Arizona republican., 1918-03-04
MEAT BAN IS LIFTED. FOR TIME
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 WASHINGTON, March 3.-Tempo- rary suspension of the meatless meal and of the special restrictions against the use of pork on Saturday was an- nounced by the food administration to- day as a readjustment of it's food con- servation program. Increased meat production and the necessity for still greater saving in wheat, it was de- clared, made the change advisable.
 The suspension is made effective for an indefinite period, and it prob ably will last for three months or longer.
 Since all restrictions on consumption of mutton and lamb had been lifted previously the food administration now asks the public for the time being to deny itself in meats only beef and pork on one day a week-Tuesday.
 Increased meat consumption. food administration officials believe. will of itself curtail the use of wheat and for the present there is no intention 10 add to the restrictions already in force against the use of flour.
 In statement tonight setting forth the reasons for the change in pro- gram, Food Administrator Hoover said the allies have made further and in- creased demands for breadstuffs. these enlarged demands being caused to some degree by shortage in arrivals from the Argentine Tt is, therefore, necessary for the food administration to urge q still further reduction in the consumption of bread and breadstuffs generally. if we are to meet our ex- port necessities" the statement says Experience shows that the consump- ton of breadstuffs is intimately asso- ciated with the consumption of meat. For various reasons our supplies of meat for the next two or three months are considerably enlarged and we can supply the allies with all of the meat products which transportation facili- ties render possible and at the same time somewhat increase our own con- sumption. In these circumstances. the food administration considers it wise 10 relax the voluntary restrictions on meat consumption to some extent with a view to further decreasing bread consumption.
 So long as the present conditions continue the only special restrictions We ask are the beefless and porkless Tuesday
 "The farmers of the United States are responding to the national call to Increase hog production. Their in- crease, to all appearances, is being attained more rapidly. Of more im- mediate importance, however, are sev- aral complex factors which have ef- fected an immediate increase in meat supplies.
 The transportation shortage. before the government took over the railroads the bad weather in January and early in February. the large percentage ot immature corn in the last harvest anC The necessity of feeding this corn as rapidly as possible to save it from de ,ay. have not only resulted in bacl1inf ID the animals-particular hogs-or The farms for a longer period of feed Ing, but have resulted in a great in crease in their average weight, anC will result. with improved transporta ton conditions. which already appear ln larger than normal arrivals a market for the next two or thre, months. The weight of hogs comin, to the market for the past two week. indicates an increase in weight of iron an average of 20S pounds last year t, the almost unprecedented average O 232 pounds. or q net increase in thei meat value of over fifteen per cent
 lhe response or the puD1c To ou requests for reduced consumption 0 meat during the past months has bee most gratifying. and this service alon has enabled the government during thi period to provide such supplies a transportation to the allies permitted The enlarged supplies are likely to las for two or three months, after whic there will be the usual seasonal de crease in the amount of animals com ing to market"