Meade County news., 1918-09-05

In spite of suhnormn food supply
In this country the American people
have been able to slip 10 the Allies
as well as cur own forces oversees
141,000,00D huS!.cls Of wheat besides
644600,GtD pounds of meat, during the
year end.lS June 80 last This has
been made POSSIBLE by the whole
souled cooperation Of the people,
who, besides practlcing self-denlal,
have spceded up production and re-
sponded nobly to the appeal from.
abroad.
Food Administrator Hoover, In
letter to President Wilson, gives
brief summary of the results IT food
conservation in the United States and
Of the activities Of the Food Admin
Istration to this end. The conserve
tiOn measures have been put through
practically on voluntary basis which
Is regarded as a splendid tribute to
the patr. ism Of the American people.
Mpa, shipments vere increased S44,-
Q00GNQ pounds a',., the first fiscal
yea., as ;omr.gc' with our meat ex-
ports du rg t'c Sc.r before America
entered {, w!f
"The {, nj value of these food ship
ments, .!r. Hoover wrote President
Wilson, (which were In the main pur-
chased through or with collaboration
Of the Food Administration, amount
to. roundly, $1,4O0,0OO,0OO during the
hscal year."
In 1916-17 the United States sent
the Allies 2,166,500,000 pounds of
meat In 1918, with voluntary con-
servation practiced In America, and
aided by extra weight of animals, we
sent ere Allies 2,011, 100000 pounds of
meat, an increase Of S44,6O0,OO0
pounds
Wheat Saving Enormous.
When the Food Administration be-
gan operations In the summer of 1917,
this country was facing large deficit
in wheat Counting in all carry-Over
wheat from the 1915 crop, we had at
the beginning of the 1917 harvest year
just enough wheat to take care of
Americas normal consumption,-not a
bushei Of surplus.
At the close of the 1918 harvest
year the Food Administration official
reports showed that our total wheat
shipments to the other side had been
l41,000,000 bushels. Every bushel
shipped was wheat saved by the
American people from their normal
consumption.
~ cereals and cereal products re-
dr ed TO terms of cereal bushels our
shipments to Allied destinations we're
'I40,S00000 bushels, S0,900,000 bushels
more than the amount sent in 1867.
Included in these figures are l3,900-
bushels of saved wheat. In addition
we sent the neutrals dependent on us
100000 bushels of prime breadstuffs.
'These figures do not fully convey
the volume Of the effort and sacrifice
made during the past year by the
whole American people," the Food Ad-
nninistrator wrote. "I am sure that
all the millions of our people, agricul-
rural as well as urban, who have con-
tributed to these results should feel
very definite satisfaction that in a
year of universal food shortages in
lhe Northern Hemisphere, all of those
people joined together against Ger
inany came through to the new har-
vest, not only with health and strength
fully maintained, but with only tenn
porary periods Of hardship.
at is difficult to distinguish be-
tween various sections of our people
he homes, public eating places food
rade, urban or agricultural popula-
iions-in assessing credit for these
results, but no one will deny the dom.
,nant part of the American women.