The nation's food : a statistical study of a physiological and social problem / by Raymond Pearl.
- Raymond Pearl
- Date:
- 1920
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The nation's food : a statistical study of a physiological and social problem / by Raymond Pearl. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![has been obtained. The net result of our investigation of the matter is embodied in the following percentage allocation scheme, which has been made the basis of the deductions in the molasses item in Table 7. Per cent, to human ! food uses Per cent. ! to stock feed 1 Per cent. 1 to alcohol Domestic cane. 50 25 25 Domestic beet. 0 50 50 Refiners' molasses and syrups. 42 1911-14 32 1911-14 26 1914-17 17 1914-17 41 21. Glucose and Grape Sugar—^The figures on the production of- liquid glucose and grape sugar were arrived at from information given in the Census of Manufactures and from a special question¬ naire sent to glucose manufacturers at the request of the writer by Mr. George S. Mahana of New York. On this basis of infor¬ mation obtained from the manufacturers as to their sales, 4 per cent, of the production in each year was deducted for non-food industrial uses. An average carbohydrate content of 85 per cent, was assumed in the conversion to nutrient values. 22. Honey.—There are no official statistics of honey production. Dr. E. F. Phillips of the Bureau of Entomology of the U. S. Depart¬ ment of Agriculture, who has for many years been in charge of agricultural investigations, estimates that during the period covered by the present study 250,000,000 lb. fairly estimates the average annual production. We have accordingly adopted] this figure. No deductions are made. 23. Sorghum Syrup.—This commodity is rather extensively used in the South as a sweetening agent. The production figures are from M.C.E,., October, 1916, p. 102, for the years 1911-12 to 1915- 16, inclusive, and from M.C.R., December, 1917, p. 117. The average carbohydrate content, as furnished by the Bureau of Chemistry, is 68.1 per cent. 24. Maple Sugar.—Statistics are available only for the census year, 1909, and for the years 1917-18 and 1918-19 (M.C.R., June, 1918, p. 61). From these data estimates have been made for the other years. No deductions have been made. 25. Maple Syrup.—The sources and treatment are the same as for maple sugar.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29810875_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
