4 BULLETIN 1234, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
AGRICULTURAL SURPLUSES AND DEFICITS. 
Before the war the Lower Danube was a region which produced a 
surplus of agricultural products. The pre-war exports of the old 
kingdom of Rumania, Bessarabia, and Bulgaria, were as follows: 
Table 1. — Pre-war grain exports from the Lower Danube Basin. 
District. 
Wheat. 
Rye. 
Barley. 
Oats. 
Corn. 
1,000 
bushels. 
52, 080 
9,355 
8,224 
1,000 
bushels. 
3,519 
3,521 
1,656 
1,000 
bushels. 
16, 114 
8,839 
1,975 
1,000 
bushels. 
10, 732 
1,334 
1. 165 
1,000 
bushels. 
38 727 
Bessarabia 2 
15 578 
Bulgaria 3 
6,019 
Total 
69, 659 
8, 696 26 028 
13,231 fifl MM 
' 
Average 1909-1913. 
* Average 1902-1911. 
8 Average 1906-1910. 
Great changes of boundaries have taken place in the Upper Danube 
Basin, and therefore data relative to the exact amount of the inter- 
national agricultural trade of the territories now comprised within 
the frontiers of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia 
are not available. However, as brought out in the following pages, 
it is possible to make a fair approximation of the exportable surpluses 
or the import requirements of each of these countries. Nevertheless, 
it must be kept in mind that the following table of surpluses and 
deficits is only approximately correct: 
Table 2. — Approximate pre-war surpluses and deficits of the Upper Danube Basin. 
District. 
Wheat. 
Rye. 
Barley. 
Oats. 
Corn. 
Surplus districts^ 
1,000 
bushels. 
1,000 
bushels. 
2,128 
15, 015 
67 
508 
1,000 
bushels. 
i 12, 000 
10,322 
1,000 
bushels. 
12,840 
3,840 
2, 430 
2,200 
1,000 
bushels. 
20, 206 
2, 403 
2 2,223 
1,186 
2,753 | 
20, 374 
2 24, 832 
17,718 
25,075 
11,310 
21, 560 
Deficit districts: 
9,728 
12, 872 
12,513 
4,605 1 
11,209 
3, 709 
i 5,553 
1,829 |. 
1 . 2."-7 
Total deficit 
22, 600 
12, 513 
6,434 | 
11,209 
10,51'.) 
2,232 
5,205 
18,641 | 
101 
11,041 
1 Preliminary approximations. 
2 Corrected for the estimated deficit (about 1,200,000 bushels) of the Dalmatian territory occupied by 
Italian troops. 
a The estimated pre-war surplus of Burgenland has been deducted from the normal pre-war deficit within 
the present boundaries of Austria. 
The entire Danube Basin produced a net surplus of each of the 
five chief cereals, approximately as follows: 
Bushels. 
Wheat 71,891,000 
Rye 13 , 901 , 000 
Barley 45 , 569 , 000 
Oats 1 3 , 332 , 000 
Corn 71,365,000 
Total 216,058,000 
