The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18
the vast total of 1889, 100000
pounds in 1916.

the vast total OF 1889 600, 900
pounds in 1916.
But the increase of 100 per cent in
aggregate meat exports during the
first year of the war and 200 per cent
in the second year is small when COM
pared with the gain in the exporta-
ton of beef. The quantity of fresh
beef sent abroad jumped from $780,
600 pounds in 1914 to 17O,00O,0OO
pounds in 1915 and 231, 100000
pounds in 1916. Now you know why
you have to use magnifying glass to
see quarters worth of beefsteak, an
amount that in other days would
max an ample meal for a good-sized
family.
Pork, veal, mutton and other ami
NAL products are going in the same
direction. We are sending meat even
into Canada. One Indiana packing
house on October 1 delivered the first
make an ample meal for a good-sized
900 pounds pork to Canadian firms.
The meat is to be supplied at the rate
of 100000 pounds month. These
exports are going into Canada be-
cause that country is too busy fight
ing to raise pork for herself. There
is a saying that the big packing
houses use every part of pig but the
squeal. If that is the case they are
probably sorry because they have to
leave the squeal in this country. Yet
one can hardly blame the exporter.
He naturally seeks the best market
for his goods. The power to work a
change must come from higher au-
thority.
Some commodities we can we'll af
ford to export, but there are others,
such as wheat, meat and dairy prod
ucts, which have caused widespread
demand in this country for embar-
goes. People are recalling the old
adage that the tailor goes coatless and
the cobbler goes bootless because
they sell their goods to others and are
fearing that America may go not only
coatless and bootless, but also bread
less and meatless, because Europe's
armies consume the products of our
farms and factories.
Wheat Crop Disappointment.
Getting still nearer to specific facts
exactly what is the wheat situation in
this country? This means the flour
situation and the bread situation. The
agricultural departments September
estimate of the total crop is Gil ,0OO,-
900 bushels. This crop is the small
est, relative to population, in fifty
years and the smallest in bushels
since 1904. About 160,00O,OO0
bushels of last years crop have been
carried over. Therefore we shall have
available for use 771,000,000 bushels.
Of this amount we need 625, 00O,O0O
bushels to feed our people and to
plant for next year.
But the present average of wheat
expectation is reported to be over
100000 bushels week. Consider
ing it as exactly 100000 bushels,
the total for fifty-two weeks would be
26O,O00,000 bushels. Since we have
a surplus of only 146,000,00O bushels
this rate of expectation means a
shortage at the end of the fiscal year
of 114,O0O,000 bushels. Which
means nothing less than bread fam
inc for the American people unless
some remedy is speedily found. No
wonder bread is gong up!
Bakers Not to Blame.
And the bakers are not to blame
In Chicago standard Minnesota pat
ents rose steadily to 1910 barrel
an increase of SO over year ago and
the highest price quoted since the
civil war. Other brands rose in pro
portion. Truly the. shadow of Eu-
ropes tragedy has at last crossed the
Atlantic.
Bakers and housewives all over the
country are becoming aroused. A few
DAYS ago the bakers of Brooklyn sent
a letter to President Wilson, urging
Immediate action "by the proper fed
eral and state authorities" to bring
about a reduction in the prices OF
raw materials as the only means OF
an increase in the price OF
bakery products to the consumer.
The Master Bakers association has
enlarged this recommendation to al
nationwide campaign. In New YORK
Citv petitions asking for a special ses-
sion of congress to take up the ques-
tion. or for an investigation by the
fderal trade commission, are beng
distributed among the 3O,OOO small
IooIorc in food nrOductS,