File concerning the agricultural depression that beset Germany after the war due to low productivity owing to wartime controls, lack of agricultural equipment, insufficient purchasing power of farmer, currency reporm and export prohibition until 1925. Deals with measures taken to try and remedy the situation, includes: Notes on effects of crisis - impoverishment, forced sales, rural exodus which brought unemployment to the cities
Notes from J.B. Holt, "German Agricultural Policy 1918-1934" on the re-introduction of Tariff Act 1925 which brought back the pre-war tariffs, which were too late and too low to deal with the extent of the crisis, 1926-27 attempts to shift production from grain to animal, advances by Government to finance market intervention in times of excess supply, wheat-milling requirement introduced in July 1929
Extracts from M. Sering's book, "Die deutsche Landwirtschaft unter Volks und Weltwirtschaftlichen Gesichtpunken", regarding measures taken for rye, wheat and barley and effects of foreign competition after currency reform in Germany was introduced

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