The border vidette., 1918-08-24
AMERICAN FOOD
 SAVINGS LARGE
United States Sent to Allies 141,OOO,OOO Bushels
 of Wheat.
CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN.
Allies Got s44, 4,eoo, ,ooo Pounds More Meat and Fats in 1e17-1S
 Than in Year Before.

In spite of a subnormal food supply in this country the American people have been able to ship to the Allies as well as our own forces overseas Al ,0OO,00O bushels of wheat, besides S44, 600, 900 pounds of meat, during the year ending June 30 last. This has been made possible by the whole souled cooperation of the people, who, besides practicing Self-denial, have speeded up production and re- sponded nobly to the appeal from abroad.
 Food Administrator Hoover, fin a letter to President Wilson, gives brief summary of the results of food conservation in the United States and of the activities of the Food Admin istratiOn to this end. The conserva- tion measures have been put through practically on voluntary basis which is regarded as splendid tribute to the patriotism of the American people.
 Meat shipments were increased S44,- GOO 900 pounds during the first fiscal year, as compared with our meat ex- ports during the year before America entered the war.
 "The total value of these food ship ments," MT. Hoover wrote President Wilson, 'which were in the main pur- chased through or with collaboration of the Food Administration, amount to, roundly. $1 $1,4OO,0O0,O00 during the fiscal year.
 In 19I6-17 the United States sent the Allies 2.1Gj,5Oo.000 pounds of meat. In 1917-1S, with voluntary con- -serYation practiced In America. and aided by extra weight of animals, we sent the Allies 2.O11, 100000 pounds of oP f pounds.
 Wheat Saving Enormous.
 When the Food Administration be- gan operat tionS in the summer of 1917, this country was facing a large deficit in wheat. Counting in all carry-over wheat from the 1916 crop, we had at the beginning of the 1917 harvest year just enough wheat to take care of America'S normal conSumption,-nOt a buShel of surplus.
 At the close of the 1917-1S harvest year the Food Administrations official reports showed that our total wheat shipments to the other side had been 141 100000 bushels. Every bushel shipped was wheat saved by the American people from their normal consumption.
 In cereals and cereal products re- duced to terms of cereal bushels our shipments to Allied destinations were 34O, 800, 900 bushels, S090O.0OO bushels more than the amount sent In 10l6-l7.
 Included in these figures are 13,9OO,- GOO bushels of rye and the Al 100000 bushels of saved wheat. In addition we sent the neutra!s dependent on us 10000, 900 bushels of prime bread6tuffs.
 ''These figures do not fully convey the volume of the effort and sacrifice made during the past year by the wkole American people," the Food Ad- miniStratOr wrote. "I am sure that all the millions of our people, agricul- tural as well as urban, who have con- tributed to these results should feel a very definite satisfaction that In year of universal food shortages in the Northern Hemisphere, all of those people Joined together against Ger many came through to the new har- vest not only with health and strength fully maintained, but with only tenn Dorary periods of hardship.
 Ut Is difficult to distinguish be- tween various sections of our people the homes, public eating places, food trade. urban or agricultural pOpula- tions-in assessing credit for these results, but no one will deny the dom- fnant part of the American women.