Bavaria, 3.6; Saxony, 9.9; \Y~nrtemberg, .6; Baden, .7; Hesse r 

 2.7; Mecklenburg, 5.8; Thuringia, .8; Brunswick, 2.8; An- 

 halt, 12.8; Alsace-Lorraine, .2; Germany, 10.5. 



The seat of potato culture is in the Eastern provinces of 

 Prussia, and here the amount distilled is very large, being 

 nearly one-fourth of the quantity available. It would be 

 difficult to overestimate the importance of the potato and the 

 alcohol industry to the farmers of these districts. 



The quantity of potatoes made into alcohol annually varies 

 greatly with the crops, but on the whole there has been a de- 

 crease in the last twenty }~ears, except for the last few years, 

 from the amounts used before 1887. The estimates in 1,000 

 tons for a number of years follow, a ton being 1,000 kilo- 

 grams: 1 1887-88, 2,009; 1888-89, 1,699; 1889-90, 2,083; 

 1890-91, 1,686; 1891-92, 1,335; 1892-93, 1,947; 1893-94, 

 2,148; 1894-95, 1,804; 1895-96, 2,210; 1896-97, 2,116; 

 1897-98, 2,261; 1898-99, 2,586. 

 2. Grain. 



Xext in importance among the materials used is grain, 

 chiefly rye, though within recent years a considerable quantity 

 of indian corn alcohol has been produced. Some malted bar- 

 ley is necessary in preparing the mash and small quantities of 

 buckwheat are also distilled. 



Eye is the principal breadstuff of Germany, relatively little 

 pure wheat bread being made. As such it stands first in 

 acreage among the agricultural crops, 5,495,191 hectares or 

 21 per cent, of all the land under cultivation being planted to 

 this grain in 1899. The average crop is between seven and 

 one-half and eight and one-half million tons. Of this over 80 

 per cent, is grow r n in Prussia, the provinces of Posen, Silesia, 

 Brandenburg and Hanover producing the largest amounts. 

 In South Germany, Bavaria produces from seven to eight 

 hundred thousand tons, or as much as Posen. 



The amount distilled is relatively small. Before 1895 the 

 various kinds of grain were grouped together in the statistical 

 tables. The following data, however, gives a fairly good idea 



1. From Monatshefte, and V. j. s. zur St atistik, etc., for various years. 



