MATERIALS USED IN BREWERIES, BY STATES AND TERRITORIES, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1896-Concluded. These tables show the total quantities of materials which are sup posed to be consumed in the production of liquors, with the exception. of domestic wines. According to the census of 1890 there were 304,868 tons of grapes sold to wineries during the census year, but the quantity consumed in this manner during other years has not been ascertained. The principal materials used in the manufacture of liquors are the products of the farm and consist largely of corn, barley, rye, oats, wheat, hops, apple and pear pomace, and ground grapes. In order to obtain the total bushels of grain of all kinds consumed it is necessary to ascertain the quantity used in the manufacture of malt and to reduce the pounds of rice to bushels. The quantities of grain used in the manufacture of the 45,792,665 bushels of malt were not reported. On the average there are 34 pounds to the bushel of malt and 48 pounds to the bushel of barley; multiplying the 45,792,665 bushels by 34 and dividing the product by 48 gives 32,436,471 bushels of barley in the malt. Reducing the 114,848,366 pounds of rice shown by the table to bushels on the basis of 70 pounds to the bushel, gives 1,640,691 bushels. Adding the bushels of barley in the malt and the bushels of rice to the 24,872,318 bushels of other grains shown in the tables, makes a total of 58,949,480 bushels of grain consumed in the manufacture of liquors during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896. From the reports of the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department, there appears to have been 2,050,042,543 bushels of corn in the country for consumption during the year ending June 30, 1896. There were 19,019,243 bushels of corn and cerealine consumed in the manufacture of liquors, or 0.93 per cent of the total consumption. The rye crop for 1895 is reported at 27,210,070 bushels; during the year 1895-96 there were exported 988,466 bushels and imported 154 bushels, making the quantity in the country, apparently for consumption, 26,221,758 bushels; of this quantity 2,955,833 bushels, or 11.27 per cent, were consumed in the manufacture of liquors. If, in the same manner, the exports are subtracted and the imports added to the barley crop of 1895, the amount in the country, apparently for consumption, would be 80,213,619 bushels; of this amount, the 32,438,219 bushels consumed in the manufacture of liquors formed 40.44 per cent. The growing of hops is an important agricultural industry, and it is to a greater extent than any other fostered by the liquor industry. The hop crop of 1889, according to the reports of the Eleventh Census, amounted to 39,171,270 pounds. The imports for 1890 amounted to 6,539,516 pounds, and the exports to 7,959,253 pounds, leaving 37,751,533 pounds in the country for consumption. There were consumed, in the manufacture of fermented liquors during the fiscal year of 1896, 34,898,930 pounds of hops. The quantities of materials shown by the preceding tables to have been used in the manufacture of fermented liquors and fruit brandies during the year ending June 30, 1896, were compiled from the reports made by brewers and fruit distillers to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The materials used by grain and molasses distillers have been published, and the following table presents the totals for each fiscal year from 1880 to 1896: MATERIALS USED IN GRAIN AND MOLASSES DISTILLERIES, 1880 TO 1896. CHAPTER III. THE CONSUMPTION OF LIQUORS. The total production of liquors in the country is not, of course, the same as the consumption. Large quantities of the liquors produced are exported every year, and of the exports considerable is returned. There are, in addition, large quantities imported for consumption. The quantity of distilled spirits withdrawn from bond for consumption for any year may be less or more than the production for the same year. The Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department has for a number of years published a table giving the total and per capita consumption of distilled spirits, wines, and malt liquors. The facts for certain. years from 1840 to 1896 are reported from this table in the following statement: GALLONS OF DISTILLED SPIRITS, WINES, AND MALT LIQUORS CONSUMED IN THE UNITED STATES, 1810 TO 1896. [From the reports of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department.] |