The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-01
MUST SAVE WHEAT !.
TILL END OF WAR
Americans Have Only 261r
100000 Bushels to Last |
the Next Two Months
NORMAL SUPPLY is
4O,OOO,OOO A MONTH
Unlimited Wheat Bread Is Not Expect
ed-Surplus from Bumper Crop This
Year to Be Kept as Reserve Against
Future Needs.

ed-SurpluS from bumper crop THIS
Year to Be Kept as Reserve Against
Future Needs.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The food
administration declares that despite an
expected bumper crop, there will be no
let-up in the conservation of wheat
and flour. Every aspect of the wheat
situation, present and prospective, it
was declared, intensified the need for
the greatest possible limitation in the
American consumption of wheat and
wheat products.
Serious want for the people of Eu-
rope would result before the new crop
could reach the market if the present
policy were not continued, it is stated.
The following statement was issued:
"The food administration s estimate
of the position on the 1st of June indi-
Gates total available supply until the
new harvest, including the grain which
will be available from the farms, in
country and terminal elevators and mill
elevators, of about 56,OO0,0O0 bushels
| "Of this, 3O,000,000 bushels must be
Exported before new wheat is available
for export if we are to maintain the
absolutely necessary shipments to oui
army and the allies. That leaves abou,
26,O00,000 bushels for domestic con
sumption for the next two months
'Normal American consumption il
something over 100000 bushels !
month, so that the most liberal con
sumption at home would be only one
third of normal.
.'In addition to the wheat on TIL,
farms and in elevators, there is Away
an underestimate further amount il
transit and in dealers hands, and thi
can never be reckoned in with the fol
available for export and at home.
AS a matter of fact, this stock i
not actually available, since these sup
plies must remain constantly in flow
They remain a permanent stock, TIL
removal of which would later cause
| period of acute shortage in distributio
tbefore new wheat would be available,
"There is further an inclination t
Il include new crop prospects with pres
II ent conditions, which has led to cor
II fusion, The harvest will not be genel
II ally available in -four until the middl
II of August or early September, althoug
' in the extreme South it will be some
= what earlier.
'At meeting of the federal foo
administration in Washington yestel
day, representing all the forty-eigl
. states, it was the unanimous view tina
even if the harvest does prove abul
dant, it will be the first duty of IL
D American people to place every gra.
they can save into storage against pc
sible bad years ahead. In consequence
there should be no anticipation of III
limited wheat bread until the war
over.
'Some of the most inconvenient L
strictions can no doubt be modif
with the arrival of a large harvest, b
if we are honest with ourselves we W
maintain restrictions requiring the u
of some substitutes, both domestic al
commercial.
"We will continue the requireme
of high milling extraction and t
4 elimination of the non -essential use
and waste of -four and bread.
cit is worth remembering that
famine in Egypt, 5000 years ago, W
saved by little governmental TO
sight, and it does not require any illu
mating dream to anticipate that,
long as the war lasts, with its incre'
~ ing drafts for soldiers and munitio
- workers, the world will steadily p
duce less food.
II "1f we are wise, a great harv'
[u will mean the willing building up
IN great national reserves.