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which sugar can be made. Among sugar-bearing plants, beside the
regular sugar cane, are, sorghum, sugar beet, maple, watermelon, sweet
and white potato, and corn stalk.
Statistics show that of the 12,000,000,000 pounds of sugar produced in
the world, about three-fourths comes from the sugar cane, and the
other fourth comes mainly from the sugar beet. Of the total quantity,
only about one seventieth is produced in the United States, and that
is mainly cane sugar from Louisiana. The beet sugar has formerly been
mainly produced in Europe. First France, second Germany, third Russia,
then Belgium, Austria, Holland, Sweden, and Italy.
The consumption of sugar in Great Britain is much greater _per capita_
than in the United States, about 65 pounds, or nearly double; while in
Germany 19 pounds per annum are used on an average by each person, and
in Russia the consumption is much less.
The importance of this subject to the United States, where the
consumption of sugar is increasing out of ratio to the production of
sugar-bearing plants, and where agricultural independence should be
realized, as we have already attained and maintained political
independence, and almost independence in manufacturing industries, has
called out Mr. Lewis S. Ware, a member of the American Chemical
Society, etc.
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