The Adair County news., 1918-05-08
ALLIES DEMAND
MORE CEREALS
American Meat Restrictions Re.
laxed to Effect Greater
Wheat Savings.
ARGENTINE ARRIVALS SHORT.
Meat Supply Here Considerably En-
Iarged - Food Administration,
However, Warns Against
Waste.

The allies have made further and
increased demands for breadstuffs,
these enlarged demands being caused
to some degree by shortage In arrivals
from the Argentine. 1t is. therefore.
necessary for the q. S. Food Admins
tration to urge still further reduction
In the consumption Of bread and bread
stuffs generally If we are to meet our
export necessities. The Food Admin
istration has issued a statement ex-
planning the situation In detail, partic-
ularly the reasons which lead it, for
the purpose of centering effort for the
time being upon the cereal situation
to relax temporarily the restrictions on
meat consumption
Experience shows, this statement
says, that the consumption of bread
stuffs Is intimately associated with the
consumption of meat For various
reasons our supplies of meat for the
next two or three months are consid
erably enlarged, and we can supply the
allies with all Of the meat produces
which transportation facilities render
possible and at the same time some
what increase our own consumption
In these circumstances the Food Ad-
ministration considers 1t wise to relax
the voluntary restrictions on meat con-
sumption to some extent with a view
to further decreasing bread consump-
ton.
Conservation of food must be ad-
1usted to meet necessities from time to
time, for neither production, nor al
lied demands are constant factors. nor
can any of these factors be anticipated
for long periods in advance In the dis
turbed conditions in which we at pres
ent live. While the world situation is
not one that warrants any relaxa ton
In the efforts to eliminate waste or to
relax economy in food, the Admins
tration desires to secure better adjust
ment in food balances.
So long as the present conditions
continue the only special restrictions
we ask are the beefless and porkless
Tuesday.
The meatless meal and the porkless
Saturday are no longer asked.
The farmers of the United States
are responding to the national call to
increase hog production. Their In.
crease, to all appearances, is being at.
tanned more rapidly. Of more imme-
date importance, however, are several
complex factors which have effected
an immediate increase in meat sup
plies.
The transportation shortage before
the government took over the rail-
roads, the bad weather In January and
early in February, the large percent
age Of immature corn In the last har
vest and the necessity of feeding thi!
= corn as rapidly as possible to save Il
from decay, have not only resulted ir
backing up the neutrality-suspicious.
hogs-on the farms for a longer pc
Rod Of feeding, but have resulted in ;
great increase In their average weigh
and will result, with improved trans
portatiop conditions, which already ap
pear, In larger than normal arrivals a
market for the next two or thre,
months. The weight Of hogs coming
to the market for the past two week
indicates an increase in weight o
from an average of 203 pounds las
year to the almost unprecedente,
average of 232 pounds, or a net in
crease In their meat value of over
per cent This is a distinct addition
to the nations meat supply. 1t there