The Nevada County picayune., 1918-08-15

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 In spite of a subnormaI food supply in this country the American people have been able to ship to the Allies as well as our own forces overseas Ill 100000 bushels of wheat, besides 344, ,6000o0 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 voluntary basis which Is regarded as splendid tribute to the patriotism of the American people.
 Meat shipments were increased S44,- 900, 900 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," Mir Hoover wrote President Wilson, which were in the main pur- chased through or with collaboration of the Food Administration, amount to. roundly. s1.400, 100000 during the fiscal year.
 In 19l6-17 the United States sent the Allies 2,l66. J00.000 pounds of meat. In 19l7-l8, with voluntary con servation praeticed in America, and aided by extra weight of animals, we sent the Allies 2,0i1. 100000 pounds of meat an increase of S44, GOO, 900 pounds
 Wheat Saving Enormous.
 When the Food Administration be- gan operations in the summer of l9lT, 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 a bushel of surplus.
 At the close of the 1917-1S harvest year the Food Administration official reports showed that our total wheat shipments 10 the other side had been l4t,000.OOO bushels Every buShel Il htr hA American people from their normal consumption.
 In cereals and cereal products re- dueed to terms of cereal bushels our shipments to Allied destinations were 340 Soo. .0O0 bushels. s0900.00o bushels more than the amount sent in l9l6-l7
 Included in these figures are l3,9O0- OOO bushels of rye and the l4i ,OO0,cO bushels of saved wheat. In addition we sent the neutrals dependent on us 10000, ,0O0 bushels of prime breadstuffs
 .'rhese figures do not fully convey the volume of the effort and sacrifice made during the past year by the whole American people" the Food Ad- ministrator wrote "I am sure that all the millions of our people, agricul- tural as well as urban, who have eon- trihuted to these results should feel 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.
 Tt is difficult to distinguish be- tween various sections of our people the homes, public eating places, food trade, urban or agricultural popula- rions-in assessing credit for these results. but no one will deny the dom- inant part of the American wonen.