THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, INV. 38, Sig. 109-1/43

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- 2 - as high as the chicken. For example, a goose pole of 28 days has to be reckoned with 14 kg grain feed. If the goose is stuffed, the feed consumption increases by twice. The rapporteur continues to criticise the ban on stew. This ban was prompted by my initiative by Group I/7 through the Ministry of the Interior. The ban on stews exists in the Reich and is already founded in peacetime as an animal welfare measure. In war times, however, the ban on pots is an absolute messenger. It is known that the "mast with kitchen waste" praised by the rapporteur is carried out especially in the cities. There the goose is carried in narrow lightless slats, in cellars, on backyards etc. kept without any run and no pasture. While the much more economic rabbit survives a stable keeping well even in small boxes and is a pronounced recycler for kitchen waste and for plucked grass, the goose with such a household available or at ditches and roads and construction sites also in the city relatively easy to procure can not exist. The goose must be fed starchy, and this can only be obtained by the urban household without its own feed base by means of products subject to a map, such as bread, pasta, oatmeal, grütze and millet. It was observed in the autumn of 1994 that the reference to the food was swollen in contrast to the previous months, and it is an experience of house searches that the millet and oatmeal, which were vilified by a large part of the Czech population, were purchased in order not to let the sections of the cards decay, but then piled up as supplies to feed them to the poultry pole. Furthermore, the rapporteur criticises the order that only a certain quantity of poultry for slaughter should be left to the producer for his own consumption, which is necessary to prevent the possibility of trading in semolina and barter from the outset. The instructions of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to the Bohemian-Moravian Association for Poultry, Eggs and Honey, which I attach to the annex, make it clear that the interests of the producer are to be taken into account to a large extent. If I release 4 geese per holder for about 300,000 geese (estimate for the year I942), this results in approximately 1.2 million geese. Geese. In addition approximately O,5 Mill. Geese, which are not slaughtered as breeding geese, results approximately 1.7 Mill. geese. At an estimate of approx. 3 Mill. existing geese remain for the distribution approx. 1.3 Mill.geese. This quantity is ./.