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BULLETIN 1399, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 51. — Hay: Average production in the districts which composed the former 
German Empire, 1909-1913 
District 
Clover 
Alfalfa 
Irrigated and 
drained meadows 
Other meadows 
Germany, 1923 boundaries 
Saar districl : 
Rhine Province 
Bavaria '_„ --- 
Acres 
4, 199, 848 
11,66] 
870 
Short tons 
9,056,808 
23,504 
1,367 
Acres 
512,253 
4,707 
813 
Short tons 
1, 353, 953 
10,110 
5.010 
Acres 
1, 062, 261 
1,292 
Short tons 
2, 381, 021 
3,070 
. Acres | Short tons 
12,011,763 22,564,939 
43, 166 85, 942 
689 2 4 112 
Areas ceded: 
From East Prussia— 
To Memel. 
To Poland 
From West Prussia — 
To Danzig Free 
State 
41,545 
3,813 
30, 581 
181, 848 
225, 172 
24,888 
4,314 
3,637 
36, 170 
2,916 
100, 426 
93, 359 
5,862 
68,044 
345, 649 
401, 503 
51, 655 
8,731 
6,636 
81, 244 
6, 155 
233.853 
35 
10 
526 
5,557 
13,005 
205 
20 
42 
482 
1,391 
17 324 
1,509 2,745 
13,858 5,293 
30,451 9,116 
412 1,960 
40 47 
87 5*1 
2,607 
685 
6,913 
12,635 
22,712 
1,588 
115 
1,198 
6,258 
3,826 
344,797 
87,602 
10,250 
53. 243 
228, 459 
479, 401 
61,478 
4,870 
12, 703 
99, 769 
21,821 
340,519 
164,279 
13,689 
112,784 
433, 746 
831 581 
To Poland 
From Posen to Po- 
From Upper Silesia— 
To Poland 
To Czechoslo- 
90,235 
7 B07 
From Lower Silesia to 
18, 070 
142, 786 
55, 172 
From Schleswig-Hol- 
stein to Denmark. - 
From Rhine Province 
1,283 
3,200 
1,769 
130,311 
Alsace-Lorraine to 
67,824 
182, 445 
734,571 
Total ceded dis- 
tricts 
665,310 
1, 302, 691 
87.706 
230. 198 
- 
406. 334 
1,400. 115 
2. OfW.420 
Total Empire 
4, 867, 689 
10, 384, 370 605, 479! 1 . 599, 271 1 . 220. 250 2, 790, 425 13, 458, 733 
25,259,413 
Per cent for ceded dis- 
13.7 
12.8 
15. 4 1 5. 3 
12.9 
14.7 10.8 
10.7 
Total Germany and Alsace-Lorraine: Germany, Kaiserliches Statistisches Ami. Vierteljahrshefte zur 
Btatistikdes Deutschen Reichs, 1910, 1911. 1912, 1913, and 1914, Heft L. Lost territories in Prussia I 
Konigliches statistisches Landesamt, Statistik der Landwirtschaft in Preussischen Staate, 1909, 1910, 
1911, 1912, and 1913, and tables for divided regions compiled in the Preussisches Staatliches Landesamt. 
Bavarian Saar: Zeitschiift des Bayerischen Btatistischen Landesamt, 1922, Nos. 3 and 4, p. 438. Bavaria: 
Statistisches Landesamt. 
» One year only, 1914. 
2 Includes irrigated and drained meadows. 
POST-WAR HAY SITUATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF GERMANY 
Since the war the areas under forage crops in the Republic have 
been considerably increased, with the exception of irrigated and 
drained meadows, which show a falling off of 25.3 per cent. The 
average clover acreage of the Republic has increased 10.4 per cent; 
alfalfa, 30.9 per cent: and meadows, other than irrigated and drained] 
5.5 per cent. The total area of grass and hay lands, including 
irrigated and drained meadows, shows an increase of 5.5 per cent. 
The acreage litis increased from 17,786,000 in 1909-1913, to 
18,773,000 in 1924, while hay production has increased from 35, 
()()() short tons to 37,018,000 short tons in 1924. The hay ration, on a 
basis of Large animals, has been increased from the pre-war average 
of 3,016 pound- to 3,272 pounds per head in 1924. 
Enough hay was produced in Germany in 1924 to feed the pre-war 
ration to 2.000,000 more head of cattle than were reported on 
December 1. Livestock in Germany are, however, being fed more 
roughage and less concentrated feectstuffs than before the war and, 
probably, in view of the decreased quantities of straw from cereals 
available, the stocks of hay now on hand are sufficient only to carry 
the present numbers of livestock through the winter. 
