The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-16
American Meat Restrictions Re.
Taxed to Effect Greater
Wheat Savings.
ARGENTINE ARRIVALS SHORT.
Meat Supply Here Considerably En-.
Iarged Food Administration,
However, Warns Against
Waste. =

uCTeaSeu ueUlanUS lOT UTedoSluue,
these enlarged demands being caused
to some degree by shortage in arrivals
from the Argentine. 1t is, therefore,
necessary for the q. S. Food Admins
tratiOn to urge a still further reduction
in the consumption of bread and bread
stuffs generally If we are to meet our
export necessities. The Food Admin
istration has issued statement ex-
planning the situation in detail, partic-
ularly the reasons which lead it, for
the purpose of centering effort for the
time being upon the cereal situation
TO relax temporarily the restrictions on
meat consumption.
Experience shows, this statement
says, that the consumption of bread
stuffs Is intimately associated with the
consumption of meat. For various
reasons our supplies Of meat for the
next two or three months are consld-
erably enlarged, and we can supply the
allies With all OF the meat products !
which transportation facilities render |
possible and at the same time some
what increase our own consumption. |
In these circumstances the Food Ad- |
ministration considers it wise 10 relax |
the voluntary restrictions on meat con.
sumption TO some extent with view
to further decreasing bread consump-
ton.
Conservation of food must be ad-
tusted to meet necessities from time to
time, for neither production, nor al
| lied demands are constant factors. nor
can any of these factors be anticipated
| for long periods in advance In the dis
| turbed conditions in which we at pres
ent live. While the world situation is
not one that warrants any relaxation
In the efforts to eliminate waste or to
relax economy in food. the Admins
tration desires TO secure better adjust
ment in food balances.
SO long as the present conditions
continue the only special restrictions
We ask are the beefess and porkless
| Tuesday.
! The meatless meal and the porkless
Saturday are no longer asked.
The farmers of the United States
are responding to the national call to
increase hog production. Their In.
crease. to all appearances, is being at
tanned more rapidly. OF more imme-
date importance, however, are several
complex factors which have effected
an immediate increase IN meat sup
plies.
The transportation shortage before
the government took over the rail-
roads, the bad weather In January and
early In February, the large percent
age of immature corn in the last har-
vest and the necessity of feeding this
corn as rapidly as possible to save 1t
from decay have not only resulted In
hacking up the neutrality-suspicious.
! hngs-on the farms for a longer Pc
riod of feeding, but have resulted in a
great increase in their average weight
and will result, with improved trans
portation conditions, which already ap-
g pear in larger than normal arrivals at
market for the next two or three
a months. The weight OF hogs coming
to the market for the past two weeks
indicates an increase In weight of
from an average OF 203 pounds last
1 year TO the almost unprecedented
average of 232 pounds, or a net in
/ crease in their meat value of over Is
c per cent. This Is a distinct addition
5 10 the nations meat supply. 1t there
5 fore now seems certain that we have
: such enlarged supplies for at least
some months TO come, that we can not
only increase our exports TO the allies
: 10 the fun extent of their transporta
V ton facilities, but at the same time
l. can properly increase our domestic
consumption.
le The response of the public to our re
quests for reduced consumption o
meat during the past few months ha
hcen most gratifying, and this servic,
: alone has enabled the government dur
II ing this period to provide such sup
Il plies as transportation to the allie
a permitted
The Administration also suggest
that In those parts of the countr
= where the old fashioned home preser
- Walton of pork is still the custom, thi
n. practice should be extended at tn
present time, as 1t will relieve the bul
den upon transportation to and fror
the packing houses and Is economical
~ sound as saving the cost of packin
=. operations and at the same time wi
" provide home supplies of pork to las
,, over the months of decreased supple,
a The Food Administration desires (
repeat that it does not want to Civ
he the impression that these are time
when simplicity and moderation of Ii,
ne ing are not critically necessary, bt
that its sole desire is to secure an az
iStment between our different foe
!" supplies ard meet changing condition
from time to time and to keep the pu
lie fully and frankly advised of 4
position with the full confidence ar
reliance that whenever 1t becomes ne
essary renewed appeals for saving wi
!. met the same loynl response as In Il
!. past