Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1898 — The World’s Sugar Crop. [ARTICLE]

The World’s Sugar Crop.

The sugar crop of the world amounts In a normal year to about -S.INM) tons, of •which the larger part, about 4,500.000 tons, comes from beets, and the remainder, 3,500,000 tons, from sugar cane. Of the latter, the largest proportion comes from the West Indies and a large amounit from the Island of Java.