Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-08-31
OUR SAVED FOOD
Fed THE ALLIES

FED IHE ALLIES
Conservation measures applied by
the American people enabled the Unit
ed States 20 ship 10 the Allied peoples
and TO our own forces overseas 141,-
100000 bushels of wheat and S44, 600
600 pounds of meat during the past
year. valued In all at ST, ,400000 900.
This was accomplished In the face OF u
serious food shortage In this country.
bespeaking the wholeheartedness and
patriotism with which the American
people have met the food crisis abroad.
Food Administrators Hoover, In q let
ter 10 President Wilson, explains how
the situation was met The "oluntary
conservation program fostered by the
Food Administration enabled the pilIng
up of the millions of bushels OF wheM
during l9l7-lS and the shipment OF
meat during l917-1S
The total value Of all food ship
ments to Allied destinations amounted
TO 81 ,400000000, 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 the
harvest year that closed June 30, 1918.
The shipments of meats and fats
Uncludlng meat products, dairy prod
ucts, vegetable oils, etc., to Allied des-
tinations were as follows.
Fiscal year l916-l7 J.. .2,l66, 500 600 lbs
Fiscal year l917-18. ..3,0l1 100 600 lbs
Increase ........... S44 100000 lbs
Our slaughterabe animals at the be-
ginning of the last fiscal year were not
appreciably larger than the year be-
fore and particularly In hogs they
We're probably less The Increase In
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-
ports to the ALLIES were 2,133, 100000
pounds as against 1,266, 500, 900 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-
duced to terms OF cereal bushels our
shipments to Allied destinations have
been
Fiscal year l916-17. 300 900, 900 bushels
Fiscal year 1918. $40, ,S00,0 brshes
Increase ....... $4,000, 900 bushels
or these cereals our shipments Of
the prime hreadsWffs in the fiscal year
1917-1S to Allied destinations were:
Wheat 13l 100000 bushels and of rye
13.900000 bushels, total Of I44,900.-
600 bushels
The exports to Allied destinations
during the fiscal year 1867 were: /
Wheat 135,100000 bushels and rye
2, 100000 bushels, 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 141 ,000.-
900 bushels, or total Of I54,00000O
bushels of prime breadstuffs In ad-
dision to this we have shipped some
100000 bushels to neutrals depend
ent upon us, and we have received
some imports from other quarters.
This Accomplishment Of our people
In this matter stands out even more
clearly If we bear In mind that we had
available In the fiscal year 1851
from net carry-over and as surplus
over our normal consumption about
200. 100000 bushels OF wheat which we
we're able to export that year without
-renching on our home loaf" Mr..
Hoover said. This last year however,
owing TO the large failure OF the 1917
wheat crop, we had available from net
,arry-over and production and imports
,nly just about our normal consump-
ion. Therefore our wheat shipments
o Allied destinations represent ap
savings from our own
yheat bread
"These figures, however, do not fully
ho yn1t .f ha Off ,
iacrifce made during the past year
" the whole American people De- ,
pite the magnificent effort Of our agri-
'ultural population in planting a much
increased acreage In 1917, not only was
here very large failure In wheat.
'ut also the corn failed to mature prop
rly, and our corn IL our dominant crop. {
II am sure.' Mr. Hoover wrote in {
his report, that all the {
Millions Of our people, agricultural as /
veil az urban. who have contributed
o these results should feel very
efinite satisfaction that in year Of
Universal food shortages I'm the north.
ri hemisphere ali of those people
oined together against Germany have
ONE through into sight Of the coming
arvest not only with wealth and
trength fully maintained, but with !,
My temporary periods Of hardship.
"It IL difficult to distinguish between '