The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-19
Food Administrators Notes.


A census of the hogs of Iowa will
be taken Immediately. Herbert
Hoover has asked Federal Food Adj
ton to count the hogs in this state,
pose of the survey is to find out how
(! much meat we can export to our
soldiers and our associates in the
war The United States. must, send
them 100000 tons of food this
year as against 10,000,00o last year
Hoover must know how much he
can depend on from the farms Of
Iowa. Hence the count that will be
made the last half of this month
It will be made by the school chill
ers with census cards listing the
hogs of each farm The farmers
are assured that there is no other
purpose in the survey than the one
given above. The information will
not be used for any other purpose.
1t has no relation to taxes or mark
cts or anything except to find out
| the soldiers. The survey is in
charge of committee composed of
the county food administrators the
superintendent of schools, the farm
agent. the farm bureau president,
the chairman of the Women's com
mittee of the Council of Defense and
the representative of the merchants
on the staff of the county food adj
ministratOrs.
All shippers Of hay, except farm
ers who are shipping hay produced
the. Food Control Act. must operate
under license hereafter and should
make application to the License Di-
vision, United States Food Admin
istration, Washington, d. c., for
such license
Food Administrator ]. r Deems
who has just returned from WASH
ington learned at the conference of
the federal food administrators with
Herbert Hoover that southern Rus
sia's wheat crop is failure and
millions will starve in that country
mania, Bulgaria and Serbia also is
bad; The comforting thing report
ed by Mr.. Deems is that the crop in
Germany also is a failure.
There is a supply of 100000
gallons of sorghum syrup anticipat.
sorghum in the middle west, in
GLIDING Iowa where the supply was
doubled through the efforts of the
United States Food Administration
and the department of agriculture
SORGHUM syrup and cane syrup are
crushing and boiling. The grade
and color depend on the making |
All sorghum mills must be licensed. |
The first national restaurant was
opened in England on June 26,
1918. The prices effective in this
tionally low Soup sold for cents
per portion while roast meat could
be had for from 8 to IL cents per
portion. Sweets sold for from 6 to
cents and the charge for coffee
per cup was 4 cents and for tea 2 |
cents.
The United States Food Admins
purchasing seasons supply of |
wheat flour provided he purchases |
the required substitutes but it is of |
the opinion that consumers are not
well informed on the necessity for |
continued conservation Of wheat
many of them will suffer from finan-
cial loss by loading themselves up
fore they can be used. To purchase |
a large quantity of flour and substi-
tutes and permit any of it to spoil |
would be wasteful practice and
this is provided against by the Food |
Act. The consumer. therefore,
should be advised against hys-
terical purchase of wheat flour and |
should also be warned that should |
any excessive quantities of flour be
purchased and permitted to spoil |
the consumer would be held account
able under the law.
It has been found that from ten |
to fifteen per cent of the total rail-
road freight in this country is food |
or feeding stuffs Furthermore, |
agricultural products, such as grain, |
fruit and vegetables. flour and live
stock comprise more than two-thirds |
Of all rail food and feed shipment |
Food material derived from animals, |
is, when measured bv freight ton
mage, onlv about one-fifth as great as
that derived from plants.
If the prices in the United States
seem high, consider these of Ger
many where speculation has been
allowed to run rampant:
One egg, zoe; quart milk, zoe;
pound curd cheese, 6Oc; pound
butter k4O.S5. As: 1 pound rye