The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-07

of the hold was filed with corn which had
heated and it was steaming when it was
taken out. There was NJ place to be found
in Riga where the corn could be dried, ana
il was put into the cars and rushed OH to
the famine districts. Care was not taken
to keep this corn separate from some OF the
good corn and number OF car loads were
spoiled. Some of this spoiled corn came to
Samara and another lot Of il went to Sara
TOW The best of it was dried and given to
the people for food and tins rest was used
for the cattle.
THE FAMINE AND LIVE STOCK.
The effect of the farline on stock of all
kinds has been terrible. This province of
Samara is about as large as the state OF
New York 1t Is TO q large extent stock
raising country, and the people depend
upon their horses, COWS and sheep to Turn
ism them their livelihood. During the past
six months they have lost 100000 sheep,
60O, 900 horses and at least 100000 cows.
When the famine was at It's worst they had
nothing to feed their stock, and they tore
the thatch off their huts and kept them
alive for months on this sort of food. The
peasants hut has a kind OF box-like room
under this ridge roof of thatcb, and this
could be done aud still leave a compnra-
lively sheltered place for the family. The
animals ate this thatch greediiy. 1t is
maze Oh straw duu IL - OA n4duS " VIZ
houses fully eighteen inches thick When
it was not too old it formed fairly good
food, but the supply was so scanJy
that hundreds of thousands OF the cattle
were almost dead before the grass came In
the spring and the pioughlng mad TO be
done. The horses would pull the plough
yard or so and then lie down almost dead
tired in the furrough, and it would be- per-
haps almost half an hour before they could
~, nd ~ en Or1
yards and then lie down. Both cattle and
horses were killed by the people for food,
and in the winter horses were sold Tor
dollar apiece for which the people colld
have gotten $50 and 800 the summer be-
FORE Germans came in and bought horses
on speculation, and much stock was ship
ned out of the country In SgrRtov nearly
half of the horses which the provence had
last year have disappeared, and through
out the whole of the famine regions there
has been defamation of stock which will
REQUIRE years to replace. The weakn ess
and the loss of the stock naturally pro-
duced the planting of q much smaller acre
age than usual. and though in many parts
of Russia through which | have Travelled
the crops are comparatively good there can
hardly be enough to keep the people dur
ing the coming year without the aid OF the
government or outside help.
The horses of Russia are among the finest
in the world aud the meat OF the country
will compare favorably with that of Eng
,and. In this region. however, such horses
s see show the effects of the famine still,
and you can count the ribs on the cattle in
abe fields. The loss of horses throughout
the famine districts must have amounted
TO many millions in number, aud IN some of
the districts fully half of the live stock has
tbeen killed or sold.
THE RUSSIAN PEASANTS.
| find it hard 70 give an idea of the famine
situation in Russia the Russian peasants
are so different in every respect from the
people Of the rest of the world. They live
differently. they are governed differently
and they do their work and manage their
affairs after a different manner from the
farmers of Europe or The United States.
Their wants are SO small that cents day
per person has kept thousands alive during
the famine, and st Saratov l was told that
SIS day had been the total cost of feeding
400 people for weeks. This was among the
Catholic Germans, and they each got
one and half pounds OF black bread
q day apiece, and this furnished ct cost
a amounted to 2 cents. In some places