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BULLETIN 1399l U. s. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
inconsistencies also appeared in the official records of the local move- 
ment of wheat, so that the statistical balance of deficit to be imported 
was somewhat higher than the actual import. A correction has been 
applied to the amounts of surplus or deficit from each region, so that 
the total in Table 22 equals the actual average import of the Empire. 
Table 22. — Wheat: Average approximate balance in the districts which composed 
the former German Empire, 1909-1913 
District 
Population 
Dec. 1, 1910 
Area 
Produc- 
tion 
Seed 
Net 
produc- 
tion 
Dis- 
appear- 
ance 
Deficit 
i - ) or 
surplus 
Dis- 
appear- 
ance 
per 
capita 
Germany, L923 boundaries. 
Saar District: 
Rhine Province 
57, 799, 808 
572, 112 
80,940 
Acres 
4, 028, 523 
8,888 
2 3,289 
1,000 
Bushels 
131,274 
230 
»93 
1,000 
Bushels 
in, 159 
23 
'8 
tfiOO 
Bushels 
120,815 
207 
85 
1,000 
Knshfk 
182,230 
1,827 
267 
1,000 
Bushels 
-61,415 
-1,620 
-182 
Bushels 
3.15 
3.19 
3.30 
Areas ceded; 
From East Prussia— 
To Memel 
To Poland 
From West Prussia — 
To Danzig Free 
State -- 
141, 238 
24,787 
330, 030 
904,704 
1, 940, 401 
224 
893, 074 
45, 39t; 
20, 248 
100,348 
00,003 
1,874,014 
6,882 
339 
32,212 
109, 080 
193,974 
180 
8 
1,310 
3,383 
6,161 
20 
1 
88 
299 
615 
100 
7 
1,222 
3,084 
5,546 
286 
47 
930 
2,642 
3,421 
-126 
-40 
+292 
+442 
+2,125 
2.02 
1.90 
2.81 
To Poland 
FromPosen to Poland. 
From Pomerania to 
Poland 
2.74 
1. 76 
From Upper Sile 
To Poland 
To Czechoslovakia 
From Lower Silesia to 
14, 035 
6,390 
2,814 
20,667 
62 
341,067 
335 
176 
84 
876 
1 
8,008 
33 
15 
7 
57 
887 
302 
161 
819 
1 
7,121 
1,836 
1J5 
64 
881 
165 
13,571 
-1,534 
+46 
+ 13 
-62 
-164 
-6,453 
2.06 
2.53 
2.44 
From Sehleswig-Ilol- 
stein to Denmark, .. 
From Rhine Province 
to Belgium 
5.30 
2.75 
Alsace-Lorraine to 
7.21 
Total for ceded areas 
f., 473, 127 
20, -22 
2,022 
18,500 
23.961 
-5,461 
3.70 
64, 925, 993 
4, 768, 222 
15.5 
152,119 
13.7 
12,512 
16.4 
13.5 
2li\L'v. 
12.5 
10.6 
3.21 
Per cent in ceded districts 
and Saar 
Area and production of lost areas: Prussia. Konigliches Statistisches Landesaml Statistic der Land- 
wirtschaft, 1909-1913, (Preussische Btatistik, Xos. 221, 225, 230, 235, 240), supplemented by statistics pre- 
pared in the Preussiscnes Landesamt. 
1 The quantities of surplus and deficit in each district as calculated from German official statistics have 
been corrected to such a degree that the total equals the average yearly import amount . 
* One year only, 1914. 
NOTK. — The estimates of the balances between production and disappearance of the various crops, al- 
though they are planned only to give an approximate idea oi the variations in production and domestic 
consumption in the different pans of Germany, are believed i" give a fanh accurate picture of conditions 
In general, tt rerage of the movement of grain in the interior trade for the whole 
of tiie period 1909 1913. The trade figures were therefore taken tor that year in which the interior trade 
balance was most neatly in agreement with the five-year average foreign trade balance and a correction was 
then appled to these figures. Wherever possible the data were taken from the " Bonderabdruck aus 
Archiv fur Eisenbahnwesen," published by the Koniglich Preussisches .Ministerium der olTentlichen 
Arheiten "Deutschlands Qetreideernte und die Eisenbahnen," which takes into consideration the ocean 
shipping trade of Eamburg and Bremen. This publication could not !*■ used in the case of rye, spelt, 
and potatoes, whose balances appear la tables to follow. The figures for rye and potatoes were taken from 
"Statistic der Guterbewegungauf Deutschen Eisenbahnen nacb Verker rsbezirken" and "Verkehrund 
rode dei Deutschen Binnenwasserstrassen," issued by the Kaiserliches statistisches Reichsamt. 
For these two crops the statistics on trade and disappearance for the northern region, which includes Uam- 
burg and Bremen, are incomplete. 
It must be borne in mind that the disappearance per unit in each case is to be considered as a convenient 
I measuring the quantity osed for all purposes of the various districts and does not represent a per 
capita consumption for human food or, in the euse of oats, for horses. 
