The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-19
Connecticut's Food Control Shows Results Accom-
 pIiShed. THE STATE CONSERVED MUCH. Important Speech Deals With Censer- Vation, Production, Violations
 and Future Outlook.

and Future Outlook. Hartford.-!What one year of Food Administration in Connecticut has ac- complished was told by Federal Food Administrator Robert Scoville last week in an important address deliver ed at the weekly luncheon of a local club. President Wilson signed the Le- yer Food Control Act August 10, 1917, and immediately afterward United States Food Administrator Herbert Hoover announced the appointment of MT. Scoville as Connecticut Admins trator. Mir. Scoville's speech was practically report of his stewardship for one year, and, in brief, he dwelt upon the activities of his office and the results accomplished. MT. Sco- ville's speech was, in part, as follows: Mir. ScoViIIe's Speech at kenaH's Club. Since we have just observed the first anniversary of the signing of the Food Control Act, we may appropriately take this occasion to review in brief the work of the United States Food Administration in the first year of its existence. More than a year ago Mir Hoover expressed as the ideal of the Food Administration that we were "sitting at a common table with our Allies and would divide with them our wheat loaf"
 Wheat.
 Since this problem of dividing our wheat loaf has been by far the most complicated and important work that the, Food Administration has under taken, 1t Is deserving of some little at- tention.
 It is probable that last years crop was somewhat short of the estimate of 650,000,000 bushels, which is not very far from our average pre-war consumption of wheat for bread and seed at home. It was originally plan- ned to send out of this crop to our Allies in Europe 75,OO0,000 bushels, which would of itself constitute a se- rious drain on our resources.
 Shortly after January 1 the Euro pean Allies found it necessary to ask that this export be doubled, and in order to accomplish this it was neces' sary to ask the American public tc furnish this wheat out of their con servation. This was done very large ly through the famous "ffty-ffty' rule, which at the time caused more complaint, perhaps in some quarters more distress, than any other action to which the Food Administration has been obliged to resort. We have, how ever, at the present time the extreme satisfaction of knowing that by n-ean' of this regulation we were able t meet the original demands of our Al lies, and up to July 140,00000 bushels had been shipped to Europe.
 The difficulties experienced in sup plying a sufficient amount of substi tute cereals on very short notice seem ed almost insurmountable, and it wa only through the most devoted an loyal energy of the milling industr that this was overcome. The cOnsun ing public also met this situation wit the same spirit which has character ized the American public in every wa activity when once the wisdom and nc cessity for action has been demor strated.
 The outlook for the future is mos encouraging, and, while 1t Is of cours too early to estimate the harvest wit accuracy, we have been greatly er couraged by the increased acreag which has not only demonstrated th justice of the price fixed by the Foe Administration, but also the loyal p triotism of our farming populatio The acreage of all kinds of wheat estimated at 64,600,o0O, of which son 5S,S00,000 is still standing for harves This compares with 45,900,000 harves ed in 1917, and 1t is interesting note that the acreage of other cerea has been quite generally maintaine indicating that the wheat increase WI not gained at the expense of oth crops.
 Sugar.
 A year ago in October we encounte ed our first real difficulty in a tel porary shortage of sugar. This shol age occurred before the Food Admi istration was sufficiently organized cope with the situation, and becau of unequal distribution an unreaso able amount of distress and incc venience was caused to our popu tion. We have since perfected pl which will at least assure us of a fl and equitable distribution of our Il ited stocks. An accurate census | been taken of the available sugar the world, which by reason of shippi conditions was limited substantially the North American crop, suppleme ed by a small amount from Flaw; These dependable sources of sup will furnish 6,75O,OOO tons The
 quirements for the United States 8 its Allies, based on the 1917 consur tion, are, however, only a little unt s,000,000 tons, and we are theref facing deficit of nearly one and O quarter million tons. This indicate shortage of about 15 per cent. in S ply as compared to the requiremeI In view of the fact that the Europe consumption is already at an lrredI ble minimum, it is necessary that
 entire reduction shall be borne
 American consumers. Unfortunat