The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-20

tribution. munitions supplies and
av4rable battle grounds. it is but
! atural that the work -aday world
III sther beligerent or nonbeligerent'
aid. of eudden, become keenly
-ested In determining Just how y
ed. just where the daily supplies
Ythe kitchen larder come FROM
1n day OF the European war has
Fight with 1t new contectures as 10
advantages and disadvantages OF
rent nations places at the worio
SO and many of these con5ectures
been based on more or less reck-
guessing. Tho following sketch OF
Asworld's meat supply, taken from
study prepared for the Nadonai
.oxraphic Society a. washington oy
titan Joseph showalter on the
!. trees contributing to human'tys
market basket, brings timely ana ac-
cuSete information on suoJect oE0F
vrteh all people are 'scussint
asraking the worlds supply or cat
a1hogs and sheep and making proper
,Ifywance for the less improved
,stnods of stock raising on other
SITS OF the globe as compared with
Rose OF the United states, 1T appears
AT mankind at large uses IN the
cesahborhood OF 100000 pounds OF
neat a year. This would be nm aver
ags .bf about thirty mine pounds per
capita throughout the world. Ine
people of the United States few years
ago were eating 172 pounds per capita,
whioh 10 more than four times as mucn
as.the average for the race.
Comparative Consumption.
.Next to-the Australians, the Amerf-
can people are the largest OF all meat
eatsfs In butchers meat, the latest
stattsttcs showed the American TO be
,atin1 ia pounds; the Engltshman,
ia rounds; the German. ii3 pounds;
me .rrenchman and the Belgian. SO
, ,ur,ds; the Austr o. Hungarian. 90
: ouads; the Russian, SO pounds. ana
me spantard. 40 pounds. The average
kp,erican-whose table. by the way. IS
the most plenteous table ths worid
sround-eats SO Ia pounds OF beer:
Ia pounds OF veal, rs pounds OF
pork and lard, and Ia pounds OF
mutton and lamb year,
where we eat so pounds of oeef'
the Enslishman cats Sc pounds 'he
rrrAnchman 81 pounds. and the Ger
8
ncuuds OF pork. including lard. the
Enslishman eats 20 pounds the Ger
man 81. and the Frenchnan 70
pounds
1--WE eat Is pounds Of veal where
the EnRlishman eats pounds. ths
German i-s pounds, and the French
man pounds. and We eat IL
mounds Of mutton and lamb where the
Enxlishman eats rs pounds. the Ger
man Ia pounds. and the French
man pounds
From these figures II win be seen
that the Frenchman eats less than mai!
the beef we do. He eats as much peer
az TIE German, but less than haif as
much pork
at IL Interesting 20 study the per
-, rita production OF meats in the
countries OF the Central Powers at the
nreaent time. The statistics OF the
United States Department OF Agri
culture reveal the fact that Germany
Austria Hungary, Bulgaria and lnr"
tay had a total OF approximately o"'-
200 cattle before the war began.
Central Powers Production.
.~rp. department OF Agriculture
%. that about one-ffth of the total
,rrhsr OF cattle In Germany are
aauwhtered annually. Assuming taas
"a net weight Of those of Germany
INF austria 4aHFaFy earrsspcncs WIN
,ha net weight of our own cattle anu
that the net weight OF those OF bu.-
aria and Turkey Is only Soo pounus
whera ours In 54S. IL would apr ear
~, there la a thirty-four-p pound per
:. n,,s production OF beef in the Cen
There are $1,000. 600 hogs in the
.t~tAs ~ .he Teutonic Alliance,
,rhe Depa rtrsens OF Agricultural sta
tsstics show that the annual slaughter
in Germany 10 i10.$ per cent OF tho
total number OF hogs on hand AZ
r,van time. therefore II would appear
that there ts per capita prodn 'oh
n, pork amounting to forty-hVe pouhus
in the Central Powers
..pased on the German ratio or tne
sheen killed to those found on the
farms OF the country At gwen unns,
". annual slaughter OF sheep in tho
ras,or controlled by the Central
powsrs /. sl.ooo,o 900. Assuming that
~. average dressed weight per sheep
!. only thirty pounds. as compared
nth forty-ona pounds in the un'eo
ststcs there would be production OF
aI1 600. 900 pounds of mutton. or %
pounds per capita. -
This gives q total production OF
meat, emitting horse and goat meat
~ s6.7 pound. per capita among the
Central Powers. The Department OF
Agriculture gives the average German
consumption as 1l3 pounds, ana 'he
.verare Austro- Hungarian consump-
ton as s!xty-four pounds II is proc
able that Bulgarian and Turkish con-
sumption approximates that OF 'he
Russian. which 10 firty pounds.
TN the past few years the United
states has shown q tendency to reduce
the volume of meat It consumes per
capita The high cost of butchers
meat has forced Americans to find SUP
stitutes and 1t Ia not improbable tha'
IN the course of another generation
meat e.4ting In this country will fali
far below the mark 1t has hitherto
held.
Meat Trade Falling on.
"Not only has cur home consump-
ton OF meat fallen off. but our ex-
norts of animal products have declined
- ten wears II II were not for our
enormous exports of lard. we would
/ IN danger Of having our foreign
At trade become a negligible guam
'.But In spite Of the slowing up OF