Central Europe . ly south-east of Pest and that within thebend of the Theiss, where rye predominates. Rye, onthe other hand, takes the lead in the Carpathians and alsoin the greater part of Galicia. In the Alpine countrieswheat occupies the first place only in Styria and thenorthern parts of the Carniola, and among the SudeticMountains only in the lowest basin of Bohemia. Thewhole south-west of the German Empire, as far as therivers Lech, Neckar, Tauber, and Main, is principally awheat country, if triticuma spelta be included as North Germany, however, wheat-fields predominateonly in
Central Europe . ly south-east of Pest and that within thebend of the Theiss, where rye predominates. Rye, onthe other hand, takes the lead in the Carpathians and alsoin the greater part of Galicia. In the Alpine countrieswheat occupies the first place only in Styria and thenorthern parts of the Carniola, and among the SudeticMountains only in the lowest basin of Bohemia. Thewhole south-west of the German Empire, as far as therivers Lech, Neckar, Tauber, and Main, is principally awheat country, if triticuma spelta be included as North Germany, however, wheat-fields predominateonly in a few favoured tracts, the lowland of Dantzig,some marshes of the North Sea, the fertile plain ofMagdeburg as far as Brunswick, the lowest part of the ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY J73 Thuringian basin, and the cultivated plains 01 else rye is the rule. The Netherlands arein the same case. Only the provinces of North andSouth Holland, and in Belgium those of Brabant, WestFlanders, and Hainault grow | Wheat more fhan /OO % <^,s comp&rec/. *v///7 ftye 1 SO% to/00% I I 0%fo50% Fig. 30.—Proportion of Areas under Wheat and Rye. Great increases of population have turned into recipi-ents of the alien surplus countries that formerly suppliedothers from their abundance. As regards Germany,the year 1861 marks the turning-point wThen exports ofrye ceased to exceed the imports, and 1875 the same 174 CENTRAL EUROPE turning-point for wheat. The demand which has to bemet in each country depends not only upon the numberof the inhabitants, but also upon the habits and standardsof life. How different these are is particularly clearlymarked in the case of wheat. Its consumption in CentralEurope decreases as we go from south to north and fromwest to east. Expressed in kilograms per head of popula-tion, it reaches the following annual totals. It standshighest in Bulgaria (264), France (246), and Belgium (238).A series with smaller demands is formed by Roumania(171), Servia (95)
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