The Saturday evening post . oduce forty-two hundredgallons of milk, according to prewar German practice. Thecow during nine months after landing would produce somesix hundred gallons of milk. The direct shipment of oilcake as contrasted with the same cubic space devoted toa cow would represent seven times as much milk. Further considerations deal with the practicability ofthe proposition. One hundred thousand good milch cowswould cost a large sum in the United States. Theseanimals could not be picked up and transported like non-perishable freight. A foreman and assistant foreman arenecessary f
The Saturday evening post . oduce forty-two hundredgallons of milk, according to prewar German practice. Thecow during nine months after landing would produce somesix hundred gallons of milk. The direct shipment of oilcake as contrasted with the same cubic space devoted toa cow would represent seven times as much milk. Further considerations deal with the practicability ofthe proposition. One hundred thousand good milch cowswould cost a large sum in the United States. Theseanimals could not be picked up and transported like non-perishable freight. A foreman and assistant foreman arenecessary for each shipment, and one caretaker mustaccompany each twenty head. Milch cows can hardly beshipped across the ocean when in flow of milk. Lack ofmilking and care in transit would dry them up. It wouldbe necessary to ship cows during the dry period, justbefore calving. It is scarcely possible to make such ship-ments during the winter. Ocean tonnage adapted to is scarce and expensive—fifty dollars an To ship a hundred thousand milch cows would requirenearly six hundred thousand cubic yards of cargo spaceat a carriage cost of five million dollars. The same spacewould carry three hundred and fifty thousand long tons ofoil cake; the same dollars for carriage would ship fourhundred and fifty thousand long tons of oil cake. Theproposition is visionary and impractical. Since the unsoundness of the plan is obvious, we mayconclude that the proposal rests upon considerations otherthan technical. It is stated that such relief would have agood psychological effect in Germany. It would exert apropaganda effect upon untrained laymen throughout theworld. The Treaty of Versailles provides that a certainnumber of cattle, a figure in the neighborhood of onehundred and forty thousand, shall be returned to Franceand Belgium. This is less than a tenth of the cattle thatGermany took from France and Belgium during the purpose of the reparation is not to make good the
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