Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-09-02

In spite of a subnormal food supply
in this country the American people
have been able to ship to the Allies
as well as our own forces overseas
141,000,O00 bushels Of wheat, besides
9i4,G00,O00 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 practlclng 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
lstratlon 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 SHE
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, S1,400,0OOy0OO during the
fiscal year."
In 1861 the United States sent
the Allies 2,1G6.5O0,0O0 pounds Of
ment. In 10l7-1S, with voluntary con
servation practlced in America, and
aided by extra weight OF animals, we
sent the Allies 2011, 100000 pounds Of
meat, an increase Of Si4,GOO,OO(
pounds.
Wheat Saving Enormous.
When the Food Administration be
gnn operatlons In the summer Of 1917
this country was facing q large deficit
in wheat. Counting In all carry-ovel
wheat from the 1916 crop, we had a
the beginning of the 1917 harvest veal
lust enough wheat to take care o.
Americas normal consumptlon,--not
bushel of surplus.
At the close of the 19l7-1S harves
year the Food Administrations oiicia
reports showed that our total whea
shipments to the other side had beef
l41 100000 bushels. Every bushe
shipped was wheat saved by tn
American people from their norma
consumption.
In cereals and cereal products re
duced TO terms of cereal bushels ou
shipments to Allied destinations wer
$40, 100000 bushels, S0,00O,OOO bushel
more than the amount sent In 1861
Included in these figures are 1S,9OO
600 bushels of rye and the Ill ,OOO,OO
bushels of saved wheat. In additlo
we sent the neutrals dependent ON
10000 900 bushels of prime breadstuif'
"These figures do not fully conve
4 the volume Of the effort and sacrihc
; made during the past year by th
whole American people" the Food Az
q mlnistrator wrote. ~ am sure ths
all the millions of our people, agricu
tural as well as urban, who have col
tributed to these results should fe'
b n very definite satisfaction that In
: wear Of universal food shortages
: the Northern Hemisphere, all of thos
9 neople Joined together against Ge
: many came through to the new ha
vest, not only with health and streng'
fully maintained, but with only ten
:, porary periods of hardship.
|" at is difficult to distinguish b
II tween various sections OF our people
Q the homes, public eating places, foe
,. trade urban or agricultural popul
Ie tions-in assessing credit for the'
II results, but no one will deny the dor
Is inant part Of the American women.