AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF EUROPE : GERMANY 13 
importations of vegetable oils and oil materials which resulted from 
disorganization of the oil industries. The fat yield per hog is now 
equal to pre-wai yield, and the fat content of beef carcasses is nearly 
back to normal. German production of hog fat was actually greater 
in 1923 than in 1922. and it seems probable that production of beef 
fat. including home slaughter, has fallen only very slightly, if at all. 
In 1924 the supplies of animal fats rose to 29.6 pounds per capita, 
against 2S pounds in 1923: but total fats fell from 41.6 in 1923 to 
40.6 in 1924. being 67.5 per cent of the fat and oil supplies that 
Germany would require if the population utilized the normal pre- 
war disappearance. 
Summarizing in tabular form the situation of German agriculture 
in its relation to the food requirements of the nation, we have the 
following: 
Table 7. — Production, import, and p< rupply of specified commodities in 
Germany, 1923 bound : ... a< compared with pre-war 
Percentage of pre-war 
Commodity p 
Produc- Im porta- J:J^. a 
Per cent Per cent Per cent 
Potatoes: So.O , 622.0 
• ' 76.5 36.3 
».. 79.9 ' 105.4 
Pats i 65.6 
9.3 
65.0 
76.4 
67.6 
52.2 J 63. 4 
i Years ended June 30, 192 Iwith average, 1909-1913; 1923 population used in computing 1924 per 
capita supply. 
- Compared with 1912. 
i Years ended Aug. 31; 1924 compared with season 1912-13 
i Export. 
' Disappearance. 
From Table 7 it is seen that the production of potatoes and meats 
has tended to remain at higher levels than cereals, fats, or sugar. 
Imports of potatoes and meats have also remained relatively high, 
so that despite increased population the per capita allowance of the 
German people is but 20.7 per cent below pre-war per capita allowance 
in the case of potatoes and 23.6 per cent in the case of meat. 
Lesser quantities of potatoes are being manufactured into alcohol 
and greater quantities are being consumed as food than .formerly. 
Potatoes are used to a great extent to make up the shortage in cereals, 
the production of which in 1924 was 76.5 per cent, while importations 
fell to 36.3 per cent and the per capita allowance was only 65 per 
cent of pre-war normals. Importations of fats have been relatively 
greater than in the case of cereals, but production has been less and 
the per capita allowance was only 67.6 per cent of normal in 1924. 
With the reorganization of German industry, the purchasing power 
of the German people will be greatly increased and then 4 will be a 
stronger demand for the necessario of life. As German agriculture 
is near to the demand centers, it should profit by the new prosperity 
of the cities and industrial centers with a consequent return toward 
the former relatively high production capacity of rural Germany. 
