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Show NEED BjGJiERDS i Europe's Meat Supply Must Corns j From America. Warring Nations Have Depleted Lh0 Stock at Enormous Rate, Evt Killing Dairy Cattle For Food. American stock breeders are belJS asked to conserve their flocks and herds in order to meet Europe's tremendous tre-mendous demands for meats during the war and probably for many yaors afterward. The United States food admlnl- tration reports that American stock raisers have shown a disposition to co-operate with the government In Increasing In-creasing the nation's supply of llw stock. Germany today Is probably bettar supplied with live stock than any otJi-er otJi-er European nation. When the GcS-man GcS-man armies made their big advnc9 into France and Jhen retreated TtS4-tually TtS4-tually all the cattle in the lnvadod territory approximately 1,800,000 head were driven behind the Qermoa lines. But in England where 2,400,080 acres of pasture lands have been turned turn-ed into grain fields the cattle herds are decreasing rapidly. One of th9 reasons apparently is the decllnlas maximum price scale adopted by tb8 Knglish as follows: For .September, $1,7.76 per 100 pounds; October, $17.23; November and December, .$16.08; JB-lary, JB-lary, $14.10. The effect of these prices was to drive beef animals on the map-: map-: ket as soon as possible. In France the number of cattl as well as the quality have shown aa enormous decline during the WW. Where France had 14,807,000 heed oS cattle in 1013, she now has only 1-341,000, 1-341,000, a decrease of 16.6 per cent.. And France is today producing only one gallon of milk compared to two j and one-half gallons before the wer. Denmark and Holland have beoffl forced to sacrifice dairy herds for beef because of the lack of necessary feed. Close study of the European meaS situation has convinced the Food Ai&-mjnistration Ai&-mjnistration that the future problega of America lies largely in the production produc-tion of meat producing animals ar.fi dairy products rather than in the pr duction of cereals for export whaffl the war will have ceased. |