On the other hand, the business columns of the newspapers rightly pointed out that it would be impossible to restrict the supplies to the Newts because that would initiate a great slump in production and a serious crisis in many branches of human industry. Also agriculture to a large extent was dependent on the huge demand for maize, potatoes, and other farm products for Newt fodder; if the number of Salamanders was reduced, a big fall in the prices of edible commodities would follow through which the farming people would find themselves on the brink of ruin.
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