The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-25
WASHINGTON BLAZING WITH PATRIOTIC COLORS AS LAST
 OF GRAND ARMY CONFINES
GERMANY WILL GET NO SUPPLIES
 FROM SWEDEN
Stockholm Government For bids Exportation of Beef
 and Canned Goods.

Stockho1m Sweden, Sept. 25-The action of the Swedish government m prohibiting the expert of all meat, canned goods and live stock, which becomes operative today, means the pra ctica1 loss to Germany of Sweden
 as a source of food supply. Certain
 minor exceptions will exist, the most important of which is fish; and pork
 and bacon can still be exported under
 special licenses; but the order is as
 absolute and inf1exible as possible un- der the circumstances and Sweden
 export trade in food is for the time being, and probably as long as the war lasts, almost completely at an end.
 Although it has been common knowledge that Germany has been substantially helped by Sweden in the
 matter of food, the extent of this help | has only been revealed by fragmen- tary figures which are now available The prohi bitory order has been for a 1 long time delayed by desire express | ed by the government to first count | the amount of stock on hand in SWe-
 den and determine whether it had ac- | tuaIly fallen low enough to make the prohibition imperative The results
 of this investigation are. startling
 During the first year of the war 1 162,OOO cattle have been exported,
 practically the whole stock going to l Germany This is fully a 300 per l cent increase over the ordinary ex- l port before the war. During the same length of time 500,0OO hogs, alive or
 slaughtered, have been sent out or l Sweden to foreign markets, although
 in this case a large percentage has gone to England. The counting of stock showed that whereas Sweden l was expected to have for home con- I sumption 100000 hogs, she now has on hand less than half this num- Der The alarming scarcity of pro- | x1iSi Sh hU together with tke popular outcry
 against the high prices which actually
 placed the common necessities of life | beyond the reach of the poor con- l sumer, resulted in the order prohibit l ing further export. It is thought that | this order will soon be extended to all food.
 ] Soon after the outbreak of the war, 1 thousands of German buyers swarm 1 ed into Sweden, Hw1ao did what they could, even in the smallest villages, ] to buy up all available meat and veg l eta bles. Duly organized and with special central offices established,
 where food accumulated, live stock 1 to Germany.
 | At Landscrona and Malmo, factories were built and no detail was omitted in the systematic attempt to make 1 the export as high as possible. A 1 temporary step taken by the Swedish
 
 | the export of all timed goods allowed Sweden a short respite from a system l which was draining her of supplies
 which were necessary for home con- sumption. But by various dodges, and prinei pauy by exporting the same amount of meat in form of live stock or slaughtered cattle, the export soon
 reached it's former height. Swedish
 dealers were encouraged to continue I this excessive and disastrous export 7i<1J1A
 offered by Germans Food prices be- gan to mount daily and with alarm ling bounds until it was evident that a f continuance of exports would lead to
 the actual starvation of Sweden. The scarcity and Sthe almost prohibitiVe
 prices placed upon articles of food
 which always had been regarded as !; the simple necessities of life, have
 caused already, acute suffering among the poorer classes. .'-
 In addition to the prohibition of ex- ports, food commissions are already fixing maximum prices on the ordi- nary food commodities, Milk which has been selling for about six cents g 1itre, has already fallen to five cents 5 at the instructions of the commission and maximum price of $6.25 pel LOO kiIos of what has been set by the
 government, to last until the 5th o1 } October
 T It is thought that the prohibition or exports ana the feconlfnenodllo1i = made by the commission will effect = lively reduce the speculative price! which now prevail, but to further
 help Nin the matter and to do away s with the middlemen, and agents : commissions, the government has es r tablished a food bureau, with brancf e offices all over the country, to buy al e available supplies and sell them di : rectly to the consumer without profit e This will undoubtedly be of materia n assistance in the effort to send price e downward.
 e Pork today is 85 cents per kilo. / : year ago it was IS cents. Butter nov = 80 cents, a year ago 50 cents. Egg D now 50 cents for 20, year ago 2 : cents. Beef now 75 cents, formerl, = 30 cents.
 d It appears from this increase of 10 o per cent. that food prices are a l. present higher in Sweden than in an