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BULLETIN 1234, U. g. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture estimates that the average 
yearly consumption of potatoes as food throughout the old Kingdom 
was about 7.3 bushels per capita, or 150,800,000 bushels. In addi- 
tion, 10,100,000 bushels were used for industrial purposes — starch, 
alcohol, etc. This left a statistical surplus of about 2.985,000 bush- 
els that was available for shipment abroad, the greater part being 
exported to Austria. 
From Table 26 it will be seen that the actual net potato exports 
during this 5-year period, 1911-1915, amounted to 3,161,000 bushels. 
During this pre-war period the actual foreign trade in potatoes 
was as shown in Table 26. 
Table 26. — Foreign trade in potatoes, Hungary, average 1911-1915. 
Country. 
Imports (+). 
Exports (—). 
Net. 
Eusheis. 
225,226 
Bushels. 
3,031,237 
114, SOS 
Bushels. 
—2,806 011 
-114, SOS 
+3,887 
-4:,. 907 
— 109 954 
3,887 
45, 907 
261, 5S3 
151,629 
2,660 
58,697 
Greece 
+2 660 
Italy 
23, 702 
35,9S3 
24,600 
20,936 
6,684 
54, 435 
+34,935 
-35,9S3 
-11,042 
-20, 9136 
—6 6S4 
13,558 
Serbia 
Tunis 
3,6S9 
50 746 
Total 
459,346 
3,619,935 
-3, 160, 5S9 
POTATO SITUATION, 1921-1922. 
The statistical surpluses produced during the years 1921-1922 and 
for the corresponding area in 1911-1915 are compared in Table 27: 
Table 27. — Statistical potato balance of Hungary, 1921-1922, compared with 
pre-war, 1911-1915. 
1911-1915 
1921 
1922 
Area seeded 
Total production. 
Seed requirement. 
Net production — 
Domestic consumption . . 
Statistical surplus. 
1,000 acres. 
621 
1,000 bush i Is. 
72, 726 
16,053 
56,673 
55.014 
L.659 
1,000 acres. 
665 
1,000 b 
45. 898 
17.175 
2s. 723 
25. 100 
:;.t>23 
1,000 acres. 
447 
1,000 bushels. 
1 1 , 550 
22,309 
2 21.021 
l . 288 
i Food and stock feed, 21,021,000 bushels. Industrial uses, 4,079,000 bushel* 
'•No allowance made for potatoes used industrially in 1922, 
The actual net import-export balance for the season of 1921-1922 
was as follows: 
