The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-26
POUND OF FAT IS EQUAL TO BULLET, AND AMERICAN PIG
 IS WORTH A SHELL

IS WORTH A SHELL
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 points out that lack of shipping made 1t necessary for this country and Can ada to bear the burden of meeting the allies deficit.
 PROBLEM OF SHIPS
 The problem Is thus simply one of ships" he said. 'If ample shipping ex- isted there would be no need for saw ing or increased production of wheat on the part of the American people. But if we can produce ecoHonisss and stimulate production in the United states and Canada as will enable us to feed the allies absolutely from this continent and thus enable them to live without sending ship farther afield than our Atlantic seaboard we can resist the submarine indefinitely" Placing the United States wheat OK
 ports surplus from this years crop at so,Ooo,o0o bushels and Canada's at 5o,o00.0o0 bushels. Mir. Hoover urged domestic economies to increase this country's surplus to 15o,00o,o00 bush els
 PEOPLE MUST SAVE
 This we could do." he said. If our people would eat one pound less O wheat flour per week and one pound of corn meal instead"
 If peace should come, Mir. Hoover continued, large numbers of ships would be released and European wheat production increased. If climatic con ditions next year are right, he esti
 mated wheat crop In this country of 1000, 0,000,000 bushels. For this the food control law guarantees a min mum price of s2 per bushal.
 If war continues this wheat will be vitally necessary" Mir. Hoover said, "but if the war should come to
 an end there will be no foreign mar ket for at least 400,000.000 bushels. The government must then take over the wheat and probably find a mar ket for it at very great loss should anticipate that the government may lose from $500, ,000, 900 to s500, ,000, ,0oG on this wheat guaranty if peace ar rives before the 1918 harvest Is mar keted."
 Mir. Hoover expressed tho opinio, that the fixed guarantee was unneo, essary and that a reasonable profi guaranteed to the farmer would hai.s been sufficient to stimulate produ ton.
 SUBMARINE INSURANCE However, the guaranty has besn fixed he added, 'Jt is an insurance against the submarine and an estl
 mate of what it may cost we must leave to the future."
 Turning to the meat situation, tile administrator said pork products were more vitally needed by the allies than beef,
 Tn the matter of beef" he said. "the allies can support themselves without any consequential expansion of inn ports from the United States" HOGS TO BE HIGHER In view of the European Situation
 and the American shortage in hogs he pointed out that there would be q high average price for pork products
 and therefore It would be to tho vital I advantage of every farmer to raise hogs, adding;
 We need a keep-a-pig movement in this country"
 By preventing undue increases in | forage prices Mir Hoover promised that the food administration would 1 cooperate in measures to stimulate l live stock production. He also vaid l further production of sheep. both for
 meat and particularly for wool. ex l tensively used In uniforms, Is needed. l Our American farmers" he added.
 would be wise to realize that for g | considerable period after the war there will be very poor export mar lSet for American bread grains, where
 as there will be a wide demand for
 animal products
 GRAIN COMPARISON Organization of the new s6o,ooo. 900 grain corporation of the food admin l istration, with all stock owned by the 1 federal government, also was detailed | in the report Since it's organization, 1 September {, wheat prices have been
 stable and supplies equitably distrib- uted between all millers through fl i zone agencies. One-third of the $150,- l 100000 appropriated for the food ad- 1 ministration. MT. Hoover stated, was drawn from tho treasury to organize | the grain corporation.
 | ''The grain corporations agents at the various milling cepters have dis tributed fairly and impartially and in
 exact relation to the needs of the mills
 at these points the entire arrivals" MT. Hoover said. More than that. throughout the eight milling divisions | of the United States, with their diff ferent varieties of wheat. the distri-
 button has been, with minor fluctu
 ations, absolutely even in the relation which the operation Of one mill SnOuId bear to another mill, so that all mills have been fairly treated and assured l the same percentage of operation as
 their competitors.
 WHEAT MOVEMENT SMALL 1 There have been unusual reasons
 why the movement of wheat from the farms and through the country deal
 CTS has been smaller than usual. The farmers with the usual pressure of ! extraordinarily large oats and corn crops, the attractive minimum guar antee for next years wheat crop which dictated fall preparation on an unusually large scale, the stablization
 of the wheat price and the assurance 1 that the market would not suffer dis 1 astrous depression, relieving them of | the necessity for neglecting other farm work for the marketing of the l secured wheat crop, and the same feel l ing / of assurance for their wheat values. forced their energies and the railroad facilities into the marketing of crops exposed to price depression, like rye and barley and oats PRIOR COMPETITION "The unrestrained competition last 1 spring and summer between the for I eign buyers robbed our market of it's normal and necessary reserves and re- duced our stocks of wheat and flour
 to dangerous level.
 "In spite of all these drawba the wheat crop has been so evenly dis | tributed and SO fairly supplied that ( k1,A ( A~ Ty~&tk =