Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-04-18
ALLIES DEMAND
MORE CEREALS
American Meat Restrictions Re-
Iaxsd to Effect Greater
Wheat Savings.
ARGENTINE ARRIVALS SHORT.
Meat Supply Here Considerably En-
larged Food Administration,
However, Warns Against
Waste. a
ARGENTINE ARRIVALS SHORT.

necessary for the U. S. Food Admins
trstion to urge still further reduction
In the consumption of bread and bread
stuffs generally if We are to meet oul
| export necessities The Food Admin.
istration has issued 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 products
which transportation facilities render
possible and at the same time some
what increase our own consumption.
In these circumstances the Food Ad-
ministration considers it wise to relax
the voluntary restrictions on meat con-
sumption to some extent with view
to further decreasing bread consump-
ton.
Conservation Of food must be ad-
juBted 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 relaxation
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 beefess 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
tained 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 this
corn as rapidly as possible TO save it
from decay, have not only resulted in
backing up the neutrality-suspicious.
hogs-on the farms for a longer Pc
Rod Of feeding, but have resulted in a
great increase in their average weight
and will result, with improved trans
portation conditions, which already ap-
pear, in larger than normal arrivals at
market for the next two or three
The weight of hogs coming
to the market for the past two weeks
indicates an increase in weight of
from an average of 203 pounds last
year to the almost unprecedented
average of 232 pounds, or a net in
crease In their meat value of over Is
per cent This is a distinct addition |
to the nations meat supply. 1t there !
fore now seems certain that we have |
such enlarged supplies for at least |
some months to come, that we can not |
only increase our exports to the allies |
to the full extent of their transporta- |
ton facilities, but at the same time |
can properly increase our domestic
The response Of the public to our re-
quests for reduced consumption of
meat during the past few months has
been most gratifying, and this service
,lone has enabled the government dur
ng this period to provide such sup
plies as transportation to the allies
permitted.
The Administration also suggests
hat in those parts of the country
where the old fashioned home preser-
7ation of pork is still the custom, this
practice should be extended at the
present time, as II will relieve the bur
len upon transportation to and from
he packing houses and is economical
y sound as saving the cost of packing
operations and at the same time will
'rovide home supplies of pork to last
'ver the months Of decreased supplies.
The Food Administration desires to
epeat that It does not want TO give
he impression that these are times
vhen simplicity and moderation of liv- {
ng are not critically necessary, but
hat its sole desire is to secure an ad- ,
ustment between our different food
upplies and meet changing conditions
rom time to time and to keep the pub.
e fully and frankly advised of its
osition with the full confidence and v
eliance that whenever 1t becomes nee 2
ssary renewed appeals for saving will
let the same loyal response as In the
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