Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-08-22
Increase ........... s44, 900, 900 lbs.

increase ........... IDS.
Our slaughterable animals at the be-
ginning of the last fiscal year were not
appreciably larger than the year be-
fore and particularly in hogs; they
were 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 x
ports to the Allies were 2,133, 100000
pounds, as against 1896, $780, 900 pounds
in the same period of the year before.
This compares with an average of
9O1, 100000 pounds of total exports for
the same half years in the three-year
apre-war period.
In cereals and cereal. products re-
duced to terms. Of cereal bushels our
shipments to Allied destinations have
been:
Fiscal year 1861. .25e, 5000 0 bushels
Fiscal year 1917-1S. $40, 100000 bushels
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Of these cereals our shipments of
the prime breadstuffs in the fiscal year
1918 to Allied destinations were:
Wheat 131,O00,000 bushels and Of rye
13,QOO,OOO bushels, a total Of 144,90O,-
900 bushels. ....
The exports to Allied destinations
during the fiscal year 1867 were:
Wheat 135,1OO,0o0 bushels and rye
100000 bushels, a total of 1877, 100000
bushels. In addition some 100000
bushels of 1917 wheat are now in pert
for, Allied destinations or en- route
thereto: The total shipments to Allied
countries. from. u last harvest Of
wheat will be therefore, about l41, O00,-
600 bushels, or a total of 154, 100000
bushels Of prime breadstuffs. In ad-
dition 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 eve more
clearly If we bear in mind that we had
available in the fiscal year 1867
from net carry-over and as surplus
over our normal consumption about
zoe, 600 bushels of wheat which we
we're able to export that year without
trenching 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
%carry-over and production and imports
only just about our normal consump-
ton. Therefore our wheat shipments
to Allied destinations represent APP
proximately savings from our own
wheat bread. s--~
"These figures, however, do not fully
convey the volume Of the effort and
sacrifice made during the past year
by the whole American people. De-
spite the magnificent effort of our agri-
cultura! population in planting a much
Increased acreage in 1917, not only was
there a very large failure in wheat,
but also the OFT failed to mature prop
erly, aud u corn is u dominant crop.
II am sure" Mr.. Hoover wrote In
concluding his report, that all the
millions of u people, agricultural as
we'll as urban, who have contributed
to these results should feel a very
definite satisfaction that in a year Of
universal food shortages in the north.
ern hemisphere all of those people
Joined together against Germany have
come through into sight of the coming
harvest not only with wealth and
strength fully maintained, but with
only temporary periods Of hardship.
ut Is difficult to distinguish between
various sections Of our people-the
homes, public eating places, food
trades, urban or agricultural popula-
tions-in assessing credit for these re-
suits, but no one will deny the domi-
nant part of the American women"
A hoarder Is q man who Is more in
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