El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-09
Expect To Furnish $4,000
Pounds of Cheap Meat a
Week During Wa.
BUTTER AND FAT
ARE VERY SCARCE
Potatoes Plenty, But Crop
Inferior; One Egg a Week
Per Person, Limit.
.ERLIN. GERMANY. Sept s.-The

DERLIN, GERMANY Sept e-The
announcement Of food dictator Won
~ BatocH that an appreciable in
crease of the meat supply is not to be
expected before late in the fail has
caused general disappointment. because
it was expected that the good harvest
would permit the quick fattening OF
cattle and hogs
To overcome the shortage Of meat.
which will last at least three months
longer and may be until the war ends.
the Berlin suburbs Wilmersdorf.
Schmargendorf. ZehIendorf and Teltow
have jointly established a large rabbit
farm at a cost of more than $4,000. The
farm comprises about 80 acres and now
contains over $4,000 rabbits. The ami
mails multiply rapidly and are killed as
soon as they weigh three TO five pounds.
II is expected that the farm will soon
furnish more than 10000 pounds of
cheap meat a week The land used
for the experiment belongs TO the city
of Berlin.
Takes Pessimistie View
Dr. HOesch. a member of the reichs-
tag. takes a pessimistic view Of the
food situation during the coming win
ter in an article which he contributes
TO Der Tag"
He is not worried about the supply Of
bread or potatoes. but he propheSies
that fat will be exceedingly scarce He
says;
The question OF the provision Of fat
for next winter looks very gloomy I'm
ports at present are SO small that the
nation will have to depend upon do
nestle production for the greatest part
OF what is consumed
supply of Butter and Fat short
Whether the prospective allowance
OF butter and fat small as they are, can
be maintained appears TO be more than
l.
able litre of unseparated milk will have
&c be utilized in order TO produce the
required rations. and yet no one can
form any estimate OF what the milk
supply in the coming winter is going
to be We cannot estimate IL very high
as the supplies of fodder available for
intensive feeding. such as needed to get
a large milk supply. are very limited
and are becoming less and less.
Hay Wet; Won't Increase MIX
This years fodder harvest looked as
II II were going to be splendid but a
great deal OF the glamor vanished when
the spell of wet weather set in We
did manage TO save a rather large crop
OF hay. but il Is all rain affected ard.
while this kind of hay will undoubted-
" keep our cattle alive, it is not OF a
kind TO increase the milk supply and
produce food This is the position OF
milk cows. which seem to be regarded
now as our only resource for providing
fats
Impossible to Compel Diaries.
But much more serious question Is
the impossibility Of compelling the
diaries TO deal with all the unseparated
milk To limit the supply Of IN
separated milk TO children and invalids
sounds all very well in theory. but.
while II might be carried out in the
case the small farmers to obey the
regulations Whoever denies this only
shows his ignorance of the people and
the country
Fat Is Government Property.
In the meantime the new imperial
food lat office. which was created to
control the supplies of fat for the en-
pre- on the same lines as the grain and
meat offices is tackling the difficult
ues Diaries have been informed that
an lat produced is government prop
erty. and a dairy is defined as a place
" inch handles more than so litres of
milk a day
municipalities are given certain DOW
ers OF requiring fat stuffs to be deliv-
e-ed wholly or in part to themselves
" nile COW keepers must deliver their
milk TO diaries TO have it made into
butter.
Potatoes Abundant. But Inferior.
Germany has finished her potato har-
vest and. as far as quantity goes. il is
SAID TO be abundant. but the quality is
rather inferior, owing TO the wet sum
per. and this causes some anxiety. as
The poorer grades of potatoes viii not
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