70 BULLETIN 1234, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
UTILIZATION OF THE LAND. 
The manner in which the land of Czechoslovakia was utilized in 
1920, 1921, and 1922 under the Republic, in comparison with the 
manner in which this same territory was utilized when it was part 
of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, is brought out in Table 86 : 
Table 86. — Utilization of land in Czechoslovakia, pre-war and 1920-1922. 
Area. 
Item. 
Pre-war. 1 
1920 
1921 
1922 
Cereals 
Leguminous plants — 
Fiber plants, etc 
Tubers, roots, etc 
Vegetables 
Forage plants 
Other plants 
Untilled (fallow land). 
Total plow land. 
Decrease from pre-war. 
Increase in fallow land . 
Decrease in land under crop. 
1,000 acres. 
9,624 
301 
183 
2.778 
88 
2,103 
1,000 acres. 
7,978 
415 
169 
2.342 
' 83 
2,851 
15 
393 
1,000 acres. 
7,783 
473 
145 
2,451 
81 
2,977 
14 
637 
1,000 acres. 
7,850 
462 
141 
2,460 
79 
2.99S 
15 
574 
15, 470 
14, 752 
718 
506 
14,561 
909 
244 
14, 579 
891 
181 
1,224 
1.153 
1,072 
Plow land 
Natural prairies 
Vegetable gardens.. 
Fruit gardens 
Vineyards 
Pastures 
Forests 
Lakes, marshes, etc. 
Unproductive 
15, 470 
3,200 
409 
59 
2,784 
11,431 
151 
1,237 
14,752 
3. 416 
59 
319 
46 
2,851 
11,513 
193 
1,559 
14,561 
3,432 
40 
321 
43 
2,995 
11.502 
195 
1,601 
14. 579 
3,425 
40 
321 
43 
2, 9*i 
11,500 
194 
1,596 
Total statistical area 
Difference compared with pre-war. 
34, 741 
34,713 
28 
34,i 
51 
34,681 
60 
1 The pre-war averages for the former Austrian territory of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia are taken from 
" Statistisches Jahrbuch des K. K. Ackerbau-Ministeriuins fur das Jahr 1912." The averages for the five 
chief cereals for the former Hungarian territory of Slovakia and Sub-Carpathian Russia are from "Magyar 
Statisztikai Evkonyv." The other averages are partially from the same source, from " La Hongrie apres 
le Traitede Trianon," from " Zpravy Statniho Uradu Statistichickeho Republiky Ceskoslovenske" and 
other authorities. The figures for the years 1920, 1921 and 1922 are from the " Zpravy" published by tho 
Office of Statistics of Czechoslovakia. 
Before the war there were in Czechoslovakia 112.9 acres of plow 
land per 100 inhabitants. In 1922 there were 106.3 acres per 100 
inhabitants. 
The first striking feature of Table 86 is that there has been a de- 
crease in the amount of land normally plowed: 718,000 acres in 1920, 
909,000 acres in 1921, and 891,000 acres in 1922. 
Examining the first group of farm crops, we find that the heaviest 
absolute decrease was in cereal acreage, followed by tubers, roots, etc. 
(including sugar beets and potatoes) . The fiber-plant acreage shows 
a decrease of over 20 per cent and vegetables 10 per cent. There has 
been an increased planting of beans, peas, etc.; a great increase in 
forage plants and a large amount of land has lain fallow. Examin- 
ing the second group, we see that the meadows (prairies) have in- 
creased, as have the pasture lands, while considerable land has been 
allowed to go hack to marsh. In addition to the 8 per cent of the 
plow land not plowed, 359,000 acres more than average are classed 
as ' unproductive "' in the year 1922. 
The general tendency (luring the past few years has been toward 
a decreased acreage in all cereals except corn, as shown in Table 87. 
