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Show SOLDIERS ARE IIJjARifG Germany Hopes Thus to Stem Tide Setting Toward To-ward Cities. . FATHERLAND STRIVES TO HOLD HER PEOPLE Government Sells Small Tracts of Land on Fa-. Fa-. Yorable Terms. . BERLIN. Auf . M. Far reaching experiment ex-periment are beta; mad In tha Oer-I Oer-I mu army In teaching tha aoldlera botb practical and theoretical farming during their aervlce In tba ranka. Many of the eeMlere. even thoee from the cltlea. become be-come eo Interested that when they have Ralsbed their term they lake advantage of a law paaaed voice jeari ago. by which! ihey are enehled to purchase email plots! 04 Una by the payment In ready money I of a Quarter of Ita value. In thle way It la hoped to stem the rush of people (rem Hie aaticultural dletrkta to the cltlea. which ha cauaed eo much anxiety to tle authorlttee of recent yeare. The PVuMlan elate lleelf eelle much or Ite reelalmed moor lande In thle manner man-ner In plota ranging from half an acre to teenty-nve acme. It charg-e Interest at the rate of only St per rent on three-Qitartre three-Qitartre of the purchaee money, and alao advancee money for the erection of lioueee and borne. The tenant may pey ' off aa much aa ho llkee every year, and after a certain number of yeara the property prop-erty become hie own. Ce-opratlTa Wark Is Obaager. In eome Ineiencea larger plote of land are acoutred from private owner by the atete and laid out In conltguoue email farm, which ace aold hi a eimllar manner man-ner to ferm laborers. Theee. by a eyatem of co-operative working, are enabled to cultivate thctr land at a much cheaper rate then If they were working alone. The Idee of the gmdual purchaee oye-tenl oye-tenl la aoreedlng rapidly through the iwtmmrnt'i effurte. and many rural distrlcta. hitherto erereely populated and poorly cultivated, are becoming thriving agricultural centere. The government he appointed IK commleaiener to eaetet In the purchase of real eetata by Sx-eol-diers and thrifty worker. The hoof end mouth dlaeaaa la now 'making ewch rveeo among Oermen - flocks that ovea the agrarian organ atmit that the meat auppiv of the country coun-try ta eertouely threatened. An ofllclel report of the Imperial government, dated Jub 31. sliowe thai 1 Mi farms, located In different distrlcta, are affected. Cm result of th apreed of the dlaeaee , hss been a redu-tion in tba number of cattle In th coamtry. Meat Supply Tratnd. According to th latest official re-porta re-porta the number of aM live etnek. except ex-cept gnine, brought to market thla year bes keeej amaiier than dn III, n la oteimed by Ut agrarian ' neweaapers that the d'eeeee waa brought Into Oer-- Oer-- many In June. 111. from Ruaala. and that, deepfts the eigoroue precautionary iHaBurea of the nuthotiiiee. It has spread to Ita preaent proportiona In the Prtef apec. of on veer. Just now the mat eupplr te further threatened by the certainty that all aorta of animal food producta wm be eoarce and high. The prase crop hee been greatly damaged hy the protracted heat 'and drought of the spring and aummer. The potat crop aleo, ft le feared, will be much shorter then ueuel: and thla mean much for th meet eunplv. since the waste of potato ak-ohol dietinertee t on or th prtneine! feeding . material for fattening live Block. The enta crop eNa aleo been Ben -eusiv Injured by ad v tree weather condl-' condl-' ttona. Emigration IMcraaalaf. The number of emigrant leaving th Oerman North peg ports this year la much leee than In Ilia. For the first seven months of the year Hamburg re-tnrtel re-tnrtel a .' ticfloa of la 00 In a total of 4S TtV T'- .iiaea aselaned for the Mehtee outgo thle year are In part the unfeveraMe business attuatloa In the I'nlted atate and tha moe rigid eppU- rat ton or tn A marl ran tinini)raiton lawa. Anthr rua, howrar. If art dntly th frofharou rondltlon of th rhlrf countrla that now yimhr th bulk of th trrrni Iff rant Into th t'attad Itataa Thla ytmr Ormanv Itaalf a fa-altna? vry knlv th ahortac In tn auoply of ftuMian farm labor re, du to tha fart that rtuaaia (a now anjnvlrigt tjnuauat lroaprltv ; waaja hav haan raid, and th tjool ar conaaquntly aiarlntr at bom. Th a hort a aa of ftvjaalan br ra haa amountad to th proportion of a ra'amtty for tt farmrr In tha a at m Orrman aroTfnr. Fawor O ltd an and ftwnirarlan lahnrara. tato, ar omlni ht ej-rmry thta yr. owtnt to mora piarroua ttma ta the rountrtaa; th aajna thaaitS ta tru In ward to Italy. Try Amtic Trant. artttii ana ha 4t-td4j try tha vrtmnt f to?klna; thalr trama wtth Anvartt-an trout, an J for Ihta aur-paa aur-paa a oMMirnrnrnt of 1oO,(mV1 rainbow trout ara from Craad. In CkTdo, ra-. " aratty orrtrrd t Cuxhavon. It waa found that the trout In th Grman rlvar bad bn dcanaratlnty fr avrai yaara. , In aplta of car-r.il prarvaMon. and tha! pnmnial kuthrl of waatam Oar- j my, h hav aaUMtah a ptarlcul; tural Inatltut at Adeivau. dcldad to tntrrbdi- frrh Wood from th A mart-1 ran rlvra. Th -. whlrh ram a orar raka4 In fr. artibd In aphtndld conditio, condi-tio, and ar to b piaoad In th rlvra wriialir. |