English Translation

32 - 18 - 6.) Supply. The population's supply of farmed food was smooth. The vegetable supply was generally good. Only individual circles were poorly supplied with spinach. Since the supply is small, this is not to be understood. The distribution should be better regulated by the horticultural management association. The foreign salad is to be delivered partly in poor condition. The cause should be to be found in the overload of the wagons. The vardorbene salad is forced on the small distributors by the large distributors, without it being disposed of, because they cannot compensate for the departure in the price. As in the cities of Karlovy Vary and Eger in the fruit and vegetable sector, a bond has been made between a certain trader in order to reconcile demand and consumption. In the town of Eger, in order to regulate the sale of the vegetables, so-called "coupling purchases" had to be allowed; the less sought-after vegetables had to have been taken away together with other vegetables in a determined manner in order not to spoil the goods which would not otherwise perish. However, the purpose of the economic olive oil is mostly to be left out because the population does not use this forcibly allocated vegetables for nutritional purposes. The quality of the beef was partly annoyed. The allocation of pork was often not sufficient. The nature of the butter was sometimes lamented. Dic Karlsbader Zentr lmolkurei-Butter is said to have arrived in the Neudek district in rancid condition. Frisehmilchsorgung was sufficient in the larger cities. The allocation to Quark remained behind the demand in Karlovy Vary. In the area of the forcibly managed goods the old complaints appeared with the textiles and with the shoes. The quotas allocated are not enough to satisfy the demands. Mançel often has printed clothes and blouses for women and girls, underwear for men and women, children's stockings, blankets and boy's suits. The allocation of matratæn and straw sack lines is also partly insufficient, so that often no allocation to young married people is possible. Again and again, the restrictions on the need for mourning clothing (only for mothers and wives) are criticised. Nor should the provisions on the supply of child-wear cover have proved successful in practice; it should be noted that the allocation according to prescribed lengths is not sufficiently respected by the trade. In the petroleum supply there were delays in the supply of the retail trade by sending the petro- leum dealer's certificates to the confidant of the imperial mineral oil stables. The lack of household items, such as cooking pots, cutlery, buckets, porcelain dishes, has had a particularly disturbing effect on the agricultural householdations. There is also a large shortage of iron materials that are needed in agriculture, such as champing, spades, wood chips, sickles, scythes and vich chains. In itself, these products are to be extracted from the production quota without iron bills. However, the hardware dealers often refuse to hand over these goods without iron certificates, thereby developing an undesirable trade in exchange.