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Show FATS LACKING, I GERMANY TURNS I TO SUGAR BOWL High Prices Are Forcing People to Change Their Diets MEAT VALUES SOAR Imports of Eggs, Dairy-Products Dairy-Products and Poultry Deeply Slashed j BERLIN Tcc. 2. Fat, one of the chief nsscuttals of oookins In Ger- ; many, has come to be such a luxury thnt only persons with "rat" pocket - j books ran afford It. At the end of October lard was costing HoO marks I a pound, while butter was bringing only 750. t The imports of hop fat today amount to about two-thirds their pro-war pro-war volume, and Gorman farmers complain they cannot fatten their I porkers now as formerly berau3 I they no longer get the nourishing' Russian barley feed, j Consumption of meat In Germany i is now only A3 per cent of what it was before 1914 In their efforts to j find a satisfactory substitute for th hiph-prlced fatty foods, people are J turning more and more to sweets I Chocolate candy, particularly, is liij ( Arrowing demand. Frultl and paatrlosl j nre In high favor, and slices of bread I 1 are now spread with preserves or j j marmalades where formerly they I would have been eaten with a thick j coating of butter, margarine or lard. ' I Goose was a leading meat in the ) i old days, because of its unusually : ,'arge grease content, but even this , favorite has suffered heavily In pre-war pre-war times 8.600,000 geese were Im-J ported every year, as compared With P0H3 during the first two-thirds of this year. Prelous to 19H. each year saw an import Of 106.600 double nt -tiers of dressed chickens and 21,000 double centners of ducks. From Jan-nary Jan-nary 1 to September 1. 1 922. both Irn-ported Irn-ported chickens and ducks together amounted to only 507 double cent - Dairy produce also has been hit hard by the enforced change in ap-petltes. ap-petltes. The first eight months of the year registered 10,442 double centners of butter coming in. against .150.000 annually before the war. The former yearly tmport of milk was SSO.OOO double centners and of cream 444.000. In the eight months end-Ing end-Ing September 1, imported milk has amounted to 62.189. and the Inflow Hf of cream reached the ridiculously low figure of 122 double centners. Eggs formerly came here from Hj abroad at the rate of 1.667.500 double' I centnere a year, besides the arrival of 67,134 double centners of egg yolkl Uone. From Januar 1 to September j 1 1, this year, the position was re- - rsed and these imports stood at H! 11305 and 31,570 double centners rc- 'Spectlvely. |