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But new factors have entered into the problem. New trade 
channels have been opened up, the people of the cities have accus- 
tomed themselves to new dietary standards, and now policies of 
State are being considered. 
There is a possibility that the agriculture of Germany may not 
soon regain its former status but that, like Great Britain, an indus- 
trialized Germany may depend more and more upon surplus-pro- 
ducing countries overseas to supply its people with food and its 
industries with raw materials. In this case the demand for American 
agricultural products may remain as it now is or may somewhat 
increase. 
GERMANY AS A MARKET FOR AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS 
If the analysis (see pp. 104 to 110) is correct, we may expect a 
market in Germany in the next few years of readjustment for at least 
800,000 or 900,000 bales of cotton annually, valued at approximately 
si 00, 000,000, and for double that quantity in years of heavy produc- 
tion and moderate prices. The German market for American grain 
for bread and for feed depends largely on competition from other 
sources of supply, with Russia as the most formidable potential 
competitor. Pork products and fats will be taken by Germany 
when prices are relatively low. Even in periods of higher prices 
there may easily be a market in Germany for as much lard as in 
pre-war years. This would mean an export value of perhaps 
$30,000,000. However, the bacon and ham trade is not likely to 
be maintained at the high levels reached during the period of German 
currency inflation. Tobacco will continue to be exported from the 
United States to Germany to the value of from $3,000,000 to 
$4,000,000 annually. In favorable seasons, such as in 1924-25, 
the value of German imports of American agricultural products will 
exceed the pre-war average, but the apparent tendency is for the 
average of the next few years to be somewhat below the average of 
1910-1914. However, if Germany continues its industrial develop- 
ment with continued increases in population, it will obviously be 
necessary before many years for the industrial population to draw 
to a greater extent than ever before upon foreign sources of supply 
for its foodstuffs and other agricultural products. 
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE REPUBLIC OF GERMANY < 
The present German Republic consists of what remains of the for- 
mer German Empire after segregating from the central districts 
Alsace-Lorraine, returned to France; a small area called the Eupen- 
Malmedy district, ceded to Belgium; northern Schleswig, ceded to 
Denmark; a small part of Pomerania, the greater part of West 
Prussia and Posen, parts of Upper and Lower Silesia and East 
Liu— ia. incorporated in the newly formed Republic of Poland; the 
Memel district of East Prussia and Danzig, placed in charge of the 
allies; and a small area in Upper Silesia, ceded to Czechoslovakia. 
In addition there is a plebiscite area in the Saar Basin whose fate 
is to he settled 1 ."> years after the signing of the treaty of Versailles. 
In the following report all of these segregated districts are collectively 
designated as the •'ceded territories." (Fig. 2.) 
; Summary bused on statement by Doctor Opitz, of the Berlin Landwirtschaftliche Hochschuie. 
