AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF EUROPE ! GERMANY 
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Table 56. — Animal -products: Supply in the former German Empire, 1912 
Class 
SSSkS? Sports less 
Total Su PP ly 
£U PP ] y , capita* 
Meats and : ." 
Beef... 
Veal . 
1,000 pounds ; 1,000 pounds 
2,114,377 i\ „ --o 
392,772 1/ W ''°- J 
1,000 pounds Pounds 
2, 590, 902 39. 9 
Horse meat 
92,792 • 
92.792 1.4 
Pork- 
Unclassified. 
Bacon 
Ham 
310 
39,220 
243 
4, 644, 530 
4,189 
243 
'1.5 
.1 
Total 
_ 
4, 648, 962 
71.6 
147. 036 
42,549 
103, 429 
11,486 
92, 593 
380,845 
( 3 ) 
( 3 ) 
( 3 ) 
375 
22 
551 
147,411 
42. 571 
181. 252 
103, 980 
11,486 
93,607 
1, 166, 675 
233,952 
130, 270 
82, 011 
2.3 
.7 
Phipk-pT) anri nn classified fowls 
2.8 
1.6 
.2 
Other domestic stock and game 
Fish 
Lard 
Other animal fats 
Fish fats 
1,014 
781 • 
233,952 
130. 270 
82,011 
L4 
18.0 
3.6 
2.0 
1.2 
Total meats and fats 
8, 144, 952 
1,380,919 
9, 525, 871 
146.7 
Butter 
881,840 
Thousand? 
4, 875, 000 
1,000 gallons 
« 3, 409, 378 
121, 981 
Thousands 
* 3, 366, 000 
1, 003, 821 
Thousands 
* 8, 241, 000 
1,000 gallons 
3, 409, 378 
Pounds 
68, 915, 796 
92. 372. 740 
15.5 
Eggs 
Xumber 
127 
Milk 
Milk.. 
Pounds 
68, 915. 796 
92, 372. 740 
Cream . ... 
Slaughtering: Prepared from official sources under the supervision of the Reichsernaehrungsamt. 
Imports and exports: Germany, Kaiserliches Statistisches, Amt, Monatliche Xachweise fiber den 
Auswartigen Handel Deutschlands. 
i Includes slaughtering or offal fats as well as those ordinarily considered as part of the dressed carcass. 
> Population, 1910, 64,925,993. 
3 Included in me 
•- Includes shell eggs and egg powder reported in weight, but reckoned in number on the basis of a weight 
per egg of 0.11 pound. (See MonatlicheXachweise liber den Auswartigen Handel Deutschlands, Decem- 
ber. 1922.) 
' Includes milk fed to calves. 
EFFECT OF VERSAILLES TREATY ON MEAT SUPPLIES 
The relation of the numbers of live animals in the former German 
Empire to the number slaughtered for food, with data on egg, butter, 
and milk production, is found in Table 57, which gives estimates 
for the vear 1912. The number of cows in Germanv ranged from 
10,000.000 to 11.000,000. In view of this fact, the first column of 
this table indicates that relatively few calves were carried over at 
the end of the year. Hogs were turned over once a year, sheep once 
in two years, chickens once a year, and the numbers of geese and 
ducks slaughtered during the year were twice the number carried 
over winter. In the domestic production of such a large peiventage 
of the home requirement Germany slaughtered each year just about 
the equivalent of the natural increase, maintaining from year to year 
as large a number of live animals as was possible under the economic 
conditions of the Empire's restricted feedstuff supplies. 
