Ogden Sun | 1905-12-05 | Page 2 | Germany's Meat Scarcity

GERMANYS MEAT SCARCITY berlin dec 1 the reichstag today further discussed the socialist interpellation asking what measures the imperial government proposed to take against the scarcity of meat herr von the prussian minister of agriculture maintained that beside the red murrain scarcity was greatly influenced by trichina the question here he was more important than it was in the united states where less raw ham was consumed an interesting tact developed in the course of the debate was that animals imported from denmark must be inoculated in germany to neutralize this tho animals were inoculated with tu bercu llna in denmark before their importation por tation the result was that only one halt per cent of tuberculosis animals were found here as against 20 or 30 per cent formerly the inter pell atlon was supported by tho socialists and radicals but the speakers tor other parties were against it