Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1919 — Live Stock for Belgium. [ARTICLE]

Live Stock for Belgium.

No one In Belgium rejoiced more heartily when the Germans were driven out than the small farmers whose lot under the invaders had been made intolerable by the constant requisitioning of produce and stock by the enemy. A British farmer, who has Just returned from the wide agricultural district around Menin. reports that the country is now practically devoid of live stock and that tillage and farm operations generally are at a standstill in consequence. Efforts are being made by the agricultural relief of allies committee to replace the animals in that neighborhood lulled or stolen by the Germans with good British stock and a first consignment of dairy cattle will be forwarded in the. course of a few weeks. These animals will, it is hoped, play a valuable part in restocking the faims of the peasants which lay across the path of the Germans in their march toward Calais.