The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1914-12-18
United States Produced More
Than One-FOurth of
Worlds Output.
COUNTRIES AT WAR
GREW HALF OF TOTAL
Austria and Germany Led World
in POtatOes-SecOnd in
Hogs.

Washington, d. C., Dec. 1.-THE
total standard grain crops OF the
world, which, in the order of Their
volume are oats, wheat, corn, rye anG
barley, reached a grand total produc-
tion of sixteen billion bushels in 1914.
This is enough to fill a bin thousand
feet high, a thousand feet wide and
nearly four miles long, or practically
enough to fill six bitches like that 6ug
by the Americans at Panama.
"Of this total yield, the nations at
war, exclusive of their colonial pos
sessions, produced approximately one
half, or 100000 bushels; and the
United States produced 549,00O,0'
bushels In other words, considerable
more than three-fourths of the world's
production of these crops grow with
in the countries Immediately at war
and in the United States"
Thus begins a Statement prepared
today by the National Geographic So
ciety, giving the salient figures of the
worlds food and stock production, and
the part played by nations at war
therein The statement then contin-
ues:
"1n the production Of these crops
the Triple Entente group of countries
have a large excess over Germany
Austria and Turkey. The former
group produced 5,173,O00,000 bushels
in 1913, while the latter produced
2,669,000,000 bushels-nearly two
bushels for one. Considered in rela-
ton to the number of mouths to b;
fed, however, the result is somewhat
less disproportionate for omitting ia
pan, which figures very little either
as a consumer or producer of these
crops, it is found that the per capitc
yield in Germany, Austria-Hungary
and Turkey is 2O.2 bushels per capita
as compared with 20.1 bushels in the
Anglo-Russo-French group.
Potatoes for another important
food product in the worlds dietary,
the total yield in 1913 having been
larger. than any other single crop used
principally for human food-5, $685.
100000 bushels. The nations now at
war-again omitting their colonial
possessions-produced approximately
four-ffths of this grand total, or A.
S25,000,000 bushels. The Entent
group of nations produced 2,298,000,-
900 bushels, while the Teutonic grour
produced 2,527 100000 bushels-191
bushels per capita in the case of the
latter, and 8.9 bushels in the case of
the former.
THE worlds supply of cattle ag-
gregates 437,0O0,00O head, of which
131 100000 head belong to the bellig-
erent nations, or little less than one
third. Here again, in numbers the Al
lies surpass the Germans and their
companions at arms, having SO, 100000
head as compared with the latters A.
696,000 head. Considered upon per
capita basis the balance. is in Ger
many's favor, with 36 cattle per hun
dred of population in the case of tn
latter compared with 80 per hundred
in the case of the Entente grour.
"The worlds supply of hogs in 1919
aggregated 156,0OO,OOO head, of which
65,O00,000 head were to be found in
the countries now participating in the
European War, or nearly two-ffths
Germany and her associates had one.
fourth more in absolute numbers thar
their enemies, and nearly two and
half times as many in proportion tc
population. The Entente group of ma.
tions has IL hogs for each hundred
people and the Teutonic group 81.
''In the case of sheep the numbn'
shown By the tabulations for the world
in 1913 totalled 631, 100000. Of these
2I5,00O,O00 were in the countries now
at war, with 129, 100000 in the coun-
tries of the Entente group, and S5,-
100000 on the German side. The En-
tente group has so sheep for every