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BULLETIN L399, U. B. DEPABTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Even assuming that the present sugar consumption in the Republic 
of ( rermany is as high as it was before the war, and without including 
the amount (not at present known) of the sugar manufactured from] 
molasses, Germany should have an exportable surplus during the 
season L924 25 ot at least 250,000 short tons of raw sugar. Un- 
doubtedly there arc still within the country considerable invisible] 
stocks carried over from last season, so that the available sugar i 
supplies probably considerably exceed the reported amount. . 
FODDER BEETS 
Statistics relative to fodder beets do not occur in the "Viertel- 
jahrshefte," giving the statistical status of Germany. The produc- 
tion statistics for fodder beets in Alsace-Lorraine for the years just | 
before the war are also lacking, but a two-year average of the years 
1912 and 1913 for fodder beets in Prussia is available a nd indicates 
that in the districts ceded to surrounding countries from Prussia, j 
as shown in Table 49, about 94,000 acres were planted to fodder beets. 
Table 49. 
-Fodder beets: Average production and acreage in the districts which 
composed former Prussia, average, 1912-13 
District 
Area 
Production 
Present Prussia (excluding Saar) 
Acres 
537, 452 
2, 632 
Short tons 
10,467,827 
Saar in Prussia 
44. 434 
Areas ceded: 
From East Prussia— 
To Memel 
2,609 
190 
4,801 
21,965 
30,549 
3,635 
358 
731 
28, 451 
230 
44, (.65 
To Poland.. 
2, 767 
From West Prussia — 
To Danzig Free State .. 
111,828 
To Poland 
384,405 
From Posen to Poland. 
586, 809 
From Upper Silesia: 
To Poland 
64, 264 
To Czechoslovakia 
From Lower Silesia to Poland 
13,889 
From Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark 
343, 400 
From Rhine Province to Belgi iiil 
4, 299 
93, 519 
1. 562. 929 
Total Prussia.. 
633. 603 
15.2 
12, 075, 190 
Per cent in territories ceded and in 
Saar... 
13.3 
Prussia, Konigliches Statistisches Landesamt, Statistik der Landwirtschaft, 1909-1913 (Preussische 
Statistik, Nos. 221, 225, 230, 235, 240), supplemented by figures on the lost areas prepared in the Konigliches 
Preussisches Statistisches Landesamt. 
From Table 49 it is seen that before the war the Prussian districts 
now comprised within the Republic of Germany planted yearly 
about 537,000 acres to fodder beets. In 1921 (see Table 50) we find 
in Prussia alone 937,000 acres under fodder beets, or an increase of 
74.5 per cent. Since only small quantities of fodder beets enter into 
commerce or are used industrially, the crop being almost entirely 
fed on the farms upon which grown, this increased acreage can only 
indicate an increased tendency toward bringing animal production 
up to normal. 
Although no pre-war figures are available for a comparison between 
fodder-beet acreage of the Republic and the acreage of the same terri- 
tories under the Empire, it is probable that the present fodder-beet 
area of the Republic of about 2.000,000 acres is greatly in excess of 
that formerly planted to this crop. 
