The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-30

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that Austria Hungary should use its
J influence TO procure the entry Of her
/ allies into an association for the peace
! fui settlement of international con
! fiiets and the limitation OF ornaments.
/ The correspondent also refers to an
| article in the Vienna SOM ind Mon
(, tagszeitung complaining that the slow
ness OF the der ocratization of Ger
many prevents the conclusion of
! peace. and asking why the imperial
/ chancellor does not imam biguously
proclaim that, Belgium shall remain
| fee and independent.
I Food Outlook for Winter.
/ In an address to the press CORE
jspondents Herr Won Waldow, the sec
rotary OF the state for the war food
ministry gave an account of the pros
poets for the winter, summarized in
the Hsmburgischer Correspondent and
/ the Munchuer Neuste Nachrichten.
The conditions of corn and other
fodder were, he admitted. rather dim
/ cult The harvest would fall below
+ that of 1915, and il would require
consideration to do justice to the COM
peting requirements of the army, of
agriculture. of industry and OF town
! traffic. In the first line came, of
course, the needs Of the army and
the maintenance Of agricultural pro
/ duction, A. sufficient supply o. fodder
for agricultural draft horses must be
secured. 1t seemed probable that
when this requirement had been full
/ hlled there would not be fodder suffi-
cient for fattenirg swine and for sus-
tanning horned cattle in their present
numbers, Should that prove TO be
the case. measures must be taken in
=. titae~~t hat is,=hefpre the beginning al
the winter to bring about a ~.s-
+ tematic reduction Of the number OF
swine and horned cattle. This would,
Of course, have an effect upon the
+ meat supply as well "a upon that of
milk and fat In the case OF milk
there would be a temporary increase
Of the ration followed by a subsequent
decrease
The preservation Of the supplies of
milk and butter during the winter
would be difficult. IL would he neces-
sary to extend the system Of collect
ing places to receive the dairy pro-
duce in the districts where milk was
produced. With this problem the i'm
perial fat ONCE was necessarily Crap
ping.
Harvest in Saxony.
The Magdebu~z. sche Zeitung re-
teives from its Eicaden correspondent
the following report. derived from an
| authoritative source.
The great expeditions at first held
OF the harvest have unfortunately not
| been fulfilled. The great drought in
MAY and June did cons'C cradle harm
oats and barley have failed, rye and
wheat reach medium harvest. Par
tieularlN unfavorah lA IS The harvest
around Leipzig; in the hilly districts ,
it is better. The potatoes offer the
best prospects, go that they will cover
the deficit in corn. The kohlrabi crop
is had; the fodder harvest in general
is also not specially good On the
other hand, the present rains will bo
very good for fodder roots Experts
hope thHt no attem &c VIII &c made TO
hasten potato deliveries rs this year.
owing to the long winter. the potatoes
were planted late and must therefore
remain III the ground longer than
! usual
Scarcity Of sugar
| The Brunswick Volksfreund auotea
| the Magdaburg zentralbIett fur die
/ Zuckerindustrie for the Following ac~
j.! count Of the German sugar-hcet CROP:
Some daily papers haye been pub ,
| fishing a report, emanatina from
! Berlin news agency. 10 the effect thst
the strifsfnefy good condition Of the
beets will compensate TO a substantial
| degree FOR the diminished production
caused by a decrease In cultivation.
/ This is an exaggerated statement
which awakens hopes impossible of
/ fulRIlment Even with q full crop
the production could amount at most
to "a 900 ctr. (hundredweight Of raw
value. while in the last years Of peace
! over so. 000. 600 ctr. we've produced All
means mnst be employed to bring the
beet cultivation up to the peaCe.iiue
level until this is achieved the sugar
shortage will remain. for the more or
less good harvest results can make
very little Difference.
Dy~cntery Duo so Faulty Food.
: The f@efpzfger Neueste Naci1richten
records an epidemic of dysentery AT
Herchenhain, in Upper Hesse, where
seven persons died of II suddenly: and
from an article in the Berlin Iokal-
| Anzeiger on the meang TO be taken
against the disease. it appears that
there Is "a somewhat extensive cpl
demic" at Berlin, 1t is the same dis
ease that is referred to in an account
of intestinal catarrh. from the
| Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift
as follows:
THE simple intestinal catarrh
mostly unaccomp panied b. fever. pre-
dominates in north &c many; bur
also from Tuhingen several cases are
reported, whereas hospitals in MI
mich and Wurzhurg testify to no in
crease above the normal North Ger
man towns CBerlin, Halle Leipzig,
Bonn. Cologne) report a heavy cpl
/ dcmic like disease; but whether dyseu-
iterl is here in question cannot he as
cnrta lined. for lack OF bacteriologica /
data. Most Of the cases must be con
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