Farmers were raising crops again, but labor was idle and could not buy bread.
The lesson is this, when commerce is starved down to a certain point, it goes to pieces.

Then when the food comes it can not assimilate it.

It is like a man who has been without food for thirty days.

His muscles have disappeared, his organs have shrunk, he can not walk; he is only skin and bones.

The disappearance of the muscles is like the disappearance of labor's jobs in hard times.