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BULLETIN 1399, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 10. — Potatoes: Foreign trade 1 of the German Republic, 1921-22 to 1923-24, 
compared with that of the Empire, 1909-10 to 1913-14 
[Thousands of bushels— 000 omitted] 
Year beginning July 1 
Country 
A verage 
1909-1913 
1921 
1922 
1923 
+ 4.77S 
+1,264 
+300 
-.-.oo 
-1,176 
-1,352 
+8,164 
( 2 ) 
+510 
\ is 
( 2 ) 
' -261 
+1.282 
+755 
+649 
+351 
-9 
( 2 ) 
+ 141 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
. (2) 
( 2 ) 
-2,244 
+ 154 
( 2 ) 
+229 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
« -345 
+1,342 
+2,008 
+126 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
+559 
+768 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
-1,782 
+31 
( 2 ) 
3 1,038 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
3 4 170 
Italy 
. ... 
Greal Britain 
Austria- Hungary 
Poland... 
3 3,069 
( 2 ) 
(2) 
Latvia, Esthonia, and Lithuania... . . 
('/.(>ctlosl()V;iki;i . .. . . 
(2) 
Polish Upper Silesia . . 
(2) 
+2, 210 
-12 
-118 
-183 
-362 
-1,987 
( 2 ) 
(2) 
United States . 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
(2) 
Switzerland 
( 2 ) 
Saar district .. 
(2) 
Other countries . 
-122 
+ 201 
Total 
+10, 874 
+ 1,370 
+2, 936 
+8, 478 
Germany, Statistisches Reichsamt (formerly Kaiserliches Statistisches Amt), Monatliche Nachweise 
liber den Auswiirtigen Handel Deutschlands. 
i Net imports all indicted by (+) and net exports by (— ). 
2 If any, included in other countries. 
3 Imports only; exports, if any, included in other countries. 
1 Austria only. 
POSTWAR FOREIGN TRADE IN POTATOES 
The western provinces have continued to import relatively small 
quantities of potatoes from the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy, 
and have exported some potatoes to the Saar district, while the fac- 
tories and distilleries in the eastern provinces have imported small 
quantities of potatoes from Memel and Poland. In 1923-24 the 
foreign potato trade of the Republic increased greatly because of the 
poor domestic crop. The western provinces imported 4,000,000 
bushels from the Netherlands for food and the eastern provinces 
took 3,000,000 bushels from Poland largely for industrial purposes. 
(Table 40.) 
SUGAR BEETS AND SUGAR 
Beginning with 1850, the sugar-beet industry show r s a continuous 
and rapid development up to the outbreak of the World War. The 
raw-sugar production increased from 59,000 short tons in 1850-51 to 
2,994,000 short tons in 1913-14. Germany became a sugar exporting 
country about 1871, when the exports exceeded imports by a round 
21,000 short tons. From that time until the season of 1917-18 
Germany's exports continued to be greater than her imports, reaching 
a maximum in the season 1910-11, when the net export reached 
1,228,715 short tons. The sugar stmt abroad went chiefly to England. 
Consumption as measured by interna] sugar disappearance, 
increased from (i.(i pounds per capita in 1S50-51 to a pre-war average 
of 15 pounds. During the war period the sugar disappearance m 
Germany appears to have been greater than at any other time, 
averaging 49.6 pounds per capita for the five sugar seasons 1914—15 
to 19 is 19, 
