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Table 98. 
■Area seeded to clover for fodder and for seed in Bohemia, Moravia, and 
Silesia. 
Acres. 
Acres. 
1904-1913. 
1,215,692 
1,423,074 
1, 594, 655 
1,771,964 
1, 583, 545 
1918 
1,326,438 
1,646,193 
1,848,629 
1,774,450 
1,736,196 
1914 
1919 
1915.. 
1920 
1916... 
1921 
1917. 
1922 
The production of clover hay increased from 1,835,000 short tons 
as the average for the period 1904-1913 to 3,235,000 tons in 1920; 
the natural meadows yielding 4,747,000 tons of other kinds of hay 
that same year. 
The decrease in cereal production with the increase in forage 
production signifies an increase in livestock as noted above, but it 
is impossible to determine just how great this increase is. A live- 
stock census of all Czechoslovakia said to have been taken on 
December 31, 1920, has been published but it is admittedly faulty. 
Only the figures for Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia are the result of 
an actual enumeration. Those for Slovakia and Ruthenia have been 
calculated from the Hungarian census of 1911. It is reported by 
government officials visiting remote districts of the Republic that 
some of the peasants have two and three times as many head of 
stock to-day as they had before the war. However, the peasants 
are very cautious in revealing how many animals they have, having 
learned a costly lesson during the war from the requisitioning officers 
of the Austro-Hungarian army who drew largely on the land of the 
Czechs for their animals for food and draft. The following com- 
parison between the number of animals in Czech territory in 1910 
and 1920 does not reveal the real situation, which is much better 
than indicated. 
Table 99. — Livestock in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, 1910, 1918, 1920. 
Horses. 
Cattle. 
Swine. 
Sheep. 
Goats. 
Dec. 31, 1910 
Number. 
423, 167 
Number. 
3,288,291 
2,511,869 
3,043,091 
531,222 
Number. 
1,790,545 
543,393 
1,437,050 
893,657 
Number. 
182, 863 
147,111 
217,357 
70,246 
Number. 
649,615 
752,519 
April, 1918 
Dec. 31, 1920 
385,806 
Percentage of increase 
21.1 
164.5 
47.8 
It was generally reported in 1922 that the Czech peasants had 
more livestock per farm than before the war and that there is still 
a strong tendency to increase their number. During the two years 
and eight months between April, 1918, and December, 1920, there 
was a yearly average increase of 7.92 per cent for cattle, 61.88 per 
cent for swine, and 17.9 per cent for sheep. The rapidity with which 
the Czechs actually do regain their pre-war normal number of live 
animals and the total number that they will maintain in the future 
depends largely upon the amount of forage they are able to produce. 
If the rate of increase over consumption indicated above was main- 
tained during the past two years, the number of animals in Czecho- 
slovakia would be greater to-day than before the war; but there 
are no data to demonstrate whether this is true or not. 
The country requires 5,000,000 swine to satisfy its requirements 
of lard, fats, and pork, and the number on hand will be increased as 
