58 BULLETIN 473, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The number of beet-sugar factories in Sweden increased from 13 

 for the five years 1891-1895 to 19 for 1896-1900, to 21 for 1901-1905, 

 to 23 for 1906-1910, and to 24 for the five years ending with 1913. 

 The beets used for sugar increased from 458,261 tons for the five years 

 1891-1895 to 790,409 for 1896-1900 and to 1,036,929 for 1906-1910. 

 The annual production of sugar by five-year periods increased from 

 51,794 tons in 1891-1895 to 112,750 in 1901-1905 and to 156,688 in 

 1906-1910. The production of sugar per ton of beets increased from 

 212 pounds for the five years 1891-1895 to 302 for 1906-1910 and to 

 316 for 1912-13. The sugar extraction per weight of beets shows a 

 gradual increase from 10.93 per cent for the five years 1891-1895 to 

 14.94 for 1906-1910 and to 15.59 for 1912-13, an increase during the 

 latter year of 42.5 per cent over the five years 1891-1895. 



The five years 1906-1910 compared with the five years 1891-1895 

 show an increase of 126 per cent in both beets produced and beets 

 used for sugar. For these two periods the production of sugar in- 

 creased 202.5 per cent and the number of factories increased 76.9 per 

 cent. During each of these periods more than 98 per cent of the 

 beets produced were used for sugar. For these two periods the 

 production of molasses in the beet factories increased from 12,896 

 tons to 13,492 tons. The sugar produced per acre averaged 3,882 

 pounds for the five years 1906-1910, which increased to 4,349 pounds 

 for the year 1912-13. From 1906-7 to 1912-13 there were 10 sugar 

 refineries in operation which refined both domestic and imported 

 raw sugar. During the five years 1906-7 to 1910-11 these refineries 

 used 141,806 tons of raw sugar, from which was obtained 133,376 tons 

 of refined sugar, 1,268 tons of sirup, and 7,390 tons of molasses. The 

 per capita consumption of sugar was 30.1 pounds for the five years 

 1891-1895 and 57.8 pounds for the five years 1906-1910, an increase of 

 92 per cent. The exports of sugar decreased from 300 tons in 1911 

 to 1 ton in 1912, but increased to 12,646 tons in 1914. The imports 

 of sugar were 47 tons in 1911, which decreased to 16 tons in 1914. 



ROUMANIA. 



BEET SUGAR. 



The sugar-beet area of Roumania lies chiefly in the northern part, 

 in the Province of Moldavia, and forms a connecting link between 

 the sugar-beet districts of Hungary on the west and Eussia on the 

 east. In 1907-8 and subsequently there were five sugar factories in 

 operation in Roumania, of which four were in Moldavia and one in 

 Wallachia, near Bucharest. The Province of Moldavia produced 

 84.89 per cent of the beets in 1909, of which 51.93 were produced in 

 the valleys of the Sereth and Pruth Rivers and 32.96 in the plains of 

 the Carpathian Mountains. The annual area under cultivation dur- 



