The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-07-04
By b. +. Ladd. Federal Food Administrator for North Dakota
Latest reports from Washington are that there are over nine hundred
usand soldiers In France. Nearly one million American boys facing ne
A patriotic statement about the food supply.

QQOuSRnd OlMeF IN FRANCE Weary p mLlOn AMoHcaHD IVY A0SAS -
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Are " going to back them up, Certainly to the absolute limit HsE ar
We going to do 1T We re going to build up reserves ct munitions sn,pat
money, trained mechanics airshps and food We are going to SCI to y taS
not one single thing 10 lacking when they face their desperate task. We ar9
not going 70 take q single unnecessary chance when the lives q h o o
It has been said that the return ticket Of or boys in France viii b.
secured largely through American savings OF wheat sugar, meats INC fa6-
: ' Nj. Hoover believes that it il essential att that there Sc built up in th. coun-
now, but this i only : beginning When ' got milons nor y there "
accessible that there will never be 9 chance Of its failure
Saving money win not guarantee . food supply. Mature Il tickle some.
being one 81 abundant harvests. Out Of this abundance We must prepare to
pe up those SURPRISES that viii positively insure q food supply for our boys
b q u MI ss t crops -, in tn the years. .n . s'e come a., That i the the great e 81 task a'1 to Which
the United States Food Administration under Herbert Hoover - now dsm-
Gated.
Backed by the splendid cooperation OF the people Of the United States
ne United States Food Administration has already performed mlraceA Out
Of our 1917 crop We had just twenty million bushels for export. That was the
amount Of our surplus over the normal home consumption up to June l. lS4
We have now actually shipped one hundred and twenty million bushels q
wheat Where did we &c. that extra one hundred million bushels7 The PEG.
pie Of the United States each individual saving . little saved his grand coal
since last November. a.
Our ordinary rate Of export Of beef IL two million pounds monthly. The
largest single month this year was eightyseven million pounds Of exports
This year we exported In q NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. hundred and eight million
pounds That u what the American people accomplished this year through
people to do No on suffered any serious Inconvenience, but each giving up
. little contributed such a tremendous total that We were enabled to save
side with us for the liberty Of the world from disaster and probably from ~
overwhelming defeat, @
The United States Food Administration IL now asking us to save beef
and eat more pork In is stead. 4 short time ago they asked us to save pork
and eat beef. Why do they make these changes in their request? Simply
because they can not change " regulate the supplies Of these various products
~ they ire made ready to come into the markets. They must take conditions
~ they ind them and they appeal to the intelligence of the American people
70 grasp the situation when 1t is explained 70 Thorn and Y conform promptly
and oheerfsny to each change or mobilization in the ruling.
1our as possible until the new harvest; that y 9 USE srishabls Vegetables,
fruits etc, in place II the commodities that viii keep well and bat We Do
not waste any food products that can possibly be saved.
The Food Administration looks to the future with the utmost condolences
knowing that America will not fail our boys lover there"