HOW THE WORLD IS FED 



in the vegetable garden and the truck 

 patch by reason of a lack of facilities for 

 taking care of the surplus, will readily 

 understand what a saving there could be 

 if a cold-storage plant were convenient. 

 Gradually these plants are coming closer 

 and closer to the farmer, many of whom 

 already are making use of them to store 

 their perishable products, like fruits, veg- 

 etables, and eggs, until the higher prices 

 of the winter months set in. 



THE FISH supply 



As the world fills up with people, the 

 more humanity is bound to look to the 

 sea for food, and a rich field will there 

 be found. Already the United States has 

 a fisheries industry the value of whose 

 product nearly offsets the value of the 

 product of its wonderful apple orchards. 

 Our fisheries yield a return of $70,000,- 

 000 a year, which almost exactly dupli- 

 cates the returns the United Kingdom 

 receives from her fishing industry. 

 France's annual catch reaches a value of 

 $33,000,000, while that of Russia amounts 

 to $50,000,000. Austria - Hungary and 

 Germany together have a total catch of 

 only $12,000,000 value (see pages 26-27). 



It has been conservatively estimated 

 that the world's fish supply exceeds 

 twenty billion pounds. Japan's fisheries 

 produce about six billion pounds a year. 

 What our western grazing lands have 

 been to our meat supply, that has the sea 

 been to Japan's. 



A census of the sea would reveal more 

 animal life to the square mile, perhaps, 

 than the land itself possesses. There are 

 all sorts and shapes and varieties of 

 aquatic life to be found, and the rich 

 treasures of food which the rivers of the 

 earth carry down to the oceans defy 

 measure. 



Gradually new fishing grounds are be- 

 ing opened up and new varieties of fish 

 introduced to the public. Just now the 

 efforts of the United States Bureau of 

 Fisheries to restore the tile-fish to the 

 American dinner table, and its plans for 

 a campaign of education in favor of the 

 edibility of the dogfish, are straws which 

 show the direction of the wind in the 

 utilization of the vast food treasures of 

 the sea. 



CHINESE GREAT FISH EATERS 



The Chinese are among the greatest 

 fish eaters of the world, and they have 

 accepted so many varieties in their list 

 of edible fishes that they can have a dif- 

 ferent kind for breakfast every morning 

 in the year. Not only are their seas filled 

 with fish, but their rivers as well, and 

 while no other nation has gone as far as 

 the United States in scientific fish propa- 

 gation in fresh waters, the Chinese have 

 cared for their fish supply through a hun- 

 dred generations. 



All sorts of methods for catching fish 

 have been developed by the nations of 

 the earth. It is a far cry from the big 

 steam trawler of the North Sea to the 

 hook and line of the small boy on a coun- 

 try creek bank. But most picturesque of 

 all the ways of fishing in the world is 

 that resorted to by the Chinese — fishing 

 with cormorants. The cormorants are 

 hatched under chicken hens, and when 

 about three months old are taught to fish. 



The trainer ties a string to one of the 

 bird's legs and drives it into the water. 

 He then throws out some small fish which 

 the bird promptly catches. It is taught 

 to dive and come back at the call of a 

 whistle. When trained, collars are put 

 about the bird's neck, so that it cannot 

 swallow the fish it catches. A fisherman 

 goes out with the rail of his boat lined 

 with string-hitched cormorants. At a 

 given signal they dive, and the fish that 

 can outswim them under water is as rare 

 as a small fish in an angler's description 

 of his catch. 



THE CEREAL CROPS 



That the vegetable kingdom has more 

 to offer the world's market basket than 

 the animal world is revealed by a com- 

 parison of the animal products and the 

 vegetable products of the food factories 

 of the United States — the greatest ani- 

 mal-food producing country on the globe. 



Although a smaller portion of the 

 vegetable products of the country passed 

 through factory processes than of the 

 meat products, the vegetable manufactur- 

 ing processes employed, at the last cen- 

 sus, 292.000 people and turned out a 

 product valued at $2,237,000,000, while 



