AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF EUROPE : GERMANY 
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The estimated average statistical rye surplus of the territories 
now comprised within the Kepublic of Germany was about 10,700,000 
bushels, as compared with 25,600,000 net bushels actually exported 
from the Empire annually. It is estimated that the ceded territories 
and the Saar produced an average (1909-1913) surplus of about 
14,900,000 bushels. 
The statistical analysis of the pre-war rye situation in the ceded 
districts and in the territory now composing the Republic of Germany 
appears in Table 26. 
Table 26. — Rye: Average approximate balance in the districts which com 
former German Empire, 1909-1913 
the 
District 
Popula- 
tion Dec. 
1, 1910 
Area 
Produc- 
tion 
Seed 
Net 
produc- 
tion 
Disap- 
pear- 
ance 
Surplus 
(+) 
or deficit 
(-) 1 
Dis- 
appear- 
ance- 
per 
capita 
Germany, 1923 boundaries 
Saar district: 
Rhine Province 
57, 799, 808 
572, 112 
SO, 946 
Acres 
12, 713, 320 
42, 271 
2 9. - 
1,000 
bushels 
368, 337 
1,253 
2 2.614 
1,000 
bushels 
30, 992 
104 
223 
1,000 
bushels 
337, 345 
1,149 
2,591 
1,000 
bushels 
326,644 
1,182 
1,006 
1,000 
bushels 
+10,701 
-33 
+1,585 
Bushels 
5.65 
2.07 
12.43 
Areas ceded: 
From East Prussia— 
To MemeL- 
To Poland 
From West Prussia — 
To Danzig Free 
State 
141, 238 
24, 787 
330, 630 
964,704 
1,946,461 
224 
893, 074 
45, 396 
26,248 
166,348 
60,003 
1,874,014 
63, 191 
23,215 
38, 165 
670, 308 
1,517,409 
1, 727 
495 
1,178 
17,023 
43,699 
172 
63 
99 
1,742 
3,790 
1,555 
432 
1,079 
15,281 
39,909 
1,464 
312 
2,991 
12, 918 
25,947 
• +91 
+120 
-1,912 
+2,363 
+13, 962 
10.37 
12.59 
9.05 
To Poland 
From Posen to Po- 
land .- 
13. 39 
13.33 
From Pomerania to 
Poland 
From Upper Silesia— 
To Poland 
To Czechoslo- 
vakia . . . 
106,080 
9,904 
24, 137 
28,911 
5, 955 
135, 005 
2,759 
302 
672 
1,531 
156 
3. 476 
237 
22 
54 
75 
15 
331 
2,522 
280 
618 
1,456 
141 
3, 145 
4,487 
280 
319 
1,116 
245 
2,994 
-1,965 
5.02 
6. 17 
From Lower Silesia 
to Poland.. 
+299 
+340 
-104 
+151 
12. 15 
From Schleswig-Hol- 
stein to Denmark. . 
From Rhine Prov- 
ince to Belgium 
Alsace-Lorraine to 
6.71 
4.08 
1.60 
Total areas ceded .. 
6,473,127 
2, 622, 280 
73, 018 
6,600 
66, 418 
53, 073 
+13,345 
8.20 
Total Empire 
Per cent in ceded terri- 
tory and in Saar 
64, 925, 993 
15, 387, 199 
17.4 
445,222 
17.3 
37, 719 
17.8 
407, 503 
17.2 
381,905 
14.5 
+25, 598 
58.2 
5.88 
Area and production, ceded areas: Prussia, Konigliches Statistisches Landesamt, Statistik der Land- 
wirtschaft, 1909-1913 (Preussische Statistik, Nos. 221, 225, 230, 235, 240), supplemented by statistics pre- 
pared in the Preussisches Landesamt: Bavarian Saar, Bavaria, Statistisches Landesamt, Zeitschrift des 
Bayerischen Statistischen Landesamts, 1922, Nos. 3 and 4, p. 438. 
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 quantity. 
2 One year only. 1914. 
About 10,700,000 bushels of the rye exported yearly by the German. 
Empire before the war originated in the territories now composing 
the Republic of Germany, as indicated in Table 26. About 1,600,000 
bushels originated in the Saar region, and the districts ceded to 
neighboring countries on the east produced an exportable surplus of 
rye amounting to more than 13,000,000 bushels. It must be borne 
in mind that these figures are only approximately correct, but they 
indicate that as a result of the war the German Government lost 
more than half of its potential exportable rye surplus. (Fig. 4.) 
