The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-11

European countries for American oysters.
The little coppery tasting shell-fish that
grow on the oyster side no longer occupy
the place they once did In the esteem Of
'gourmets.' The succulent, delicious Amer
lean bivalves have established an undenia-
bic superiority. Moreover, the oyster beds
In European waters are gradually becom-
ing poorer. Recently there has been seri.
Gus decline in the once flourishing oyster
fisheries of Denmark. Last year only
about 1000, 900 oysters were taken, which
is far below the average, and the quality
was not so good as usual. There were no
new banks discovered during the year. The
most important now known are those in
the Gulf of Vendsel and at Fladstrand.
This scarcity of oysters at a place that used
to supply the active and remunerative
market IN England will undoubtedly add
TO the demand for American oysters and
stimulate their export from this country"
In a paper on agricultural statistics, read
before the British Association, Mr.. w. Bot
ley gave some interesting facts concerning
the food supply of Great Britain and the
continent, as follows: .At present the
food supply produced in Europe is equal
to about eleven months consumption, but
in few years the deficit will be sixty in
stead OF thirty days. The present produc-
tiVh uhA Consumption uTt UTAH. tUIl-
sumption In the United Kingdom. co.,
600, 600 bushels; continent, 4, 79i 600 900; TO-
tai, 540l ,00O0 bushels. Production of
the United Kingdom, 1872, 100000 bushels;
continent, 4,735,0OO,0OO bushels; total. s.
O67 ,WU,OO Meat consumption in the Unit
ed Kingdom, 1,H0,0O0 tons; continent, o.
1900 tons; total, S,l120O0 tons. It APP
pears that the bulk OF the deficit
belongs to Great Britain, but
as the continent ia unable to feed its
own population, we must in future look to
some other hemisphere for the needed sup
ply rather than to the supposed surplus OF
Russia, Hungary, HOllqnd or Denmark.
Europe paid last year $l75, 900 for for
eign meats and $i25, 100000 for gra,n-a
sum equivalent to a tax Of $50,000OOO per
month. In the United Kingdom the i'm
portation of meat, including cattle, has
risen as follows: 1869, Of ,230 tons; value,
WI ,95O 600; per inhabitant, pounds; 1879,
la 10 tons; value, $3.50 600; per inhabl-
tant, ~ pounds; 1880, G5O.3O tons; value,
$l3S 100000, or 40 pounds lor each inhabi-
tant.
Consul Tanner, OF Leig, has made an ex.
traordinary report to the state department
on the German and Austrian adulteration
OF American products. Among other
things, he says: They can lakeland they
DO It, too,-one gallon OF our kerosene oil
and make one and half out of it. Ifyou
70 into shop in Germany where this kero.
sene Is peddled you will be surprised to
ma the oil, which you have always re-
garded as possessing but one grade, trans
formed by the Germans into three grades,
ana gravely told, when you manifest sur
prise, that 1t came from America that way.
me trst quality will be found to be
slightly dashed, the second considerably so,
and the third 30 heavily as hardly to be de-
tectcd by the Oldest and most intimate
acquaintance. The science OF dilution is
carried into everything that is liquid, and
a into everything that Is solid.
rnelr wines, liquors and beers, their med
icines and even their mineral waters are
run OF all kinds Of connections and foreign
ingredients that are dangerous to life and
neaith Thelr sausages and hashed meats
are melange OF doubtful ingredients.
Even their wooden goods are adulterated
with wool made from rags. The rags are
passed THROUGH o machine, recOnyerted
into wool. then made into cloth and lai gely
exported into the United States. 1t is we'll
known and abunoantly proven that cloth
made from such wool retains through all
its transformation and rough handling
germs OF disease and disseminates them
broadcast. A German dying of small ox,
MS clothing becomes useless Tor other pur-
poses than old rags. The American wear.
ing suit made of German cloth thinks
little Of the risk he is running or of the con-
dition OF the person who had died and
worn at least a portion of his suit before
MN. One must shut his eyes aud go it
blind when he makes up his mind to buy
much that is brewed brked or manufac-
tured IN Germany, and to be at the reckless
point that he does not care what may