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it very profitable to produce sheep, as they require but little care in 
addition to the wild forage of the abandoned cereal areas. It is 
probable that when it again becomes profitable to produce cereals 
in Germany these wild-grass areas will be again put under the plow 
and the number of sheep will be reduced to the capacity of the per- 
manent meadows and pastures, as was the case before the war. 
GERMANY S POSTWAR FOREIGN TRADE IN SHEEP AND MUTTON 
During the fiscal year 1921-22 Germany's sheep imports from 
Hungary, Memel, and Czechoslovakia exceeded exports to Switzer- 
land and other western neighbors, but during 1923 and 1924 there 
has been a small net surplus for export, as shown in Table 89. 
Germany's imports of mutton before the war about equaled her 
exports of five animals, averaging around 650,000 pounds. Aus- 
tralia, Denmark, and the Netherlands were the leading sources of 
these importations, as shown in Table 91. 
Table 91. 
-Mutton, fresh and prepared: Foreign trade of Germany, average 1909- 
1913 
Country 
Imports 
(+) 
Exports 
(-) 
Net im- 
ports (+); 
net exports 
(-) 
Australia 
Pounds 
254,411 
296,739 
179, 234 
58,642 
6,834 
3,307 
Pounds 
Pounds 
+254, 411 
Denmark 
+296, 739 
Netherlands. . . .. .... . 
+179, 234 
Austria-Hungary • 
20,503 
1,984 
+38, 139 
Switzerland 
+4,850 
Russia 
+3, 307 
Helgoland 
2,866 
28,439 
20,723 
65, 697 
84,657 
-2,866 
France . ... .. .. 
8,378 
-20,061 
Dutch East India .. .. .. . 
-20, 723 
Rumania 
-65, 697 
Other countries ... 
66, 799 
-17,858 
Total.l 
4-874, 344 
-224, 869 
+649, 475 
Germany, Kaiserliches Statistisches Amt., Monatliche Nachweise iiber den Auswartigen Handel 
Deutschlands. 
Since the war mutton importations have increased in spite of the 
per capita increase in the number of live sheep within the boundaries 
of the Republic. (Table 92.) During 1922 and 1923 these impor- 
tations have been about three times those before the war, and in 
1924 they have risen to about five times the mutton imported before 
the war. 
Table 92. — Mutton, fresh, 
prepared and frozen: Foreign 
1921-22 to 1923-24 
trade 1 of 
Germany, 
Country 
Years beginning July 1 
1921 
1922 
1923 
Great Britain 
Pounds 
+1, 301, 375 
+294. 094 
+1,122. 141 
+23,810 
+122, 576 
Pounds 
+164. 4<>3 
+1, 160, 281 
+280. 425 
+596. 344 
Pounds 
+152, 999 
Argentina . . . . 
+2.707,910 
Other South American countries.. . .. 
(*) 
United States . . . 
+2i>7. 821 
Other countries 
+628, 091 
Total 
+2, 863, 996 
+2, 2031, 51 
+3, 786, 621 
Germany, Statistisches Reichsamt, Monatliche Nachweise iiber den Auswartigen Handel Deutschlands. 
i Net imports are indicated by (+) and net exports by (— ). 
1 If any, included in other countries. 
