New Britain herald., 1918-07-09
One Near of Food Administration.

One Year of Food Administration.
 The Afms-By willing service of q free people to do these things: To feed the Allies that they may
 continue to fight
 To feed the hungry in Belgiur and
 other lands that they may con-
 tinue to live.
 To feed our own soldiers overseas
 that they may Want nothing. To keep prices steady and the flow
 of distribution even that the poor
 at home may be nourished nor
 feel the pinch of hunger.
 The Method-As a military neces- sity, Americans eat potatoes instead of wheat, dip carefully into the sugar bowl, make their clothes last longer, save their income above bare need for government funds, set their clocks an hour earlier, cultivate the home garden, preserve fruits against the winter, calculate their household pro- vision, regulate their expenditures of money and food and energy.
 Allied strategy shapes the food conservation campaign,
 Military urgency gives force to every food regulation.
 All needs bend to army require ments Moving the army, equipping the army, supplying the army sES- tainlng the arny-the army's needs alway.5 come first.
 Food, iron. wool, leather-our labor, our strength, our hopes, our prayers--the army has first claim on all.
 Vessel room limits the number of men we can send; cargo space linn it's the food and equipment we can give them, the munitions we can put in their hands.
 War dictates all exports and inn ports. War governs our shipments of wheat and meat, our consumption of sugar, our allowance of coffee War needs rule our eating and going with out War needs fix what We shall wear, what we shall spend, what we shall save. War needs direct our living to the last detail. Carrying capacity sets the margins for using or giving up.
 America is giving up wheat that war needs may be met--eVery grain the ships can carry is needed to hold intact the armies of France and Eng land and Italy and to save Belgium from starving.
 America, is sending beef and pork to the limit of shipping capacity to sustain the armies and the Allies.
 America. IS denying herself coffee. doing without tropical fruits and ori- CutaI luXuricS to release shipping for war.
 Americans arc shaping their traffic to supply the nations needs, to maintain the strength of millions without waste, to provision the com munity at the least cost.
 Nations at war have been learning and doing these things through three 1 terrible years. America also is learning and doing.
 The Results-Exports of pork pro- l ducts for March. 1918. were over 50 l per cent larger than for any previous l month in the past seven years and l almost three times as great as the 1 highest amount exported in any month in the four years before 1915. ]
 Exports of beef products for l March, 1918. were over 20 per cent l larger than for any previous month 1 in the past seven years and more | than twice as great as the highest l amount exported in any month in l the four years before 1915. 1
 Exports of rye and rye flour from l the beginning of the fiscal year July 1 l, 1917 through March, 1918, are 32 l per cent larger than last year; of ] barley 55 per cent larger; of oats l and oatmeal 34 per cent larger.
 The wholesale price of flour at l Minneapolis on May IS, 1917, the l date of the food administrators ap- 1 pointment. was $16.75; on May 4, l 1918, it was $9.S0, a decrease of l $6.95 or fl per cent.
 On May IS, 1917, the difference 1 between what the farmer got for his l wheat and the wholesale price of l flour was equivalent to S5.66 per bar l rel while on May 4, 1918, this diff 1 ference amounted to only 64 cents.
 The index number of producers 1 prices for March, 1918, shows an in l crease of 27 per cent over August, ! 1917, while the index number ot