The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-08-13

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In this country the American people
have been able 10 ship to the Allies
as well as our own forces overseas
III ,0O0, 600 bushels Of wheat. besitles
844, Geo, 600 pounds Of meat, during, the
year ending June 80 last. This has
been made possible by the whole
,souled cooperation Of the people,
who. besides bracticing self-denial,'
have speeded up production and re-
sponded hobIy TO the appeal from
abroad. y
Food Administrator Hoover, in .
letter to President. Wilson, gives 4
brief summary Of the results Of food.
conservation In the United States and
of the activities Of the Food Admin.
istrarion to this end The conserva.
ton measures have; been put through
sprac tically on "A voluntary basis which
isp,regartled as a splendid tribute to
the patriotism Of the American people.
Meat shipments we're increased 844,-
100000 pounds during the first fiscal
year. as compared with our~meat ex-
ports ,dunng the year before America
entered the war
'':The total value of these food ship.
ments," Mr.. Hoover wrote President
Wilson, (which were in the main pur-
chased through or with collaboration
Of the Food Administration, amount
to. roundly. $1,4OO.OOOOOO during the
fiscal year" ,....
In 1867 the United States sent
the Allies 2,1es,500, 600 pounds Of
meat In lol7-ls, with voluntary con-
servation practiced In America, and
aided by extra weight of animals, we
sent tile Allies 2.Ol /, lOO,OOO pounds Of
meat, IN increase Of S44,0OO,OOO
pounds A
Wheat Saving Enormous. 4
When the Food Administration be.
gan operations in the summer Of 1917,
this country was cling large deficit
in wheat. Counting In all carrS-over
wheat from the 1915 crop, we had at
the beginning OF the 1917 harvest year
just enough wheat TO take care Of
.America $ normal consumption, not q
bushel 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
l4l,00OO00 bushels. Every bushel
shipped was wheat saved by the
American people from their normal
consumption.
In cereals and cereal products re-
duced to terms OF cereal bushels our
shipments, to Allied destinations were
$40, 500, 900 bushels, $1,000. 900 bushels
more than the amount sent In 19l6-l7.,
Included In these figures are l3,900;-
600 bushels Of rye and the IA, 100000
bushels Of sasel wheat. In addition
we sent the sneutrals dependent on us
10, 900, O00busheis Of prime brea dstuffs.
"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.
ministratorr wrote. Il am sure that
all the millions OF our people, agricui.
tural as we'll as urban, who have con.
trihnted to these results should feel
a very definite satisfaction that III b
year Of universal food shortages in
the Northern Hemisphere, all Of those
people, Joined together against Ger
many came through to the new har-
vest, not only with health and strength
fully maintained, but with only tenn.
porary periods Of hardship
"It- is difficult to distinguish be.
tween various sections Of our people =
the homes, public eating places, food
| trade, urban or agricultural popula-
I'tions-in, assessing credit for these
results, but no one will deny the dom
inant part Of the American women.