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BULLETIN 1234, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
cultivators, and therefore the land reform can not be considered as 
accounting for such changes in the character of the cereal crops as 
are indicated in Table 141. 
Table 141. — Cereal acreage in Slovenia. 
Cereal crop. 
1920 
1921 
Wheat. 
Rye.... 
Barlev. 
Oats... 
Corn . . . 
Total 
Decrease from pre-war average. 
Acres. 
141,262 
92, 660 
44,631 
72,482 
86,764 
437, 799 
Per cent. 
32.3 
21.2 
10.2 
16.5 
19.8 
Acres. 
120,1.50 
69,529 
45,741 
60,339 
100,216 
Per cent. 
30.3 
17.6 
11.6 
15.2 
25.3 
100.0 
39.5,975 100.0 i 
41,824 1 
Acres. 
127,795 
72,114 
49,440 
63,411 
95,015 
407,775 
30,024 
Per cent. 
31.3 
17.7 
12.1 
15.6 
23.3 
100.0 
The Slovenians use very little corn as food, but use relatively large 
quantities of wheat and rye. The increase in the corn acreage, indi- 
cated in Table 141, is probably due to the increased numbers of swine 
in accordance with the tendency throughout this district and north 
through Austria to turn to meat rather than grain production. It is 
probable, however, that as soon as the district recovers from the 
effects of the war the production of cereals will return approximately 
to its pre-war normal. 
CROATIA-SLAVONIA. 
Count Paul Tleki, in "The Economics of Hungary in Maps/' pre- 
pared for the peace negotiations, places the average yearly pre-war 
wheat and rye deficit of Croatia -Slavonia at 4,200,000 bushels. 
Since the war a small area called Medjmurje, occupied by Croats, has 
been ceded by Hungary to Yugoslavia and added to the district of 
Croatia-Slavonia. The addition of this area, together with an 
unusually good harvest in 1921 has cut this large deficit to less than 
900,000 bushels. As indicated in Table 142 there was a slight 
increase in the wheat area with a heavy reduction in the rye area. 
Table 142. — Cereal acreage in Croatia-Slavonia. 
Cereal crop. 
1910-1914 
192 

1921 
Wheat 
Acres. 
840,130 
193,511 
161, 171 
255,380 
1,055,273 
Per cent. 
33.5 
7.7 
6.5 
10.2 
42.1 
Acres. 
783, 581 
103,510 
152, 505 
263. 129 
1,128,997 
Per cent. 
32. 2 
4.3 
6.3 
10. S 
46.4 
Acres. 
842.959 
101,8.57 
153. 259 
2,52, 620 
1.130,512 
Per cent. 
34.0 
Rye 
4.1 
6.2 
Oats 
10.2 
45.5 
Total 
2, .50.5, 465 
100.0 
2,431.722 
73, 743 
100.0 
2,481,207 
24,258 
100.0 
The increase in the corn area is probably due directly to the land 
reform and to the increase in peasant farming as compared with estate 
farming. Both here and in the adjoining district of Voiyodina the 
Hungarian nobles held Large estates which, as in Rumania, Russia, 
Poland, and Germany, were operated for the production of a cash 
crop, usually wheat. In Croatia-Slavonia there were 363 Large estates 
totaling 01)9,000 acres which came within the scope of the reform. 
