The Pleasant Aspects of the Current Scarcity

2/13 of the yield of the fields was lost for German consumption through their devastation and through what the men and horses of foreign nations consumed and spoiled, that makes, with those 5/13, 7/13, almost 1/2. If, therefore, the yield of this year's harvest had been reduced by 6/13—almost half—due to the wetness of this summer, heavy rains, and flooded rivers, a loss assumption which is certainly too large, then we would still have no shortage to fear until the next harvest.

But anyone who does not know how to object to this calculation of mine will say: granted that no real or foreseeable shortage is the cause of the high prices, I still do not see anything pleasing in