AGRICULTURAL, SURVEY OF EUROPE. 
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These data show that the present territory of Hungary was the 
heart of the agricultural section of the old Kingdom, but was poor in 
forests. The relative area occupied by agricultural land which was 
44.5 per cent of the total area in 1911 is 60.1 per cent of the area 
included in the Hungary of 1921. 
The reason for this is that the outlying portions of the old King- 
dom ceded to Kumania and Czechoslovakia were heavily timbered, 
while the portion that forms the present Hungary embraced the 
treeless lands that lay toward the center of the old Kingdom. The 
proportion of forest lands which was 26.2 per cent under the old 
Monarchy was 11.8 J?er cent under 1921 boundaries. In the old 
Monarchy there were 152 acres of plow land per 100 inhabitants; 
in present Hungary there are 176 acres. Little change has occurred 
on the Hungarian plain between the years 1911 and 1921 except 
that 1.7 per cent of the forests have disappeared and the plow lands 
have increased 1.9 per cent. This does not mean that more lands 
have actually been put under the plow, because much land is being 
left unplowed. This means that the land that may be plowed has 
slightly increased in about the same proportion that forests have 
dwindled. 
The areas seeded to the leading agricultural products within the 
present boundaries of Hungaiy, contrasting the pre-war period 
1911-1915 with the latest years for which statistics are available, 
are given in Table 4. 
Table 4. — Hungary: Area 
, 1911-1922 (1921 boundaries), 
Crop. 
Pre-war 
1911-15. 
1920 
1921 
1922 
Wheat 
1,000 
acres. 
3,745 
1,676 
Per cent. 
38.3 
17.2 
1,000 
acres. 
2,662 
1,475 
1,000 
acres. 
2,888 
1,341 
Per cent. 
34.1 
15.9 
1,000 
acres. 
2,854 
Ryei 
1,340 
5,421 
1,288 
862 
2,197 
55.5 
13.2 
8.8 
22.5 
4,137 
1,266 
802 
2,017 
4,229 
1,184 
885 
2,167 
50.0 
14.0 
10.5 
25.5 
4,194 
Barley 
Oats 
Corn 
1,129 
818 
3 1,716 
Total cereals 
9, 768 
100.0 
8,222 
1,546 
15.8 
626 
77 
8,465 
1,303 
13.3 
665 
103 
322 
100.0 
7,857 
Decrease below pre-war average 
1,911 
19.6 
621 
146 
287 
447 
Sugar beets 
89 
1 Includes maslin. 
2 Preliminary estimate reported by the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture; but there is probably some 
error in reporting this figure as there is no reason for decreased acreage in corn. Indeed, in western Hun- 
gary, the price for corn was higher than for wheat in 1921, due to a bad season. Compare 1920 with 1921 as 
to wheat and corn yields in Table 5. 
The average production for the pre-war period 1911-1915 con- 
trasted with that of the years 1920, 1921, and 1922 is given in Table 5. 
