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 Sugar Crops of the World.—These figures include local consumption of home production wherever known.

Willett and Gray's estimates of cane sugar crops, Oct. 18, 1906:

Texas                         September   14,000     12,000     15,000 Porto Rico                    January    230,000    213,000    145,000 Hawaiian Islands              November   395,000    385,000    382,576 Cuba, crop                                   December 1,250,000  1,175,000  1,163,258 British West Indies—Trinidad, exports       January     50,000     55,000     31,000 Barbados, exports       January     43,000     49,680     41,600 Jamaica, crop           January     18,000     18,000     16,000 Antigua and St. Kitts   January     24,000     24,000     24,000 French West Indies—Martinique, exports      January     35,000     33,000     29,986 Guadeloupe               January     36,000     36,000     36,000 Danish West Indies—St. Croix                January     13,000     13,000     11,000 Haiti and San Domingo                        January     50,000     50,000     47,000 Lesser Antilles, not named above             January     13,000     13,000     13,000 Mexico, crop                                 December   110,000    105,000    107,038 Central America—Guatemala, crop             January      8,000      8,000      7,640 San Salvador, crop          January      6,000      6,000      5,588 Nicaragua, crop             January      5,000      5,000      4,235 Costa Rica, crop            January      3,000      3,000      2,305 South America—Demerara, exports             Oct. & May 120,000    121,693    101,278 Surinam, crop                 October     13,000     13,000     13,000 Venezuela                     October      3,000      3,000      3,000 Peru, crop                    October    140,000    150,000    150,000 Argentine Republic, crop      June       140,000    137,308    128,104 Brazil, crop                  October    260,000    275,000    195,000 - -  -        Total in America                               3,244,000  3,233,681  3,005,608 - -  -

Asia—British India—Exports                 December    30,000     15,000     30,000 Siam (cons'n 30,000 tons, mostly imported) Java, crop                             May        950,000    993,900  1,008,900 Japan (cons'n 260,000 tons, mostly imported) Philippine Islands, crop               December   160,000    135,625    106,875 China (cons'n large, mostly imported) - -  -        Total in Asia                                  1,140,000  1,144,525  1,145,775 - -  -

Australia and Polynesia—Queensland           June      170,000    170,000    147,688 New South Wales      June       20,000     20,000     21,525 Fiji Islands, exports June      40,000     40,000     47,000 -   -    -        Total in Australia and Polynesia                 230,000    230,000    216,213 -   -    -

Africa—Egypt, crop                           January    60,000     65,000     60,000 Mauritius                             August    200,000    188,364    142,101 Reunion                               September  30,000     30,000     30,000 -   -    -        Total in Africa                                  290,000    283,364    232,101 -   -    - Europe—Spain                                  December   15,000     14,512     18,592 -   -    -

Total Cane sugar crops (W. & G.)                      4,919,000  4,906,082  4,618,289 Europe Beet sugar crops (F. O. Licht)      September  6,570,000  6,954,000  4,708,758 United States Beet sugar crops (W. & G.)   July & Oct.  345,000    283,717    209,722 - Grand total Cane and Beet Sugar—Tons                 11,834,000 12,143,799  9,536,769 Estimated decrease in the world's production            309,799

Adulteration of Sugar.—In the United States there are few adulterations of sugar practiced. The product has grown so cheap not only in the United States but all over the world that adulterations are no longer a paying process and whenever adulteration ceases to pay it requires no law to prevent it. White sugars have been adulterated from time to time by the admixture of white earth or terra alba (either ground silicate, ground gypsum, or ground chalk). I have never found any adulteration of this kind in an American