The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-06-07
ALLIES DEMAND
MORE CEREALS
American Meat Restrictions Re.
laxed to Effect Greater
Wheat Savings.
ARGENTINE ARRIVALS SHORT.
Meat Supply Here considerahiy En-
iar0ed Food Administration
However, Warns against
Waste.

The allies have made further and
Increased demands for breadstuffs,
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
lstration has issued a statement OK.
planning the situation In detail, partic-
ularly the reasons which lead 1t, 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 consid-
erably enlarged, and we can supply the
allies with all of the meat products
possible and at the same time some
what increase our own consumption.
In these circumstances the Food Ad.
ministratlon considers II wise to relax
the voluntary restrictions on meat con-
sumption to some extent with view
to further decreasing bread consump-
tion.
Conservation of food must be ed.
| justed 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 beef1ess and porklesa
| Tuesday.
l 4n6 mSdLIGSS LuG1l huu Tue ROEh1S&S
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 II
from decay, have not only resulted In
| backing up the neutrality-suspicious.
hogs-on the farms for . longer pc
riod Of feeding, but have resulted In q
great increase Ia their average weight
and VIII result, with improved trans
| portation conditions, which already ap
pear, In larger than normal arrivals al
market for the naxt two or three
months. The weight of hogs coming
to the market for the past two weeks
indicates an increase In weight o,
from an average of 208 pounds las
| year to the almost unprecedented