The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-19
IMMENSE'FOOD
 SUPPLIES SENT
 TO THE ALLIES
Hoover Makes Public the Figures of Our Aid-To-
 tai $1, 400, 100000.

Uncle Sam sent approximately $1.- 400,00000O worth of foodstuffs to the allied countries in the fiscal year just closed, according to figures which Herbert c. Hoover has furnished to President Wilson. This includes all shipments for the armies and civilian populations of our allies, the Ameri- can armies, the Belgian relief and Red Cross.
 The total amount of meats and fats, which includes meat products, dairy products, vegetable oils, &c., was B. 011, 100, ,00O pounds, compared with D. 166, ,500, 900 pounds in the previous year, or an increase of 844 900, coo pounds.
 Shipments of cereals and cereal products aggregated 24O,OOO,COO bush els, as against 259, ,9OO,O GOO bushels in 1916-1917, or an increase of S0,900, 900 bushels. Wheat shipments alone amounted to 131, 000,OOO bushels and in addition 1O,OOO,O0O bushels of 1917 wheat are in port destined for or on the way to the allied countries.
 MT. Hoover said in his letter to the President, made public by the Fed eral BoodV VBoard, that he is sure all the millions of people, agricultural as well as urban, who have contributed to these results, should feel very definite satisfaction that in year of universal food shortages in the North ern Hemisphere all of these people joined together against Germany have come into sight of the coming harvest not oAly with health and strength fully maintained but with only tenn porary periods Jf hardship"
 The European allies have been compelled to sacrifice more than our own people" MT. Hoover said, t"but we have not failed to load every steamer since the delays of the storm months last winter. Our contribu- tions to this end could not have been accomplished without effort and sac riice, and it is a matter for further satisfaction that it has been accom- plished voluntarily and individually"
 Concerning the shipments of meats and fats MT. Hoover said:
 Our slaughterajble animals at the . beginning of the last fiscal year were not appreciably larger than the year before, and particularly in hogs they were probably less. The increase in shipments is due to conservation and the extra weight of animals added by our farmers.
 ln6 luIl elleCLSNCL JUGSS ell OI Us DG- gan to bear their best results in the last half of the fiscal year. when the exports to the Allies were 2,1G3, 1000, ,0O0 pounds, as against 14256, 5O00OO pounds in the same period of the year before. This compares with an average of SO1 COG, 900 rounds of total exports for the same half years in the three year pre-war period.
 'Of the cereals,' MT. Hoover eX- plained. "our shipments of the prime breadstuffs in the fiscal year 1917-191S to allied destinations were: Wheat, 131 600 0C0 bushels. and rye. 1S.900 000 bustels total of IA. 100000. The ex- ports to allied destinations during the fiscal year 1916-1917 were: Wheat. 125, 100000 bushels. and rye, 2,30O 900 bushels total of t137 100000 bushels. In addition, some 10000, 900 bushels fo 1917 wheat are now'in port for allied destinations or en route thereto.
 ''The total shipments from our last