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BULLETIN 1309, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
It is probable that Germany Will endeavor to make herself as far 
as possible independent of foreign meat supplies. In this endeavor 
the livestock industry must face the serious handicap of limited sup- 
plies of home-grown feedstufTs that can not he further increased to 
any considerable amount upon a profitable basis. Before the war 
Germany supplemented home-grown feeds by importations of large 
quantities of cheap barley from Russia, which are now unobtainable. 
Imported feedstuns are now relatively more costly than formerly. 
The growth of the livestock industry, particularly in South America, 
has introduced a factor of competition that must be reckoned with. 
Use of cheap frozen beef has increased enormously during the past 
three years, amounting to 6,000,000 pounds in 1921-22, 24,000,000 
pounds in 1922-23, and 116,000,000 pounds in 1923-24. 
The future of the livestock industry in Germany involves several 
factors : (1) The quantity of home-grown roughage that can be profit- 
ably produced, which limits (2) The quantity of concentrated feeds 
that can be profitably fed, (3) The cost of imported i ceding stuffs 
and (4) The cost of imported meat and the price that the German 
people are willing to pay. 
Briefly the question is one of whether Germany can economically 
produce her total meat supplies in view of increased cost of foreign 
feedstuff's and the development of cheap meat supplies in other 
countries. 
HORSES 
Horse breeding in the former German Empire centered about the 
production of light and heavy types of horses suited to both agri- 
cultural and military uses. To the latter end the Government itself 
fostered the breeding of certain strains and maintained at its own 
expense large numbers of breeding animals in various parts of the 
country to build up local stock. In those districts in which the 
breeding of light types of horses prevailed, it was customary to 
employ oxen for heavy farm work. In the more highly intensive 
farming districts of the west and northwest heavy horses were bred 
for work animals which could be used for heavy cavalry and artillery 
purposes. 
The names of Germany's important breeds of horses, the district 
where bred, and the purposes for which the breed was adapted appear 
in Table 63. 
