. The Cuba review. 38 THE CUBA REVIEW THE SUGAR INDUSTRY SUGAR CONSUMPTION INCREASING A bulletin issued by the United States Department of Commerce gives a pre- liminary report of the statistics of sugar production and sugar imports during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913. These figures show a marked increase both in domestic production and in imports from Cuba, indicating that the consumption of sugar in the United States is advancing very rapidly, says the Philadelphia (Pa.) Item. During the year according to the report the quantity of sugar sent to the United States by Cuba was in exces
. The Cuba review. 38 THE CUBA REVIEW THE SUGAR INDUSTRY SUGAR CONSUMPTION INCREASING A bulletin issued by the United States Department of Commerce gives a pre- liminary report of the statistics of sugar production and sugar imports during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913. These figures show a marked increase both in domestic production and in imports from Cuba, indicating that the consumption of sugar in the United States is advancing very rapidly, says the Philadelphia (Pa.) Item. During the year according to the report the quantity of sugar sent to the United States by Cuba was in excess of four billion pounds while the output of the in- sular possessions and of the continental portion of the country also was approxi- mately four billion pounds. On this sub- ject the report says: "These figures, which show that the sugar imported in 1913 exceeded that of any other year, suggest that the sugar con- sumption of the United States in 1913 will be larger than ever before and will, for the first time, exceed S billion pounds. The quantity brought from foreign countries is above 4% billion pounds, and from Hawaii and Porto Rico nearly 2 billion, while the domestic production now approximates 2 billion pounds, the figures for 1912 being, of beet sugar about 1,200 million pounds, and of cane sugar, 724 million pounds. Speaking in very round terms, it may be said that foreign countries supply approxi- mately one-half of the sugar consumed in the United States, our own islands about onefourth, and our own fields about one- fourth. Cuba supplies nine-tenths of that from abroad; Hawaii, about one-half of that from our islands; and beets, nearly twothirds of that produced at home. "Sugar from Cuba makes its highest record in 1913, 4,311,744,043 pounds against 3,509,657,597 pounds in the former high- record year, ; SUGAR GROWERS ORGANIZE Sugar cane growers of the Guantanamo Valley recently organized a protective asso- ciation. Their intentions are to mak
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