The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-08-22
OUR SAVED FOOD
FED The ALLIES
Food Administrator Writes Presi-
dent America Conserved AL
/ 100000 Bushels Wheat.
CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN.
Meat and Fat Shipments Increased by
s44.6o0,o00 Pounds.

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,-
1000 bushels of wheat and 844, 6O0,-
600 pounds Of meat during the past
year, valued in all at $1,4OO,OOO, 600.
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 Administrators Hoover, in let
ter to President Wilson, explains how
the situation was met. The voluntary
CONSERVATION program fostered by the
Food sAdministration enabled the piling
up Of the millions of bushels of wheat
during 1917-18 and the shipment of
meat during 1918.
The total value Of all food ship
ments to Allied destinations amounted
to $1,4OO,O00, 900, all this food being
bought through or in collaboration
with the Food Administration. These
dIE dn DacCu Oh OllSaoi AOPOA ~
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 1851. 2, 166, 500, 900 lbs.
Fiscal year 1917-18. ..S. oil, 100. 900 lbs.
Increase .......... S44, 900. 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-
norts TO the Allies were 2,133, 100, OOO
mounds. as against 1,266. DOC, 900 pounds
in the same period of the year before.
This compares with an average OF
sO1 600, 900 pounds of total exports fol-
the same half years In the three-yeal
pre-war period.
In cereals and cereal products re
duced to terms Of cereal bushels oul
shipments to Allied destinations have
been:
Fiscal year 1916-17. .259, 900, 900 bushels
Fiscal year 1917-18. .34O, SOC, 900 bushels
Increase ........ $4,000, 900 bushels
OF these cereals our shipments Of
The prime breadstuffs In the fiscal veal
1o17-1S to Allied destinations were
wheat $4,000 900 bushels and Of rye
$4,000, 900 bushels, total Of 144,9OO,
600 bushels.
The exports to Allied destinations
during the fiscal year 1867 were
wheat 1876 100000 bushels and rye
2,30O, 900 bushels, total OF l57,4OOOO
bushels. In addition some 10,OO0OOe
bushels Of 1917 wheat are now In por'
for Allied destinations or en- route
thereto. The total shipments to Alice
countries from our last harvest o.
wheat will be therefore, about LOO,
600 bushels, or total of 154, 9O0OU
bushels of prime breadstuffs In ad
dition to this we have shipped soms
ID. ooo. 900 bushels to neutrals depend
emit upon us, and we have received
some imports from other quarters