Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24
III.-Can We Raise Enough Meat?

the bureau of biological survey this connection He
points of the cheapest meats that can be
raised is that of Belgian hares actually possible
produce this at cost of cents pound Very
little required. the hares be fed on cheap
scraps and they Increase rapidly,
the several filters If the meat situa-
acute, a nationwide campaign for Belgian
raising might help nightly. 1t would give the
town dweller and his children chance TO do their
share
On its large-scae work the meat supply.
the department of agriculture has some remarkable
achievements its credit. The campaign against the
cattle fever which the tick carriss
has thrown, to profitable cattle raising an area
half again as large as Germany.
The range Of the cattle tick covers the southern
states from Florida Texas Northern cattle brought
into infected districts contract the fever from the ticks
and die. The native cattle have become to certain
immune the disease and the ticks keep them
light. The department a record of single
that gained 2s5 in months after being
freed from ticks. The work is going on steadily.
county by county, until today almost half of the
original infected has been cleaned up There
should be steady increase in beef production from
these southern districts. In the future the nation
look o the south for much of The big
beef days of the west are passing with the settling of
open and the beef of the future will
and more from the small herd
So much progress has in this fight against
cattle tick that complete eradication be looked
a few years. Some of the field workers
hoping the job finished four years They
sangune because the farmers are cooperating more
and enthusiastically. I'VE are the crest.
said one of these From or it's a down-hin
drag"
Fully as important as the battle for tick-free
southern cattle has been the campaign against
hog cholera. This disease has taken toll $4,000
annually for the last forty years. In 1918,
year, the loss up to s75oO0O00 Then the full
scientific force the department turned upon It,
anti-hog cholera serum worked The
industry has been made practically safe by the
of this serum This that thousands on thou
sands of farmers raise hogs without running the
risk Of having their herds wiped by disease The
serum will save from IS 30 per Of the animals
in infected herds.
According the experts the chief dangers n
hog-rasing industry today the tempted
by very high prices-an ordinary hog will bring SEQ
the selling off their breeding stock
is obviously bad practice, and effort will
point the dangers Of 1t. II 1t continues,
says the department pork rise out of the
ordinary consumer.
Besides all this work, department has increased
production by regulating the grazing on
national forests until they support several times
many animals ten years ago. Another promising
raising sheep meat, instead of TO-
wool To make wool growing profitable large ranges
usually needed, but mutton be probably
land where there Ia meat production. The
department hopes for much from England in this
line
On the whole meat resources we'll modified
The work started in good time and If
far from where might be in the matter Of meat
production least have passed low point and
are moving In the right direction With the chief
problems solved and the most promising effort
indicated by the department. only the whole-hearted
cooperation of the nation assure that WI.
can all demands.