Observations of Poultry Conditions in Western Europe as a Soldier of the United States Army Signal Corp

Abstract

General Situation

Certain sections of the old country the American soldier has seen pretty well marching through the country with a pack on his back. He may be quartered with the people in the villages for days at a time and has had a chance to become acquainted with what agricultural France and her people are really like. During my stay in the A. E. F., I saw something of Southern Scotland, England, southern, central, and northeastern France, most of Lorraine, the lower part of Luxemburg, the central section of Rhineland in Germany including the Moselle, the Ahr and Rhine river valleys. This paper is a report of poultry conditions through observations and including such that I have been able to get in interviews with the natives.

Western Europe has had a different poultry situation from our own, therefore her problems on this branch of the agricultural industry has not …