AN ENEMY AT HOME

Evening Star, Issue 23497, 10 February 1940, Page 3

AN ENEMY AT HOME

" The winner of this war, as ill the last, will bo the side which has most food," states the 'Farmers' Weekly' (England). "We arc being urged to increase the amount of food we grow, to store- supplies of food, and the Navy is working hard to safeguard from enemy attack ships bringing food to this country. In spite of all this we have an enemy right on our doorstep which is destroying more potential human food than will any German U-boats or aeroplanes. That enemy is waste. Its attacks are spread over every county, every parish, and every farm. Very often waste on a farm seems so slight that you hardly notice it. But when you consider that that same waste is 'probably going on on nearly every farm in the country, then you see how serious it is. The chief sources of waste in this country are disease and pests. Rabbits are by far the worst of the pests. They are said to cosf up to anything from 30 to 70 million pounds a year. Rats come next. They are reputed to rob us of from '2O to 30 millions a year. The three worst diseases are tuberculosis, r contagious abortion, and mastitis. Their cost is supposed to be about 15 to 20 millions a year. There are many other pests and lnanv other diseases, and it is safe to sav that, all told, they cost up well over a bundled million pounds a year."-