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

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4U of fat for all pigs and compulsory collection of fat in certain places. However, this action is only at the beginning stage, since we only started to organize the associations concerned when the food reference cards were issued, although the previous establishment of these associations and dispensaries a dSa a dede. In Germany it was four years to establish the associations and to carry out the distribution, whereas with us this organization is carried out with the greatest acceleration and under completely different psycho- logical conditions, i.e. in wartime and in the case of lack of goods managed. For the reasons stated above, the activities of the associations and distribution bodies can only become practical in the future, which is also fully applicable to the collection of milk and the production and distribution of butter. However, in any case, we must support production, especially in terms of price, in order to increase domestic production. In particular, we fear that, in view of the lack of oilcakes and egg-containing feed for pigs, milk production and the intensity of pig fattening will decline in some intensive economies in our country. Therefore, the supply of this feed is a very important factor. The collection points for fat only begin their activity in the whole area of the Protectorate during this week. In Prague both the collection point for pig fat and sebum as well as for butter functions well. The organization of the collection of milk or peasant butter is already taking place in the entire area of protection. However, since this is a completely new matter, it will also take some time for the whole