AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF EUROPE I GERMANY 
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Table 10. — Population, by occupations, in the districts which composed the former 
German Empire, 1907 
District 
Agriculture and forestry 
General 
farming 
and 
stock 
raising 
Germany (1923 
boundaries)^ 14,600, 
Saar region: 
Rhine Province. 59, 636 
Bavaria 16,953 
Territories ceded: 
From E^st 
Prussia 
From v. 
Prussia — 
To Danzig 
Fre- 
To Poland. 
From Posen to 
Poland 
From - 
From Schles.- 
Holst. to Den- 
mark... 
From Rhine 
Province to 
Belgium 
-Lorraine to 
France 
For- 
estry, 
hunt- 
ing, 
and 
fish- 
ing 
372, 006 
1,116 
431 
91, 072 3, 579 
Total ceded 2.. 
Total former 
German 
Empire 2 ... 
Per cent in ceded 
territories and 
Saar 
70, 564 
518,993 
979,420 
249, 668 
13, 
,658 
25, 47-: 
551,658 
34 2, 175 
737 
16,499 
2, 565, 584 64,688 
17, 242, 9; r 
15.3 15.1 
Total 
14, 972, 768 24, 035, 277 
60, 752 
17.3-4 
94,651 
76. 0*7 
532, 438 
992,512 
2-59, 326 
Mining 
and 
manu- 
facturing 
339, 035 
- 
Com- 
merce 
trade, 
and 
hos- 
telry 
7, 596, 83^ 
5,683 
14,866 
113, 624 
430. 717 
137. 777 
.50.041 
68, 729 
162, 064 
80, 909. 34, 191 20, 139 
26,212 
568, 157 
20, 375 
730, 952 
6,276 
221, 393 
Un- 
skilled 
labor- 
ers, 
ser- 
vants, 
etc. 
'09, 827 
4,12-5 
440 
2,061 
11,867 
12,700 
22.37 
9, 385 
2,122 
481 
17,364 
Inde- 
pendent 
profes- 
sions, 
public 
service, 
etc. 
2,866,682 
22, 514 
2,6-57 
51, 691 
31,71 
».2'S 
6,095 
159, 502 
Popula- 
tion 
living 
on an- 
nuities, 
etc., and 
interest 
Total 
4, 627, 124 .54, 808, 515 
51, 635 
6, 272 
15,488 
532, 499 
159, 211 
" 1 316, 382 
913, 740 
137,609 1,840,967 
100, 346 
14,293 
4, 132 
122,881 
159, 912 
63, 571 
1, 820, 249 
2,630,272 621,28 " 356 386,101 489,672 6,174,378 
278, 239 792, 7 
10. -5 
17, 681, 176 
15. 3 
26,386,537! 
12.5 
5, 171. 703 
10.6 
61, 591, 357 
11.0 
Germany, Statistisches Reichsamt Statistisches Jahrbuch fur das Deutsche Reich, 1921-22. 
1 Includes preliminary estimates of the population lost from Upper Silesia as a result of the conference of 
Oct. 20, 1921. 
J Excludes population lost from Upper Silesia as a result of the conference of Oct. 20, 1921, according to 
preliminary figures. 
The districts composing the Republic of Germany were in 1910 
relatively more highly industrialized than was the former Empire 
as a whole and correspondingly less agricultural, for not only did the 
ceded territories maintain a high percentage of farmers but they 
included, especially the eastern districts, some of the best food- 
surplus producing areas of the Empire. 
EFFECT OF THE VERSAILLES TREATY ON LAND UTILIZATION 
Agricultural practices vary somewhat in different parts of Germany 
and the territories ceded on the southwest, northwest, northeast, 
and southeast represented all the various types of farming. Com- 
paring the manner in which land was utilized in the territory o( the 
whole Empire in 1913 with the relative numbers of acres under 
various crops, orchards, forests, etc., and the land put to nonagricul- 
tural uses during 1913 in the territories now comprised within the 
present frontiers of the Republic, in the Saar and t lie ceded districts 
there was a slightly higher percentage of the land devoted to root 
crops and to cereals and legumes than was the case in the territories 
now composing the Republic or in the Empire as a whole. A some- 
