. Sugar, formerly 2 pounds per month, now 4 pounds,
but this will not continue long.
8. Marmalade, or jam, 1/4 of a pound every month.
9. Noodles, 1/2 pound per person a month.
10. Sardines, or canned fish, small box per month.
11. Saccharine (a coal tar product substitute for sugar),
about 25 small tablets a month.
12. Oatmeal, 1/2 of a pound per month for adults or 1 pound
per month for children under twelve years.

WHAT YOU CAN EAT

FOODS WHICH EVERY ONE WITH MONEY CAN BUY

1. Geese, costing 8 to 10 marks per pound ($1.60 to
$2 per pound).
2. Wild game, rabbits, ducks, deer, etc.
3. Smuggled meat, such as ham and bacon, for $2.50 per pound.
4. Vegetables, carrots, spinach, onions, cabbage, beets.
5. Apples, lemons, oranges.
6. Bottled oil made from seeds and roots for cooking
purposes, costing $5 per pound.
7. Vinegar.
8. Fresh fish.
9. Fish sausage.
10. Pickles.
11. Duck, chicken and geese heads, feet and wings.
12. Black crows.

THE FOOD SITUATION AT A GLANCE

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CHAPTER VII

THE BUBBLING ECONOMIC VOLCANO

When I entered Germany in 1915 there was plenty of food everywhere and
prices were normal. But a year later the situation had changed so that
the number of food cards--Germany's economic barometer--had increased
eight times. March and April of 1916 were the worst months in the year
and a great many people had difficulty in getting enough food to eat.
There was growing dissatisfaction with the way the Government was
handling the food problem but the people's hope was centred upon the
next harvest. In April and May the submarine issue and the American
crisis turned public attention from food to politics. From July to
October the Somme battles kept the people's minds centred upon military
operations. While the scarcity of food became greater the Government,
through inspired articles in the press, informed the people that the
harvest was so big that there would be no more food difficulties.

Germany began to pay serious attention to the food situation, when
early in the year, Adolph von Batocki, the president of East Prussia
and a big land owner, was made food dictator. At the same time there
were organised various government food departments. There was an
Imperial Bureau for collecting fats; another to take charge of the meat
supply; another to control the milk and an