BEETS 

 Beet-Sugrar Crop in the United States for the Tear 1911-12 



611 



Complied In the office of Cotton and Truck Disease and Sugar-Plant Investigations, Bureau 

 of Plant Industry. 



Sugar Beets in Europe 



The following table gives the area and production of sugar beets in European 

 countries in 1912 and 1911, according to a report of the International Institute of 

 Agriculture: 



Area and production of sugar beets in specified countries, 1912-11. 



Country 



Area 



1912 



1911 



Production 



1912 



1911 



Prussia 



Belgium 



Bulgaria 



Denmark 



Spain 



France 



Croatia and Slavonia. 



Italy 



Roumania 



Russia 



Sweden 



Acres 



1,053,454 



163,086 



7,413 



74,871 



106,438 



606,346 



7,413 



130,963 



35,491 



1,860,196 



Acres 



865,559 



150,237 



7,331 



61,528 



82,121 



600,280 



7,413 



131,260 



3.3,613 



1,923,758 



Tons(2,0001bs. 

 14,289,352 

 2,094,370 

 49,604 

 885,729 

 1,189,353 

 7,037,204 

 99,207 

 1,818,795 

 352,736 

 14,523,444 

 1,091,480 



)Tons(2,0001bs.) 

 6,609,550 

 1,626,995 

 68,343 

 805,208 

 964,463 

 4,669,083 

 66,138 

 1,587,753 

 289,962 

 14,343,901 

 905,124 



— Crop Reporter-. .January. 1913. 



