A SHEPHERD ON THE PLAINS OF HORTOBAGY: HUNGARY Photograph by A. W. Cutler a small piece of turnip, pickled in brine, as a relish. From our standpoint, the Asiatic is a greatly underfed being, and yet wherever men are employed tribute is paid to the physical endurance of the Chinese coolie (see page 5). The food of the 180,000,000 people who live in Africa is almost as simple as that of the Asiatics. It is largely vegetable, although roasted elephant foot is still one of the favorite dishes of the jungle dinner. South Africa eats largely as Europe eats, while the make-up of the North African market basket is almost identical with that of southwestern Asia. It is probable that less than one-third of the earth's population gets what an American would call three square meals a day. Adding to the native population of Asia and Africa the Indians and half-breeds of South America, the aborigines of the islands of the sea and of Australia, and to them adding the underfed population of eastern Europe, we find that approximately 1,250,000,000 of the earth's population sit down to a scanty menu. THE WORLD'S MEAT Taking the world's supply of cattle, hogs, and sheep, and making proper allowance for the less improved methods of stock-raising on other parts of the globe as compared with those of the United States, it appears that mankind at ELIGIBLE FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE ROUGHI-RIDER REGIMENT Bull-riding in Oregon is less brutal than bull-fighting in Mexico, but it is better sport, and the cowboy who herds our future beef supply is nothing if not a lover of good sport large uses in the neighborhood of 47,000,000,000 pounds of meat a year. This would be an average of about 39 pounds per capita throughout the world. The people of the United States a few years ago were eating 172 pounds per capita, which is more than four times as much as the average for the race (see pages 10 and 15). Next to the Australians, the American people are the largest of all meat eaters. In butchers' meat, the latest statistics showed the American to be eating 172 pounds, the Englishman 119 pounds, the German 113 pounds, the Frenchman and the Belgian 80 pounds, the AustroHungarian 64 pounds, the Russian 50 pounds, and the Spaniard 49 pounds. The average American eats 801⁄2 pounds of beef, 71⁄2 pounds of veal, 78 pounds of pork and lard, and 61⁄2 pounds of mutton and lamb a year. Where we eat 80 pounds of beef, the Englishman eats 56 pounds, the Frenchman 37 pounds, and the German 36 pounds. Where we eat 78 pounds of pork, including lard, the Englishman eats 33 pounds, the German 67 pounds, and the Frenchman 26 pounds. We eat 71⁄2 pounds of veal where the Englishman eats 4 pounds, the German 71⁄2 pounds, and the Frenchman 8 pounds; and we eat 61⁄2 pounds of mutton and lamb where the Englishman eats 26 pounds, the German 21⁄2 pounds, and the Frenchman 9 pounds. From these figures it will be seen that the Frenchman eats less than half the beef we do. He eats as much beef as the German, but less than half as much pork. MEAT SUPPLY OF CENTRAL EUROPE It is interesting to study the per capita production of meats in the countries of the Central Powers at the present time. The statistics of the United States Department of Agriculture reveal the fact that Germany, Austria - Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey had a total of approximately 50,000,000 cattle before the war began. 1 The Department of Agriculture says that about one-fifth of the total number of cattle in Germany are slaughtered an |