Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-01
Production Of Food
Slowly Increasing

The outturn of the principal elias
ses of food produced direct from the
soil has, in the countries for which
record are now available, slowly but
steadily Increased since the close of
the war, and their 1922 iood crop
seems likely to exceed IN the grand
aggregate that OF any year since
1919, IN which so many millions Oh
men were transferred from the
tar to the battlefield. The lnterna-
tIonal institute OF Agriculture at
Roe has just announced recorded
world wheat crop for 1922 of 1884,
1000 bushels against 2,2SS,OU0,UUO
in the year preceding the close OF
the war, and reports from the De-
pertinent Of Agriculture, at Wash
lngton, indicate that the recorded
production of rye, barley and pota-
toes in 1922 will also exceed that OF
last year and stand materially above
that of 1917 In fact, the reports
on world production of the Z gerat
food articles-wheat, rye, rice, pota-
toes, corn, barley and oats-indlcate
grand aggregate for the reporting
countries in 1922 larger than that of
any wear since that which followed
the opening of the war. These fig
ures for 1922 it should be clearly
understood relate only to the produce
ton of the countries for which con-
tinuous reports have been had dur
ing and since the war and are not
comparable with those Of prewar
years which included Russia, Turkey
and other. areas for which figures are
not now. available.
The recorded wheat production
Of 1922 is, as above indicated, offic-
tally set down at 2,932, 100000 bush
els against a recorded total OF 2,28S,-
000,00 in 1917 as reported by the
United States Department of Agricul
tute. Rye, another important food
grain in certain parts of the world,
is reported by the u S. Department
Of Agriculture at 1888 100000 bushels
in 1921 against 4730O0,000 recorded
in 1917, and prospect that the crop
of 1922 in the reporting countries
will materially exceed that of 1921.
Corn, of which a steadily increasing
quantity is used as food for man and
a large part Of the remainder turned
into meats for his use, shows a re-
corded production in 1921 of 3,710,O0O
600 bushels against 3.129,000,000 IN
the closing year of the war. Oats.
another cereal Of which a small share
is sued man food and the remainder
for draft animals, show slight de-
cline in output in 1921 as compared
with earlier years, though to what
extent this decline is due to the in
creasing substitution of the automo-
bile and farm tractor for the horse
ard mule cannot yet be determined.
Barley, more largely used for brewing
purposes than for food. shows a re-
c.rded total of $50 100000 bushels in
1921 against an annual average of
slightly more than 1,000,0 100000 bush
els in the five years preceding 1921.
The recorded production Of potatoes.
another extremely important food
factor, Is SGT down by the L. S. De-
partmcnt of Agriculture at 3.303.0
000 bushels in 1921 against 2,745,000
in the closing year of the war. and
prospect that the 1922 output will
be materially greater than that Of
1921. Wor,d rice production in the
latest wear for which figures are
availabla shows 2 slight increase
over that cf the closing year of the
war, though the changes in this arti-
Gle of food are less noticeable than
in the other lints b. reason Of the
fact that omst of the rice crop of the
world is produced at noint far dis
tant from that in which war activi-
ties interfered with local production
or demanded the services Of those
rgagd in agricultural industries.