The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-10-04
OUR SAVED FOOD
FED THE ALLIES
Food Administrator Writes PreSi-
dent America Conserved 141,-
100000 Bushels Wheat.
CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN.
Meat and Fat Shipments Increased by
s44,6oo,o Pounds.

conservation measures applleQ Dy
the American people enabled the Unit
ed States to ship TO the Allied peoples
and to our own forces overseas I41,-
000, 900 bushels of wheat and S44, 6O0,-
900 pounds Of meat during the past
year, valued in all at 81, 100000.
This was accomplished in the face of a
serious food shortage in this country,
bespeaking the wholeheartedness and
patriotism with which the American
people have met the food crisis abroad.
Food Administrator Hoover, in let
ter to President Wilson, explains how
the situation was met. The voluntary
conservation program fostered by the
Food Administration enabled the piling
up of the millions of bushels of wheat
during 1918 and the shipment of
meat during 1917-18. NJ
The total value of all food ship
ments to Allied destinations amounted
to $1.400,000,00O, all this food being
bought through or in collaboration
with the Food Administration. These
figures are all based on official reports
and represent food exports for the
harvest year that closed June 80, 1918
The shipments of meats and fats
Gncluding meat products, dairy prod.
ucts, vegetable oils, etc., to Allied des-
tinations were as follows:
Fiscal year 1861. .. q 166, 500,0 900 lbs.
Fiscal year 1917-1S. ..3011, 100 600 lbs.
Increase ........... $4,000 900 lbs.
Our slaughterabe animals at the be-
ginning of the last fiscal year We're not
appreciably larger than the year be-
fore and particularly in hogs i they
were probably less. The increase in
shipments is due to conservation and
the extra weight of animals added by
our farmers.
The full effect of these efforts began
to bear their best results in the last
half of the fiscal year, when the eX-
ports to the Allies were 2,133, 100000
pounds. as against 1855 100000 pounds
in the same period of the year before.
This compares with an average OF
S01, 100000 pounds of total exports for
'the same half years in the three-year
pre-war period.
In cereals and cereal products re-
duced to terms of cereal bushels our
shipments to Allied destinations have
been
Fiscal year 1861. .259, 100000 bushels
Fiscal year 1917-1S. $40, 100000 bushelf
x
Increase ......... 80.900,000 bushels
OF these cereals our shipments of
the prime breadstuffs in the fiscal year
1917-1S to Allied destinations We're !:
Wheat 131,0O0O00 bushels and of rye
100000 bushels, total of 144.900,.
900 bushels.
The exports to Allied destinations
during the fiscal year 1861 were
100000 bushels, total of 1877 100000
bushels In addition some 10,000,00G
bushels of 1917 wheat are now in port
for Allied destinations or en- route
thereto. The total shipments to Allied
countries from our last harvest of
wheat will be therefore, about 141, 600
600 bushels, or a total of 54,900O00
bushels of prime breadstuffs In adj
dition to this we have shipped som:
100000 bushels % neutralS depend.
ent upon us, and we haze received
some imports from other quarters
This accomplishment of our people
in this matter stands out even NOR;
clearly if we bear in mind that we haG
available in the fiscal year 1851
from net carry-OVer and as surplus
over our normal consumption abOul
2Cl 900 600 bushels of wheat which we
Were able TO export that year without
trenching on our home loaf" Mr..
Hoover said. This last year, however,
owing to the large failure of the 1917
wheat crop. we had available from net
carry-over and production and imports
only just about our normal consump-
ton. Therefore our wheat shipments
to Allied destinations represent ap-
proximately savings from our own
wheat bread.
These figures, however, do not fully
lhO VI lAlC CIVIL anu
sacrifice made during the past year
by the whole American people. De-
spite the magnificent effort of our agri-
cultural population in planting much
increased acreage in 1917, not only was
there a very large failure in wheat,
but also the corn failed to mature prop.
erly, and our corn is cur dominant crop.
81 am sure" Mr.. Hoover wrote in
concluding his report, "that all the
millions of our people, agricultural as
well as urban, who have contributed
to these results should feel a very
definite satisfaction that in a year Of
universal food shortages in the north.
ern hemisphere all of those people
joined together against Germany have
come through into sight of the coming
harvest not only with wealth and
strength fully maintained, but with
only temporary periods of hardship.
at is difficult to distinguish between
various sections of our people-the
homes, public eating places, food
trades, urban or agricultural popula-