AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF EUROPE. 
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As stated above the norm of flour consumption that was employed 
by the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture is 278.9 pounds of flour. 
This is equivalent to 292.6 pounds of wheat and 79.2 pounds of rye. 
These amounts are assumed" to have been the average consumption 
of grain for the entire old Kingdom. 
APPENDIX I— THE LAND REFORM IN HUNGARY. 
From a report by Digby A. Wiilson, United States vice consul, Budapest, 
Hungary. Dated June 22, 1923. Published by permission of the Depart- 
ment of State. 
DIVISION OF ARABLE LAND. 
According to the Royal Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture the 
present reported arable land area of 14,055,532 acres could permit 
the use of 6,213,000 cadastral yokes or 9,008,850 acres for the four 
most important products in the following ratio : 
Product. 
Wheat 
Rye... 
Barley- 
Maize. 
Area 
available. 
Acres. 
3, 807, 700 
1,713,900 
1,322,400 
2. 164. 850 
However, according to the final estimates given out for the past 
year only 4,950,709 cadastral yokes or 7,178,528 acres were utilized 
for the production of these four products. This total is divided as 
follows : 
Product. 
Area 
actually 
sown. 
Difference 
in available 
area and 
that actually 
sown. 
Wheat 
Rye.. . 
Acres. 
2, 910, 698 
1, 366, 494 
1, 151, 684 
1, 749, 652 
Acres. 
897, 002 
347, 406 
170, 716 
415, 198 
Barley 
Maize 
The condition above reported is one of the greatest problems with 
which the Ministry of Agriculture must cope, but it has been of 
recent years only that the producers have been made to appreciate 
the need of modern agricultural machinery if increased cultivation 
of the arable land area is to be made possible. However, the Ministry 
of Agriculture, fully appreciating the value of modern farm operating 
equipment, claims the need of foreign moral and financial assistance 
before any real increase in the country's cultivation of agricultural 
products can be guaranteed. The majority of the farmers are not in 
a position to purchase automotive agricultural implements and it is 
further claimed that a greater production at the present time would 
only result in a demand by the neighboring States for an immediate 
payment in kind to cover reparations. 
