The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-21
sixteen billion
BUSHELS GRAIN
ARE PRODUCED
In the World in 1918, According
to the National Geographic
Society.

WASHINGTON. ID. c., Dec. 21-
The total3standard grain crops Of the
world. which. in the order Of their
volume are oats. wheat, corn, rye and
barley, reached grand total produc-
tion Of sixteen billion bushels in
1913. This IL enough to fill bin.
thousand feet high. thousand
feet wide and nearly four miles long,
or practically enough to fill six
bitches like that dug by the Ameri-
cans at Panama.
Warning Nations Production.
"0f this total yield. the nations
at war, exclusive of their colonial
possessions, produced approximately
one-half, or $4,000. 900 bushels;
and the United States produced A.
549,0O0.0t0 bushels. In other words.
considerably more than three-fourths
of the worlds production Of these
crops grew within the countries i'm.
mediately at war and in the United
States.''
Thus begins statement prepared
today by the National Geographic
Society, giving the salient figures of
the worlds food and stock produc-
ton, and the part played by nations
at war therein. The statement then
continues:
In the production OF these crops
the Triple Entente group Of countries
have a large excess over Germany,
Austria and Turkey. The for
mer group produced 5,173,-
100000 bushels in 1913, while the
latter produced 2,669, 100000 bush.
els-nearly two bushels for one. Con-
sidered in relation to the number OF
mouths to feed, however. the result
is somewhat less disproportionate,
for emitting Japan which figures very
little either as a consumer or pro-
ducer of these crops. 1t is found that
the per capita yield in Germany.
Austria-Hungary and Turkey is 20.2
bushels per capita, as compared with
20.1 bushels in the Anglo-Russo-,
French group.
Potatoes form another important
food product in the worlds dietary.
the total yield in 1913 having been
less than any other single crop used
principally for human food--5, $685..
100000 bushels, while the Teutonic
group produced 2,529, 100000 bush
els-19.1 bushels. per capita in the
case of the latter, and SO in the case
Of the former.
THE worlds supply OF cattle ag-
gregates 100000. 900 head. OF
which 131 100000 head belong to
the belligerent nations, or little
less than one-third. Here again, in
numbers the Allies surpass the Ger
mans and their companions in arms,
having 83,740,0O0 head as compared
with the latter's 47.696,000 head.
Considered upon per capita basis
the balance is in Germany's favor,
with &c cattle per hundred population
in the case of the latter compared
with 80 per hundred in the case OF
the entente group.
Hog Supply.
The worlds supply OF hogs in
1913 aggregated 1866 100000 head,
Of which 65,000.000 head were to
be found in the countries now par
ticipating in the European war, or
nearly two-fifths. Germany and her
associates had one-fourth more in alb
solute numbers than their enemies,
and nearly two and q half times as
many in proportion to population.
The Entente group of nations has II
rhogs for each 100 people and the
Teutonic group 81.
I'm the case of sheep the number
shown by the tabulation for the
world in 1918 totalled 6S1, 100000.
I'Of these 15.O00,000 were in the
countries now at war, with 129,900.-
600 in the countries Of the Entente
gronp, and $4,000, 900 on the German
side. The Entente group had so
sheep for every 100 Of population
and the Teutonic group so.
''The worlds total supply Of
horses is shown to be 104, 10000
OF these the Entente group had last
year 42.724,00O. and the German
group 10.739,O00, or approximately
only one-fourth as many as the En-
tente group. The latter group has ! 6.
horses per 100 people. as compared
with 8 per 100 for the former"
Tables Are Given.
The accompanying tables show
at glance the relative standing Of