Cleveland County herald. (Rison, Ark.) 1888-current, 1918-08-22
OUR Saved FOOD
FED The ALLIES
Food Administrator Writes Presi-
dent America Conserved 141,-
100000 Bushels Wheat.
CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN.
Meat and Fat Shipments Increased by
844,6ooooo Pounds.

944, 100000 Pounds.
Conservation measures applied by
the Americas people enabled the Unit
ed States TO ship to the Allied peoples
and TO our own forces overseas ILL.,
100000 bushels of wheat and S44 ,G90-
600 pounds of meat during the past
year, valued in all at $1,400,000, 900.
This was accomplished in the face of a
serious food shortage in this country,
bespeaking the Observation-Disclosures and
patriotism with which the American
people have met the food crisis abroad
Food Administrator Hoover, in a let
ter TO President Wilson, explains how
the situation was met The voluntary
conservation program fostercd by the
Food Administration enabled the piling
ND of the millions of bushels of wheat
during 1917-1S and the shipment of
meat during 1917-1S.
The total value of all food ship.
ments to Allied destinations amounted
to 81 ,400000,00 all this food being
bought through or in collaboration
with the Food Administration. These
figures are all based on official reports
and represent food exports for tn.
harvest year that closed June 80, 1918
The shipments of meats and fats
Gneluding meat products, dairy prod
ucts, vegetable oils, etc., to Allied des-
tinations were as follows:
Fiscal year 191G-1T -, 1G6, SOC, 900 lbs
Fiscal year 1917-1S. ..3,011. 1000 lbs.
Increase .......... 100000 lbs
Our slaughterable animals at the be.
ginning of the last fiscal year We're not
appreCiably larger than the year be-
fore and particularly in hogs they
shipments is due to conservation and
the extra weight of animals added by
our farmers.
The full effect of these efforts began
to bear their best results in the last
half of the fiscal year, when the ex-
pounds, as against 1,266.500,000 pounds
in the same period of the year before.
This compares with an average of
S01, 100000 pounds of total exports for
the same half years in the three-year
pre-war period.
In cereals and cereal products re.
dueed to terms of cereal bushels our
shipments to Allied destinations have
been:
Fiscal year 1861. 259 100000 bushels
Fiscal year 1917-1S. ,340, 100000 bushels
Increase ......... S0,900,000 bushels
Of these cereals our shipments of
the prime breadstuffs in the fiscal year
1917-1S to Allied destinations were:
Wheat 131,000,000 bushels and of rye
100000 bushels, total of IL, 900,-
600 bushels.
The exports to Allied destinations
during the fiscal year 1867 were:
Wheat 135, 100000 bushels and rye
z, 100000 bushels, a total of 1877, 100000
bushels. In addition some 100000
bushels of 1917 wheat are now in port
for Allied destinations or en- route
thereto. The total shipments to Allied
countries from our last harvest Of
wheat will be therefore, about al ,000,-
300 bushels, or a total of 154,900,000
bushels of prime breadstufrs. In adj
lition to this we have shipped some
100000 bushels to neutrals DEPEND
ant upon us, and we have received
some imports from other quarters.
This accomplishment of our people
n this matter stands out even more
dearly if we bear in mind that we had
available in the fiscal year 1861 /
rom net carry-oyer and as surplus t
oVrr our normal consumption about t
100000 bushels of wheat which we
we're able to export that year without
on our home loaf" Mr.. I
Hoover said. This last year, however, |
1wing to the large failure of the 1917 T
wheat crop, we had available from net /
and production and imports
lnty Just about our normal conSump-
ion Therefore our wheat shipments
o Allied destinations represent APP
oroXimately savings from our own
Nneat bread.
"These figures however do not fully
'onvey the volume of the effort and
sacrifice made during the past wear
~ the whole American people. De-
spite the magnificent effort of our agri-
cultural population in planting a much
increased acreage in 1917, not only was
here 4 very large failure in wheat
MT also the corn failed to mature prom
rly, and our corn is our dominant cron
Il am sure Mr. Hoover wrote in
his report, that all the
Millions Of our people, agricultural as
veil as urban, who have contributed
o these results should feel very
efinite satisfaction that in Il year or
food shortages in the north.
TN hemisphere all of those peopla
oined together against Germany hayn
ONE through into sight of the comins
arvest not only with wealth ana
trength fully maintained, but with
My temporary periods of hardship.
ut is difficult to distinguish between
arious sections of our people-the
ONES, public eating places, food
radeS, urban or agricultural nonu,o-