AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF EUROPE. 
19 
PROSPECTS FOR 1923. 
The International Institute of Agriculture gives a preliminary ap- 
proximation of Hungary's 1923 production of wheat at 64,705,000 
bushels and rye at 30,904,000 bushels. This is an increase of 9,994,000 
bushels of wheat and 5,748,000 bushels of rye over the final figures 
received for the crop of 1922. 
CORN (MAIZE). 
In the preceding sections when a balance was struck between the 
production and consumption of such cereals as wheat and rye through 
the use of the empirical average norm, such an approximate balance 
was a fairly good estimate. However, when we calculate such a 
balance between the production and consumption of the fodder 
grains — corn, barley, and oats — and other crops, the statistical surplus 
or deficit thus obtained is a far less accurate estimate than in the case 
of the bread cereals. The number of animals on feed and the average 
ration fed to each varies more from year to year than does the 
consumption requirements of the human population. 
The Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture has worked out such 
balances for the old Kingdom of Hungary and the data relative to 
local production and consumption appearing in the following pages 
are based upon unpublished statistics that have been furnished to 
the United States Department of Agriculture by Dr. Ivan Nagy, 
Councillor of the Hungarian Royal Ministry of Agriculture. In cal- 
culating the local consumption in each county the general average 
norm for the entire Kingdom has been modified so as to give a rela- 
tively true picture in the case of each district according to the reports 
of grain dealers and of local agricultural organizations. 
Table 16. — Average approximate corn balance in the different districts that com- 
prised the old Kingdom of Hungary, 1911-1915. 
Seeds. 
Net 
produc- 
tion. 
Corn fed to — 
Food 
re- 
quire- 
ment 
of 
peas- 
ants 
of 
Rum- 
anian 
blood. 1 
Total 
domes- 
tic 
corn 
re- 
quire- 
ment. 
District. 
Area 
plant- 
ed. 
Produc- 
tion. 
Total 
num- 
ber of 
cattle. 
Two- 
thirds 
of total 
num- 
ber of 
swine. 
One- 
fourth 
of total 
num- 
ber of 
sheep. 
Surplus 
or 
deficit. 
Hungary (1921 
boundaries) 
Transylvania (ceded 
to Rumania) 
Slovakia (ceded to 
Czechoslovakia)... 
Ruthenia (ceded to 
Czechoslovakia)... 
Burgenland (ceded 
to Austria) 
Croatia - Slavonia 
(ceded to Yugo- 
1,000 
acres. 
2,197 
2,435 
212 
135 
42 
1,057 
22 
1,229 
1,000 
bushels. 
60,800 
53,174 
5,518 
1,931 
1,123 
23,677 
585 
42,599 
1,000 
bushels. 
1,225 
1,358 
US 
75 
24 
590 
12 
685 
1.000 
bushels. 
59, 575 
51,816 
5,400 
1,856 
1,099 
23,087 
573 
41,914 
1,000 
bushels. 
23,671 
22,056 
3,020 
617 
1,548 
12,241 
691 
2 8,602 
1,000 
bushels. 
30,577 
14,463 
6,893 
818 
1,160 
11,151 
589 
* 10, 736 
1,000 
bushels. 
4,141 
6,356 
1,000 
bushels. 
10, 198 
1,000 
bushels. 
58,389 
53,073 
9,913 
2,896 
2,761 
24,924 
1,322 
21,540 
1,000 
bushels. 
4-i, m 
-1,257 
-4, 513 
-1,040 
-1,662 
-1,837 
333 
53 
1,532 
42 
3 2,202 
1,128 
Murji (ceded to 
Yugoslavia) 
Voivodina (ceded to 
Yugoslavia) 
-749 
+20,374 
Total Hun- 
garian King- 
dom 
7,329 
189, 407 
4,087 
185,320 
72,446 
76,387 
14,659 
11,326 
174,818 
+ 10,502 
1 1 10 pounds per capita per year for total population. * 14.4 bushels per head per year. 
s 3.4 pounds per head per day. 
