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BULLETIN L399, g. S. DEPABTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 28. — Rye, including rye flour in terms of rye: Foreign trade 1 of the German 
Republic, 1921-22 to 1923-24, compared with that of the Empire, 1909-10 to 
1913-14 
(Thousands of bushels— 000 omitted] 
Year beginning July 1 
Country 
Average 
1909-1913 
1921 
1922 
1923 2 
United States. .. . 
+178 
3+7, 832 
+ 1,040 
+ 127 
(*) 
+4, 761 
(<) 
0) 
+57 
+846 
-879 
+20 
(«) 
-10 
+9 
( 4 ) 
( 4 ) 
+ 17 
0) 
0) 
+35, 930 
( 4 ) 
( 4 ) 
+668 
+ 1,880 
-493 
+3 
(*) 
0) 
( 4 ) 
0) 
w 
w 
(*) 
+4, 126 
7,201 
Russia. 
m 
i*) 
Saar district 
Hungary 
-1,409 
( 6 ) 
5 444 
Austria 
( 4 ) 
(0 
e> 
0) 
-2,285 
-2,317 
-3, 733 
-6,420 
-6, 525 
-7,002 
-5, 084 
Netherlands . 
( 4 ) 
(<) 
+ 17,232 
Total 
-25, 598 
+4, 738 
+42.114 
+24, 877 
Germany, Statistisehes Reichsamt (formerly Kaiserliches Statist isches Amt), Monatliehe Nachwcise 
iiber den AuswSrtigen Handel Deutschlands. 
1 Net imports are indicated by (+) and net exports by (— ). 
2 Imports only, except for other countries and total, which include the exports, if any, for countries given. 
The exports are not complete enough to compile a fiscal year by countries. 
3 The heavy importation of 13,698,000 bushels of rye from Russia accompanied by a reexport of 5,866,000 
bushels, nearly 50 per cent, is due to the preferential trade agreement that Germany enjoyed with the Em- 
pire of the Romanoffs. Russia exported only about 30,000,000 bushels of rye yearly, most of which passed 
through the Black Sea ports. The Russo-German preferential trade agreement was so advantageous to 
the latter people that it proved profitable to purchase rye in the south of Russia and transport it by water 
to western Germany. At the same time rye flour was exported from eastern Germany to northern Russia. 
4 If any, included in other countries. 
5 Figure for rye flour only. 
6 Included in Hungary. 
FUTURE OF GERMANY'S RYE TRADE 
The present abandonment of more than 2,000,000 acres of rye lands 
is temporary, and a large part of this acreage will again be put into 
cultivation as improved economic conditions of the Republic render 
a stabilization of the agriculture possible. Governmental requisition, 
the removal of the export bonus, and the caprices of currency fluctua- 
tion and similar factors have been responsible in causing the German 
farmer to restrict his operations more nearly to the maintenance of 
his family and livestock rather than to produce a marketable surplus. 
This has been the case in many of the countries of central and eastern 
Europe during the past few years. But this situation, as far as 
Germany is concerned, is temporary (with the probable exception of 
the rye bonus) and the lost rye acreage will be largely regained, 
because the economic welfare of the Republic demands that agricul- 
ture be placed on a basis that will as nearly as possible supply the 
bread requirements of the population. German farms and farm equip- 
ment are in a relatively stronger position of potential production 
than before the war, and with the clearing up of the general economic 
situation the recovery of German agriculture will necessarily follow. 
Although no reliable figures are available relative to the quantity 
of Russia's recent exports to Germany, nevertheless incomplete 
reports indicate that the Russian Government by concerted effort 
was able to assemble about 6,000.000 bushels for export to the 
western Republic during the season 1923 24. This was about 77 per 
cent of the quantity that Russia exported to Germany before the war 
under normal conditions of Russian production. 
