STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 39, sig. 109-1/44

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15a -22 2./Kartoffel. Generally the harvest result is normal, nnn- ternormally only in the Boskowitzer district and somewhat backward at late potatoes in the Olomouc district Recht produced good results the Wsetiner and Wall. Meseritscher district. /Last 50% more than in the previous year./ Examples of the hectoar average in the individual districts: Göding: 35 - 300 q /depending on the creativity of the seed good/ Wischau: 40 - 130 q Prossnitz: 8 82 q Ung.Brod: 110 - 120 q Prerau: 229 q Neustadtl: 150 q The mandatory delivery corresponded to the assumptions and was made in places, e.g. In the district Ol- mütz-Stadt jm l87 g. Only the Telt- scher district remains somewhat behind with its deliveries due to a lack of wagons. The quality of the potato is not satisfactory everywhere; some districts complain that the potatoes become black and insignificant. The starch content of the potatoes is significantly higher than in other years due to the weather conditions. In the Boskowitzer district it reached 19-22 % 3./ sugar beet. This year the harvest is weaker in all sugar beets than in the previous year. The hectoar average yield should be very fluctuating, so that for the following districts the following picture results: Boskowitz: 2259 Wischau: 150 - 300q Olmütz-Land: vm 140g around / 1941: 30% more / Kremsier: 40-50 q, the previous year 65-70q.