100 BULLETIN 1234, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
nation of this exportation is that the grain movement of Yugoslavia 
is still following established routes which were in operation before 
the war. These routes are from Voivodina and north Serbia up the 
Danube to Austria and Czechoslovakia, or down the river to the 
Black Sea and thence to western Europe. The grain of the Voivodina 
district was concentrated before the war, largely by local banks which 
had commercial sections especially organized for this business. 
These banks were affiliated with central banks in Vienna and Buda- 
pest. The selling of grain in the northern part of the Austro-Hunga- 
rian Empire was done by branches of these same banks in Prague 
and other cities of the districts now comprised in Czechoslovakia, 
Austria, and Poland. These northern banks sold grain, then placed 
their orders with the central bank in Vienna or Budapest, which in 
turn ordered their southern branches to concentrate grain for shipment. 
When the Empire was partitioned, the official association of these 
northern and southern banks was broken off and the branch banks 
reorganized under the laws of the respective countries in which they 
found themselves; but, although the official affiliation was ended, 
the commercial association continued. 
The northern banks still sell grain, the southern banks still con- 
centrate grain and ship it north, and the transactions are cleared in 
Vienna and Budapest, quite as before the war. The trade routes 
to the west, especially to the Adriatic coast, have not yet been es- 
tablished, and the peoples of the western districts are deprived of 
their natural supply of grain. 
In the following tables the comparisons are between the areas 
seeded for the crops of 1921 and 1922, whereas elsewhere in this 
report comparisons are made between areas harvested in 1920 and 
1921. The pre-war averages are probably in each case for areas 
harvested. The whole kingdom is subject to disasters of one sort 
or another — the lowlands to floods, the upland plateaus to droughts 
and torrential rains, the entire country to hail storms, to insect pests 
and plant diseases. For these reasons there is considerable difference 
between the areas seeded and the areas harvested. 
Table 130.— Wheal 
areas seeded in Yugoslavia 
Pre-war. 
For crop of 1921. 
For crop of 1922. 
District .i 
Autumn 
seeding, 
1920. 
Spring 
seeding, 
1921. 
Total. 
Autumn 
seeding, 
1921. 
Spring 
seeding, 
1922. 
Total. 
Old Serbia 
Acres. 
924,315 
391,060 
840,130 
1,328,244 
141:262 
70.721 
15,31s 
Acres. 
889,661 
841,883 
828,059 
1,201 
122,596 
30, 462 
Ki.719 
Acres. 
35,847 
19,961 
22. 528 
10. 217 
5,109 
IV) 
1,068 
Acres. 
925, 50S 
361, S44 
850, 687 
1,216,268 
127.705 
11, si 17 
Acres. 
758,888 
333,160 
S57, 210 
1,174,286 
134, 158 
44,945 
6,494 
Acres. 
24,278 
5,854 
1,448 
1.221 
Acres. 
826, 159 
South Serbia 
361,720 
881, 188 
Voivodina 
1,200,661 
110.012 
I):ilm:iti:l 
16. 303 
Montenegro 
7,715 
Subtotal 
Bosnia 2 
3,720,053 
261, M0 
8,438,431 
243, S61 
96, 329 
■ 37, 527 
3, .533, 760 
281,388 
3,309,141 
156,007 
3,464,148 
3 284,208 
Total 
3,981,893 
3,682,292 
132,856 
:\.s\r K i is 
3,748,350 
: • from pro- 
IA&74! 
233,643 
i Tn tills and subsequent tables, old Serbia Includes New Serbia, South Serbia includes New Macedonia, 
i Includes Slavonia and Medimurje, and Bosnia Includes Herzegovina. 
- \ i i in time ofwrittng this report, Si ptember/, 1922. the Centra] Bureau of Statistics of the Department 
of Agriculture a1 Belgrade had not received a report of the area seeded in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the 
1922 ' i | tricts in the following tables an- therefore only estimates based on 
Incomplete data. For this reason sub-totals are inserted for foe districts reporting officially and the Bosnian 
Id d at the end of each table in order to rive a national total. 
• i on Information furnished by the Yugoslavian Department of Agriculture. 
