AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF EUROPE: GERMANY 
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It is expected that in the near future Germany will tend to bring 
animal production up to its normal pre-war status, producing domesti- 
cally, as far as possible, the requisite feedstuff supplies. This 
tendency to produce larger supplies of home-grown feedstuffs is 
shown not only by the larger area devoted to fodder beets but to a 
more marked degree by the hay situation, a discussion of which 
follows. 
Table 50. — Fodder beets: Area and -production on present Prussia and the German 
Republic, 1921-24, as compared with 1912-13 
[In thousands — 000 omitted] 
Year 
Prussia 
German Republic 
Area 
Production 
Area 
Production 
Average, 1912-13 
Acres 
537 
937 
993 
927 
Short torts 
10,468 
11,023 
15, 552 
13,644 
Acres 
0) 
1,803 
1,939 
L'809 
Short tons 
0) 
1921 
19,645 
1922 
27,284 
1923 
24,242 
1924 
25, 626 
1909-1913: Supplemented by figures on the ceded areas prepared in the Koniglich Preussiches Statis- 
tisches Landesamt. 
1921: Germany, Statistisches Reichsamt, Vierteljahrshefte zur Statistik des Deutschen Reichs. 
♦1922-1924: Germany, Statistisches Reichsamt. 
: Xo statistics available. 
HAY 
During the pre-war period 1909-1913 there was on the average in 
the German Empire 20,152,151 acres under clover, alfalfa, and in 
meadows of all classes that produced annually an average of 40,033,479 
short tons of hay. In 1913 there were 4,558,000 horses, 20,994,000 
cattle. 5.521,000 sheep, and 3,548,000 goats. Approximating the hay 
consumption of goats and sheep at one-seventh that of a mature 
large animal, we can estimate the hay supply available for large 
livestock in the Empire at about 2,983 pounds per head. 
In the ceded districts and the Saar territory there were during 
this period 2,366,026 acres under hay crops that produced on the 
average 4,676,758 short tons of hay annually. This was 11.74 per 
cent of the acreage and 11.68 per cent of the- production of the lands 
devoted to hay crops in the whole Empire. 
The pasture and hay rations for the livestock, except swine, calcu- 
lated to a large-animal basis, were but slightly better (3,016 pounds 
per head) in the territories now composing the Republic of Germany 
than on the average in the Empire as a whole. 
The general details of the pre-war hay area and production in the 
ceded districts and in the territory now constituting the Republic 
of Germany appear in Table 51. 
