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BULLETIN 1399. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
The average productioE and yields nor acre for the pre-war period J 
(1909 L913) contrasted with thai of the years L921, 1<)22, I'lj:;, and 
L924, as far as statistics are available, are given in Tables 17 and 18. 
Table 17. — Production of cereals, potatoes, and beets in Germany, 1921-1924, as I 
compared with the pre-war average, 1909-1913 
[In thousands— 000 omitted] 
Boundaries of 1923 
Crop 
Pre-war 
average 
1909-1913 
1921 , 
1922 
1923 
1924 (pre- 
liminary) 
Wheat: 
Winter 
Bushels 
114,500 
10,771 
Bushels 
96, 412 
11,386 
Bushels 
61, 253 
10, 673 
Bushels 
91, li.". 
15,003 
J Uis), ih 
70. s:{2 
12,367 
131, 271 
107, 798 
71, 926 
106, 448 
89 199 
Rye: 
363, 098 
5,239 
264, 220 
3,428 
203, 673 
2,360 
259,046 
3,991 
219,828 
Total rye 
368, 337 
267. 648 
206, 033 
263, 037 
225, 573 
Spelt 
23, 497 
11,419 
6,251 
8.810 
6,419 
523, 108 
386, 865 
284,210 
378, 295 
321 mi 
Barley: 
i 4, 988 
128, 799 
i 12, 392 
89, 057 
16,917 
73,837 
10, 701 
97, us;. 
',' 762 
KM), 464 
Total barley '. 
133, 787 
101, 449 
80,754 
108, 446 
110, 226 
Oats 
527, 178 
:m,M2 
276, 643 
420, 731 
Total cereals. 
1, 184, 073 
1,373,609 
Short tons 
833, 126 
960,888 
Short tons 
8,796 
8,297 
19,645 
641, 607 
1,494, 180 
Short tons 
11,893 
10, 258 
27, _N 1 
907,472 
1, 197,095 
Short tons 
9, 586 
8,087 
24, 242 
820,942 
1,:;;;:. .".id 
Short tons 
11,318 
14, 679 
( 3 ) 
10. 7! ! 
25, 626 
1909-1913: Prussia, Xonigliches Statistisches Landesamt, Statistik der Landwirtschaft, 1909-1913. 
(Preussischc Statistik, Nos. 221, 225, 230, 235, 240.) Second estimate of sugar-beet production furnished by 
Die Deutsche Zuckerindustrie. 
1921: Germany, Statistisches Reichsamt Vicrtcljahrshefte zur Statistik des Deutschcn Keichs. 
1922-1924: Germany, Statistisches Reichsamt, Jan. 7, 1925. 
1 No official estimate of the production of winter barley was made for all Germany before 1923. Pro- 
duction estimated from the area reported or estimated on the basis of the relation of the yield per acre of 
winter grain to summer grain in Prussia where production statistics for winter grain are available. 
■ Lower m« of (inures are quantities of beets worked up at the beet-sugar factories taken from thestatistics 
of Die Deutsche Zuckerindustrie. Upper row are production hgures from the statistisches Reichsamt. 
•* No estimate available. 
