The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-09-26

In spite of subnorrnal food supply
In this country the American people
have been able to ship to the Allies
as well as our own forces overseas
! 141,0O0,000 bushels of wheat. besides
| 644, 10000 pounds of meat, during the
year ending June 30 last This has
been made possible by the whole
souled cooperation Of the people,
who. besides practicing self-denial.
have speeded up production and re-
sponded nobly to the appeal from
abroad
Food Administrator Hoover, in a
letter to President Wilson, gives a
brief summary of the results of food
conservation in the United States and
of the activities of the Food Admin
istration to this end. The conserve
ton measures have been put through
practically on voluntary basis which
Is regarded as a splendid tribute TO
the patriotism Of the American people.
Meat shipments were increased S44.-
100000 pounds during the first fiscal
year. as compared with our meat ex-
ports during the year before America
entered the war.
1.-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. 81 ,4OOOO 900 during the
fiscal year"
In 1867 the United States sent
the Allies 2,166.5O0,OO0 pounds of
meat. In 1917-lS. with voluntary con-
servation practiced in America. and
aided by extra weight of animals, We
sent the Allies 2.011, 100000 pounds of
meat. an increase of S44. 900. 900
pounds.
Wheat Saving Enormous.
When the Food Administration be-
gan operations in the summer OF 1917,
this country was facing a large deficit
In wheat Counting in all carry-oyer
wheat from the 1916 crop. we had at
the beginning of the 1917 harvest year
lust 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
l4l 900. 900 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 /
34O, 500 900 bushels, SO.9O0000 bushels |
more than the amount sent in 1851.
Included in these figures are 13.9O0,- /
600 bushels of rye and the al 100000 /
bushels of saved wheat. In addition 1
we sent the neutrals dependent on us
10000. 900 bushels of prime breadstufrs.
.'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 Adj
ministrator wrote. Il am sure that
all the millions of our people. agricuE
tural as well as urban. who have con-
tributed TO these results should feel
a very definite satisfaction that in a
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
1orary periods of hardship.
ar is difficult m distinguish he
ween various sections of our people
he homes public eating places, food
.rade. urban or agricultural popula-
ions-in assessing credit for these
'esults. but no one will deny the dom
nant part Of the American women