Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-01
US a tendency to increase

consumption of meat shows tendency to increase
fast the supply
These countries are now feeling the effects of
the excessive slaughter of cattle in the scarcity of
milk and dairy products. Despite the nigh prices
offered, not enough milk be obtained The
farmers say that fodder is too expensive to make
dairying profitable nigh prices. Herring
meal and herring guanO are being fed to cattle in
large quantities.
depended largely upon the for food, and it
might be thought that increased returns from the
fisheries would make up for the decrease of meat.
But the contrary is the case. Scarcity of coal has
caused inactivity of the fishing fleets, and the
amount of fish coming to market has fallen OFF,
sometimes in heavy percentage
The meat supply in Germany has suffered from
disease Foot and mouth disease broke out re-
Gently in the province of Hanover, and Sc districts
affected In the south swine fever has caused
further losses among the decimated ranks of the
pigs. Chambers has killed some horses. The gov
eminent claims that all of these epidemics now
under control.
In Austria the killing of cattle has caused a
severe shortage of milk, and especially in Vienna.
In fact milk is the most universally scarce article
of diet in the world. In Vienna, in order to con-
serve milk for children and inyalids, an order
recently issued prohibiting cafes from serving milk
giving milk with coffee, except under special
permit at certain hours OF the day. This at once
brought protest from the inn-keepers, who COM
plain that first they are prohibited from selling
with tea which has limited their popularity,
and now they expected to offer substitute coffee
without milk. This they assert, is nothing less
than disaster
In Bulgaria all ANIMALS nave Deen put on
rations, just the people have work animals be-
ing allowed more.
In Greece the government has arranged for
large importations of meat from Abyssinia which
will be sold at lower prices than those which have
prevailed heretofore The world is being literally
secured for meat animals.
Denmark has recently taken census of meat
animals, which shows that cattle are reduced COM
parativeIy little in numbers, but that pigs be-
coming very scarce. The Danish farmers feed
ing their cattle turnips, turnip tops straw and
heather.
According to the Lokal-Anzeiger, the scarcity of
fodder in Berlin has seriously affected the heavy
carrying trade and threatens to cripple the NUM-
ton industry. The town horses have been put on
rations, but these limited amounts are not
obtainable.
In all parts of Europe, materials never before
considered for the purpose have been successfully
used as fodder. In Germany, various SeaWeeds
have been used for some time. A German paper
states that a factory is to be established for the
preparation, not only of seaweed but of various
freshwater plants that grow in the rivers and
marshes and of foliage from trees for fodder
School boys under the Leadership of schoolmasters,
are engaged in gathering these materials.
In general the spectacle reflected in the Eu-
ropean press is that of a wild scramble for meat
There are long queues" waiting lines at the
doors of all the butcher shops and those who come
late get nothing. Everything wild that runs or
flies is being killed and eaten. It is not an eXag-
geration to say that the destruction of animal life
will take longer to repair than that of human life