SKINNY GERMAN CATTLE
The Berlin correspondent of the Cologne Vollvszeitung says:; "Th,er are now only 5,700,000. pics ' m ' Germany, compared with 13,000,000 a year ago. The cattle m the -country number, 19,000,000, but tliis represents a much lower slaughter weight than a year ago, tho average per animal having fallen considerably. "One million sjx. hundred thousand head of cattle had' to be slaughtered this spring to- -obtain, tho same amount jof meat as was obtained twelve months I ago from 109,000 beasts." 4 .-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14658, 16 July 1918, Page 5
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SKINNY GERMAN CATTLE
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14658, 16 July 1918, Page 5
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