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Vital statistics of last five crops are as follows: 



Campaign Factories Soivings BeetsWorkcd Tons Beets Sugar 



),,,,- Working Hectares inns PerHectan Tons 



1913-14 ::il 532,843 10,939,979 31.8 2,715,870 



mill:, :::'.:'. 546,736 15,964,518 -"•>.:: 2,510,102 



1915-10 .".I'll 364,532 9,625,108 26.4 1,515,316 



L916-17 316 W0.341 9,510,777 23.9 1,557,930 



L917-18 312 384,571 9,229,939 24.0 1,541,061 



Crop 'lata Cor the months September/March, 1918-19, compared wiiii r.dT-is in tons* 



L918-19 1917-18 



Beets worked 8,718,821 9,229,939 



Outturn sugar, Raw value 1,344,532 1,549,220 



Yield Per Cent 15.42 10.78 



In connection with the German sugar industry and the Versailles Peace Terms, it 

 is interesting to note that the German sugar industry will, according to our advices. 

 from abroad, suffer the following loss if the Peace Terms are put into force: 



Plantings Beets Harvested Su</<ir 

 No. 

 hi Province Factories 



Silesia 8 



Posen 10 



Prussia 10 



Alsace-Lorraine 1 



Total 3S 05,414 1,371,530 222,711 



In percentage, Germany would suffer a loss of 11.4 per cent, in factories, which 

 factories work on an average 17.4 per cent, of the crop, while the beet area affected 

 is 14.8 per cent, and the outturn in sugar is 14.2 per cent., all calculations being 

 based on the total figures of entire Germany. 



In addition to the above-mentioned number of factories, Germany would lose also 

 one sugar refinery in Upper Silesia and two in Prussia, and if the decision in regard 

 to some uncertain districts in East Prussia be determined against Germany, then 

 the loss would be increased by four sugar factories, which would make the loss of 

 sugar factories 12.4 per cent, and the outturn in sugar 14.5 per cent. 



Of all the above-mentioned factories, one would go to France, two or three to 

 Czecho-Slovakia and the balance to Poland. 



There is an increased demand from France for Cuban raw sugars, but the 

 Equalization Board cannot yet see their way clear to offer sugars to that country. 

 The export demand for refined, however, has been diverted to Canada to some ex- 

 tent, for the reason that our refiners are unable to take rare of same, and we hear 

 that some Cubas have been sold to Canadian refiners at 5.90c f. o. b. Cuba, the 

 regular fixed quotation. 



This demand for sugars from other than the United States and Royal Com- 

 mission has caused an advance in the prices of sugars of countries not under control 

 of the Equalization Board. About a week or ten days ago there was a sale of San 

 Domingo raw sugars at about 5.35c f. o. b. San Domingo. Adding the freight to 

 New York at 51c, this would make a price of 5.8Gc c. & f. against the Equalization 

 Board's price for full duty sugars of 5.G4c c. i. f., and the 5.76c c. i. f. price at which 

 about 80 per cent, of the San Domingo crop had l n sold to the Canada Food Board. 



The conditions of the refined market are unchanged. The present position of 

 the refined market is absolutely without parallel in sugar history. The supply of 

 raw sugars is ample, Cuba producing the largest crop on record and exceeding the 

 previous high crop by 600,000 tons. In addition the other crops, while not breaking 

 any existing records, are normal. With these supplies our refiners are enabled 



