ABSTRACT
The good harvest itself did but seem to make matters worse. Everybody had become accustomed to high prices dnring the war. The land-owners a.nd farmers had done well during the troubled period. Paper money at a discount of about twenty-five per cent., as compared with gold, was the general currency, and inflated prices ruled to an abnormal extent. All calculations fol· sale of agl'icultural produce had been based on the continuance of a similar state of things.
