French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-02-03

HuTE- UUUIJ DOHLO " II
60 many horses went to the battle
fields and cattle to the soldiers for
food. The blood is saved from the
Killing and afterwards chemically
treated SO that. it can be used as an
ingredient to the rye bread-to make
il richer ia albumen. Not a drop Is
wasted. All poultry is picked clean up
to the bill. and while the better meat
is conserved for future use at n
for soups. the remaining parts
such as the. legs, head; comb, the
cleaned intestines, ETC., are chopper
ug after boiling, to form again the
backbone to the the soup kitchens at
home. Such parts are boiled till even
the bones are soft and digest1ble IN a
ground state.
Goats Milk Tor Children.
Milk is a very scarce article IL
germany. and the babies without
mothers milk have to depend on goats
for their sustenance, and even then
the supply is far below normal. Goat
keepers must show the necessity OF
keeping goats, and it must be shown
that they are producing owe their
cost. Failing in this, the animals ale
booked for an early killing. AS 1t IS
goatkeepers have been compelled TO
harvest green boughs from the way
side, dried with the leaves in the
shade, for winter food. This is the
only food that could be spared to h
goats. and. forfeiture of all -animals was
the punishment of all keepers who had
a sufficient supply of such on
hand when the winter set in.
Hogs in the Forests.
The hog-raiser seems to have drawn
the best out of the governments
hands. The enormous forests, that
have been inviolate for centuries 20
the invasion of hogs, r now opening
their gates wide. The magnificent
beech and oak forests, where the
ground is covered with nuts, are an
Eldorado for the hog, and he is get
ting as fat as a lord on the same.
All the hogs belonging to a village
are put into the care of a mar with q
few, generally two. S~chaferhunds or
Rottweilers. large, powerful breeds Of
dogs than can even make an old grand
dad hog turn heels and obey com
.mands. They are then driven to the
particular section in the forest granted
to that village and remain there untti
the weather in the fall turns cold, OF
until the feeding is entirely exhausted
Tie driver stays with his herd, some
times numbering two hundred head
all night and day during the entire
summer. He,carries with him. q little
shelter tent, a gun. and a cooking out
fit, and his food supply is r~eplenished
once a week by a messenger from tns
home village. The gun is for the pUr-
pose of shooting vermin that might
prey on the little pigs earlier in the
year, and for protection.
Before he returns at the approach
of winter, the village authorities ar
range for a regular village killing
day under the supervision inspector.
Every hog that can possibly be spared,
and that is extra over that certain
number allowed to be kept within a
certain village or Kreis fdistrict) o.:
the Kreis ThieraZt district veterina-
RAM. is killed and the meat placed in
cold storage-for they have plenty or
natural ice in Germany in spite st
the blockade-to be drawn again By
the Sarmy general staf. The gain in
numbers and weight of the herd !
used to determine the remuneration to
be given the forests, and the balant
is paid in cash to the owners.
One good has come from this forest
ing-out of the hogs-not one case of
cholera has been discovered in the
country this year, in fact it is said
that the method is so good that already
arrangements are made to continue it
after peace is declared. The hogs are
ii every way better and produce bet
ter filters and raise more than under
the old staIl-kept routine. The meat
and fat laid on by beechnuts is sail
to be second to none in quality.
There are some thoughts in this ram
bic that might prove of use to even
Some of our kings of hog raising, if
they wish to profit by them. We can
not make a mistake in going back to
nature once in a while. That these
methods are superior to those follow
&C during the first year of the war is
shown by the government census of
farm stock, completed last November
AS expected, poultry has increased
three per cent v e the normal of 1919
and q per cent over 1914. when a gen.
crai killing Of hens was the result Of
the beginning of hostilities.
Mich cows and fattening cattle have
gene back SO much that they are not
mentioned. 1t is said that they are
reduced over one-haIf in numbers.
This was caused by the enormous de-
mand of the soldiers for meat at the
beginning. also by the fact that the
feedstuffs would become short. After
peace is declared, Germany will prove
a heavy buyer here. Let's get ready
and have breeders of the right kind
ready for her.
Sheep have increased "A per CEN
since the fall of 1914, an indication
that the frugal sheep of the moorlands
is doing her share to sustain liver
over there. The leading mutton sheep
or Germany is the medium-sized Haid
Scbnucken, a brown-coated sheep that
grows fat on the poorest kind of herb
age. 1t is also perfectly hardy and