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BULLETIN 1234, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Thus we have for each 100 inhabitants: 
Table 90. — Production per 100 inhabitants, cereals, potatoes, and sugar beets. 
Crop. 
Pre-war. 1 
1922 a 
Acres. 
12.7 
19.1 
17.5 
18.1 
2.8 
Bushels. 
277.7 
448.6 
439.2 
487.2 
59.8 
Acres. 
11.2 
16.3 
12.3 
14.8 
2.9 
Bushels. 
247.3 
382.8 
340.9 
52t>. 3 
72.7 
70.2 
14.0 
5.1 
1,712.5 
1,967.7 
Short tons. 
57.2 
57.5 
11.8 
3.8 
1.570.0 
2,451.0 
Short tons. 
42.5 
Wheat . 
Rye.... 
Barley . 
Oats... 
Com . . . 
Total cereals . 
Potatoes 
Sugar beets 
1 Pre-war population used here, 13,596,601, is according to Czech estimates. However, based on Austro- 
Hungarian figures, the population is est imated to have Been 13,874.109. 
» 1920 population, 13,595,716. 
It is not possible to discuss the changes indicated in the foregoing 
tables between pre-war conditions and those of the last three years 
for the entire territory of Czechoslovakia and, at the same time, to 
give a picture that would be true for the agriculture of the country 
as a whole. Therefore this discussion w r ill be reserved until the 
individual districts are taken up. At this time some of the general 
aspects of Czechoslovakia's agricultural situation will be considered. 
THE WHEAT AND RYE SITUATION. 
Based upon estimates made by the Austrian Government for 
Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia and upon estimates based upon 
certain Hungarian data, the following pre-war average wheat balances 
between production, consumption, and import have been worked out: 
Czechoslovakia's pre-war wheat balance. 
Average acreage seeded 1 ,000 acres. _ 1, 727 
Average production 1 ,000 bushels. _ 37, 760 
Average seed do 5, 136 
Net production do 32, 624 
Average consumption ' do 45, 496 
Average deficit do 12, 872 
Before the war the^net imports of wheat into the territory now 
comprising Czechoslovakia were approximately 12,872,000 bushels. 
The Czechs imported 13,300,000 bushels (see page 80); 700,000 
bushels (see page 92) were imported by the Ruthenians; while the 
Slovaks produced a surplus of about 1,200,000 bushels (see page 87). 
Czechoslovakia's pre-war rye balance. 
Average acreage seeded 1 ,000 acres_ 
A verage production 1 ,000 bushels - 
Average seed do 
Net production do 
Arerage consumption ' do 
2,593 
61,000 
8, 264 
52, 736 
50, 608 
Average surplus do 2, 128 
Before the war approximately 2,128,000 bushels of rye were 
exported yearly from the territory now comprising Czechoslovakia, 
making the net import of bread cereals about 10,744,000 bushels. 
Populations given In Austro-Htmgarlan data. 
