The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-07-25
ALLIES DEMAND
MORE CEREALS
American Meat Restrictions Re-
Taxed 10 Effect Greater
Wheat Savings.
ARGENTINE ARRIVALS SHORT.
Meat Supply Here Considerably En-.
iarged - Food Administration,
However, Warns Against
Waste.

The allies have made further and
Increased demands for breadstufis,
these enlarged demands being caused
To some degree by shortage In arrivals
from the Argentine. Ii Is. therefore,
necessary for the U. S. Food Admins
tration TO urge IA still further reduction
IN the consumption OF bread and bread
stuffs generally II we ure to meet our
export necessities. The Food Admin
tstration has issued a statement ex.
planning the situation In detail, partic.
ularly the reasons which lead II, for
the purpose OF centering effort for the
time being upon the cereal situation
to relax temporarily the restrictions on
meat consumption
Experience shows, this statement
says, that the consumption Of bread.
stuffs Is intimately associated with the
consumption Of neat. For various
reasons III supplies Of meat for the
next two or three months are consld.
erably enlarged, and we can supply the
allies with all OF the meat products
which transportation facilities render
possible and at the same time some
what increase our own consumption.
In these circumstances the Food Ad.
mlnistration considers IL wise TO relax
the voluntary restrictions on meat con.
sumption TO some extent with a view
TO further decreasing bread consump-
ton.
Cnnaaryaetnn ~ fnaA nnnaf ha nd.
justed TO meet necessities from time 10
time, for neither production, nor al.
lied demands are constant factors, nor
can any OF these factors be anticipated
for long periods In advance In the dis.
turbed conditions In which we at pres
ent live. While the world situation Is
not m that warrants any relaxation
In the efforts to eliminate waste or to
relax economy In food, the Admins
tration desires 10 secure better adjust
Inent In food balances.
SO long az the present conditions
continue the only special restrictions
we ask are the beefess and porkless
Tuesday.
The meatless meal and the porkless
Saturday are no longer asked.
The farmers OF the United States
are responding to the national call to
increase hog production. Their In.
crease, to oil appearances, Is being at.
talned more rapidly. or more imme-
date importance, however, are several
complex factors which have effected
an immediate increase IN meat sup
piles.
The transportation shortage before
he government took over the rail.
roads, the bad weather In January and
early In February, the large percent.
age OF immature corn In the last har.
vest and the necessity OF feeding this
corn AZ rapidly as possible to save II
from decay, have not only resulted In
backing up the anlmals-partlcularly
hOgs-on the farms for a longer re.
Rod Of feeding, but have resulted in q
great Increase IN their average weight
and will result, with improved trans
~pOrthtion conditions, which already ap
pear, In larger than normal arrivals q
market for the next two or thres
months. The weight OF hogs cominI
to the market for the past two weekl
indicates an increase In weight o.
from an average OF BOB pounds las
year to the almost unprecedentet
average OF 232 pounds, or n net In
crease In their meat value OF over Il
p per cent This 10 n distinct addition
[ TO the nations meat supply. II there
I fore now seems certain that We hav
4 such enlarged supplies for at leas
q some months to come. thnt We can no
only increase our exports 10 the allie
A 10 the full extent OF their transports
ton facilities, but nj the same tim
can properly Increase our domesti
consumption.
The response Of the public TO our n
quests for reduced consumption {
O meat during the past few months hf
been most gratifying, and this servit
alone has enabled the government du
: ing this period 10 provide such suI
"a plies as transportation to the ALI,
permitted,
OPERA GLASSES WANTED
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