AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF EUROPE. 
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POST-WAR CHANGES IN AGRICULTURE. 
As already stated, Czechoslovakia is made up of two groups of 
Provinces: (1) Those that were formerly under the Austrian Govern- 
ment — Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia — occupied chiefly by the 
Czechs and Germans. (2) Those districts that were formerly under 
the Hungarian Government — Slovakia and Ruthenia — with Slavic 
populations, more closely related to the Russians. 
The characters of these people differ greatly; the influence of the 
governments under which they have lived for centuries has been 
different; their agriculture and agricultural tendencies are not the 
same, and therefore to get a clear idea of the present conditions of 
agriculture in Czechoslovakia each district separately must be con- 
sidered. 
FORMER AUSTRIAN TERRITORY (BOHEMIA, MORAVIA, AND 
SILESIA). 
THE COUNTRY OF THE CZECHS. 
The influence of the war and post-war conditions on Czech agricul- 
ture are brought out in Table 97 : 
Table 97. — Area, production, and yield in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia: 1903- 
1912, 1914-1922. 
AREA IN THOUSAND ACRES. 
Crop. 
1903-1912 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
1920 
1921 
1922 
Wheat 
862 
2,043 
1,427 
1,812 
27 
1,256 
534 
895 
2.003 
1,288 
1,875 
909 
2,033 
1,155 
1,737 
901 
1,960 
1,078 
1,609 
897 
1,925 
1,059 
1,512 
898 
1,922 
947 
1,429 
843 
1,850 
899 
1,375 
864 
1,725 
917 
1,399 
38 
966 
429 
866 
1,700 
849 
1,446 
41 
1,005 
451 
844 
Rye 
1,695 
877 
Barley 
Oats 
1,445 
Corn 
40 
Potatoes 
1,019 
430 
Sugar beets 
PRODUCTION IN THOUSAND BUSHELS. 
Wheat 
Rye 
Barley 
Oats 
Cora 
Potatoes . . . 
Sugar beets 
22,707 
52, 989 
35,486 
48,846 
676 
184, 522 
6,807 
23, 516 
51,. 533 
47, 491 
95,280 
17, 269 
32, 321 
22, 459 
35, 963 
14,367 
27, 794 
25, 996 
50,292 
10,986 
22, 873 
13, 779 
21,495 
11, 537 
25, 628 
14, 973 
32, 793 
15,359 
32,715 
21, 587 
46,090 
15,983 
26, 337 
21,495 
45, 539 
773 
105, 819 
4,425 
24. 140 
43. 738 
27, 190 
54,426 
1,000 
91.678 
4. 186 
19, 850 
41,038 
25,377 
53, 166 
936 
226, 693 
4,881 
YIELD, BUSHELS PER ACRE. 
Wheat 
26.3 
25.9 
24.9 
27.0 
25.0 
146.9 
12.7 
26.3 
25.7 
36.9 
50.8 
19.0 
15.9 
19.4 
20.7 
15.9 
14.2 
24.1 
31.3 
12.2 
11.9 
13.0 
14.2 
12.8 
13.3 
15.8 
22.9 
18.2 
17.7 
24.0 
33.5 
18.5 
15.3 
23.4 
32.6 
20.3 
109.5 
10.3 
27.9 
25.7 
32.0 
37.6 
24.4 
91.2 
9.3 
23.5 
Rye 
24.2 
Barley 
28.9 
Oats 
36.8 
23.4 
222.5 
Sugar beets > 
11.4 
Short tons. 
In the first place, the area seeded to wheat during the war period 
exceeded the average pre-war area. This was due to the better 
relative price fixed for wheat by the Austrian Monarchy and also to 
the activity of the Austrian War Office which encouraged the main- 
