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Show LIVESTOCK SHORTAGE. The high prices for meat in Europe havo had a disastrous effect upon the livestock industry of New Zealand, as well as in some other parts of the world, because of the tendency to dispose of everything marketable when shipping space could be seen red. Accordingly the draining of the supplies of the country coun-try has been carried on to such an extreme ex-treme that grea t, in roads have been made upon the number of breeding aili-mals aili-mals and young stock. The decrease in tho flocks and herds in New Zealand has awakened a fear that there will not he sufficient animals of this class to supply sup-ply the needs of the increased development develop-ment of the farming communities. As the government now has control of the meat export trade, it is declared that the practice of killing so much young stock will be checked. If the l'J it ropea ii war continues another an-other year or two, most of the countries involved in the struggle will have few cattle, sheep or hogs left with which to begin life on a peace basis, aud it is more than probable that the 1 'nited States and Argent ina, the. two principal neutral sources of supply, will come out. with greatly diminished herds and ; flocks. In fact, the whole world will be short in this respect, and the prices of meat will be high for years to come, and the number of vegetarians will be greatly augmented, not. became 'he poor- i er classes will have been converted, but because they will be un.'iMo to pay the prices s.-l'vi. CVj'j way uc. Gil1 people of all civilized countries are being be-ing taxed and will coutinne to be taxed for the horrifying European war, which is becoming more tremendous and more destructive every day. The pity of it is that no matter how peacefully inclined we aro we cannot entirely escape the blighting effects of the portentous struggle on the other side of the Atlantic Atlan-tic If prices soar too high, however, it would be possible to put an embargo on the exportation of foodstuffs. |