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Show EUROPE'S BEET ; CROP INCREASES Output Past Year More Than Million Metric Tons Over Year Before The European beet sugar crops this I year will ae-regate 3. "7o, ouo metric i tone i 4,147,000 ordinary tons , accord-I accord-I ing to figures compiled by K. ( . Llcht, 1 the tJerman sugar statistician, at the end of November. This output, if realized, will represent a gain of 1.146.-000 1.146.-000 metric ions over last season's crop, which Elcht places ut 2,6 2 1.1 7 J tons. CROP PIG1 RE6 HY nt EVTRUB6 The Licht estimate of production for the various countries is as follows. I the figures being in tons of 2204 pounds: 1920 21 1913-20 ! Germany 1.200.000 739,548 I Czccho-Slovakia . 725.000 489,366 I Austria 10.000 5.132 I Hungary' 25.000 8.019 j Poland 200,000 140.000 I Franco 300.000 172.495 Belgium 235,000 146.91 S .Holland 300. OOo 238.692 I Kussia and Ukraine 60.000 86,691 Other countries.. 726.000 597.319 I ! Total 3.770,000 2.624.179 j Commenting on the situation In i Germany. Mr. Llcht has the following to say: I "The beet harvest may be considered consid-ered as having been finished. As a I rDUlL 111 OI 1IU tOOl Ytl'-ltM'I UUI ' ing ictober the agricultural yield has been somewhat disappointing. Tin-crop, Tin-crop, however, may still be figured as seven to seven and a half millions (tons) of beets. The yield per hectare may reach an average of from 26.000 to 27.000 kilograms. "It would be instructive to know what quantity of beots will be diverted from sugar mills for drying or distillation. distil-lation. Sugar beets thus used are paid for at the rate of 60 marks a hundred kilograms (approximately $7.42 a short ton nt current exchange) whereas beets delivered to sugar houses are subjected to a much lower maximum fixed pnc (40 marks, equivalent to $4.95 a short ton at existing ex-isting exchange). "On the other hand beets already i worked up In the mills have been glv-1 ing a much higher yield, at times go- ' Ing over one per cent higher than last year. This factor permits the expectation that despite the amounts diverted to other uses there will be a yield of 1.200,000 tons of raw sugar." Figures compiled by Mr. Larhl on the rraults obtained tn a number of; factories Show an average yield this! year of 16.43 per cent, as compared with 14.90 last year and 15.33 In , iui. The estimate of the German au-thorlty au-thorlty for the French crop this sea-BOB, sea-BOB, however, does not Seem to agree 1 with the latest figures compiled by; the Syndlcat des Fabrlcants de Sucre' of France, which estimate the French output at 244,260 metric tons, as against 143.32K tons last year, a gain of 100.931 tone. These figures have been compiled front reports received I from 61 factories in France. Despite this, in French commercial circles, the belief seems to be general that this year's crop will run somewhat some-what higher than the figures given out by the syndicate. |