The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-17
U. s. IS LOOKING l. FOR FOODSTUFFS
 IN MANY PLACES
Must Import to Make Up Raid Caused By
 Exports.

world for foreign foods to take the place of the void caused by the re- sponse to the demands of our Allies for our wheat, corn, meats, fish, but ter, cheese and milk which we are sending to them In great quantities Our exportations of fresh beef in the fiscal year 1918 were 370,000,000 pounds against 6,000,O0O the year be- fore the war, of corn 41,O00,000 bush els against 9,OOO,OO0 in 1914; of can ned salmon 100000 pounds against 88,OO0,000 in 1914; of cheese 44,0O0,OO0 pounds in 1918 against g. 500,0OO in 1914; of condensed milk 53,000,0OO pounds against 16,O00,00O in 1914; of sugar 576,OOO,OOO pounds against 100000 in 1914, and vege- tables $37,OO0,000 value against S6,- 000,000 in 1914.
 As a consequence of this outflow of the foodstuffs of which our own peo- pie were in the past accustomed to utilize a large share at home, sundry food articles are being brought in in+ creased quantities from all quarters of the world, from the reindeer herds and whaling seas of the far north to the cocoanut groves of the tropics and from the soya bean plantations of Manchuria to the cassava planta- ! tions of South America.
 A compilation by the National City Bank of New York shows remarkable | increases in importation of many | food articles produced in other parts of the world Tapioca, for example, produced from the root of the cassava plant grown in Latin America, Afri- 1 ca and the tropical Orient has amounted in the imports of 1918 to | s5,50O,000 as against $1,500,000 in | 1914; eggs, dried, frozen, etc, inn ported chiefly from China amounted 1 in 1918 to 14,5OO,00 pounds against 2,5O0,000 in 1914; rice coming chief l ly from Japan amounted to 456,0O0,- l 900 pounds in 1918 against 270, ,000,-
 900 in 1914; of cod fish, which we | imported chiefly from our neighbors at the immediate north, the quantity | brought in in 1918 was 94,000,00C pounds against 4O,00O,000 in 1914; ot
 crab meat, brought chiefly from Ja
 pan, nearly 5,OO0,O0O pounds agains
 one-half of that quantity four year' ago.
 Especially striking in the increase
 is that of vegetable oils used for food
 or the vegetable growths from whicf | they are obtained. Cocoanut oil, fol
 example, which Is largely turned in
 to butter on arriving in the United
 States showed a total important il
 1918 of 59,000,O00 pounds agains
 74,O00,O0O in 1914, while of copra
 from which cocoanut oil is obtained
 the impo1- 1-ation in 1918 was 4S7,000,
 900 pounds against 45,000,000 Il
 1914. Other vegetable oils availabl
 for food also showed large increases
 Peanut oil imported in 1918 aggregat
 ed over S,O00,000 gallons against
 little more than 100000 in 1914, ant
 of peanuts 76,OOO,OOO pounds in 191
 against IS, S,OOO,O ,OOO in 1914. soya bea1
 oil, of which certain grades are avail
 able for food, though largely used |
 the industries, amounted to 337,000,
 900 pounds in 1918 imports agains
 16,OOO,OOO in 1914. Of Cacao, o!
 cocoa, the importation of 1918 wer
 OO,OOO,OOO pounds against 176,00O,
 900 in 1914.
 Nothing seems to have been neg
 lected in the search of the world fo
 available food material. Beans irI
 ported in 1918 aggregated over 4,
 100000 bushels against a little ove
 half million 1916 and dried peas
 couple of million bushels agains
 5OO,OOO in 1915. Of pepper the quan
 tity imported in 1918 is $500, 00
 pounds against 20,00O,O0O in 1914; O cinnamon S,25O,OOO pounds agains 5,5O0,OOO in 1914; and of ginger roo
 unground 6,5OO,COO pounds against 3, ,OOO in 1914. Of honey the short
 age in sugar caused the importation of nearly $1,OO,000 worth in 191 against $4O,00O worth in 1914.
 This search for new food supplies
 or for additions to the supply former ly received, extends to every part o the world. Reindeer steaks from tn herds of Alaska are sold in the mar
 kets of the Pacific coast. Whal
 meat, introduced eXperimentally thu far is available in the northern par of both the Atlantic and Pacifi oceans and also at the far South, an : is now much used as food suppl in Japan. The cocoanut oil and tn copra from which it is made com l: chiefly from the Philippines and othe : Pacific Islands, also the tropica U coasts of Australia and South Amer
 ica. The tapioca produced from tn :, cassava plant grown in Latin Amer : ica, Africa and the Orient comes : us chiefly from the Dutch East Indie
 Straits Settlements, and a limite , quantity from England, which doub u less obtained it from her tropical DO! :, sessions, also in smaller quantitit from China, Japan, Hongkong an :, British West Indies. The beans in u ported come chiefly from Brazi $ Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Canad >' Cuba, China, Japan and India, tho:
 from China and Japan being presun V ably in a large part at least tf |, "soya" bean for which the demar si both in the United States and els ? where has greatly increased in recel 5 years. The honey imported come u chiefly from Cuba, the Dominica
 Republic, Haiti, Mexico and Chile