The Nevada County picayune., 1917-08-23
Important Message to People From Herbert C. Hoover,
 Administrator.
WORLD SUPPLIES ESTIMATED
Increased Production, Elimination Of Waste and Careful Control of Food Exports Form the Solution
 Of This War Problem.

pie of the United States not only can but must do in the matter of food pro duetion and use in order to help win the war is set forth in detail i'll q statement issued today by Food Ad- minstrator Herbert (. Hoover If we fail to dc our part i'll this respect, he says the people of the allies cannot be maintained at war for their soldiers cannot fight without food
 The normal imports of wheat and other cereals by France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Belgium. and the estimates of the 1917 crop ill those countries compared to the normal pro ductiou are given by Mr. Hoover in tabulated form, and the conclusion is drawn that in order to provide normal consumption it will be necessary for them to import in the next r. months 577, ,000OOo bushels of wheat and 67400O,ooo bushels of other cere- aiS If the crops of the United States and Canada all mature safely, North America will have all apparent snr- plus of 20S OOO Oo0 bushels of wheat and 91000O.0o0 bushels of other cere- alS The allies. therefore. must use other cereals than wheat for mixing in their war bread, and the people of America must reduce their con>ump- ton of wheat flour from five to four pounds per week per person.
 Decrease in Food Animals.
 X careful estimate of the worlds food animal position shows total net decrease of 150o5.0oO. and this will he greater as the WAT goes oil. AS the increase of herds and tlocks takeS years. We must reduce the cansump- tiou. eliminate waste and carefully con- rrol mcat exports.
 Olfr home dairy products supplies are decreasing, while our population k increasing. and We must ship in creaslng amounts of such products to our allies. Consequently this indus try must he stimulated. and home users must save the wastes in milk and butter. Much the same may be said in the ease of sugar.
 Mir. Hoover urges greater con sumption of fish and sea foods, in which our coasts and lakes are enor- mously rich The products of the land, he reminds uS. are conserved by the eating of those of the sea.
 Our Duty.
 In conclusion the food administrator says.
 have endeayored to show in previ- ouS articles that the world is short of food; that Europe k confronted with the grim spcctcr of starvation unless from our abundance and our waste we keep the wolf from the door Not only must we have q proper use of onr food supply in order that We may furnish our allies with the sineWs with which thev uav fight our battles, but l. k an act of humanity towards fellow men women and children.
 Rv- the diversion of millions of men from production to war, by the oeeu- patton of land by armies. by the iso- lation of markets. by belIigerent lines, and hy the destruction of shipping ny submarines, not only has the home pro. duetion of our allies fallen by over 5O0 a0O N00 bushels of grain, but they are thrown upon Us for much larger proportion of their normal imports for merIN obtained from other markets.
 They have reduced consumption at every point, hut men in the trenches men in the shops and the millions of women placed at physical labor re- qure more food than during peaN times. and the incidence of their saving and any shortage which they may Suf fer. falls first upon women and ehil- dren If this priyation becomes too great. their peoples cannot he main talned constant in the war and we will be left alone to fight the battle ot democracy with Germany.
 The problem of food conservation is one ef many compleNiouS. We cannot and we dc not wish, with our free in stitutions and our large resources oi food 10 initiate Europe in its polteeo ratianinr, but we must voluntarily anC ntelHgently assume the responsibility before LIS as one in which everyone has q direct and unacceptable interest We must increase our export of food' "a the allies. and in the circumstance of our shipping situation these eXport' must be of the most concentrate, foods. These are wheat flour beef pork and dairy products. We have oth er foods in great abundance which NJ can use instead of these commodities and We can prevent wastes in thou sand directions. We must guard th'