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Show 1 r WORLD'S LIVESTOCK I By Frederic J. Haskin. j Washington; Feb. :4.-ar ie- st roving th fnur-footed and iathpred population of tb earth even faster than U ia destroying men. On of the greatest aftr-war problems will h the restocking of the civilised world with domestic om-n.alF. om-n.alF. Two important farts stand out In the rtrpt place, meat jzolnp to he senn-e for many reave to "-oinc. and In the second sec-ond pi ace. the ra ising of hvesf vk. a nd especially of hloo-Vd breeding ptofk. i? joins? to bo a very Important and profitable prof-itable O'V-up.t t inn. We think our own situation In regard to nu.at if rather dppera t. now that we nre bcinnins to la uehter miipiancs, burros and billy ftoMs. while meal prW? remain hich- Yet our livestock shows a recent tendency to iinTonfft, and we have both fodder nnd rHf,T',rfl land for it- In European count ries. helltcrrenT and neutral, neu-tral, livestock is brini; almost exterminated extermi-nated bfauf-e pasture land lias all been put under the plow, and every bit of qrain i nded for human food. Tn both GfMmaiiv and Denmark they are making rrliuloe fodders out of straw and wood, and in Oer man v cull potatoes are .fed to hwMock, but there is not enouph to K(1 a round. No rlas? haw suffered mnr hy the war than the Ucrman pins. Thre were lots of them In peace times, for Cermans are fond of pork sausaire. It Fn became apparent ap-parent that thtre was no pla-'e. In the rjcrmin war economy for the greedy and .Minii erous ho-. 1 ! was editorialized j n zainpt.. spree lies wre made a bout hmi in the relclistac- H was made compulsory j to kill pn:s, md only the fat ones, but the lean ones and the sucklings. There are. hardlv hiiv left. Th att!e suprly has I been "ut down to a fraction of what it j should be. and the rattle slaucht ered are onlv about two-thu'ds of normal weight. a u? age is now made from horse meat mixed wifh rabbit meat. Game is on 1h decrease in Germany. The co tin in pimple kill it and ea t it at everv opportunity. polecats, foxe.s and other zame-detroyini? vermin are on the increase. Whenever a landed pro. prietor holds a ha Hue or hunt he is compelled to announce his intention, and to clv a certain proportion of what he kills to th food administration for sale tn thft people. study of the German press leaves no doubt that a year or two more of war will Pe t.ha t count rv a 1 most denuded of beasts, and birds, wild and domestic. And it takes a lone time, to resfofk a roun-trv. roun-trv. In the neutral countries tn situation is bad. Or worse. Sweden lrid before the ar about Soon reindeer in her forests. Ths order has ?onn fort.h for th slaughter slaugh-ter of all of these, many of them to be exported. The lonp-sutferlncr pic is almost al-most evtinct in Sweden, too. At Kris-tianstad. Kris-tianstad. where usually five or nix hundred hun-dred pics ar1 sla uk htered "every w eek, the killings have been reduced to thirty pist. a week. Th lichens which prow in the northern forests, and were formerly the, chief forage of the reindeer are now beiriK gathered and experiments made in their nse as human food and fodder, Tn Norway and Denmark; me.it for the time being is exceptionally plentiful. Tho I reason for this is that the herds of cst-1 cst-1 tie tn both of these countries are bein j rapidly slaughtered because of the hU-h price, of fodders. The Norwegian govern-I govern-I ment fldvipeb everyone to salt meat and to put it up in tins, so that thev will have a mpply when the herdg are exhausted. ex-hausted. In t hese count rles most of the piEH have nlrealy been killed. Norwsv has " house w i fer- schools'' which IsMje booklets on hniiM-hold economy and these nr devot inc t heir a t Urn t ion la rcely (o methods of presorvinf meats. The government gov-ernment is disUesi-cd at the ta that t ho consumpt Ion f men t. Khmw, a tendency ten-dency to Increase as fast hh Die supply. TheHo count riea a re now leltiu: t he effect of the excessive cUufhler of cat-, !. tn tbn ficnrcltv of milk nod dalre prod- ucts. Despite the high prices offered, not enough milk can be obtained. The farmers farm-ers say that fodder is too expensive to , make dairying profitable even at high prices. Herring meal and herring' guano are being fed to cattle in laree Quanti- l ties. These northern coastal countries have always depended largely upon the sea for food, and it might be thought that increased in-creased returns from the fisheries would make up for the decrease of meat. But the contrary ia the case. Scarcity of coal has caused inactivity of the fishing flee's, and the amount of fish coming: to market has fallen off, sometimes in heavy percentage. The meat supply In Germany has suffered suf-fered from di&ease. Foot and mouth disease dis-ease broke out recently in the province of Hanover, and thirty-six districts were affected. In the south twine fever has caused further losses among- the decimated decimat-ed ranks of pics. Glanders has killed some horses. The government claims that all of these epidemics are now undex control. In Austria the Killing: of cattle has j caused a severe shortage of milk, and i especiaJIv in Vienna. in fact, milk is the most universally scarce article oi diet in the world. Tn Vienna, in orj'er to conserve milk for children and invalids, in-valids, an order was recently issued prohibiting pro-hibiting cafes from serving milk or giving giv-ing mi'.k with coffee, except under special spe-cial permit at certain hours of the day. This at once brought a protest from the inn-koepers, who complain that first they are prohibited from selling rum with tea. whi, h has limited their popularity, and now they are expected to offer substitute substi-tute coffee without milk. This, they assert. as-sert. Is nothing less than disaster. To Bulgaria all animals have been put on rations, just as the people, work animal ani-mal beln allowed more- In Greece the government has arranged for large importations of meat from Abyssinia, whi-h w ill he sold a t lower 1 prices than those which have prevailed heretofore. The world is being literally scoured for meat animals. ! Denmark has recently taken a census of nil a t a nimals, which shows that catt le are reduced comparatively little in number, num-ber, but that pigs a re becoming verv s'-arce. The Danish farmers are feedins their ca t tie turnips, t urnip tops, $t raw and heather. According to the Txikat-Anzelger, the saii-itv of fodder in perl in has f-orionslv a flee ted the heavy carrying trade, and j threatens t.o cripple the munition indus-I indus-I try. The town horses have been put ou ! rations, but even these limited amounts 1 aie not obtainable. In all parts of Europe materials never before considered for the purpose have ben successfully used as fodder. Tn M-rma ny va nous sea wee.is have been used for r,me time. A Gorman paper slates that n dactory is to be established fur the preparation, not only of seaweed, but of various freshwater plants that grow in the rivers and marshes, and of foliate from trees for fodder. Schoolbovs under the leadership of schoolmasters are engaged in gat he ring these materials. In general, the specrn-le reflected in the European press is that of a wild scramble for meat. There are long "queues' ! waiting lines at the doors of all the butcher shops and those who come late get nothing. Kvervthing wild that run, or flics is being killed and eatn. It md an ea ggera t ion to m- t ha t the dost do-st ruction of animal lire will take longer to repair than that of human life. |