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BULLETIN 1234, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
rapidly as the problems surrounding feed and forage supply can be 
solved. It is the definite aim of the Czechs to export cattle or animal 
products to western Europe. In any case it is indicative of the 
general trend toward increased animal husbandry that there has been 
a falling off in livestock of only 10.6 per cent against a decrease of 
18.8 per cent in cereal acreage in 1920, compared with pre-war average, 
1903-12 while in 1922 the cereal decrease reached 20.4 per cent. 
PRE-WAR WHEAT AND RYE BALANCE IN BOHEMIA, MORAVIA, AND SILESIA, 1909-13. 
The average pre-war wheat and rye balance of the Czechs accord- 
ing to "Das Osterreichische Ernahrungsproblem " TVien, 1921, was: 
Table 100. 
Pre-war wheat and rye balance in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, 
1909-1913. 
Crop. 
Area seeded. 
Production. 
Seed. 
Net produc- 
tion. 
Food re- 
quirement. 1 
Surplus or 
deficit. 
Wheat 
Acres. 
861,556 
2,043,211 
Bushels. 
22,707,233 
52,984,057 
Bushels. 
2,562,238 
6,510,467 
Bushels. 
20,144,995 
46,473,590 
Bushels. 
33,490,934 
42,588,880 
Bushels. 
—13,345,939 
Rve 2 
+3,884,710 
Net deficit of bread 
-9,461,229 
..» Per capita consumption: Wheat, 198 pounds; rye, 235 pounds. 
Osterreichische Erniihrungsproblem,"page 60. 
2 Includes maslin. 
Population (1910), 10,148,768 (see " Das 
Slovakia produced a wheat surplus of about a million bushels, 
most of which was shipped to the Czechs. Thus before the war 
from 12.000,000 to 13,000,000 bushels of wheat were imported 
annually into Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia from territories other 
than tnose lying within the present boundaries of the Czechoslo- 
vak Republic. 
Before the war the Czechs exported some rye to Poland and 
Bucovina. 
POST-WAR WHEAT AND RYE BALANCE IN BOHEMIA, MORAVIA, AND SILESIA. 
If we employ the 1921 population and the above per-capita food 
norm of the Czechs, the relations of production to consumption in 
Bohemia. Moravia, and Silesia, in 1921 were approximately: 
Table 101. — Wheat and rye balance in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, 1921. 
Crop. 
Area seeded. 
Production. 
Peed. 
Net Food 
production, requirement. 
Deficit. 
Wheat 
Acres. 
866,051 
1,699,808 
Bushels. 
21,154,671 
43,352,046 
Bushels. 
2,575,605 
5,416,254 
Bushels. 
21,579,066 
37,935,792 
Bushels. 
32,98* 
41,950,044 
Bushels. 
-11,409,734 
-4,014,252 
Rye 1 
Total deficit. 
-15,423,988 
1 Includes maslin. 
A portion of this 11.000,000 bushels wheat deficit could have been 
covered bv shipments of wheat from Slovakia where there was a 
surplus of 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 bushels, giving a net deficit for 
Czechoslovakia of 7.000,000 to 8,000,000 bushels. During the period 
July 1, 1921 to June 30, 1922, Czechoslovakia actually imported 
wheat and wheat Hour amounting to 10,600,000 bushels of which 
000, 000 would cover Kuthenia's deficit, while the remainder went to 
the Czechs. 
