Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-08-16
AIIles Got s44,eoo,ooo Pounds More
Meat and Fats In 1919
Than In Year Before.
Increase. s44. 100000 lbs.
Increase. :. 80,000,000 bu.



In spite of subnormal food supply
in this country tho American people
have been able to ship to the Allies
rs well as our own forces overseas
141 100000 bushels OF wheat, besides
844,600,000 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 practlclng self-denlal,
have speeded up production and re
sponded nobly to the appeal from
abroad.
Food Administrator Hoover, I'm
letter to President Wilson, gives
brief summary Of the results Of food
conservation In tho United States and
Of the activities of the Food Admin
istration to this end The conservn-
ton measures have been put through
practically on a voluntary basis which
is regarded rs a splendid tribute to
the patriotism OF the American people.
Meat shipments were increased SI4,-
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," Mr.. Hoover wrote President
Wilson, (which were In the main pur-
chased through or with collaboration
Of the Food Administration, amount
to, roundly, 81 ,400,0O0,O 200 during the
fiscal year"
In 1010-17 the United States sent
the Allies 2,100,500,00O pounds OF
meat. In 1017-18, with voluntary con-
servatlon practiced In America, and
aided by extra weight OF animals, we
sent the Allies 2,011, 100000 pounds OF
meat, an increase OF 844,000.O0O
pounds.
Wheat Saving Enormous. :.
When tho Food Administration be-
gan operations In the summer OF 1917,
this country wns facing large deficit
in wheat. Counting In all carry-over
wheat from the 1910 crop, we had ut
tho beginning of the 1917 harvest year
Just enough wheat to take care OF
Americas normal consumptiOn,-nOt u
bushel Of surplus.
At tho close of tho 1017-18 harvest
year tho Food Administrations o0lclnl
reports showed that our total wheat
shipments to the other side had been
hi, 100000 bushels. Every bushcl
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
$40, 100000 bushels, S0,000,000 bushels
more than the amount sent In i9i6l II.
Included in these figures are 1900
900 bushels Of rye and the III 100000
bushels of saved wheat. In addition
we sent the neutrals dependent on ~
100000 bushels of prime breadstuffs.
"These figures do not fully convey
the volume Of tho effort and sacrifice
made during the past year by the
whole American people," the Food Ad-
mlnlstrator wrote. II am sure that
all the millions OF our people, agrlcul-
tural MS well Ms urban, who have con-
tributed to these results should feel
u very definite satisfaction that In a
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.
ut is difficult to distinguish be-
tween various sections Of our people
tho homes, public entIng places, food
trade, urbnn or agricultural popula-
tions-in assessing credit for these
results, but no one will deny the dom
Inant part OF the American women.