AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF EUROPE: GERMANY 
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EFFECT OF VERSAILLES TREATY ON POTATO SITUATION 
Germany ceded to Poland some of her best potato lands, producing 
an annual average surplus 190&-1913 of about 15,000,000 bushels. 
The ceded districts of Upper Silesia, Memel, and Danzig were deficit 
regions in which the potato disappearance, for food and for industrial 
purposes, exceeded local production by about 21,500,000 bushels. 
On the west. Alsace-Lorraine, the Saar district, and the territory 
ceded to Denmark were deficit regions requiring about 3,000,000 
bushels annually in addition to local production. 
The estimated average statistical potato deficit f 1909-1913) of 
the territories now comprised within the Republic of Germany was 
1.400.000 bushels, as compared with 10.S74.000 bushel-, which 
the average importation into the German Empire. 'Fig. 6.) 
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HOSLOVAKIA 
POTATOES (ave: rage j 909-13) 
Shaded areas indicate surplus 
producing regions 
Unshaded areas indicate regions 
of deficit production 
Average net import /OjB7^000 
bushels 
Fig. 6.— Average 1909-1913 production of potatoes in the German Empire balanced against dis- 
appearance 
The eastern Provinces produced annually approximately 3,147,000 bushels more potatoes than 
were consumed locally, while the annual surplus of the northern Provinces amounted to about 
S, 1^0,000 bushels. The southwestern deficit region consumed each year about 22,201,000 bushels 
more than were produced locally, necessitating an annual average importation of potatoes totaling 
about 10,874,000 bushels. 
It is estimated that the ceded territories and the Saar district 
required in addition to local production an annual net importation 
of about 9,000,000 bushels of potatoes of which about 2,000,000 
bushels were consumed as human food and feed for Livestock and the 
7,000,000 bushels were used for industrial pu rpo ses. 
The territorial changes following the Great War did not materially 
affect the German potato industry either as regard- surplus produc- 
tion or manufacture. 
The statistical analysis of the pre-war potato situation in the 
ceded districts and in the territory now comprising the Republic of 
Germany appear in Table 38. 
