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BULLETIN 1234, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
Table 56 compares Austria's farming populations (contrasted to 
those engaged in other pursuits) with four of the Danube countries 
and the United States: 
Table 56. — Agricultural and nonagricultural population of Austria. 
Country. 
Population in 1910 of present or 1921 boundaries. 
On farms. 
Not on farms. 
Austria 
Bulgaria 
Czechoslovakia 
Hungary 
Rumania 
United States (1920) 
X umber. 
Per cent. 
2, 008, 028 
30.2 
3, ISO, 816 
78.8 
5,848,523 
41.3 
4, 190, 527 
55. 1 
12,913.317 
79.4 
31.614.269 
29.9 
y umber. 
4, 643, 7S2 
854,759 
8, 300, 144 
3, 409, S90 
3,348,860 
74. 096, 351 
Per cent. 
69.8 
21.2 
58.7 
44.9 
20.6 
70.1 
From these tables it is seen that with only 30 per cent of her 
population tilling the soil, Austria is not primarily an agricultural 
country; one of her first efforts must be to develop her crop and 
livestock production to the maximum in order to cut down the balance 
in trade forced against her under the necessity of feeding her indus- 
trial and commercial population. 
Table 5* 
■Utilization of the land in Austria, 1920 and 1921, compared with 
the pre-war normal year 1913. 
Austria 
without Burg 
enland. 
Classification. 
Pre-war 
(1913). 
1920 
1921 
Cereals 
Acres. 
2,823,110 
37,852 
20,353 
599,615 
45. S61 
827,181 
Acres. 
2,0S0,691 
21, 463 
21.745 
415,541 
45,536 
781.093 
1 193, 025 
521,544 
Acres. 
2,204,6S7 
IS. 362 
23,536 
Tubers, roots, etc 
457, M>4 
Vegetables 
4S,390 
885,113 
1 224. 0S0 
Other crops 
Fallow 
160, 320 
319,006 
Total plow land 
4, 514. 292 
4,080,638 
4.152,068 
433. 654 
361,224 
362. 224 
794. S7S 
520, 910 
Plow land 
4, 514, 292 
2, 195. 30S 
190, 672 
4.152.068 
2, 433. 021 
Natural meadows 
177.645 
Vine yards 
108, 966 
3, 137, 762 
7,512, 386 
Pastures 
382,116 
7, 557, 106 
Unproductive 
2,00 

1,992,993 
19,684,940 
19,684,940 
1 Green manure, etc. 
Source: Anbaufliichen und Ernteergebnisse,im Gebiete der Republik. Osterrekh, 191S, 1920, and 1921. 
Comparing 1921 with pre-war areas there has been a great decrease 
in cereals (600,000 acres), and a 142,000 acre decrease in tubers 
and roots. There has been an increase in fallow land and in crops 
