NOTES ON DAIRYING INDUSTRIES

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• Case Number: F-2020-00303
• Publication Date: April 15, 1949

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SOURCE An executive in the dairying industry who spent two months in Europe on an
official survey of the dairying industry in the course of which he visited
all of the satellite countries. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree, has
been a professor of Agriculture in a US state university, has ,served
in the US Government Dairy Servi....e and for the past 20 years has been en-
gaged in the dairy business. He left Europe approximately 15 Jan 49.
1. Cold-storage facilities are short everywhere in Europe and cold storage
transport facilities for milk and dairy products practically do not exist.
In the Balkan countries Bulgaria, Rumania and Yugoslavia - this is not
of much consequence because the population prefers to use yoghurt mialch
does not require refrigeration. I recommended the installation of cooling
systems as followss Finland-19, Yugoslavia..5, Albania�.1, Czechoslovakia-5,
Poland-9, Roumania-3. Hungary would not accept the conditions we imposed
for installing plants and, therefore, none has been recommended for Hungary.
Rumanibr was still trying to obtain a modification of our conditions but
probably eventually will agree to them. Our conditions provide for a daily
ration of fresh milk for each child and it is in this connection that the
various �iron curtain') countries have found the conditions unpalatable.
They all wish to control the distribution of the milk supplies themselves
and are unwilling to be bound to provide rations for the children.
2. In asking for assistance Finland made a refreshing contrast to the other
nations desiring it. The Finns cudgeted for only $125,000 and were apologetic
about this relatively mall amount. I raised the recommended allocation
to $225,000, of which $75,000 were from UNICEF funds and $150,000 from un
programmed funds. The Finns need new pasteurizing plants and cooling plants.
recommendations provide for nineteen cooling plants but more are needed.
A. Large part of the agricultural portion :f Finland went to the USSR under
the peace settlement and the dairy industry which formerly existed there
has been forced to move into various small valleys In the remaining part
of the country.
3. The fodder used for winter feeding of dairy cattle in Czechoslovakia and
Poland is corn, some rye and millet, and steps are being taken to introduce
legumes. In Czechoslovakia some sugar beet pulp is also used. Practically
all of the countries visited ould produe legumes In the shape of clover
and alfalfa.
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4. / saw a great deal of hay in Bulgaria being taken to the railroad stations
probably enroute to the USSR. Bulgaria could -upport considerably more
livestock than it does at present,
5. Near Tirana, in Albania, I saw some herdu of mulch cattle which URRRA had
supplied - though still alive they were. in very poor conditicn.
6. Prior to World Mar II the veterinary servioes in most of the "iron curtain"
countries were staffed by Germans. These were highly competent veterinarians
but they did not teach the local population anything at all bathe way of
veterinary science and in consequence when they were withdrawn the veter-
inary services broke down completely. The UN is now supplying US veter-
inarians paid with money from UNRRA unprogrammwd balances, whioh, it should
be noted, cannot be released except through EGA.
7, Conditions are very bad in Poland. Approximately 85% of the cattle have
tuberculosis and the disease is spreading into the human population. Dr
White, a highly competent American veterinarian, heads the program there
and is teaching the Poles how to perform tuberculosis testa and what to
do in the way of sanitation but the Poles probably will expel him eventually
to please the USSR.
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