Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-22

In spite of subnormaI food supply
in this country the American people
have been able to ship to the Allies
as well as our own forces overseas
IA, 100000 bushels OF wheat, besides
844, 600, 900 pounds of meat, during the
year ending June 80 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
III Food Administrator Hoover, in q
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
tstration to this end. The conserya-
ton measures have been put through
practically on a voluntary basis which
is regarded as a splendif tribute to
the patriotism Of the American people.
Meat shipments were increased 844,-
100000 pounds during the frst fiscal
year, as compared with our meat en-
ports during the, year before America
entered the war.
'"The total value Of these food ship
ments," Mr.. Hoover wrote President
Wilson, (which were In the main pur-
chased through or with collaboration
Of the Food Administration, amount
to, roundly, $1,4O0,o0o.oOO during the
fiscal. year."
In 1861 the United States sent
The Allies 2.166. 100000 pounds Of
meat. In. 1917-1s,, with voluntary cons
seryation, practieed in America. and
aided BY extra weight Of animals, we
sent the Allies 2O1I. 100, 600 pounds OF
meat. an Increase OF 100000
poundA ~ = sys.t. n
So. Wheat Saving, Enormous.
u. When the Food Admipistrationybe -
gan operations In the summer Of 1917.
this country was facing a larse deficit
In. wheat a Counting In all carry-over.
wheat from the 1915. crop. I'VE had at
the beginning Of the 1917 harvest year
/ 16st enough wheat. 70 take care Of
! Americas normal consumpt ioA. mot i
! buxhel Of surplus. sill.,grr lafi.. 5 s,:s,.l
+ year the FOOD XdfhinistratioI d oficial
reports showed that our! total wheat
shipments to the ether side had been
IA, 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
34OSOO, 600 bushels, sO.9OO,OOO bushels
more than the amount sent in 1916-17.
Included in these figures are 13,9O0.-
600 bushels Of rye and the 141,OO0,Oo0
bushels of saved wheat. In addition
we sent the neutrals dependent on us
100000 bushels Of prime breadstuffs.
THESE figures do not fully convey
the volume of the effort and sacrifice
made during the past year by the
whole American people," the Food AID.
ministrator wrote. II am sure that
! all the millions of our people. agricul-
tural as we'll as urban. who have CON
| tributed to these results should feel
| very definite satisfaction that in q
| 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
porary periods Of hardship
.xs--
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