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buckwheat or maize? ultimately, potatoes!
Graph 5. Surfaces, crops and yield of maize until World War I in Slovenia
Source: Maček 1993, 33-34.
Graph 6. Relative price relations between maize and other cereals 1795-1914 (maize = 1)
Source: Valenčič 1977, 163-202.
tions. The analysis of price trends reveals that, except for a few oscillations,
they remained stable in the long term. From the 1870s until World War I,
the maize prices kept increasing slowly yet persistently.
For as long as a century, the long-term relative price relation in com-
parison with wheat as the most important cereal was preserved as well.
The verification of the relative price for an equal amount of wheat or maize
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Graph 5. Surfaces, crops and yield of maize until World War I in Slovenia
Source: Maček 1993, 33-34.
Graph 6. Relative price relations between maize and other cereals 1795-1914 (maize = 1)
Source: Valenčič 1977, 163-202.
tions. The analysis of price trends reveals that, except for a few oscillations,
they remained stable in the long term. From the 1870s until World War I,
the maize prices kept increasing slowly yet persistently.
For as long as a century, the long-term relative price relation in com-
parison with wheat as the most important cereal was preserved as well.
The verification of the relative price for an equal amount of wheat or maize
147
