Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1918-08-21
OUR Saved FOOD
FED THE ALLIES
Food Administrator Writes Presi-
dent America Conserved 141.-
100000 Bushels Wheat.
CREDIT DUE TO M EN-.
Meat and Fat Shipments Increased by
s44, GOO, 900 Pounds.

oTfrooO,OUU FOunQS.
Conservation measures applied by
the American people enabled the Unit
ed States to ship to the Allied peoples
and to our own forces overseas 141.-
100000 bushels of wheat and S44 ,60O,-
600 pounds Of meat during the past
year, valued in all at $1,400, O00, 900.
This was accomplished in the face of a
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 bushels of wheat
during l917-1S and the shipment of
meat during 1917-1S.
The total value of all food ship
ments to Allied destinations amounted
to $4,000 ,000, all this food being
OOuShl lIlOuSI vi Ill SOlldDOi dllOI
with the Food Administration. These
figures are all based on official reports
and represent food exports for the
harvest year that 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 year 1916-17. 20, 1876, 5OO.O 900 lbs.
Fiscal year 1917-1S.. BOIL, 100, 900 lbs.
Increase ........... S44, 600, 900 lbs.
Our slaughterable animals at the be-
ginning of the last fiscal year were not
appreciably 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 their best results in the last
half of the fiscal year, when the ex-
ports to the Allies were .. 1873, 100, 900
pounds, as against 1896 SOC, 600 pounds
In the same period Of the year before.
This compares with an average of
S01 600, 900 pounds of total exports for
the same half years in the three-year
pre-War period.
In cereals and cereal products re-
duced to terms of cereal bushels our
shipments to Allied destinations have
been:
Fiscal year 1851. $50. 900 600 bushels
Fiscal year 1917-1S. $40, 500, coo bushels
Increase ......... S0,900.000 bushels
Of these cereals u shipments of
the prime breadstuffs in the fiscal year
1917-1S to Allied destinations were:
Wheat 131, 100000 bushels and of rye
$780, 900 bushels, a total of 144,9OO,-
900 bushels.
The exports to Allied destinations
during the fiscal year 1861 were:
Wheat 135, 100000 bushels and rye
100000 bushels, a total Of 1871, 00,000
bushels. In addition some 10000 GO
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 al .OGO,-
900 bushels, or a total of 154, 800, 900
bushels of prime breadstuffs. 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 1861
from net c%arry-over and as surplus
over u normal consumption about
200, 100000 bushels of wheat which we
were able to export that year without
trenching on our home loaf" Mr..
Hoover said. "This last year, however,
owing to the large failure of the 1917
v heat 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 ap-
.proximately savings from u own
wheat bread.
These figures, however, do not fully
the volume of the effort and
sacrifice made during the past year
by the whole American people. De-
81 lite the magnificent effort of our agri-
cultural population in planting a much
Increased acreage in 1917, not only was
tlrre a very large failure in wheat,
but also the corr failed to mature prop
e. ", and our corn is our dominant crop.
i am sure" Mr.. Hoover wrote in
ccHclu1ing his report, that all the
millions of u people, agricultural as
W. Il as urban, who have contributed
to these results should feel a very
d, mite satisfaction that in a year Of
III Universal food shortages in the north.
ern hemisphere all of those people
together against Germany have
COZ e through into sight Of the coming
har5est not only with wealth and
Str ngth fully maintained, but with
temporary periods OF hardship.
1T is difficult to distinguish between
sections Of our people-the
nos s, public eating places, food
Lr%,' s, urban or agricultural pCpgla-
tinl.--in assessing credit Tor these re-
sult.:. bat no one Will denJ the dG,ni-
,crt NJ tho American women -