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of the country makes it impossible to work out with any degree of 
accuracy a balance between local production and disappearance, but 
Table 31 gives the areas sown and the net production in the Republic 
and in each of the districts ceded to neighboring countries. 
Table 31. — Barley: Average area and production in the districts which composed 
the former German Empire, 1909-1913 
District 
Area 
Production 
Seed 
Net pro- 
duction 
Barley, summer: 
Germany, 1923 boundaries... 
Saar District- 
Acres 
3, 347, 933 
4,007 
586 
Bushels 
128, 799, 163 
1 19, 270 
i 28, 476 
Bushels 
9,404,164 
11, 482 
i 1,837 
Bushels 
119,334,999 
137,788 
i 26, 639 
Areas ceded— 
From East Prussia— 
IS, 977 
3, 442 
25, 874 
113, 179 
280, 673 
11,016 
4,991 
1 . 987 
42,019 
42 
121,363 
608, 561 
91,399 
1,327,353 
4, 272, 331 
11, 112, 562 
386, 264 
203, 926 
78, 539 
1 , 854, 620 
1,378 
4,615,422 
58, 330 
10, 564 
75,783 
332, 527 
818, 456 
27,558 
12, 401 
5, 052 
123,549 
550,231 
80,835 
1, 251, 570 
To Poland... 
From West Prussia— 
To Danzig Free State . 
To Poland 
3, 939, 804 
10, 294, 106 
From Upper Silesia— 
To Poland.. 
358, 706 
191, 525 
73, 487 
From Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark 
From Rhine Province to Belgium. 
1,731,071 
1,378 
343, 093 
4, 272, 329 
623, 563 
24, 552, 355 
1, 807, 313 
22, 745, 042 
Total Empire .. 
3, 976, 149 
116, 137 
153, 529, 264 
4, 987, 908 
11,284,790 
323, 801 
142, 244, 468 
4, 604, 107 
4, 092, 286 
158, 517, 172 
11,608,597 
146,908,575 
Area and production, Bavarian Saar: Bavaria, Statistisches Landesamt, Zeitschrift des Bayerischen 
Statistischen Lnndesamts, 1922, Nos. 3 and 4, p. 438. 
Areas lost: Germany, Kaiserliches Statistisches Amt, Vierteljahrshefte zur Statistik des Deutschen 
Reichs, 1910-1914, heft 1; Prussia, Konigliches Statistisches Landesamt, Statistik der Landwirtschaft, 
1909-1913 (Preussische Statistik, Nos. 221, 225, 230, 235, 240); unpublished statistics prepared in the Preus- 
sisches Landesamt. 
i One year only, 1914. Figures include winter barley. 
' Estimate for one year, 1913. No basis for estimate for earlier years. 
An estimate of the production-consumption balance of the barley 
crop for recent years, based on German official figures as compared 
with the pre-war estimate, is given in Table 32. 
Table 32. — Barley: Statistical balances, Germany, 1923 boundaries, 1921-22 to 
1924-25, as compared with pre-war average, 1909-10 to 1918-14 
[In thousands— 000 omitted] 
Unit 
Years beginning 
July 1 
Item 
Average, 
1909-1913 
1921 
1922 
1923 
1924 
Area ..- 
Acre . 
Bushel 
do 
3,464 
3, 1 1 t 
3,103 
3,216 
3,571 
Production 
133,787 
9, 699 
101,449 
8,686 
80, 754 
108, 446 
\ 960 
110.226 
Seed 
9,999 
do 
...do 
...do 
Production less seed 
Imports less exports 
i:>l,0ss 
i 141,475 
92. 764 
10,911 
72, 101 
13,006 
99. 486 
23,072 
100, 227 
Quantity available for domestic use 
265, 563 
103,675 
85, 107 
122, 558 
• imports for the total Em] tdition t<- this import from abroad Alsace-Lorraine and the (lennan 
on'-. Incorporated into Poland shipped considerable quantities of barley to the districts now com- 
posing the Republic. 
