SOME AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS

The production of wheat in England and Wales, 1927, was estimated at 53,116,000 bushels. In France, it was about 284,000,000; in Italy, 196,000,000; in Hungary, 76,000,000; in Roumania, 97,000,000; in Germany, 121,000,000. Yield per acre was 32.5 bushels in England and Wales, 37.1 in Belgium, 11.7 in Greece, and 23.7 in Finland.

The production of rye in Russia (all parts of the Socialist Soviet Republics reporting) was 968,000,000 bushels in 1927. It was 269,000,000 in Germany; 37,000,000 in France; 224,000,000 in Poland; 23,000,000 in Hungary; 49,000,000 in Czecho-Slovakia; 19,000,000 in Sweden; 20,000,000 in Belgium; 27,000,000 in Spain; 18,000,000 in Austria. The yield per acre was 35 bushels in Belgium, 9.8 in Greece, and about 13 in European Russia.

The production of corn (maize) in Italy, 1927, was estimated at 100,388,000 bushels. Rumania produced 145,000,000 bushels; Russia 157,000,000 bushels; and Jugoslavia, 77,000,000 bushels. The yield per acre ranged from 12.4 in Bulgaria to 51.3 bushels in Switzerland. It was 25.4 in Italy.

The 1927 production of oats in Russia was about 896,000,000 bushels; in Germany, it was 437,000,000 bushels; in France, it amounted to 373,000,000 bushels; in Poland, to 236,000,000 bushels; in England and Wales, to 94,059,000 bushels. The yield per acre was 67 bushels in Belgium, about 10 bushels in Portugal.

The production of barley in 1927 was estimated at 216,000,000 bushels in Russia; 12,000,000 in Germany; 89,000,000 in Spain; and 57,000,000 bushels in Roumania.

Poland produced in 1927 about 3,031,000 bushels of flaxseed and 147,700,000 pounds of fibre. Lithuania produced 1,561,000 bushels of seed and 85,407,000 pounds of fibre. The production in Latvia was about 1,000,000 bushels of seed and 42,636,000 pounds of fibre. Belgium produced 415,000 bushels of seed and 65,036,000 pounds of fibre.

Italy produced in 1927 about 953,000,000 pounds of cleaned rice. The Spanish production was 330,000,000 pounds.

Olive oil exported from Italy in 1926 amounted to 51,938,000 pounds. Spain exported 165,960,000 pounds. In both cases, edible and inedible varieties are included.

The production of potatoes, 1927, was 114,000,000 bushels in England and Wales; 111,000,000 in Belgium; 630,000,000 bushels in France; 130,000,000 in Spain; 1,379,000,000 in Germany; 283,000,000 in Czecho-Slovakia; 1,166,000,000 in Poland. The yield per acre was 266.7 bushels in Belgium, 78.8 in Bulgaria. It was 63 (1926) in Jugoslavia.

The amount of hops produced, 1927, in England and Wales was estimated at 28,616,000 pounds. In France, it was 11,000,000 pounds; in Germany, 16,000,000; in Czecho-Slovakia, 21,600,000 pounds. The yield per acre was 1,339 pounds in Belgium; 401 (159 in 1926) in Germany.

The production of sugar beets in 1927 was 11,964,000 tons in Germany; 10,913,000 in Russia; 8,306,000 in Czecho-Slovakia; 6,143,000 in France.

Austria had (in 1923) 2,162,000 cattle; 1,473,000 swine; and 597,000 sheep. In 1928, Belgium had 1,739,000 cattle; 1,124,000 swine; and 126,000 sheep. In 1925, Bulgaria contained 1,560,000 cattle and buffaloes; 574,000 swine; and 8,682,000 sheep. Czecho-Slovakia (1926) had 4,690,000 cattle; 2,539,000 swine; and 860,000 sheep. Denmark (1927) had 2,912,000 cattle; 3,731,000 swine; and 230,000 sheep. England and Wales (1928) had 6,026,000 cattle; 2,967,000 swine; and 16,386,000 sheep. Estonia had (1927) 630,000 cattle; 350,000 swine; and 667,000 sheep. In 1927, Finland had 1,870,000 cattle; 420,000 swine; and 1,370,000 sheep. France in 1928 contained 14,940,000 cattle; 6,020,000 swine; and 10,690,000 sheep. Germany reported in 1928 that it contained 18,010,000 cattle; 22,900,000 swine; and 3,820,000 sheep.

Greece in 1926 had, including buffaloes, 890,000 cattle; 452,000 swine; and 6,630,000 sheep. In 1928, Hungary reported 1,810,000 cattle; 2,660,000 swine; and 1,560,000 sheep. Ireland (the whole island) had in 1928 cattle numbering 4,880,000; swine to the number of 1,400,000; and 3,950,000 sheep. In 1924, the kingdom of Italy had 7,000,000 cattle, including buffaloes; 2,750,000 swine; and 12,500,000 sheep. Jugoslavia had (1926) 3,800,000 cattle, buffaloes included; 2,800,000 swine; and 8,000,000 sheep. In 1927, Latvia had 967,000 cattle; 535,000 swine; and 1,130,000 sheep. The Netherlands in 1922 had 2,060,000 cattle; 1,260,000 swine; and 890,000 sheep. Norway in 1927 reported 1,210,000 cattle; 300,000 swine; and 1,610,000 sheep. The 1927 report of Poland shows 8,600,000 cattle; 6,300,000 swine; and 2,000,000 sheep. The Portuguese report for 1925 shows 770,000 cattle; 1,120,000 swine; and 4,450,000 sheep. Roumania in 1928 had cattle and buffaloes numbering 4,550,000; 3,080,000 swine; and 12,950,000 sheep. European Russia in 1927 reported 43,880,000 cattle; 15,840,000 swine; and 76,270,000 sheep. Scotland in 1928 had 1,210,000 cattle; 195,000 swine; and 7,500,000 sheep. Spain in 1927 reported 3,670,000 cattle; 5,030,000 swine; and 20,530,000 sheep. Sweden was estimated to have in 1925 cattle numbering 2,000,000; 1,000,000 swine; and 1,200,000 sheep. Switzerland in 1926 reported 1,587,000 cattle; 635,000 swine; and 170,000 sheep.

The production of wool, 1927, was estimated to be (in grease) 118,537,000 pounds for the United Kingdom; 47,000,000 for France; while, by way of comparison, it was over 328 million pounds in the United States and about 322,000,000 pounds in Argentina.

Denmark exported 292,000,000 pounds of butter in 1926; the Netherlands sent out 100,000,000; Russia, 60,000,000; and the Irish Free State, 56,000,000.

Exports of cheese in 1926 were as follows: Czecho-Slovakia, 7,732,000 pounds; Denmark, 15,345,000 pounds; Finland, 6,364,000 pounds; France, 31,481,000 pounds; Germany, 2,320,000 pounds; Hungary, 1,834,000 pounds; Italy, 72,888,000 pounds; the Netherlands, 185,706,000 pounds; Switzerland, 61,972,000 pounds; Jugoslavia, 4,180,000 pounds. The United Kingdom imported 330,000,000 pounds and exported about three million.

Exports of eggs in the shell, 1926, were as follows: the Irish Free State, 43,662,000 dozen; Denmark, 69,351,000 dozen; Belgium, 33,796,000 dozen; France, 21,821,000 dozen; Italy, 31,535 dozen; the Netherlands, 86,414,000 dozen; Hungary, 24,749,000 dozen. Germany imported 196,000,000 dozen and the United Kingdom 220,000,000 dozen eggs.