ARHIVELE OLTENIEI - Universitatea din Craiova

The development of the internal market in south-east Romania during the interwar period 329In 1937, June, same markets sold 890 oxen (at the price of 4/7000 lei),303 cows (at the price of 2500/6000 lei), 318 weaned calves (at the price of1800/5000 lei), 151 calves (at the price of 400/2000 lei), 282 horses and mares(at the price of 1000/8000 lei), 5 colts (at the price of 1500 lei), 460 pigs (at theprice of 4/2000 lei), 1200 piglets (at the price of 120/400 lei), 400 rams(at theprice of 350/7000 lei), 630 lambs (at the price of 100/200 lei), 290 goats (at theprice of 400/600 lei) and 180 kids (at the price of 180/80 lei) 36 .In 1937, June, there have been made important deals in all the fivecounties of Oltenia. In Dolj County only about 106,105 kilos of wheat (at theprice of 333-447/100 kilos), 1,660,256 kilos of corn (270-310/100 kilos), 3788kilos of rye (350-371/100 kilos), etc 37 .During 1937, in the cereal markets from Bechet, Cetate, Calafat,Segarcea, Rast have been sold about 30, 764 tones of wheat, 38, 803 tones ofcorn and 417 tones of rye 38 . All in all, there have been sold 11 470 of oxen(3000/6000), 3830 cows (2000/4500), 2630 calves (200/1750), 2400 horses(1750/9750), 790 mares (1500/4500), 11 000 pigs (550/2000), 6120 piglets(150/300), 3680 weaned calves (1750/4250), 1200 sheep (225/400), 500 goats(200/500), and 360 rams (240/250) 39 .After carefully studying the documents in the archives, we notice adecrease of the price of cereals from March to October 1937. Thus, old corn’sprice (harvested in 1936), that reached the price of 36 000 lei/wagon in March,decreased to 30000/wagon in September. This issue happened due to the richcereals harvests in Oltenia at those times (especially of corn). The offer wasgreater than the request.We also notice a price oscillation during the entire period of 1918-1944.In 1918-1922, the prices were constant for the vast majority of merchandises(especially cereals), and in 1922-1928 these increased with about 20%; in 1929-1932 these decreased with about 40-50 % (for the late 1932), in 1934-1940 theseincreased with 15-20% and in 1941-1944 these increased with about 15% (dueto inflation).There have also been made important deals through the Stock ofCraiova. Mainly, cereals constituted the object of sales. Another important placewas that taken by wood. In this way, in 1929-1936, the merchandise stock fromCraiova made the following deals 40 :36 Ibidem.37 Ibidem, dossier 10/1937.38 Ibidem, dossier 35/1938.39 Ibidem.40 Ibidem, dossier 7/1937.