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BULLETIN L399, U. S. DEPABTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Boundaries of 1923 
Crop 
1909-1913 
1921-22 
1922-23 
1923-24 
1924-25 
Domestic production less seed: • 
1,172,135 
337,345 
120, 815 
124, 088 
187, 112 
2 1, 363 
" -10,701 
2 61,415 
* 141,475 
2 9, 160 
1, 173, 498 
326,644 
182,230 
496, 272 
241,606 
98, 17' 
92,764 
311,011 
1,376 
1. 738 
69, 293 
10,911 
6,253 
767, 734 
246,344 
167,764 
103,675 
317,297 
1,294, 182 
180,742 
63,021 
72, 101 
242, 151 
2, 936 
12, 111 
12,053 
13,006 
7,009 
1,297, US 
105,074 
996,700 
96,864 
385, 027 
24,877 
29, 590 
23, 072 
* -4, 377 
1, 005, 178 
126, 154 
122,558 
1, 132,740 
Rye 
Wheat 
199,573 
79, 799 
100,227 
351,888 

i ports: 
1. ._ 
\\ beat 
( ) its 
Total supply: 
Rye . . ..- .. 
Wheat 
Barley 

<if prices, and with it the distress of the fanners, is almost everywhere being 
augmented by Legislation and especially by high protective tariffs. (Max Sering, 
"The International Agrarian Crisis,' 5 Journal of Farm Economics, October, 
1924, pp. 341, 342.) 
SUPPLIES OF CEREALS AND POTATOES 
From the data in Table 3 il is seen that since the war Germany has 
subsisted on supplies of cereals far below the pre-war average, which 
amounted to 1,270,709,000 bushels in L909 L913, as against 835,080,- 
000 bushels in 1921-22, 662,497,000 bushels in 1922-23, and 890,925,- 
000 bushels in 1923-24. 
Table 3. — Potatoes and cereals: Supplies in Germany 
[In thousands of bushels— 000 omit toll 
i Probably the pre-war production was overestimated and post-war production underestimated 
i Vvcr i 'c statistical deficit. 
\\ er ige it itisl Leal surplus. 
; Nel imports for total German Empire; si itistical deficit probably great) '' than imports for total empire. 
Net exports. 
Before the war the territories now composing the Republic of 
Germany produced 84.2 per cent and imported 15.8 per cent (net) of 
lit" total supply of rye, wheat, barley, and oats. 
In 1923 -\ there was a bumper crop. Production amounted i<> 
91.8 per cent and net importations only S.2 per cent of the total 
supplies of these four cereals. 
Total supplies of cereals available for consumption in Germany 
during the pre-war period L909-1913 averaged 1,270,709,000 bushels, 
against 890,925,000 bushels in L923 24, a falling off of 29.9 percent. 
Germany's pre-war cerea] supplies amounted to 22 bushels per 
capita. In 1923-24 the per capita allowance of the population of 
62,275,000 amounted to only 14.3 bushels, or 65 per cent, of the pre- 
war normal. 
The great reduction in the post-war supplies of potatoes and 
compared with the pre-war normal is indicated in Table 4. 
