Photograph from U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 STUFFING SAUSAGE) IN A MODERN PACKING-HOUSE 



The operatives in the sausage department have their nails manicured and their hands 

 sterilized every time they come into the packing rooms. The factory output of sausage in 

 the United States is worth $60,000,000 annually. 



nually. Assuming that the net weight of 

 those of Germany and Austria-Hungary 

 corresponds with the net weight of our 

 own cattle, and that the net weight of 

 those of Bulgaria and Turkey is only 300 

 pounds where ours is 543, it would ap- 

 pear that there is a 34 pound per capita 

 production of beef in the Central Powers. 

 There are 37,000,000 hogs in the coun- 

 tries of the Teutonic Alliance. The De- 

 partment of Agriculture's statistics show 

 that the annual slaughter in Germany is 

 1 10.4 per cent of the total number of 

 hogs on hand at a given time ; therefore 



it would appear that there is a per capita 

 production of pork amounting to 45 

 pounds in the Central Powers. Based on 

 the German ratio of the sheep killed to 

 those found on the farms of the country 

 at a given time, the annual slaughter of 

 sheep in the region controlled by the Cen- 

 tral Powers is 31,000,000. 



Assuming that the average dressed 

 weight per sheep is only 30 pounds, as 

 compared with 41 pounds in the United 

 States, there would be a production of 

 941,000,000 pounds of mutton, or 6.7 

 pounds per capita. This gives a total 



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