[Illustration: INLAND-WATERWAY STEAMER LOADING SUGAR AT REFINERY DOCK] [Illustration: CAR-FLOAT ARRIVING AT REFINERY DOCK] MARKETING The amount of sugar used in the United States in 1915 was 4,257,714 short tons. Of this, 3,389,175 tons were raw cane, the remainder consisting of 861,568 tons of domestic beet and 6,971 tons of foreign refined cane and beet. Of the 3,389,175 tons of raw cane, 150,000 tons were consumed in the raw state, and from the remainder, 3,239,175 tons, about 3,044,825 tons of refined sugar were produced. The per capita consumption was 83.83 pounds, and was made up of: SHORT TONS PER CENT Refined made from raw cane 3,044,825 74.94 Domestic and foreign beet 862,694 21.23 Foreign refined cane 5,845 .14 Consumed in the raw state 150,000 3.69 --------- ------ 4,063,364 100.00 Among articles of food that contain a large percentage of sugar are jams, jellies, chocolate, canned fruits, condensed milk, confectionery, chewing gum and cordials. It is estimated by Willett & Gray that in 1915 the direct per capita consumption was 31.43 pounds, and that the remaining 52.40 pounds were used in various prepared or manufactured foodstuffs. Over ninety-nine per cent of all the cane sugar consumed in the United States is refined in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans and San Francisco. The beet comes chiefly from California, Colorado, Michigan, Utah and Idaho; the maple from the New England states, Ohio and Canada; and the small amount of full duty-paying foreign cane from Java, Peru, Mexico, Central America and Santo Domingo. During the past eleven years the consumption in the United States has grown at an average rate of 3.57 per cent per annum. In 1911, on account of the abnormally high prices, the increase was practically nil. The annual per capita consumption of sugar in some of the other countries of the world is as follows: 1914 Servia 4.60 lbs. Greece 8.99 ” Bulgaria 9.94 ” Italy 10.45 ” Portugal 13.60 ” Spain 15.91 ” Roumania 17.12 ” Turkey 20.33 ” Russia 29.26 ” Finland 32.54 ” Austria-Hungary 37.38 ” France 39.01 ” Belgium 42.79 ” Holland 53.44 ” Norway 60.37 ” Sweden 60.48 ” Switzerland 74.87 ” Germany 74.95 ” England 89.69 ” Denmark 93.48 ”