The Iron Ration: Three Years in Warring Central Europe

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George Abel Schreiner. The Iron Ration: Three Years in Warring Central Europe

The Iron Ration: Three Years in Warring Central Europe

Table of Contents

ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

THE IRON RATION

THE IRON RATION

I. WAR HITS THE LARDER OF GERMANY

II. WHEN LORD MARS HAD RULED THREE MONTHS

III. THE MIGHTY WAR PURVEYOR

IV. FAMINE COMES TO STAY

V. THE FOOD SHARK AND HIS WAYS

VI. THE HOARDERS

VII. IN THE HUMAN SHAMBLES

VIII. PATRIOTISM AND A CRAVING STOMACH

IX. SUB-SUBSTITUTING THE SUBSTITUTE

X. THE CRUMBS

XI. MOBILIZING THE PENNIES

XII. SHORTAGE SUPREME

XIII "GIVE US BREAD!"

XIV. SUBSISTING AT THE PUBLIC CRIB

XV. THE WEAR AND TEAR OF WAR

XVI. THE ARMY TILLS

XVII. WOMAN AND LABOR IN WAR

XVIII. WAR AND MASS PSYCHOLOGY

XIX. SEX MORALITY AND WAR

XX. WAR LOANS AND ECONOMY

XXI. THE AFTERMATH

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George Abel Schreiner

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The idea was to raise on the area all that could be raised, even if the net profit from a less thorough method of cultivation would have been just as big. Inquiry showed that the agrarian policy of the German government favored this course. The high protective tariff, under which the German food-producer operated, left a comfortable profit margin no matter how good the crops of the competitor might be. Since Germany imported a small quantity of food even in years when bumper crops came, large harvests did not cause a depression in prices; they merely kept foreign foodstuffs out of the country and thereby increased the trade balance in favor of Germany.

Visiting some small farms and villages in the neighborhood of the estate, I found that the example set by the scientifically managed Gut of the countess was being followed everywhere. The agrarian policy of the government had wiped out all competition between large and small producers, and so well did the village farmers and the estate-managers get along that the Gut was in reality a sort of agricultural experiment station and school farm for those who had not studied agriculture at the seats of learning which the bespectacled superintendents of the countess had attended.

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