Central Europe . the years 1881 and 1895—in whichperiod the area of its cultivated land increased by 12 percent, and of wheat land by 44 per cent.—Hungary roseto the position of one of the greatest centres of the Europeancorn trade. In addition to the organisation of the corntrade, which in Buda-Pest deals annually with a milliontons of wheat alone, the position of Hungary in thisdepartment has been considerably strengthened by theextraordinary development of flour-mills. Corn from thesouth of Europe comes into competition with that fromover-sea, not only in the harbours of the North Sea, buta
Central Europe . the years 1881 and 1895—in whichperiod the area of its cultivated land increased by 12 percent, and of wheat land by 44 per cent.—Hungary roseto the position of one of the greatest centres of the Europeancorn trade. In addition to the organisation of the corntrade, which in Buda-Pest deals annually with a milliontons of wheat alone, the position of Hungary in thisdepartment has been considerably strengthened by theextraordinary development of flour-mills. Corn from thesouth of Europe comes into competition with that fromover-sea, not only in the harbours of the North Sea, butalso in the river towns of Cologne, Frankfort, and ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY J75 Mannheim, and German agriculture is hard pressed bythese intrusive floods of foreign products. This straitenedposition is a direct consequence of increased internationalcommunications, owing to which every increase of produc-tion in some distant zone directly affects the Europeanmarket. The possibility of flooding this market with their. Fig. 31.—The Sugar Production of the World. products has induced countries beyond the ocean toenlarge their cultivated areas rapidly and 1871 and 1880, the United States, by breaking uplarge stretches of grass-grown virgin soil, doubled their corn-lands. The same process followed later in Argentina, and,finally, great quantities of Indian wheat flowed intoEurope and depressed prices to a point at which wheat i76 CENTRAL EUROPE culture ceased to be remunerative to the German critical development, however, appears to havepassed its climax. Unfortunately, however, the course of the worldsadvance has raised up other dangers which threaten thecultivation of Central European soil. One department ofits manifold activities, the growing of beet and making ofsugar, which had been carried to a high point, is directlyendangered, The manufacture of beet-sugar, protectedby export bounties in the Central European States, roseinto importance at the ex
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