The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-11

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8 Practically all the food that they
have in Berlin are rations that will
keep.
restaurants only on presentation Of
their pack of cards; and it is abso-
lutely impossible to obtain more than
the quantities allowed to be served.
And such quantities.
Here are the most recent figures:
IS grammes of meat so of bread, and
2 or three potatoes, when they can
get them.
It. is expressly forbidden to the res
taurants, even the most expensive
ones, to have more than one meat
dish on the menu. And it is useless
to try to, trick the authorities. + know
of several restaurants where they
tried to infringe on the rules. The
trouble into which they got has kept
their confreres from attempting to
to get around the law.
Sever Punishment
The owner Of the great Kapinsky
restaurant has been condemned to
close his establishment, sentenced to
six months in prison, and a $4,000
fine (pre-war value of the Mark was
"a cents) because he gave his patrons
more bread than the authorized
quantity; the manager of the Esplan-
ade has been condemned to q year
in prison, and a $4,000 mark fine for
serving dishes which were not printed
on the menu.
$500 or more for a modest meal!
Eggs are as scarce as milk, vege-
tables are exceedingly rare. Even the
small quantity Of food that one is al
lowed to- buy il almost prohibited to
the Oldest purse. For very small
repast one must pay out ~ or IA
marks. In a restaurant the IS
grammes Of food that one is allowed
to buy is almost prohibited to the
modest purse. For a very small re-
past one must pay 1 2 or marks. In
cost 4.5O marks, dish of vegetables
2.50 marks. and soup 1-2 m. M
Cocoa, chocolate, tea, and coffee
are not in existence any more. give
the word eexistence1 its literal mean
ing. There is only war coffee-roast-
,ed oats The fruits are also as scarce
as the vegetables which practically
disappeared this last winter, the gov.
eminent having requisitioned the pro,
duction and kept them for the army
One Egg Per Person Per Month!
AS for the civil element, to what.
ever social class he belongs, the ra.
ton of the day consists of ESQ gram,
mes of bread, IS of meat. $50 of DO.
tatoes, 10 Of fat, of sugar, and one
egg per person per month, and ons
bottle Of marmalade per person eacr
month. One always obtains less foot
rather than more than his officia
allowance.
! The little children and the sicI
people, the latter on the presentation
of a medical certificate, are able t,
obtain little milk, when. there il
lany.
Before the war. 1900, 600 COW
furnished the milk. there remains les
than 5000. 900 now, owing to tn,
! great slaughter carried on at the be
ginning of the war, and the lack o
fodder. The lack of cows is not thu
only reason of the diminution: tn.
average production of milk per ami
i NAL was seven to eight ilitres; becaus
of insufficient feed for the animals
this has come down to four or fiv
Elitres.
Il These figures that am giviny
come from the German Biological
4 Department of which I am a mem
lber.
4 At the beginning of the war, Ger
many had $1,000, 600 head of cattle
In November 1914 they ordered tn
4 sacrifice of / per cent of the tota
quantity, and by the month of No
vember 1916, there was not NOR
than 1s.000,800 left, There were 25,
4 100000 hogs and in November 1911
80 per cent. were sacrificed. Their
tremAin still 10000 900 in Novembe
1916. thanks to the prolific virtue
of these animals. The sheep, who's
numbers reached 100000, have te
tally disappeared. or the goats, ther
Iare 100000 left out of $500, 900.
Shortage of fertilizers
i The harvest which is coming wi
be but average owing to the lack {
skilled workers. All the work is don
by women or by French and Russia
prisoners There are in Germany 40
, factories for artificial nitrates. B,
: they suffer exceedingly, meanwhile
because of lack of manure, the pow
l ier of these nitrates not comparing /
} the least with the natural nitrate
: from Chill. The agricultural produ,
= / ton has diminished on an average
. II per cent per hectare 1t must ais
$ be realized that the seed have dinnil
Z ished in large proportions. Because
3 all these reasons. the harvests becon
/, smaller and smaller.
Fear Country's Dismemberment
t The German has accepted and COZ
1 sents to undergo discipline TIL
t probably any other race would n
: bear.
The German thinks that he Dug
to fight to the last breath Of ii
= Ia man hAeaTaa n Ii ~,
! this war is an affair of life or dear