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BULLETIN 1399, L T . S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
country was imported 26,000,000 bushels annually, for the most part 
by way of the Baltic ports. About 7,000,000 bushels of oats from 
the Argentine and 2,000,000 from the United States also passed 
through Hamburg and Bremen, or were reshipped, largely to Great 
Britain. (See Table 35.) 
Table 35. — Oats: Foreign trade l of the German Republic, 1921-2 
compared with that of the Empire, 1909-10 to 1913-14 
[Thousands of bushels— 000 omitted] 
to 1928-24, 
Country 
Year beginning July 1 
Average, 
1909-1913 
1921 
1922 
Argentina 
United States 
Rumania 
Russia 
German Southwest Africa 
Norway 
Austria-Hungary 
Belgium 
France 
Sweden 
Canada 
Netherlands 
Denmark 
Suit zerland 
Great Britain 
Saar district 
Others 
Total 
+7, 105 
+1,828 
+ 1,654 
+26, 095 
-209 
-271 
-431 
-1,435 
-2,370 
-2, 778 
(?) 
-3,837 
-4, 535 
-4, 771 
-6,687 
"""+374' 
+3, 938 
+ 1,702 
+368 
I 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
.3 1 
(*) 
+ 12 
+ 11 
+29 
-435 
+589 
+565 
+4,587 
+736 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
0) 
(*) 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
( 2 ) 
-86 
+ 1,207 
+739 
+ 165 
+33 
■5,314 
+9, 732 +6, 253 
4-7,009 
-4, 377 
Germany. Statistisches Reichsamt (formerly Kaiserliches [Statistisches Amt), Monatliehe Nachweise 
iiber den Auswartigen Handel Deutscbiands. 
1 Net imports arc indicated by (+) and net exports by (— ). 
1 If any, included in other countries. 
3 Austria only. 
POSTWAR TRADE IN OATS 
Since the war the production of oats has fallen off in the territory 
still remaining to Germany. The 1924 area, which is the largest 
in the last four years, is still 9 per cent below pre-war, according to 
the German official estimates. German statistics indictate that pro- 
duction in 1923, the best postwar year up to that time, was 20 per 
cent below 7 the pre-war level. Not allowing for pre-war over- 
estimates and postwar underestimates, present production (in 1924) 
was 138,000,000 bushels below pre-war. In spite of the fact that the 
domestic supply lacked 109,000,000 bushels of enough to provide 
for a horse ration as great as pre-war, some oats were exported in 
1923-24. 
Imports of oats into Germany since the war have decreased. 
The Empire bought abroad, on an average, 9,700.000 bushels a vear 
more than were reexported (Table 35). Id L921 22 and 1922-23 
these purchases for the Republic were only 0,300.000 and 7,000,000 
bushels, respectively; in L923 2-1 the import movement was changed 
to an export of 1,400,000 bushels. 
The foreign sources of supply, as well as the quantities imported 
from previous sources, have changed. Before the war Argentina 
supplied the equivalent of nearly the total German import require- 
ment. Russia shipped to Germany three times the Empire's total 
import requirement; but this was mostly reexported to Great Britain, 
