AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF EUROPE. 
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Table 66. — Average wheat and rye balance in Austria in 1904-1913 within the 
present boundaries. 
[Not including Burgenland.] 
Crop. 
Area 
seeded. 
Production. 
Less seed. 
Net pro- 
duction 
in grain. 
Net pro- 
duction 
in flour. 
Wheat 
Acres. 
463,312 
1,010,700 
Short tons. 
\ 2 888,895 
Short tons. 
s 131,. 504 
Short tons. 
3 757,391 
1,000 
barrels. 
Rye i 
5,410 
1 Includes maslin. 
2 Wheat 9,321,784 bushels, rye 21,758,615 bushels. 
3 Original data in metric quintals, wheat and rye combined. 
(See tables 55, 59, and 79.) The 6,355,000 inhabitants of the Republic of Austria (not including Burgen- 
land) consumed yearly at the rate of 1.83 barrels per capita, 11,630,000 barrels of flour. Their production 
amounted to 5,410,000 barrels, leaving a normal balance of 6,220,000 barrels to be imported into the terri- 
tory now comprising the Austrian Republic. 
Under normal pre-war conditions the theoretical amount of wheat 
and rye flour that the Austrian Republic would have to import to 
supply normal consumption would have been around 6,000,000 
barrels. But at the close of the war the population had decreased 
to 6,132,000, and the consumption rate had fallen off to 185 pounds 
per capita per year. On this basis the Austrian Department of 
Agriculture calculated that the total average requirements for wheat 
and rye during the period 1919-1921 was 5,788,000 barrels, or about 
5,840,000 barrels less than pre-war. 
The 1920 and 1921 balances between production, consumption, and 
import of wheat and rye are brought out in Tables 67 and 68. 
Table 67. — Average wheat and rye balance in Austria, 1920. 
[Not including Burgenland.] 
Crop. 
Area seeded 
(see table 
55). 
Production 
(see table 
56). 
Seed. 
Net 
production 
iu grain. 
Net 
production 
in flour. 8 
Wheat 
Acres. 
371, 250 
728,702 
1,000 
bushels. 
5,434 
10,263 
1,000 
bushels. 
1,104 
2,322 
1,000 
bushels. 
4,330 
7,941 
1,000 
barrels. 
1,010 
Rye i 
1,633 
Total net production of flour 
2,643 
1 Includes maslin. 
'Converted from original data in metric quintals. The Austrian factor for converting wheat to flour 
by weight is 0.762; rve, 0.720. 
1,000 
barrels. 
Average flour requirement, 1919-1921, for 6,132,000 inhabitants 5, 788 
Net production (1920) 2, 643 
Statistical deficit 3, 145 
1,000 
Actual net imports (1920) (Tables 65 and 66) : barrels. 
Wheat as flour 3, 489 
Rve as flour 468 
Total net imports 3, 957 
Imports in excess of statistical requirements 812 
