GERMAN CATTLE MUST BE KILLED.
Representatives of the German farming interests and the War Food Bureau, at a meeting recently held in Berlin, de"eided that the shortage of fodder necessitated the drastic slaughtering of cattle this summer and autumn. The farmers reported that pasturage was poor, that nay and clover crops were scanty owing to drought, and that only small amounts of potatoes arid grain were available for fodder above the requirements of human consumption
To avoid the, earlier mistake of wasting fodder and keeping the cattle barely alive through the winter, the farmers were advised to market all except milch cows, indispensable draft cattle, which are now largely displacing horses, and such animals for which winter fodder to ;kcep them in good condition was available.
The measure was recognised as dangerous in respect to meat rations this winter mid in 1918, and to the luture of the live stock industry and the supply of manure, but the hopes of the farmers, it was said, were set on an early peace.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1917, Page 7
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171GERMAN CATTLE MUST BE KILLED. Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1917, Page 7
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