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Little of this wheat will move during the 1922-23 season, though 
some rye will probably be shipped west to make up the Czech 
shortage. 
Speaking generally, it may be expected that the Slovak wheat 
and rye situation will be little affected by the segregation of this 
territory from the old Hungarian Monarchy, or by the ordinary 
changes attending the establishment of the Czechoslovak Re- 
public. There is one factor (the colonization of Slovak lands by 
Czechs) that may, however, modifv production somewhat (see 
p. 89). 
GENERAL TENDENCIES OF POST-WAR SLOVAK FARMING. 
Table 113 shows the manner in which the land in Slovakia was 
utilized in 1911-1915 as compared with 1922. A comparison of 
the two columns will show the effect of the changed economic 
conditions. 
Table 113. — Utilization of land in Slovakia, 1911-1915 and 1922. 
Item. 
Area. 
Pre-war 
(1911-1915). 
1922 
Plow land: 
Cereals 
Leguminous plants. 
Fiber plants 
Tubers and roots. . . 
Vegetables 
Forage plants 
Other plants 
Fallow land 
Acres. 
3, 0S7, 67S 
80,495 
26,319 
753,161 
20,813 
632,536 
214, 201 
Acres. 
2,619,713 
143,054 
46,519 
665,697 
27,S51 
703,607 
2,876 
383,065 
Total 
4. $15, 203 
4, 592. 388 
Plow land 
4,815,203 
4, 592, 382 
Natural prairies 
1,056,528 
1,091,969 
122' 102 
106. 9S7 
Vinevards 
23,022 
21,7,50 
Pastures 
1,383,800 
1,5 
4,124,593 
Forests 
4. 160,848 
Lakes, marshes, etc 
35, 367 
32,140 
I'nproductive 
519,847 
619,366 
Total statistical area 
Difference 
12.116,717 
12,092,069 
24.65S 
The total area under crops has decreased nearly 400,000 acres. 
The cereal acreage alone has decreased 468,000 acres, but this has 
been made up in part by increase in leguminous plants, vegetables, 
forage plants, and fallow land so that the net decrease in cultivated 
land is only 223,000 acres. 
There are increases in meadows, in pastures, and in idle unpro- 
ductive land, which are to he expected if estates have been abandoned 
without the land being taken up by the peasants, but these changes 
arc not gr6at. In this district relatively Large quantities of sugar 
beets and potatoes were grown on the estates; and the areas at 
present under these crops have been reduced below pre-war — potatoes 
about L2 per cent, sugar beets about 46 per cent (see Table 10S). 
There is an increase in the area under forage plants, indicating that 
in Slovakia there has been a tendency to bring livestock production 
