Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-03-25
TARIFF IS
NOT TO BLAME
Increase of Population and
Decline in Food Supply
Cause High Prices.
REAL REASON IS DISCLOSED
Census Bureau Publishes Stats
tics That Reveal the Whole
Situation.

Washington, ID. c., March 25.-An
increase of 100000 in the popula-
ton of the United States during the
last ten years and a decrease of about
100000 in the number of available
food animals is the estimate made by
the bureau of statistics from reports
made by the census bureau and de-
partments of agriculture. Another les
son in the law of supply and demand
deduced by the bureau that is the sup
per cent, while their value has inereas-
ed % per cent. In the meantime the
price of grains necessary for the food
of these animals has increased from
Sc to IS per cent.
Hippopotamus Steak is Good.
Washington, March 25.-Introduc-
tion of the hippopotamus, the rhin-
oceros, the camel, the Gland, the
springbok, the trekbok, the dik-dik,
the coo-doo, the giraffe and other
African animals into America as a
solution of the problem of food sup
ply, was suggested by speakers be-
fore the house committee on agricul-
ture.
Captain Frizt Duquesne, a Boer;
DR.. W. w. Erwin of the bureau of
plant industry of the department of
agriculture, and Major Burnham, who
has spent years in Africa and accom-
panied fromer President Roosevelt on
part of his travel, argued in favor of
the BrOussard bill, to import wild and
domestic animals into the United
| States. Such animals, according to
the bill, must prove useful either as
| food or as beasts of burden. All the
witnesses declared that many of the
animals in Africa could be easily
raised in this country.
THE hippopotamus can be led an(
fed on milk bottle, declared Cap
tain Duquesne, who formerly served
with the Boer army. "The zebra
would in three of four generations
/ become so tame that he would mean
der into your bedroom. The zebra is
very sturdy and strong, as you would
know if you had ever been kicked by
one"
The mule is pretty good at that,
interjected Representative Cocks O
New York.
Every desirable animal in Afric;
can be domesticated here" resumed
the witness. King Menelik domesti
Gated the lion. | would not, however
recommend that here"
There is not difficulty about tn
differing temperatures of Africa ant
America" continued Captain Du
quesne "In one place where Tedd
passed through on his recent hunt tn
frost was thick" and the witness il
dicated the thickness.
! Whom do you mean by Teddy?
l asked the committee.
Mr.. Roosevelt" replied the wi
ness. I'VE call him Teddy there"
The camel can go seven days will
out water" continued Duquesne. H
= can carry 800 pounds pack and on
man can drive long string of then
The rhinoceros, which keeps tn
streams free of water vegetation
! could find food in the millions of acre
that are suitable for him in the soutl
The eland, summing farms and NAL
kind, could live in the more desolat
regions. The African buffalo coul
/ live on marshy ground and supply tf
best leather in the world"
DIR. Irwin said America could fin
a place for the more than 100 specie
l. of undomesticated animals in tt
y world; that the yak, hippopotamu
camel and other animals were exec
5 1ent food and valuable in MANY Way