Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-01

VTTASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. 24.-War is de-
wv stroying the four-foOted and feathered
population of the earth even faster than it
is destroying One of the greatest after-war
problems will be the restocking of the civilized
world with domestic animals. Two important facts
stand In the first place, meat is going to be
scarce for many years to come, and in the second
place. the raising of live stock and especially of
blOOded breeding stock, is going to be "a very i'm
pOrtant and profitable occupation.
We think our own situation in regard to meat
is rather desperate, now that are beginning
to slaughter mustangs, burrOs and billy goats,
while meat prices remain high. Yet live stock
shows recent tendency TO increase, and we have
both fodder and pasture land for it. In European
countries belligerent and neutral, live stock is be-
ing almost eXterminated because pasture land has
a been put under tne pIo", and every pit OF grain
is needed for human food. In both Germany and
Denmark they are making cellulose folders out OF
straw and wood, and III Germany Gull potatoes are
icd 10 ave StOCh, but there IS not enough TO 90
around.
No class has suffered moro by the than the
German pigs. There lots of them i'll peace
times for Germans are fond OF pork sausage. 1t
became apparent that there place in
the German war economy for the greedy and omnN-
erous hog. He was ediJoriaised against, speeches
made about him the reichstdg. 1t was
made compulsory kill pigs, not only the fat ones
but the lean and the stockings. There are
hardly any left. The cattle supply has been cut
down to fraction OF what it should be- and the
cattle slaughtered only about two-thirds of
normal weight. Sausage is now made from horse
meat mixed with rabbit meat
Game is the decrease in Germany. The
country people kill it and eat it at every oppor-
tunity. Polecats, foxes and other Same-destroying
Vernin the increase. Whenever a landed
proprietor holds battue or hunt he is compelled
to announce his intention and to give certain
proportion OF what he kills to the food administra-
ton for sale 10 the people
A study of the German press leaves no doubt
that year two more of will see that coun-
try almost denuded of beasts and BIRDS wild and
domestic And it takes long time to restock
country.
In the neutral countries the situation is as
bad, Sweden had before the war about
eight thousand reindeer in her forests. The order
has gone forth for the slaughter OF all of these,
many of them to be exported. The lOng-suffering
pig is almost extinct in Sweden, too. AT Kristian-
stad, where usually five six hundred pigs are
slaughtered every week, the killings have been
reduced to thirty pigs week The lichens which
grow in the northern forests, and were formerly
the chief forage of the reindeer now being
gathered and experiments made in their use as hu-
man food and fodder.
In Norway and Denmark meat for the time be-
ing is exceptionally plentiful The reason for this
is that the herds of cattle in both of these coun-
tries are being rapidly slaughtered because of the
high price of folders. The Norwegian government
advises every to salt meat and to put it up in
tins so that they will have a supply when the
herds are exhausted. In these countries most of
the pigs have already been killed. Norway has
household economy and these are devotng their
attention largely to methods of preserving meats.
The government is distressed at the fact that the