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DROUTH IN EUROPE
Food For Cattle and Horses Will
Have 10 Come From America.
Dry Weather Has Had Disastrous Results
in Various C0untries-Lar-c ConflaG-
~rations Have Been Frequent.

Washington, D. C.-Georgc II. Muir
ply, American Vice-Consul-Gencral at
Frankfort, says in a report:
1.-THE severe drouth which is affecting
European countries has had various i'll
furious effects. 1t has caused frequent
and large conflagrations; it has stopped
river navigation entirely in many dis
tricts, causing a scarcity of fruits and
garden truck, coal, wood, etc, and
greatly advanced prices; it has forced
works operated by water power to
cease running. But it is particularly
the inSutficiency of feedstuffS for cattle
and horses which causes anxiety in
agricultural and commercial circles.
THE Governments Of Bulgaria and
Roumania have already issued DEGREES
prohibiting the expectation of corn and
other cattle feed. Servia and Austria
Hungary also have issued DEGREES pro-
hibiting the expectation Of corn, hay
and other feedstuffs. The order OF
the AuStro-HunGarian Government is
most rigid and sweeping, as it includes,
in addition, bran and barley, potatoes
aud beans, oil cake, clover, and the
husks, dregS and waste materials of
malt and sugar beets; in short, every
thing, even including swil:, which can
serve as food for ANIMALS.
"Roumania and AuStro-Hungary
have heretofore been the principal Eu-
ropean supply sources for corn and
feedstuffs for the other countries Of
Western Europe. This source of sup
ply now being closed, Germany,
Italy, France, Switzerland, Belgium,
Holland and England, as well as the
Scandinavian countries, will have to
depend principally upon the United
States, and, to a smaller extent, upon
Argentina for food for their cattle and
horses"
many, also says the United States will
have to help feed Central Europe dur
ing the coming autumn and winter on
account Of drouth in Russia, Austria,
Germany, Switzerland and France.
The ConSul-Gencral states that a
careful inquiry as to the grain crops
and the general agricultural situation
has been made by the central station
for Prussian agriculture, and its re-
port shows that there was a falling
off from the yield Of last year in spring
wheat. winter rye, spring rye, barley
and oats. Winter wheat furnished the
only exception among these leading
cereals.
Mr.. Mason says the effects of the
drouth on pastures, meadows and root
crops of all kinds, both for forage and
for human food, are still more serious.
"All this has reacted disastrously
on the dairying industry" says the
Consul-General, land milk, cheese and
butter are reduced in quantity and ad-
vanced in price. The standard fruits,
apples, pears, plums and peaches,
which in early summer promised a full
average yield, have to a serious extent
been ripened prematurely by the pro-
longed intense dry heat and have shriv-
eled and fallen off in such quantities
that the autumn fruit crop is gravely
compromised"
The Consul-Generai predicts an in
creased demand not only for corn,
wheat and rye from the United States,
but for fresh and preserved fruits,
dried and sailed fish, and such meats
as the present inspection law of Ger
many permits to be imported.