Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-09-13
ONLY TtH DAYS. WHEAT
SUPPLY IN JULY, 1910
Information and Rulings From
Tho Federal Food Administra-
ton For Virginia.
LOOKING BACKWARD AND FOR
WARD.


previous years, and that had 1t fallen
10 Is per cent. below, nothing could
have saved the Allies from famine.
"The war would be over-We would Big
beaten"
With this disaster averted, II Is per-
nitted now to tell how narrowly we
escaped. IN JULY, 1918, WE WERE
WITHIN TEN DAYS OF BEING
WITHOUT WHEAT. There were less
than two million bushels in the United
States-!n storage-in transit-any'
where!
Normally, we carry sixty million
bushels over for seed alone, and never
before, even in the worst of crop years.
have we carried less than one hundred
million bushels over into the new har-
vest.
Reduced to figures, here is what the
voluntary sacrifice OF United States
people made possible: In 1857 We
had a surplus of something like two
hundred million bushels of wheat and
rye, Of which We exported 135,O00,OOO
bushels ofwheat and 100000 bushels
Of rye-rye and wheat being the prime
breadstuffs. In 1917-1S, out OF short
crop of wheat and rye, and when the
corn crop was almost blighted, we sent
100000 bushels Of wheat and 49,
| $4,000 bushels of rye-an increase OF
prime breadstuffs exported TO the Al
lies of 17,400, 900 bushels-every bushel
Of 1t saved by our people out OF
subnormal supply-more spared from
OR savings of this year than from our
surplus of the year before. And fur
Their. we sent ten million bushels to
aeutral nations facing starvation un-
less we helped them.
And it isn't bread alone. We have
built up surplus of bacon and ham
for use abroad In 1917-18, We in
creased by S44, 100000 pounds our pre-
vicus years shipments to the Allies
| OF all sorts OF meat products, canned
and powdered milk, butter, cheese, veg
etable oils, lard, ETC., sending alto
eother more than three billion pounds.
| Neither did this increase come from
| Increased production; 1t, too, repre-
enlts what you did not eat-your meat
! Tess DAYS. your baconless breakfasts
Ike steaks you cid not order, the pats
CT butter you did not touch; potatoes
cycamed instead OF fried, and all the
rest Of the conservation program faith
fully carried out by patriotic people
Before the war, we used to send
enough food to France, Great Britain
ard Italy each year to ration about six
million men. During the year ending
.pril, 1913, we sent enough to COM
pletely ration twenty-one million men
The corner has now been turned In
this matter Of food. This does not
mean, however, that the need for sac
r,i1cs aad care and thrift has passed
orly that the crops are better, and
the situation is in hand because all
| the world is now assured and you are
confident of what Mr.. Hoover believed
| from the beginning: that the people OF
these United States can be depended
ur.on to do what is needful, so long as
the war lasts, and whenever occasion
demands.
There has never been anything like
It In history" 1--WE asked the
American people to do more voluntar-
Ely than any other people has ever
been asked to submit to under compul-
sion. And the American people made
good"
Even our associates in the war did
not believe II could be done, and Ger
many scoffed, but Mr.. Hoover, bcliev-
Ing not more than per cent. of the
people lacked the spirit of Democracy,
said: GO do IT." The 5 per cent.
said: at can't be DONE" but the s5
Der cent, answered: "Of course It can"
and did 1t.
Which is your team, the Giants or
the Cans?
In all probability there will not be
the need this year for such sharp self
denial, but there will be the continuing
med for foresight and care and the
forming of habits Of thrift in prepare.
ticn for whatsoever the exigenoies OF
YER and disaster may demand OF us.
We must accumulate a surplus OF
prime hreadstuffs, and we must square
" face the fact that we cannot hope
to have another great harvest like thss
again until ne w,r IS over, because
before another crop tine and harvest
our men in the prime of strength will
have gonaeto De gone It'll it's over
Oyer Them"
So NE sbM> have to keep on saving.
And the safest course in all food con-
servation measures is to do just what
tho Food Administration aslks-no less
and no more, Food Control Ia War
Measure, and the Food Admtntstra-
tons rulings and requests are the out
come Of comprehensive and accurate
knowledge of the food facts Of the
world.
SUGAR.
sugarwill have TO be used very spar
jnglv for all purposes at least until
the first Of January. There Will not
he really enough sugar for everyone
again until peace comes, and even
after peace, we shall all have to go
easy for time.
BUT sugar shortage must not stop
oanning. If you cannot get enough
sugar for home canning, put up your
wa, n, moi