Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1908 — Britishers Eat More Sugar. [ARTICLE]

Britishers Eat More Sugar.

The annual per capita consumption of sugar in the United Kingdom nas gradually increased from 29% pounds In 1857 to nearly 100 pounds at the present time. But the British refining Industry has eteadlly declined relatively. Fifty years ago practically all of the sugar/ used in the kingdom was refined there, while now the proportion Is pnly 45 per cent