The Brinkley argus., 1918-08-09

In spits sk . subnormal food supp in this country the Amerfcan pecp have bsen able to ship to the Allie e ven as our own forces overSeAs 1I1. .OOO, 600 bushels of wheat, bed4es GA, ,000, 900 pounds of meat, during the year ending June 30 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.
 Food Administrator Hoover, in a letter to President Wilson, gives a brief summary of the results Of food conservation in the United States and of the activities of the Food Admin istration to this end. The conserva- ton measures have been put through practically on a voluntary basis which is regarded as a splendid tribute to the patriotism of the American people.
 Meat shipments were increased S44,- 100000 pounds during the first fiscal year, as compared with our meat ex- ports during the year before America entered the war.
 "The total value of these food ship ments.' MT. Hoover wrote President Wilson. which were in the main pur- chased through or with collaboration of the Food Administration, amount to. roundly, o,0ooooo during the fiscal year
 i sQ.-,a-s --.+4-,.H Tr,ff11 CfsfFac Spf3f the Allies 2,lG6.500000 pounds of meat h 1917-1S, with voluntary con- servation pracriced in America, and aided by extra weight of animals we sent the Allies 2011, 100000 pounds of meat an increase of S44600,o00 pounds.
 Wheat Saving Enormous.
 When the Food Administration be- gan operations in the summer of 1917. this country was facing q large deficit in wheat. Counting in all carry-over wheat from the 1916 crop, we had at the beginning of the 1917 harvest year just enough wheat to take care of America's normal consumption,-not bushei If surplus.
 At the close of the 19l7sa& harvest wear the Food Administrations official rerorts showed that our total wheat shipments to the other side had been 1nQO0.OO0 bushels. Every bushei 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 des uat.eas were a40 .So9o00 bushels. s9@@0o0 bushels more than gAe amount sent in l9i617.
 Included in these figures are i&80O,- GOO bushels of rye and tAe ltbt93J0o bushels of saved wheat Iu addition we sent the peutrals 3cpeaae Hs l0.U5a.900 bushels ot prime o~aa Jils.
 'TheSe figures ao uot .Hf.t r9AFey tae volume of ghe effer aud ice made during che pa> gear hy the whole American people, tno Food Ad- ministratur wrote. "liam sure thaS all be millions 5f our icanc. aEr'eul- frral as YyeN as urban N'o have con tHbu,ed 70 these result should feel very definite sausfactiau thaE in q year of universal food shortages ID ,he Northern Hemisphere ea of those people joined together agaHS- ger many came through to the new Nar vest not ony with health aud strength fully mamtaned but with only tems porary periods of hardship
 "lt IS difficult Co distinguish be- tween various sections of our people-- the bones public eating places food trade, orban or agricultural popuia- tions-in assessing credit for these results, but no one Will deny the dom. inant part of the American women.