The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-10-03
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The Swedish minister of agriculture
confirms the reports already published
that owing to the scarcity OF feed 1t
will be Impossible for the farmers Of
certain parts of Sweden to carry their
stock over the winter, and the prob
lem now confronting the nation Is how
to, supply enough refrgerators in
which to preserve the meat of the
stock after it IS slaughtered. The
inability Of the farmers to carry their
stock through the winter will mean a
heavy loss in the future.
The building committee of Stock
holm proposes the erection of new
buildings for $2,0OO,OO0, the national
government to advance almost one.
fourth of the amount. The population
increases much faster than the num-
Der Of buildings for housing the peo-
pie. :
Swiss socialists have been Informed
that the h-discussed conference at
Stockholm has been definitely aban,
doned, even by the Germans, who are
seeking to have similar conference
In Switzerland.
The minister of agriculture admits
that it will be necessary to reduce the
stock Of the country very materially,
owing to the lack Of hay and other fod-
der. Some communes have cold stor-
age buildings for preserving the
meat, and the national government is
taking extra pains to see that meat
Is saved for future use.
Scandinavian representatives at
Washington, particularly the Swedish,
pleaded that the new prohibition on
wheat export will bring their. nations
to the brink Of starvation. The Swe-
dish representatives declared their ma
ton will be the first to feel the pinch
Of famine. The Swedish population,
according to Axel Robert Nordvall,
delegate to the United States, now
gets only seven ounces of rye or wheat
daily, the smallest ration in Europe.
'Sweden's grain crop this year." he
said, twill be only two-thirds normal.
We will need 100000 bushels for
bread, and it is impossible to cut our
rations further"
Discovery that wire nails in a con-
signment for Sweden were covered
with lead caps caused the custom au-
thorities at New York to hold up a
shipment Of 300 cases of the nails. It
was said there was enough lead on
each nail for manufacture of a rifle
bullet and that the application for
shipping license contained no mention
of lead.
Bassett Digby, the correspondent,
gives an account of the central kitch-
en- which now feeds the poorer people
of Stockholm. This kitchen was re-
Gently established at the .Nurnberg
brewery. It supplies good cheap meals
to the poor and has a capacity of 3d.
600 portions of hot food a day. The
queen has visited it and expressed her
satisfaction with the food and arrange
ments. The meals are sent from the
central kitchen to centers in the poor
er parts Of the city, where they are
bought and carried away. A useful
depot has been opened at Vartan,
where owing to the shortage Of pro-
vision stores the residents have had
to waste much time in travelling be-
tween home and the city in quest of
edibles. It is Miss Gertrude Bergs-
from, inspector Of school kitchens,
whose idea and hard work led to the
establishment of this useful aid for
graphing with the high cost Of living,
or, as the Swedes say, "dear times"
The only complaint from the clientele
Of the kitchen is the color of the pea
meal soup.