328 Surjar-Bcet GuUicalion in Austriu. 
Production of Beet Sugar on the Continont of Europe for the lad five years. 
Country 
1800-1891 
18S9-1890 
1888-1889 
1887-1888 
1886-1887 
Tons 
Tons 
Tons 
Tons 
Tons 
Germany . . . 
1,333,000 
1,264,607 
990,004 
959,166 
1,012,968 
Austria .... 
700,000 
753,078 
523,242 
428,616 
523,059 
France .... 
700,000 
787,089 
166,707 
392,824 
485,739 
Russia .... 
530,000 
456.711 
526,387 
441,342 
487,460 
lielKium . . . 
200,000 
221,480 
145,804 
140,742 
135,755 
Holland . . . 
65,000 
55,813 
46,040 
39.280 
30,098 
Other Countries 
80,000 
80,000 
87,000 
79,980 
69,127 
Total . . 
3,670,000 
(estimated) 
3,619,678 
2,785,844 
2,481,950 
2,750,206 
Of the countries named in this table, Germany is a very con- 
siderable exporter to other countries, especially to England, 
the German product representing about two-thirds of our total 
imports of beet sugar. Austria is the next largest exporter, its 
sugar going mainly to Mediterranean countries and the East, 
but some of it coming to England via Germany. 
The growth of the beet sugar industry on the Continent since 
it first became of economic importance is well shown in the 
following table, extracted from a valuable paper by Dr. O. J. 
Broch on Les Excitants Moderncs.^ 
Production of Suyar-Bcct on the Coutinent of Europe. 
Average 
of 
years 
Germany 
France 
Austria- 
Hungary 
Russia 
Belgium 
Holland 
Otlier 
coun- 
tries 
Total in 
Europe 
Tons 
Tons 
Tons 
Tons 
Tons 
Tons 
Tons 
Tons 
1836- 
9 
5,700 
42.400 
1,000 

49,000 
1840- 
4 
13,900 
27,800 
3,300 
45,000 
1845- 
9 
15,00:( 
40,000 
4,000 
59,000 
1850- 
4 
70,200 
68,300 
15,600 
11,200 
8,000 
174,000 
1855- 
-9 
104,300 
117,200 
41,000 
40,000 
14,101") 
317,000 
1860- 
-4 
142,400 
137,700 
02,300 
(;o,ooo 
19,500 
422,000 
1865- 
-9 
195,500 
238,900 
76,900 
175,000 
30,700 
2,000 
7X5,000 
1870- 
-4 
251,900 
376,100 
111,200 
200,000 
70,000 
(;,ooo 
1,015,000 
1875- 
9 
341, (JOO 
362,800 
300,000 
320,000 
(!(;,200 
20,000 
10,000 
1,420,000 
1880- 
-4 
667,400 
406,000 
478,000 
281,000 
75,000 
20,000 
10,000 1,910,000 
1885- 
.9 
991,000 
402,000 
471,000 
476,000 
121,000 
35,000 
51,000 ^2,547,000 
TiiK Sugar-Bekt Industry in Austria. 
The cultivation of the sugar-beet in Austria on anything like 
a large scale dates back about sixty years, but it has especially 
' Bulletin do I'Institut Tnternntionale dc Statiftique, Tome II. 1887, p. 240. 
(The figures for the last quinquennial period have been calculated by myself.) 
