AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF EUROPE: GERMANY 
29 
Table 18. — Cereals, potatoes, and beets: Crop yields per acre in Germany, 1921- 
1924t as compared with the average, 1909-1013 
Boundaries of 1923 
Crop 
Pre-war 
average, 
1909-1913 
1921 
1922 
1923 
1924 
Wheat: 
Bushels 
32.5 
33.1 
Bush ds 
30.6 
27.6 
Bushels 
20.9 
23.0 
Busl 
29.3 
28.3 
Bushels 
24 1 
Spring 
25.7 
Total wheat 
32.6 
30.3 
21.2 
29.1 
24.6 
Rye. 
29.2 
19.9 
-■ 
17.2 
20.2 
14.4 
24. 5 
18.8 
2L« 
Spring 
17.1 
Total rye.-. 
29.0 
25.4 
20.1 
24.4 
21.4 
Spelt 
33.3 
30.7 
20.0 
27.8 
21.1 
30.0 
43.0 
3a o 
26.7 
40.4 
31.7 
20. 4 
26.9 
25.9 
25.6 
40.3 
33.1 
22.2 
Barley: 
36.8 
Spring 
Total barley -- 
38.6 
32.6 
26.0 
33.7 
30.9 
55.3 
44.1 
35.0 
50.9 
44 7 
38.8 
202.7 
Short tons 
32.8 
146.9 
Short tons 
9.1 
10.1 
10.9 
2.5.7 
222.2 
Short tons 
11.5 
11.6 
34.6 
177. 7 
Short tons 
10.1 
9.8 
13.0 
30.7 
Potatoes 
Sugar bee- ts 1 --- -- -- -- . 
196.1 
Short tons 
11.6 
13.7 
12.2 
14.2 
1 Upper row of figures computed from area and production given by the German Statistisches Reichsamt; 
lower row from Die Deutsche Zuckerindustrie. 
The differences between the average yields per acre during the 
period 1909-1913 and the years 1921, ^1922, 1923, and 1924 are 
striking, ranging for total cereals from 4.3 bushels (1923) to 13.2 
bushels (1922) below the pre-war. Part of this difference is attribut- 
able to the conservatism of the peasants in reporting their yields 
after the war and to the optimism of the German statistical office 
before the war: but lack of fertilizers, poorer cultural methods, and 
unsatisfactory climatic conditions have caused actual yields to fall 
considerably below those of pre-war days. 
