The Pleasant Aspects of the Current Scarcity

managed. To manage with the yield of this year's harvest, we would therefore—if everything else is equal and next year’s harvest arrives at the usual time—only need 11/13 of an ordinary, average harvest yield: therefore 2/13 less than usual. The high prices that occurred immediately after the harvest certainly reduce grain consumption until the next harvest by 1/4 of the usual amount; instead of 1/4 or 3/12, I set the even lower 3/13, which together with the above 2/13 makes 5/13. For twenty years, these or those regions of Germany were the scene of a war that destroyed fields and harvests and consumed a considerable part of the yield of the fields that were not destroyed. Assuming that in the war years only