THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 740, sig. 110-5/29

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12 - 6 - In the coal-mining industry, there is a report of an increase in production. 2.) Agriculture and forestry. In the larger farms, gaps have arisen due to the departure of the Slovak workers who have not yet been able to close because the eastern workers in question have not arrived yet. As a result, it is found to be cattle-pickers and team-leaders. The fear already expressed in the last Laga report that the Slovak labour force would only be available in the coming spring, has proved to be justified, and only 75% of the required Slovak labour is to be provided. A way out is for the peasantry to make more use of the local population in the agricultural work, in particular soldiers' wives with 1 or 2 children, who usually stay away from the work even though they were previously employed in agriculture. The question of caring for the newborn foreign people is now also raised. In the district of Mies, for example, there are a total of 60 such Klsin children on the farms. It is considered to set up a home for ditse children. The milk orchard is strongly reduced as a result of a lack of food. The lack of young horses capable of feeding is very palpable; the existing horses are mostly aged, the wood removal has been used to an increased extent and is satisfactory. However, in order to avoid any disturbance, it is necessary to correct the lack of hooves. In the disaster shelters still breakages from 1938 and 1939 have to be worked up. For the most part this wood is rotten and can therefore only be used as firewood. A lack of labour force in this year does not exist in the forestry sector in general because workers were employed from agriculture and other sectors of the economy. A report by the Lendrat in Kaaden shows that difficulties may arise in valuing the Jewish agricultural property previously administered by the Deutsche Ansieclunsge-Sellschaft, because the state of wealth has deteriorated considerably in the course of the fiduciary administration. It is the Jewish estate Kirchleshof that the district of Kaaden wants to take over as a school property. The estate has a size of 81 ha and a unit value of 153,120,- RM. Dic Deutschc AnsiedungsGesalschaft calculates for the administration a betreg of 46,700,- rm of administrative costs. Originally, it was possible to transfer the goods to the estimated value; creditors would have had to waive interest only. However, as a result of the fact that the administrative costs of the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft in the ang, are added as further debt, the forced auction will become necessary, whereby the old creditors, if the demand of the Deutschen Ansettlungogesellschaft alo has to be treated preferentially, will suffer considerable losses in capital. 3.) Price and price monitoring: the regulation of prices for piglets and cucumbers and for breeding bovine animals is appropriate.