Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-20
MEAT WILL BECOME
 LUXURY AFTER WAR
 THROUGHOUT EUROPE
None too plentiful Before the War This Commodity Is Threatening to Become One That will Be Hard to Buy.

of The Associated Press )-None to,
 plentiful before the war, meat is likel.
 to become a real luxury in Europe ai ter peace is declared and remain S, for a considerable time until stock breeding has progressed on an i'm
 mense scale.
 The Central Power group beiives il
 will find itself better off than the En tente group in this respect, but both groups will certainly find it a serious problem. At the expiration of two years of warfare-which period will soon be reached-it is estimated the
 Entente powers will be short 7,575,000 head of meat animals, while the Gen.
 traI group, owing to the territories oc-
 cupied by their armies, would in that
 time lose only 100000 head through
 over-consumption due to the war. ! Commenting upon the situation the Paris Des Deux Nondes points out that France lost 20ec of its meat animal stock by tn eoccupation of ten depart ments of the Germans. France lost through this 1,510,000 horned cattle, 14,SO4,31O sheep and S14.919 pigs. This means, says the periodical, that France is deprived of an annual meat production Of ,000 tons.
 The live stock of Belgium also was lost by the Entente, this being esti- mated to amount to about 2,OOO,OO0 head of cattle, 1S,0OO,OOO sheep and over 100000 pigs. Germany gained thus the meat production of roundly g, ,0O0,0 animals in the western thea Ire alone.
 Though the Russians saved much of their live stock in Poland and the in- vaded Russian provinces, nearly 40, 00O,OOO meat animals fell in the hands of the Germans and Austro-H -Hungari- ans Against this must be charged the losses sustained by the Central Powers in Galicia and East Prussia, said to amount to about S,000,O00 head because in east Prussia much of the stock was driven off beforehand, while ihe Galician live stock had already been drawn on heavily by Ihe Auctro- Hungarian troops.
 The live stock found in Serbia is es, timated at about S,OOO,0OO head of meat animals, so that the Central Powers have in their favor q balance of about 7S,000,000 animals. This means meat production of roundly 1,910,O00 tons per year.
 This cannot be looked upon as an increase altogether of the Central Pow CTS food supply. In the territories from which the live stock comes lives population of about 35,O00, GOO, whose wants must be met. of course. Never theless, the meat production of the territories occupied by the Germans and Austro- Hungarian troops being some S.OOO,OG0 pounds annually, which is 1902 pounds per capita, large surplus is left for the occupying troops. A daily meat ration of eight ounces for each inhabitant of the dis trict held, would place at the disposal of the Germans and ro-Hungarians 20, 700, 100000 pounds per year Even in view of the fact that the meat con- sumption of the Central Powers arm- ies is AS pounds for each man a year, this quantity would go far towards maintaining the mep in the field.
 That pork and pork fats are hard to get at present in the Central Powers countries may be hard to understand in the light of these conditions. But the following explanation of this fact is given here. Port has been the fav. orite meat of the men at the front. owing to its heat-producing qualities, and in addition, last year, when the grain and potato crops of the Central empires were decidedly poor, too many pigs were butchered in order to lessen lhe demand for feed.
 Entente states which are least fav- orably situated in their meat supply coming from home production are Great Britain and Italy. The annual per capita consumption in Great Brit ain is about 150 pounds. Of this 6O2s has to be imported. A table recently compiled by the well-known Italian economist Ferretti shows that Italy has already used one-half of it's horned cattle 10 feed it's army.
 Russia is probably best off in this respect. though heavy demands on its meat production have also been made. To feed its army, estimated al eight million men under arms, took. during the first war year. no less than 300,000- 900 head Of meat animals.
 France. in addition 10 having lost considerable share of meat animals, is obliged to feed about three million refugees from the occupied depart ments and Belgium. Russia has 10 care similarly for over six million ref ugees.
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