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Show Mobilizing Germany's Food Resources Germany, deprived as sho has been of many Imports by tho sea powor of England, hns been transformed Into In-to a self .supporting country by tho chemist. This achievement necessitated neces-sitated a readjustment along tho wholo line. Food for tho people nnd fodder for nnlmals had to bo provided provid-ed within tho confines of tho empire. Materials had to bo manufactured which had hitherto been 'Imported, and substitutes had to bo Improved for raw mater' als cut off by tho Eng-llch Eng-llch blockade. In no other field has German cfil-clency cfil-clency proven Its superiority moro than In that of chemistry. Whllo this was undisputed beforo tho present wnr, It Is no exaggeration to stato today to-day that tho Gorman chemist has so far contr butcd ns much, if not moro, to tho successos of tho campaign than tho strategists of tho nrmy nnd tho navy nnd that thorcforo tho present pres-ent holocaust may bo Justly called tho chemists' war. Not only havo stupendous efforts been cxponded In tho manufacture ot artificial foodstuffs- ,but It Is Interesting Inter-esting to note how, under tho stress of wnr conditions, uso has been made of natural food materials which oven In Germany, whero economy Is practised to such n largo extent, had hitherto been neglected. When tho Engl'sh blockado threatened threat-ened to starvo tho women and children chil-dren of tho omplro, n cnreful Inventory Inven-tory of tho natural resource's wbb taken. It wbb ascertained that certain cer-tain plants which had been regarded aB useless weeds possessed considerable consider-able food valuo. Fourteen wild growing grow-ing vegetables woro found which furnished fur-nished substitutes for splnnch, while fivo plants supplied excellent matorl-als matorl-als for salads, nut of still greater sign ficanco Ib tho fact that naturo offered nlno vnrietlcs of roots rich In stnrch and nffordlng whole'somo nllmcnt for man and beast. Thcso unexpected sources ot nutritive material ma-terial will In tho futuro further threat on our oxport trado with Germany, which has so largely consisted ot foodstuffs. From Tho Chemist's Sldo of tho War, by Hugo Schwo'tzor, In tho Amorlcan noviow of Reviews for August. |