Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-06-27 | Page 5 | German Bears Forego Bread

GERMAN BEARS FOREGO BREAD I I Compelled Corn Com Hamburg Animal Dealer polled to Feed Charges on Roots Instead I MONKEYS IN BIG DEMAND I Otherwise V Wild ild Animals Prove Addit Additional onal Burdens in Germany Germany Ger Ger- many in Wartime Berlin June Tile The The animals In German Gelman German Ger Gel man zoological gardens have hail had to put pul up with a aar ar war var diet A well-known well animal animal animal ani ani- mal dealer of or Hamburg has recently told of oC how he carried his animals through the winter inter Ills His bears bealS had been eating about pounds of or bread yearly earl which was their their- chief chie food but the they were put upon a diet of oC potatoes turnips and other roots with occasional additions of ot fish ish ret ref use Not only bread d and grain but also ha hay had to be taken a. a away way Rhinoceroses I roses deer antelopes and others that had hitherto been fed ted on ha hay hal maize and oats were put upon a mixed diet of acorns horse chestnuts potatoes and sliced roots of or orari ari various us kinds Of Ot course the lions tigers and similar simi simi- lar beasts had to continue to be fed fedon fedon fedon on meat which was mostly obtained by hy killing old horses The Tile bones left lett over o were ground into bone meal which was mixed Into the food of or various other animals and the offal was thrown to the hyenas henas and jackals Thus au all the aquatic birds Including cranes which had hitherto been fed principally on grains of ot various kinds were given Iven a mixture of ot mashed potatoes boiled fish and bone meal and the they all did very well on this food The sales ales of or wild animals In Germany German antI and Austria have almost wholly stopped There is still a fail fair demand deman from neutral countries especially from Crom the United States but it is not possible ble bie to ship animals now noon owing to the I restrictions enforced b by England land A shipment of oC East Indian elephants was on the wa way to the United States when the war began but the vessel had to put into the the- port of or Massua in Italian la Somal a 1 l and ld it 1 l Is 3 assumed mat inai me tue anti ana cargo cars win now ue Ud I confiscated b by th tim tho Italian government gO One of the tile most curious things re reported ye- ye ported regarding efforts to buy animals I I during recent months is that German I soldiers lers in Russia Hussla are arc constantly ap ar applying applying ap- ap plying phing for foi oi monkeys to catch v vermin