58 BULLETIN 173, XT. 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 21 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 1900-1910, 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 
1.891-1895 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 Russia 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- 
