AGRICULTURAL AND TRADE DEVELOPMENT (UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY 
AND UNITED STATES). 
5 
RETURN showing for the year 1913, or latest year available, and a year 20 years 
earlier, for the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States op 
America, the following Information, viz.:—(1) Cultivated area under principal 
and other crops; (2) Quantity of wheat, barley, oats, rye and potatoes produced ; 
(3) Quantity of pig-iron, crude steel and coal produced, and of pig-iron and coal 
consumed; (4) Value of imports, and exports (special trade), distinguishing 
separately “ raw materials ” and “ manufactures ” ; (5) Receipts from railway 
goods traffic, total and per mile of line; (6) Total estimated population at the 
middle of the year; showing also the percentage increase under each head 
between the two years specified {continued). 
III.—United States. 
In 1893.* 
In 1913.* 
Increase (+) or decrease ( —) 
in the interval. 
Amount. Proportion. 
1. Area under cultivation : 
Acres. 
Acres. 
Acres. 
Per cent. 
Principal and other crops(a) - 
- 
165,467,000 
243,374,000 
+ 77,907,000 
+ 
47 
2. Quantity of wheat, barley, oats, 
rye 
and potatoes produced : 
Quarters. 
Quarters. 
Quarters. 
Wheat ... 
- 
62,361,000 
85,747,000 
+ 23,386,000 
+ 
37 
Barley ... 
■ - 
9,312,000 
26,281,000 
+ 16,969,000 
+ 
182 
Oats --- - 
- 
65,683,000 
166,539,000 
+100,856,000 
+ 
154 
Rye --- - 
- 
3,580,000 
4,187,000 
+ 607,000 
+ 
17 
Tons. 
Tons. 
Tons. 
Potatoes ... 
- 
4,196,000 
10,925,000 
+ 6,729,000 
+ 
160 
fi. (i) Quantity of pig-iron, crude 
steel 
and coal produced: 
Pig-iron ... 
- 
7,125,000 
31,161,000 
+ 24,036,000 
+ 
337 
Crude steel ... 
- 
4,020,000 
32,760,000 
+ 28,740,000 
+ 
715 
Coal ... . 
162,815,000 
504,464,000 
+ 341,649,000 
+ 
210 
(ii) Quantity of pig-iron and 
coal 
available for consumption: 
Pig-iron ... 
- 
7,154,000 
31,039,000 
+ 23,885,000 
+ 
334 
Coal - 
- 
161,136,000 
482,423,000 
+ 321,287,000 
+ 
199 
4. Value of imports and exports (special 
trade) : 
.Tlisnd. £’s. 
Thsnd. £’s. 
Thsnd. £’s. 
Imports(Z))—Total 
- 
177,035(d) 
369,917(d) 
+ 192,882 
+ 
109 
Of which : 
Raw materials 
_ 
42,774(d) 
127,567(d) 
+ 84,793 
+ 
198 
Manufactures 
_ 
74,279(d) 
156,207(d) 
+ 81,928 
+ 
110 
Exports(c)—Total 
- 
173,131(d) 
505,939(d) 
+ 332,808 
+ 
192 
Raiv materials 
_ 
51,518(d) 
152,284(d) 
+ 100,766 
+ 
196 
Manufactures 
- 
37,293(d) 
247,292(d) 
+ 209,999 
+ 
563 
-5. Receipts from railway goods traffic 
£ 
£ 
£ 
Total - 
- 1 
166,524,000(d) 
409,427,000(d) 
+ 242,903,000 
+ 
146 
Per mile of line 
- 
1,025(d) 
1,660(d) 
+ 635 
4- 
62 
6. Total estimated population at 
the 
Vo. 
No. 
No. 
middle of the year (e) - 
1 
66,349,000 
97,028,000 
+ 30,679,000 
+ 
46 
* The figures printed in italics relate to the years 1802 and 1912, respectively. 
O) Includes wheat, barley, oats, buckwheat,' rye, maize, potatoes, flax (seed), cotton and tobacco 
(b) Net imports, i.e., total imports less re-exports. 
(c) Domestic exports. 
(rf) For years ended 30th June. 
(e) Population of continental United States only. 
A 0.83