Show NEED DIG BIG HERDS Europe's Meat Supply Must Come From America j I II i Warring Nations Have Depleted Live LiveStock LiveStock Stock at Enormous Rate Eve Killing Dairy Cattle For Food American stock breeders are being asked to conserve their flocks and herds In order to meet Europe's tremendous tree tre tre- tre demands for meats during the war and probably for many years afterward The United States food administration administration administration adminis adminis- reports that American stock raisers have hae shown a n disposition to operate co-operate with the government In Increasing increasing In in- creasing tho the nations nation's supply of ot live stock G Germany today Is probably better supplied with live li stock than any other other oth oth- er European nation When the German German German Ger Ger- man armies made their big advance Into France and then retreated vIrtually virtually virtually vir vIr- vir- vir all the cattle In the Invaded territory approximately were head lead were driven behind the German lines But Dut In England where England where acres of pasture lands have ha been turned turned turned turn turn- ed Into grain fields the fields the cattle herds are decreasing rapidly One of the reasons apparently Is the declining maximum price scale adopted by the tho English as follows For September 1770 per pounds i October 1728 November and December 1008 j. j Jan Jan- lary 1440 The effect of at these prices was to drive beef beet animals on the market market mar mar- ket as soon as possible In France the tho number of cattle as aswell aswell aswell well as the quality have haye shown an enormous decline during the war Where France had head of cattle In 1913 she she shenon now non has lias only 12 12 a n decrease of per cent And France Is toda today producing only one gallon of ot milk compared to two and one half gallons before the war Denmark and Holland have been forced to sacrifice dairy her herds s for beef beet because of the lack of necessary feed Close study of the European meat situation has convinced con the Food Foo Administration Administration Ad Ad- ministration that the future problem of America lies largely in the production production tion Hon of meat producing animals and dairy products rather than In the production production pro pro- of cereals for export when the war will have haye ceased pol |