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of the Geriii.an milk production was based upon imported fodder. This 

 conclusion seems untenable in the light of the statistical evidence presented 

 by the same authorities and what they admit, and experience elsewhere 

 shows, of the efficiency of the dairy cow in converting feed into milk. The 

 evidence presented would lead rather to tlie conclusion that about 30 per 

 cent of Germany's milk was based upon imported feed. 3 



The degree of dependence of the French dairy industry upon outside 

 feed supplies is much less. No data are available distinguishing the feed 

 used by dairy cows from the feed of other animals. However, the very 

 complete data presented by the Inter-Allied Scientific Food Commission, 

 covering all feedstuff's used by the total livestock of the nation in the 

 average pre-war year, show that, on the common denominator of starch 

 equivalents, only about 5 per cent of the total feed supply came from the 

 outside world. 4 



Denmark has probably made more rapid strides in the development of 

 the dairy industry in the last generation than any other nation, and this 

 achievement has been made with the use of a heavy importation of feeding 

 .stuffs. Mr. Chris L. Christensen of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture and Professor Larsen of Copenhagen have .jointly estimated that 

 apjiroximately 40 per cent of Denmark's feed for her animals comes from 

 otlier countries. 



The Netherlands also take a leading part in the dairy industry and, with 

 a somewhat smaller livestock population than Denmark, normally import 

 more than twice as much feed.5 



It would appear that the degree of New England's dependence upon 

 outside feedstuffs is not unduly high as compared with the situation in 

 some of the leading dairy nations. 



3 Eltzbacher, Paul, et al. Die deutsche Volksernahrung und der englische Aushunger- 



ungsplan. English translation by Waller, pp. 70, 106, 141. 



4 Commission Scientifique Interalliee du Ravitaillement. Deuxieme Rapport, p. 28. 



5 See data presented in Eltzbacher, op. cit., pp. 1314, and McFall, R. J. The World'* 



Meat, pp. 238-239. 



