Show FOOD SUPPlY IS ISi i GETTING SHORT I France and Germany May Mayi i Abolish Duties on Ameri Amen American American can Meat PRICE OF HORSE MEAT UP French Vintage Has Proven a Failure During Daring Present Year Berlin Nov 0 5 A strong agitation In favor of ot the introduction ot of Amer American Amerlean lean ican meat into Germany is gaining ground dally daily owing to the Increased Iner sed charges chargee of about li 15 per cent ent now made by Ute tie meat salesmen IiI The agitation U Is I by no means con confined confined fined to tD the general c public nubile but is la I en energetically fostered by the butchers butcher association and the butchers Many an of the latter have on OR hand large army arms government and municipal contracts extending over a number of ot years and stand to lose large amounts owing to 0 the scarcity of Dt meat It hat has nevor never been more mom clearly clearl shown that Germany Is unable to sup support i port ort its growing population with food tood and the juncture ju was wall never r mere more fa favorable a than now tOW for energetic e to tD abolish the barriers erected by the authorities auth against the Importation ot of American meat Butchers have been compelled c to t raise the prices to 10 an unprecedented level The Th restaurants and hotels in which th the portions served Jle to custom customer er era have been already cut down to the Irreducible minimum are obliged to raise their prices In many families meat h Is now only a II Sunday luxury lu ury In the modest home the in increases increases creases Crt in price make great groat holes boles in inthe Inthe Inthe the housewife s slender allowance Matters have already reached such a II pitch that dealers In the country liter literally literally literally ally snatch every available bullock or pig from the peasants peasant pea and pay almost almo t famine prices of the tha meat reaching the market is II too young and andla it LI not fbI nutritious Parts Paris Sept 10 Food and drink are I becoming subjects of oC considerable anxiety ety to the French The supply of horse horsemeat horsemeat horsemeat meat Is much muck below the demand owing to the heavy duty on equines equine Import Imported ed ad for tor the abattoirs a Although the laws fully countenance the eating of ot horse horae flesh discrimination tion exists against t the animal ant mal destined to be butchered in ia favor tavor of ot the one with a long and aRd blooded pedigree which is I to tD run races ra eIl r draw a mil millionaires coach meat within a comparatively short period has haa doubled in price and people in certain quarters of Parts Paris con consume suet sume hardly any aft other uther kind of flesh Bread ha hll also Increased in price in inthe inthe inThe the last few fow days There Thera has been a acry 1 acry cry ry of a shortage h in the crop cro of wheat but this H is I only oBI about 16 l per cent which does doe not justify the pue sou ad advance advance advance vance in the loaf loat Worst of or all however Js the threat threatened threatened threatened ened failure of the tint vint vintage Int age alre In most mom of the th great ing districts Perhaps this estimate e is exaggerated an as was wal that of the wine shortage last year Efforts were Here made last year to est esti estimate male mate very er exactly the reserve r stock took S of wine In France but no nD one knows how near or how far they were from the truth Even If It the worst tears fears ears about the present years eara crop prove true there will still be bf nothing approaching to a dearth at ot wine vine In France or else elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere where 1910 however will belle belie the traditions of ot a 11 comet year |