary , from 25,000 metric tons in 1853- 54 , the earliest date for which fig ures are obtainable , to 1,120,000 tons in 1899-1900 ; Russia from 19,000 metric tons in 1853-54 to 900,000 tons in 1899-1900 ; Belgium from 12,000 metric tons in that year to 300,000 tons in 1899-1900 ; Holland , from 1,000 metric tons in 1860-61 to 180,000 tons in 1899-1900. Turning to the cano sugar production areas , in which the statistics are not available for so long a period , it is found that the exports from the Philippine Islands increased from 23,416 metric tons in 1849 to 283,000 metric tons in 1896. From Cuba the exports in 1860 were 587,491 tons and in 1894 , 968,750 ; in Hawaii the production lias grown from 11,200 tons in 1875 to 248,470 tons in 1899. Java produced in 1884 , 888,866 tons and in 1901 , 765,000 tons ; and Bra zil , which in 1884 produced 268,885 tons , produced in 1901 , 215,000 tons. The table which follows shows the world's production of sugar from cane and beets , respectively , at decennial years from 1840 to 1900 , and the per centage supplied by beets : .EARN MORE by doing better work For ten years we have trained ambitious men and women over 300,000 of them to become spec ialists and earn large salaries. I. C. 8. Text Books make it easy for busy people to LEARN BY MAIL. Courses In Mechanical ) Steam ; Electrical ; Clrll Engineering ; Mechanical Drawing ; Architecture ; Chemlitry ; Bookkeeping ; Stenogra phy ; German ; Spanish ; French ; etc. Write for circular , mentioning study that Interests you. Inttrnitlon * ! Com ipondtnct School * Box 1200 , SerintoB , Pi , TEN DflYS FREE TRIAL k allowed on our bicycles. 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