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BULLETIN 1399, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 47. — Sugar, in terms of raw sugar: Supply and disappearance in Germany , 
1919-20 to 1923-24, as compared with 1912-18 
Year beginning Sept. 1 
Boundaries of 1923 
produced « 
Imports 
Exports 
Disappearance ■ 
Total 
Per 
capita 
1912 
short tons 
2,421,888 
Short to/is 
Short tons 
765, 521 
Short tons 
1, 444, 449 
Pounds 
48.9 
1019. . 
785, 466 
1, 207, 049 
1, 433, 742 
1,603,933 
1,264,219 
108, 789 
74,280 
198, 607 
114,618 
32,428 
5,426 
10, 420 
1,020,331 
1,271,217 
33.8 
1920 
41.6 
1921 
18,943 
1,542,503 
50.0 
1922 
31,603 
289, 456 
1, 517, 691 
'.•72. L93 
48.7 
1923 
31.0 
Average 1919-1923 
1, 258, 882 
105, 744 
71, 170 
1, 264, 793 
41.0 
Based on data in Table 48. 
PROSPECTS FOR 1924-25 
The details of the post-war supply and distribution of sugar in 
Germany (see Table 47) show tnat in 1919-20 the actual disap- 
pearance of sugar was 33.8 pounds per capita, the season ending 
August 31, with a visible supply of about 104,000 short tons. The 
following season closed with a total visible supply of 69,000 short 
tons, and it is probable that the disappearance of 1,271,247 short 
tons, or 41.6 pounds per capita, between September 1, 1920, and 
August 31, 1921, represented actual consumption. The average 
disappearance 41 pounds per capita (Table 47) during the five-year 
post-war period tends to confirm this probability. 
During the next two years the indicated disappearance of 50 and 
48.7 pounds per capita, respectively, is probably due to private 
hoarding of sugar rather than to actual increase in consumption. 
This is confirmed by the fact that although the sugar production of 
1923-24 was 340,000 short tons below 1922-23, still Germany exported 
289,000 short tons, and the visible supply that was carried over into 
the season of 1924-25 was reported at 177,000 short tons. This 
is the largest officially reported carry over since the war. 
The estimated probable production for the season 1924-25 is 
preliminarily placed at 3,401,466,000 pounds, or 54.1 pounds per 
capita (1924 population 62,825,000). During the season 192 1 25 
Germany should have an exportable surplus, which is roughly ap- 
proximated in the last column of Table 48. 
