The Pleasant Aspects of the Current Scarcity

double, and for some types of it, triple. If this happens to the green wood, what shall become of the dry! If this happens now, immediately after the harvest, what will become of the spring and early summer! This is certainly the black shadow side of the matter!

Scaring away anxious thoughts and worries, even if it does not yet show the pleasing side of the high prices, is the following calculation: Germany produces in an average year as much grain as is necessary for the consumption of 13 months. Proof: in the previous year, which was an average one, we had to manage with the yield of the harvest, because this year’s harvest was delayed by at least one month, for 13 months, and we