The evening times., 1900-10-17
BEET SUGAR IN GERMANY.
Exports to America Nearly % Per
Cent of the Production.

Cent of the Production.
The Official year of the German sugar
industry is calculated from August l to
July 81. Consul Talbot J. Albert, of
Brunswick, has sent 10 the State Depart
Inent a summary of the production and
expert of sugar during the past year. II
is especially interesting on account OF the
fact that the exports to the United States
are shown to have grown largely.
Mir. Albert says in part:
while the consumption of raw beets
was somewhat greater last year, il was
considerably less than some former years.
There were consumed last year u, ,466. .432
tons of raw beets. while the consumption
in the preceding year was L, ,150,6+f tons
In the year 1S97-9S, the consumption of
raw beets was 1857, ,S92; in 1S96-97, 49,
72f, ,6G1 tons While in comparison with
the preceding year the increase was 315,-
T9G tons, or 90 per cent, on the contrary
the beet consumption in the years IS9Z-9S
and in 1S96-97 was more than 1000, ,000
tons greater than in the year now ended
The raw-sugar production was "A 957
while the increase in crystallized sugar
was 6S,S23 tons. or almost per cent bet
ter than last year. The years 1S94-95
1861, and 1898 produced certainly
considerably greater quantities Of raw
sugar; but the production in refined sugar
was in no former year so great as this
season. The total production of raw sugar
averaged in the five proceeding years L.
7l0,62I tons; consequently the production
last year exceeded the average by &c, ,63l
IONS. For the production 2.2046 pounds of
raw sugar 15.3 pounds of raw beets were
necessary, while in the year 1859 15.5
pounds of raw beets were necessary.
In the year 1S97-9S 1914 pounds. and
I 60 T. dc
quired. The results were more favora Die
than in any of the previous years. not
excepting the unusually warm year 1885,
| 90, during which 15.1 pounds of beets were
| required for the production of 22046
pounds of sugar. The Strontian process
| played an important part in the sxtrac-
| ton Of sugar. By means OF this process
| 9112 per cent of sugar was extracted, as
| compared with SO per cent in the year
| 1888
| ia spite of the increase in the produe-
/ ton of sugar, the export during the last
! business year has been less than in the
| preceding year. The export of raw sugar
| decreased about 1900 .ons and that OF
| loaf sugar 19 eco TONS and the total ex-
| port, accordingly. decreased 81, 700 tons.
| The figures for the year 1S99-190G include
| the exports during the five last months
| of 1899 and the first seven months of 1900
| THE export of sugar to Great Britain
/ was S5,614 tons, or 14.1 per cent less last
year than in the preceding. Great Britain
| received in the year 1S9S-99, 63. 5 per cent
| of the total export of German sugar; in
| the year 1S99-1900, only $50 per cent On
| the contrary, the export to the United
| States increaSed during last year almost
| sc, 600 tons. In the year 1928, the United
| States took las per cent of the total
| German export; in 1883, 1871 per cent;
and in 1S99-1940, 1856 per cent. This is
| SO much the nt)re remarkable as the in
| crease was during the period in which
| new tariff rules were prescribed, which
| increased the duty on sugars exported
| from premium-paying countries. Conse-
| quentIy an additional duty was imposed
| upon sugar exported from Germany in pro-
| portion to the premium paid, and thereby
| the market for raw suLar, as well as for
| sugar exported from countries which paid
| no premium. was favored. The export to
| British North America decreased during
| last year because the tarff by which
| Canada fayorS the mother country and its
/ colonies, has gone into effect. Also, the
| export TO Sweden, Denmark, and the
| Netherlands has decreased On the other
hand, the export to Japan, British East
| Indies, and Australia has increased con-
| siderabiy, in comparison with the great
falling off in the year 1S9S-99 The export
| to Norway has also Increased.