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from molasses, resulting in a gross sugar production of 2,554,913 short 
tons. Of this quantity, the average net export as reported by the 
German sugar industry was 953,235 tons, 11 the average yearly total 
supply available for use within the country being 1,488,607 tons 
(about 45 pounds per capita), of which 502,000 tons, or 33.7 per cent, 
were used yearly for industrial purposes, leaving 66.3 per cent, or 
986,607 short tons, available for human consumption. 
EFFECT OF VERSAILLES TREATY ON BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY 
Lack of consecutive detailed data makes it impossible to analyze 
the average pre-war relations of the beet-sugar industry of the ceded 
districts afld of the area now comprised within the Republic of Ger- 
many, but statistics have been compiled by the Deutsche Zucker- 
industric, as given in Table 43 for the single season 1912-13, from 
which certain general conclusions can be drawn. 
Table 43. 
-Sugar beets and beet sugar: Production in the districts which com- 
posed the former German Empire, 1912-13 1 
District 
Area (ex- 
cluding 1 Sugar 
area for beets 
sugar-beet worked 
seed) 
Sugar pro- 
duction in 
terms of 
raw sugar 2 
Factories 
Acres 
1, 074, 979 
95, 121 
171,035 
12, 04G 
Short to7is 
14, 679, 155 
1, 229, 465 
2, 269, 597 
166, 521 
Short tons 
2, 340, 268 
181, 17(i 
361, 951 
18, 169 
Nu inber 
Areas ceded: 
3 10 
3 19 
From Alsace-Lorraine 
3 1 
1,353,181 
18, 344, 738 
2,, 901, 564 
81,620 
Total 
2, 983, 184 
Statistics supplied by Die Deutsche Zuckerindustrie. 
i Sept. 1 to A.Ug. 31. 
- Relation of raw to refined sugar is 10 to 9. (Excludes sugar made from molasses in independent fac- 
tories.) 
3 Number in 1918-19. 
During the season 1912-13 the territories ceded -on the east to 
Poland, Danzig, Memel, and Czechoslovakia planted 266,156 acres 
of sugar beets. About 29 factories located within these territories 
worked up 3,499,062 short tons of beets, producing 543,127 short 
tons of raw sugar. Based upon the census of 1910 and the average 
per capita disappearance of sugar in the German Empire (1909-10 
to L913-14) of 45 pounds, there would have been available to the 
4,372,762 inhabitants of all of the eastern ceded districts for human 
consumption and industrial uses about 98,387 tons of the 1912-13 
sugar crop. This figure is probably high, since the peasants of 
Poland and Silesia undoubtedly consumed less sugar than the average 
for the Empire, hut the exportable surplus produced in these eastern 
ceded territories was approximately 444,740 tons of raw sugar. 
Only one beet-sugar factory was located in the western territories — 
in Alsace-Lorraine. In 1912-13 this factory worked up 166,521 short 
tons of beets, producing 18,169 short tons of sugar. In 1910 there 
11 'I'ln porl during the sugar years Sept. 1, 1909, to Aug. 31, 1914, should lie compared with 
031,234 short ions reported by the oiliee of statistics as the average annual net export during the period 
July 1, L909, tu Juue 3U, 1914. 
