The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-08-31
FOOD SURVEY TO ACT AT ONCE

Of the nations food supply.
In order that the President, Com
gress, and the other officials Of the
Government may be able to base
needed action on a knowledge OF
what the national larder contains,
and how it measures up to the
needs OF the millions Of breakfast,
dinner, ana supper tables Of the
Nation, the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture will begin inn
mediately to make a quick survey
Of available foods and feeds through
out the country. This will cover
Supplies on tile farms, in factories,
and commercial stores and ware
houses, in retail shops, and on the
shelves and in the bins of the fami-
ly pantry The work will re car,
ried on principally by the Bureau
Of Markets, the Bureau of Crop Es-
Inmates, the Bureau Of Chemistry.
and State Relations Service Of the
department, with funds appropria-
ted for the purpose in the recently
enacted food production bill.
The survey is to be made as OF
the date August 81, and it is ex-
pected that statistics on the
amounts of certain important prod
ucts can be supplied within three
or four weeks after the food survey
IS begun.
In carrying out the nationwide
food survey, both actual inventories
and estimates will be employed,
Estimates of the food and feed
products on farms will be made for
the whole country by the Bureau OF
crop Estimates through $4,000
picked cbopelators in the field.
Information regarding stocks in
wholesale, jobbing, storing, and
manufacturing, and other CONNER
cial establishments, including large
retail houses, will be obtained by re-
questing from each concern a state
ment of the exact amoant Of each
Of the various products held by it.
Comprehensive lists Of such estab-
Iishments compiled by the Bureau
Of Markets within the last few years
will be employed in this work.
The stocks on hand in small re-
tail shops will be estimated from
information gained from detailed
of stocks in number of rep,
resentative districts. Stocks III tie
hands Of the consumers Of The coun.
try will be estimated similarly from
of a large number Of rep
families, both in the
country and in the cities Tie
study of families will be concerned
even more with the current con
sumption per month than with the
actual stock OF food supplies on
hand. Small retail stocks will be
for representative cities by
The Bureau Of Chemistry, through
It's food and drug inspectors and
State and local health officials and
and for representative
country districts by the States Re
-ations Service through county
agents and local farm bureaus and
other local agencies. Through these
agencies certain selected districts
will lie canvassed and an estimate
will then he made for the entire
country.
The nearly 100 items on which
statistics are to re gathered include
grains and seeds, grain food pro-
ducts, dried fruits and nuts, yege-
table fats, sugar, sirups, starch,
meat and meat products, food pro-
ducts preserved III tin and other
containers, dairy and related pro
ducts, fish, and feeds.
The departments plans contem-
plate making Immediately quick
survey of the holidays Of approx
18 of the more important
products, following this with mon
thly reports on such products and
making more complete survey af-
ter the crops have been gathered
1t is proposed to utilize in so far as
possible existing established agen-
cies within the department in the
conduct Of the survey, but the de-