Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28


ter than last. The specific statements
justifying this expectation are highly
Unsatisfactory. The Munich Medical
union has declared that there will be
Hess food, except potatoes, this win
ter than last. Throughout Germany
there is apparently a pretty general
belief that this is true, and wide
spread demand is voiced for an in
crease in the allowance of potatoes.
I, In Germany, as in England, the i'm
mediate result of the harvest was
great increase in the marketing of DO
itatoes with the consequence that in
many places there were not storage
facilities to take care of them. The
fear is expressed that not inconsider-
able portion of the potato yield will be
wasted, partly because of overconsump-
.tion in the agricultural areas and part
Ily from inadequacy of storage facili-
ties. So from many German authori-
ties comes the warning that despite
big yield of tubers the coming winter
lis likely to see conditions quite as bad
regarding them, and worse as to many
/: ominous Suggestion.
/ The ominous suggestion is made by
some of the German food authorities
that 1t will not do to be too free with
potatoes, because later it will be neces-
Sary to mix more potato flour with ce-
real -four to stretch the supply. Also
Jas there was short crop of fodder.
throughout the country potatoes are
likely to be required to feed domestic
animals.
i The fear Of such an event has caused
Widespread demand that more hogs be-
slaughtered that they may not require
to be fed with potatoes that the PEG.
pile will need. The number Of hogs
i'm the country has been increasing this
year, and the fact gives concern be-
cause the pig is an active competitor
/ of a munition worker or anybody else
in the matter Of food requirements.
German authorities have determined
that beyond providing a moderate meat
ration the transmutation of vegetable
into animal food is a dangerously
lwasteful process. So there is an effort
to induce farmers and village dwell
ers to restrict the number Of hogs
and cattle to the point where it will
be just possible to raise the absolutely
necessary meat ration.
The relation of the general economic
breakdown to agriculture is indicated
/, in both England and Germany by mat
tiers affecting the supply of agricultural
4 machinery. In Germany there is a
4 most serious shortage of all kinds of
agricultural tools and machines, be-
cause the old ones have worn out and
4 there is neither metal nor manufacture
ing capacity to provide new ones.
In England the complaint particular
ly concerns the supply of motor plows.
The government long ago promised
that thousands of these would be fur
nished in time to put greatly in
creased acreage in cereals under cult
walton in 1918. Now when the fall
blowing season is on it develops that
want of shipping or other reasons have
prevented the delivery of anything like
an adequate number of these ma
chimes.
A Dresden physician who is quoted
as an authority, has recently dis
cussed the German food situation as
regards the requirements and supplies
of various classes of consumers. He
finds that children up to eight
years of age are receiving reason.
ably satisfactory ration, but the
amount allowed to those from eight tc
eighteen is utterly insufficient and that
the shortage seriously threatens the
physical vitality of the next genera
ton.
!. Some of the German Jurisdictions
have recently announced that newly
married couples will be granted 8
double food allowance for the first si1
weeks of their married life! Else
n where provision has been made tt
double the food allowances Of nursing
and eXpectant mothers.
Two Fodder Discoveries.
The effort to find fodder for animal!
has started the professors on man.
investigations and inquiries. Docto
Degen, director of the seed testing sta
ton in Budapest, claims to have dis
covered two valuable articles Of fod
der. He writes:
"The searush (Bolboschaenus mari
timus) was known, as regards the par
/ /, above ground, as fodder equal II
value to straw. Recent experiment
have, however, shown that the tuber
/ growing on the roots underground ar
/ far more valuable. They come yer
near to the horse chestnut in tn
I amount of raw protein, raw fat an
/ starch contents, without the bitterness
| If they are used for the manufactur
of spirits the wash, either wet Q
dried, can also be used for fodder.
1 1.-THE pond bullrush (Schaenople'
A / tus lacustris) also contains val,
able underground organ. The horizon
tai roots, containing great quantit
of starch form good concentrate
fodder. If used in distilleries tn
%I,o% f,,p,