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BULLETIN 1234, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The seeding of wheat and rye in particular was increased because 
of the high prices which bread cereals brought in the cities. This 
condition continued through 1920, to the extent that in that year the 
areas of wheat and rye harvested were 6.4 per cent above the pre-war 
average. The corn area, however, was correspondingly decreased. 
But in 1921, probably as the result of the reform in land tenure, the 
harvest of bread cereals was much reduced, and that of corn in- 
creased. These changes will be noted in Table 138; 
Table 138.- 
— Cereal acreage in B 
osnia and 
Herzego 
vina. 
Cereal crop. 
Pre-war average. 
1920 
1921 
Wheat 
Acres. 
261,840 
45,410 
220,907 
243,836 
621,227 
Per cent. 
18.8 
3.3 
15.8 
17.5 
44.6 
Acres. 
331,794 
58,607 
225,563 
232,200 
521,391 
Per cent. 
24.2 
4.3 
16.4 
17.0 
38.1 
Acres. 
266,3% 
26,912 
1S6,837 
203,712 
537, 472 
P(r cent. 
21.8 
Rye 
2.2 
Barley 
15.3 
Oats 
16.7 
44.0 
Total 
1,393,220 
100.0 
1,369,555 
23,665 
100.0 
1,221,329 
171,891 
100.0 
Decrease from pre-war average 
Previous to the World War about one-third of the arable land 
and a large part of the meadow and forest land in Bosnia and Herze- 
govina was still held in feudal tenure. The official measures of land 
reform began with an order of July 21, 1919, which directed the reg- 
istration of the serfs in the land books. A second order of May 12, 
1921, set aside the sum of 255,000,000 dinars ($49,215,000, normal 
exchange) for the compensation of the feudal lords. By these meas- 
ures, 111,000 families of 650,000 persons were freed from serfdom and 
placed in possession of 1,915,601 acres of land. 
Aside from these hereditary serfs or bondmen, there were under 
the old regime bondmen of another kind, who held land from the 
lords under contract. About 546,000 acres were so held. These 
quasi-serfs were also freed, and, where they were bound by contracts 
running only 10 years, were permitted to buy directly the lands they 
had been cultivating. In other cases where the contracts ran for 
40 years or more the State bought the lands on behalf of the peasants. 
Still other large estates were dealt with on the same terms as in other 
districts of Yugoslavia. 
The imports and exports of these two districts were in 1913: 
Table 139. — Food imports and exports in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1913. 
Foodstuffs. 
Imports. 
Exports. 
Foodstuffs. 
Imports. 
Exports. 
Wheat 
1.000 
bushels. 
590 
2,910 
375 
368 
113 
1,000 
btuhels. 
110 
29 
8 
Rarlev mn't (in terms of bar- 
lev) 
1.000 
bushels. 
110 
•>oo 
866 
200 
268 
1.000 
but h ds. 
Wheat flour (in terms of 
Oats 
143 
Rve 
Corn 
>70 
Rye Hour (in terms of rye) 
188 
55 
Rloe 
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DALMATIA. 
The Dalmatian coast is only 10.69 per cent under cultivation. The 
islands and the mainland arc, to a large extent, planted to vineyards 
and olive orchards, and there is much meadow land. The agricul- 
