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BULLETIN 1399, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 38. — Potatoes: Average approximate balance in the districts which com- 
posed the former German Empire, 1909-1913 
District 
Population 
December 
1, 1910 
Area 
Produc- 
tion 
Seed 
Net pro- 
duction 
Disap- 
pearance 
Surplus 
(+)or 
deficit 
(-) 1 
Disap- 
pear- 
ance . 
per 
capita 
Germany, 1923 bound- 
57,799,808 
572,112 
80,946 
1,000 
acres 
li, 77:, 
45 
»12 
1,000 
bushels 
1, 373, 609 
7,749 
2 2, 512 
1,000 
hiishti.s 
201,474 
1,332 
2 368 
1,000 
bushels 
1, 172, 135 
6,417 
2,1 41 
1,000 
bushels 
1, 173,498 
7,689 
1,336 
1,000 
bushels 
-1,363 
-1,272 
+808 
Unguis 
20 30 
Saar district: 
Rhine Province. .. 
13.44 
16 50 
Areas ceded: 
From East Prus- 
sia — 
To Mernel 
To Poland 
From West Prus- 
sia — 
To Danzig Free 
State 
To Poland 
From Posen to 
Poland.. 
141, 238 
24, 787 
330, 630 
964,704 
1, 946, 461 
893, 074 
45,396 
26,248 
166, 348 
60, 003 
224 
1, 874, 014 
32 
10 
22 
332 
663 
96 
13 
10 
5 
2,995 
5,940 
4,671 
70, 160 
152, 204 
17,610 
1,477 
2,821 
1,777 
1,018 
939 
292 
667 
9,875 
19,723 
2,870 
214 
382 
285 
157 
2,056 
5,648 
4,004 
60,285 
132,481 
14, 740 
1, 263 
2,439 
1,492 
861 
4,55] 
1,863 
14, 059 
50, 809 
132, 174 
23,645 
1,306 
1,099 
2,599 
844 
-2, 495 
+3, 785 
-10,055 
+9, 476 
+307 
-8,905 
-43 
+1, 340 
-1,107 
+17 
32.22 
75. 16 
42.52 
52.67 
67.90 
From Upper Sile- 
sia— 
To Poland.... 
To Czechoslo- 
vakia 
From Lower Sile- 
sia to Poland 
From Schleswig- 
Holstein to Den- 
26. is 
28.77 
41.87 
15.62 
From Rhine Prov- 
ince to Belgium. 
From Pomerania 
to Poland . . 
14.07 
Alsace-Lorraine to 
France - 
229 
37,416 
6,798 
30,-618 
31, 985 
-1,367 
17.07 
Total areas ceded 
6, 473, 127 
1,419 
298, 089 
42, 202 
255, 887 
264, 934 
-9,047 
40.93 
Total Empire... 
Per cent in ceded terri- 
tory and Saar 
64, 925, 993 
8,251 
17.9 
1,681,959 
18.3 
245, 376 
17.9 
1, 436, 583 
18.4 
3 1, 447, 457 
18.9 
-10,874 
87.5 
22.29 
Area and production: Total German Empire — Germany, Kaiserliches Statistisches Amt, Vierteljahr- 
shefte zur Statistik des Deutschen Reichs, 1910-1914, heft. 1: Bavarian Saar— Bavaria, Statistisches Lande- 
samt. Zeitschrift des Bayerischen Statist isehen LandesamtS, 1922, NTos. 3 and 4, p. 438. 
Ceded areas in Prussia: Koniglich Preussisches Statistisches Landesamt; unpublished statistics pre- 
pared in the Landesamt. 
Seed requirements, Germany. Kaiserliches statistisches Amt, Vierteljahrshefte zur Statistik des 
Deutschen Reichs, vol. 24, heft 2, 1915, p. 216. 
Note. — The uses of potatoes are so varied and so changing that the per capita disappearance should be 
considered only as a convenient method of estimating general disappearance. 
1 The amounts 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 amount. 
2 One year only, 1914. 
3 Based on a disappearance for the northern region, which excludes the ocean trade of Bremen and Ham- 
burg, Germany. 
STATISTICAL POTATO BALANCE OF GERMANY 
The area planted to potatoes within the territory of the Republic 
since the war has not varied materially from the acreage under this 
crop before the war. (Table 39.) The yields have fluctuated con- 
siderably with the seasons, being low in 1921 and 1923 and high in 
1922; the net production of 1924 was about 40,000,000 bushels 
below the 1909-1913 average. The food requirement has increased 
