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One of the most important was obtaining livestock for the peasants trying to start up thrir farms. Few had the money needed to buy livestock. The Committee brought some livestock from America. Most came from other parts of Franced. This was a very costly undertaking as the price of livestock increased during the War. They American Committee began repalcing livestock, understanding that this was vitl to getting the farms ans economy functioning. We see a new calf arriving on the previous page. Here we see rabbits arriving (figure 1). That was a big ticket item. There were many smaller farm animals including chickens, geese, rabbits, pids, and goats. We think at first these amimals were given away, but gradully the peasant farmers were able to come up with some of the monery. Some of the smaller animals like chickens and rabbits provided a very short-term payoff, both producuing food and something to sell. The rabbits look like pets in the pohotogrphs, but they sere in fact a badly neededd food item nd something which could be sold un the market. Wih calves there was a much longer time horizon. Draft animals like horses anf ixen were skso important. We sre not sure to what extent the Americn Committee gotbinvolved with them, but they did get involved with tractors. We do not know just what the financial arrangements were.
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