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BULLETIN 1399, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
GENERAL EFFECTS OF TERRITORIAL CHANCES BROUOHT ABOUT BY THE TREATY OF 
VERSAILLES ON GERMAN AGRICULTURE 
The total territorial change in continental Germany, including 
the Sam- Basin, brought about by the treaty of Versailles, involves 
i:;.l per cent of the former German area; the population of these 
territories amounted to only 11 per cent of the total inhabitants of 
the Empire (1910 census). Therefore, in 1910, the territory in- 
cluded within the boundaries of the present-day Republic of Germany 
contained a somewhat denser population (318 per square mile) 
than the average for the entire Empire (311 per square mile), as shown 
in Table 9. 
Table 9. — Total area and 'population of the former German Empire, 1910 l 
District 
Area 
Population 
as of Dec. 1, 
1910 
Number 
per square 
mile 
(i(Tin:mv, 1921? boundaries. 
Square 
miles 
181,524 
574 
170 
57, 799, 808 
572,112 
80, 946 
318 
Saar district:* 
997 
476 
Total 
182, 268 
58, 452, 866 
321 
Areas ceded: 
From East Prussia — 
To Memel- - 
1,020 
1 94 
739 
6, L25 
4 
( 2 ) 
10, 055 
110 
1,242 
196 
1,542 
400 
141,238 
24, 787 
330, 630 
964, 704 
224 
138 
To Poland 
128 
From West Prussia— 
447 
To Poland 
158 
56 
1,946,461 
45,396 
893, 074 
26, 248 
166,348 
60.003 
194 
From Upper Silesia— 
'Id ( 'zechoslovakia 
413 
To Poland 
719 
134 
Ids 
From Rhine Province to Belgium 
150 
Total from Prussia _.. . 
3 21,633 
5,607 
4,599,113 
1,874,014 
213 
334 
Total areas ceded: 
27, 240 
26, 554 
* 208, 822 
13.1 
6,473,127 
238 
214 
64, 925, 993 
11.0 
311 
Prepared in the German Statistisches Reichsamt, Oct. 31, 1923, from material not yet published. 
' The boundaries are not y< I definitely settled. These figures are subject to change. 
i han ! square mile. 
• The area of the German Empire according to the census of 1910, as given above, is exclusive of estu- 
aries and inlets, whereas the figures for the areas lost from Prussia include 686 square miles of estuaries and 
inlets. 
i iccording to a re\ ision of die area of the Bavarian Bezirksamt "Neuburga Donau" the area of Bavaria 
and the total area ol < termany should be reduced by 4 square miles, which has not been deducted in the 
figures above. 
Nol only did the area of the present Republic contain a denser 
population than the average for the Empire^ but the ceded terri- 
tories and Saar contained L5.3 per cent of Germany's agricultural 
population as contrasted with 8.9 per cent of those engaged in 
mining and manufacturing and 8.2 per cent of those engaged in 
commerce. Over a third of these industrialists and about a fourth 
of the farmers in the eeded territories lived in Alsace-Lorraine, and 
nearly half of those engaged in commerce and about 70 per cent 
of the farmers lived in territories ceded to Poland. (Table 10.) 
