Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-08-08
OUR SAVED FOOD
FED The ALLIES
Food Administrator Writes PreSi-
dent America Conserved AL
100000 Bushels Wheat.
CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN.
Meat and Fat Shipments Increased by
100000 Pounds.

Conservation measures applied by
the American people enabled the Unit
ed States to ship to the Allied peoples
and to our own forces overseas ILL.,
100000 bushels Of wheat and $4,000,
600 pounds of meat during the past
year, valued in all at 81, 100000.
This was accomplished in the face of
serious food shortage in this country
bespeaking the wholeheartedness and
patriotism with which the American
people have met the food crisis abroad.
Food Administrator Hoover, in a let
ter to President Wilson, explains how
the situation was met. The voluntary
conservation program fostered by the
Food Administration enabled the piling
up of the millions of bgshels of wheat
during 1917-1S and the shipment of
meat during 1917-1S
The total value of all food ship
ments to Allied destinations amounted
to 81 400, 100000, all this food being
bought through or in collaboration
with the Food Administration. These
figures are all based on official reports
and represent food exports for the
harvest year chat closed June 80, 1918.
The shipments of meats and fats
(including meat products, dairy prod
ucts, vegetable oils, etc. to Allied des
tinations were as follows:
Fiscal wear I91G-17... .2,1GG, 100000 lbs.
Fiscal year 101I-13. ..3,011, 100000 lbs.
Increase ........ 8446o0000 lbs.
Our slaughterable animals at the be-
ginning Of the last fiscal year were not
aBpreciably larger than the year be-
fore and particularly in hogs they
were probably less The increase in
shipments is due to conservation and
the extra weight of animals added by
our farmers
The full effect of these EFFORTS began
to bear tle.r best results in the last
half of the fiscal year, when the eS-
ports to the Allies were 2,133, 100000
pounds, as against f256,300,000 pounds
in the same period of the year before.
This compares with an average of
801 100000 pounds of total exports for
the same half years in the threeyear
pre-war period.
In cereals and cereal products re-
duced to terms of cereal bushels our
shipments to Allied destinations have
been:
Fiscal year 1916-17. go. 100000 bushels
Fiscal year 19l7-1S. $40, 100000 bushels
Ip.resso go 600 ono bushels
OF these cereals our shipments of
the prime breadstuffs in the fiscal year
1917-1S to Allied destinations We're:
Wheat 131, 600, 900 bushels and of rye
1890, 900 bushels, a total of 144,900,-
900 bushels.
The exports to Allied destinations
during the fiscal year 1861 were:
Wheat 1876, 100000 bushels and rye
100000 bushels, a total Of 1877 100000
bushels. In addition some 100000
bushels of 1917 wheat are now in port
for Allied destinations or en- route
thereto. The total shipments to Allied
countries from our last harvest of
wheat will be therefore, about 141 ,000,
600 tdshels. or a total Of 154, 100000
! bushels of prime breadstuifs. In ad-
dition to this we have shipped some
100000 bushels to neutrals depend
| ent upon US, and we have received
some imports from other quarters.
"This accomplishment of our people
| in this matter stands out even more
| clearly if we bear in mind that we had
/ available in the fiscal year 1916-17
! from net carry-over and as surplus
over our normal consumption about
/ 200 100000 bushels of wheat which we
were able to export that year without
trenching on cur home loaf" Mr..
Hoover said This last year, however,
owing to the large failure Of the 1917
wheat crop, we had available from net
carry-over and production and imports
only just about our normal consump-
ton Therefore our wheat shipments
to Allied destinations represent APP
proximately savings from our own
wheat bread.
"These figures, however, do not fully
convey the volume of the effort and
sacrifice made during the past year
by the whole American people. De-
spite the magnificent effort of our agri-
cultural population in planting a much
!. Increased acreage in 1917, not only was
there a very largr failure in whea ,
but also the corn failed to mature prop
erly, and our corn is our dominant crop.
II am sure" Mr.. Hoover wrote in
concluding his report, that all the
millions of our people, agricultural as
we'll as urban, who have contributed
to these results should feel very
definite satisfaction that in year of
universal food shortages in the north.
ern hemisphere all Of those people
joined together against Germany have
come through into sight of the coming
harvest not only with wealth and
strength fully maintained. but with
only temporary periods of hardship
st is difficult to distinguish between
various sections of our people-the
homes, public eating places, food
trades, urban or agricultural popula-
tions-in assessing credit for these re-