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At the same time the prices of live stock and meat 

 have risen considerably. The following shows the move- 

 ment of prices of the chief animals in Berlin in marks per 

 ioo kilo, slaughtering weight :* 



For reasons which will be mentioned below the move- 

 ment of prices of meat has not been, and, indeed, could 

 not be, so uniform as that of the prices of corn, but the 

 general rise since the middle of the 'eighties is unmistak- 

 able, and the jump in 1906 is especially very notable. It 

 would thus appear at first glance that the small farmer, 

 who, as we said, is for the most part a cattle and pig 

 rearer, must have done, under Protection, very well. But 

 that is only "at first glance," as he himself soon found 

 out. After the first flush of enthusiasm in 1906, which 

 made him vote at the elections of January, 1907, for the 

 Junkers and other Protectionists, the small farmer began 

 to perceive that the high prices of cattle and pigs did not 

 go by themselves, but were accompanied, shadow-like, by 

 high prices of other articles, which went far to neutralise 

 the advantages from the high meat prices. There were, 

 first of all, the high prices for fodder. By the new Tariff 

 of 1906 the duty on maize was suddenly raised from 16 to 

 30 marks, that on fodder rye from 35 to 50 marks, that 

 on beans from 15 to 20 marks per ton, and so on, with 

 the sole exception of barley, the duty on which, for fodder 

 purposes, was reduced from 20 to 13 marks per ton. These 

 duties render imported fodder absolutely inaccessible to 



* Reports on Frankfort for 1907, p. 18 ; for 1908, p. 20. 



