Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-06
The Whole World Faces Famine NOW
Read Based FACTS |V\JVv
Read This WARMING
p r5 f OF the 4MsD sss with Respect Their Food
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the first six or eight months after peace is mad,
must be 4oo,ooo.ooo 5OOOOOOoo bushels-else peace
no less than will mean starvation for their non
uiations And however severe the terms of the vic
torious allies may be in other respects they must Al
least allow the importation Of this food.
DEFICIT NOW OF 100000 BUSHELS.
Those OF us, therefore, who are convinced that TIN
central powers cannot outlast 1917 were compelled a.
once TO AID to NJ Borets estimated European de
fict of about 2oo.ooo.ooo bushels of grain further
amount Of 40ooooo0o to 900 bushels REQUIRED
TO stay the progress Of famine Germany and Aus
tria The thought Of what would be implied partic.
uary for the already hard pressed food importing
natons OF Europe, by a possible worlds supply Of
grain from 6ooo0oooo to 700 bushels below tn.
bare necessities Of their populations was distress
ing ono.
However discouraging seemed the prospect at this
1uncture was speedily to come. M Boret's
depressing figures had been arrived the &C.
sumption that a normal expectation of grain during
1917 could be counted upon from all the important
open exporting countries except perhaps Argentina
something Of whose drought stricken and locust
plagued condition already known. But early in
April the International Institute Of Agriculture at
Rome began to let It be known that the grain stats-
tics 1t obtaining from the various grain growing
countries which contribute to the of the In
stitution far less favorable than
pated as late October last and WERE in fact posi-
lively alarming regards the adequacy of the worlds
grain supplies to last August, 1917. On April
Mr. David Lubn, founder Of the institute and rep
resentative Of the American government in work,
sent warning to the United tates the course of
which he said:
For the first time in many years there exists a
deficit in the (world) supply of wheat, rye bar
lev oats stim ted at a NJ
els less than the normal requirements for countries
open trade. The situation is than
pected last October The institutes reports indicated
then surplus of than enough to feed the world
until August of this year. when the crops begin
to in"
SITUATION MOST THREATENING KNOWN.
1t is unnecessary to dilate the really appalling
seriousness of the situation ascertaned to exist by
the International Institute Agrcuture-a situation
SO threatening that living in a civilized
country has known it's like. On the basis of the
most Trustworthy statistics and estimates obtanabe,
the institute has boon forced to the conclusion that
with every elevator in tho world drained Of it's
tents with every bin and crib in tho world soraped
to the bottom, tho worlds supply Of the grains disable
for human food, whether directly in tho form Of
meat, not only would suffice to tho require
ments Of the unbIookaded countries from April to
August but would fall 1soo00oo0 bushels short of
those requirements.
Without the severest restriction of their consump-
ton by multitudes of people somewhere, the last
weeks of the period must be weeks of positive pri
walton in all of the countries affected; and
except by chance here and there bushel these
grains would remain at the end Of the present crop
year to serve a surplus to supplement any possi-
bic deficiencies Of the production OF the coming
IMPAIRMENT OF OUR WHEAT CROP
Via nuSa ,ta1 {hn
of Agriculture. though far disturbing than that
the actual facts In its calculations the institute
doubtedly assumed that the winter wheat crop the
United States would be at least of normal size it's
acreage was record breaking and it not known,
even as late as the end of March, that the average
condition of the growing crop had been extensively
impaired. When, however, the department of agri-
culture April 7, estimated the condition of the
crop at practically % cent lower than the past 10
years average, and indicative of production only
900 bushels of winter wheat compared with
4S1744OOO bushels last year and s7ss47o in
1915, it was at glance that but nfnitesin1a
chance remained that tho total wheat production of
the United States in 1917 would even fairly como
up to our normal requirements for consumption
and seed-about e4ooooooo bushels-to say nothing
of leaving exportabe surplus of proportions COM
with the requirements our allies In
Europe.
This new aspect Of the American winter wheat crop
compels revisa upward of the foreign estimates
of the worlds shortage of grain The estimate of the
International Institute of Agriculture the shortage
up to August be raised 1870 900 900 bushels
to at least 200ooo,o0o bushels Borets esti-
mate of the deficit Of wheat from exporting coun-
tries which confronts the entente neutral coun-
tries Of Europe must be increased account be-
ing also taken of the later information from Argen-
tina, Australia and New zealand) from about 2OO-
100000 bushels to not far from S6OoooOoo bushels
And still provision is made for the hundreds of