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SUGAR 



III. PROGRESS IN CANE AND BEET PRODUCTION SINCE 

 1903, the date of the Convention 



(Journal des Fabricants de Sucre, 10 October, 1917.) 



Beet 



1 The jump in the figure for cane sugar production, from 

 4,594,000 tons in 1904-5 to 6,731,000 tons in 1905-6, is mis- 

 leading. It is caused by the sudden inclusion, by the statis- 

 ticians, of a more or less imaginary figure as representing what 

 was for the first time officially announced to be the estimate 

 of the native production of sugar in British India. (See p. 89.) 



