STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1951, sig. 109-6/43

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3 6. the production of maize and production of fat pigs was lost, whereas our population density and standard of living increased. I would also like to thank the rapporteur for his excellent report, and I would like to congratulate him on his excellent work. The situation in the protectorate was further aggravated by the fact that, in 1938 and in 1938, there was a major invasion of hoof and foot-and-mouth disease, as a result of which the number of pigs in our country fell by 20% and milk production also fell sharply as a consequence of these diseases. In view of this situation, in September of this year, when the reference card industry was introduced, it was decided that, in comparison to the richer, our population would be given higher quotas of flour, bread and sugar, that no reference cards would be introduced on cheese and jams, although the consumption of these two last-mentioned nutrients is very low. We also sought to regulate the prices of pigs and milk in such a way as to encourage the production of fat pigs in particular, since up to now more than 75% of pigs are fattened to a weight of 80 kg. Unfortunately, the prices fixed for the individual categories of pigs are not appropriate, so that we will hardly achieve the result that the farmer pigs fatten on a weight of at least 1 20 kg. At the introduction of the reference card economy we sought to secure in all regulations and declarations all the smallest fat sources. We prescribed detachment obligation