AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF EUROPE: GERMANY 
23 
Table 12. — Agricultural 
land holdings: Area in Germany according to the size oj 
holdings 
Total area of holdings (acres) 
District 
Less 
than 1.24 
1.24 to 
4.94 
4.94 to 
12.4 
12.4 to 
49.4 
49.4 to 
247 
247 and 
over 
Total 
Germany, 1923 bound- 
778, 785 
10,114 
2, 949, 405 
41,421 
7, 185, 157 
63, 836 
22, 397, 848 
106, 448 
20, 143, 365 
17, 334 
13, 815, 237 
4,967 
67, 269, 797 
244, 120 
Areas ceded: 
From East Prussia _ 
From West Prussia. 
From Posen 
From Silesia 
From Schleswig- 
Holstein. .. 
1,819 
18, 854 
36, 168 
6,009 
1,137 
259 
35,311 
8,488 
61, 839 
91,012 
42, 346 
5,770 
3,971 
185,362 
30, 299 
135, 604 
191,448 
86, 364 
23, 225 
18, 757 
431, 664 
118,324 
729, 308 
1,261,717 
195, 337 
161, 408 
47, 391 
733, 902 
137, 736 
870, 753 
961, 629 
62,704 
469,490 
13, 284 
358, 621 
90, 429 
987, 896 
2, 122, 441 
201, 055 
88, 182 
1,527 
121,215 
387, 095 
2, 804, 254 
4, 664, 415 
593, 815 
749, 212 
From Rhine Prov- 
85,189 
Alsace-Loraine 
1,866,075 
Total areas ceded _ 
Total former Ger- 
man Empire 
Per cent in ceded terri- 
tories and Saar 
99, 557 
888, 456 
12.3 
398, 788 
3, 389, 614 
13.0 
917, 361 
8, 166, 354 
12.0 
3, 247, 387 
25, 751, 683 
13.0 
2, 874, 217 
23, 034, 916 
12.6 
3, 612, 745 
17, 432, 949 
20.8 
11,150,055 
78, 663, 972 
14.5 
Prepared in the German Statistisches Reichsamt, Sept. 29, 1923. 
EFFECT OF TREATY OF VERSAILLES ON FARM CROPS IN GERMANY 
As a result of the Versailles Treaty, Germany ceded to neighboring 
countries and segregated in the Saar territories that in 1910 contained 
11 per cent of the population of the Empire and that during 1909- 
1913 embraced 15.5 per cent of the Empire's wheat-producing area, 
17.4 per cent of the rye area, 11.4 per cent of the oats area, 15.3 per 
cent of the barley area, 17.9 per cent of the potato area, and 20.5 
per cent of the sugar-beat area. (See Table 13.) The percentages 
of the crop areas ceded were greater than the percentage of the popu- 
lation; and consequently the potential food supplies of the population 
of the territories comprised within the boundaries of the Republic 
were relatively less than for the population of the Empire as a whole, 
as shown in Table 14. These supplies of crops, in terms of bushels 
per 100 inhabitants, w r ere: Wheat, 234.3 in the Empire against 227.1 
for the territory within the boundaries of the Republic; rye, 685.7 
against 637.3; barley, 244.2 against 231.5; spelt, 36.2 against 40.6; 
oats, 911.8 against 912.1. Total cereals in the Empire averaged 
2,112.2 against 2,048.6 in the territory now comprising the Republic. 
There were 2,591 bushels of potatoes produced peT 100 inhabitants 
in the Empire against 2,377 bushels in the territory now comprising 
the Republic and sugar beets showed 28.3 short tons in the former 
and 25.4 short tons in the latter. 
The differences of 63.6 bushels of cereals, 214.1 bushels of potatoes, 
and 2.9 short tons of sugar beets per 100 inhabitants placed the 
Republic at the outset in a potentially inferior economic position as 
compared with the Empire; cereals 3 per cent, potatoes 8.3 per 
cent, and sugar beets 10.2 per cent. 
In addition to the initial lowered potentiality of the economic 
status of the country directly attributable to the Versailles treaty, 
other factors and influences operating during and since the war have 
further depressed Germany's agricultural situation. The primary 
effect of these factors and influences is seen in changes in the manner 
and the extent of the utilization of agricultural lands since the war, 
as indicated in Table 13. 
