Republican farmer., 1918-10-18
U. s. IS LOOKING
 FOR FOODSTUFFS
 IN MANY PLACES
Must Import to Make Up Raid Caused By
 Exports.

The United States is ransacking the world for foreign foods to take the place of the void caused by the re- sponse to the demands of our Allies for our wheat, corn, meats, fish, but ter, cheese and milk which we are sending to them in great quantities. Our exportations of fresh beef in the fiscal year 1918 were 370,000, ,000 pounds against 6,OOO,OOO the year be-
 fore the war, of corn Al, ,0O0,0 ,000 bush
 els against 9,00O,000 in 1914; of can ned salmon 111,000,000 pounds against 8S,0O0,000 in 1914; of cheese | 44,00O,0O0 pounds in 1918 against B. | 5O0,O00 in 1914; of condensed milk 1 53,000,000 pounds against 16,000,00O
 in 1914; of sugar 576,000.000 pounds
 against 51,OOO,O00 in 1914, and vege-
 tables $37,O00,0O0 value against S6,-
 000,0 in 1914.
 As a consequence of this outflow of
 the foodstuffs of which our own 'peo- | pie were in the past accustomed to 1 utilize a large share at home, sundry
 food articles are being brought in in- creased quantities from all quarters of the world, from the reindeer herds
 and whaling seas of the far north to | the cocoanut groves of the tropics
 and from the soya bean plantations
 of Manchuria to the cassava planta- | tions of South America.
 A compilation by the National City Bank of New York shows remarkable
 increases in importation of many
 food articles produced in other parts
 of the world. Tapioca, for example,
 produced from the root of the cassava
 plant grown in Latin America, Afri- l ca and the tropical Orient has : amounted in the imports of 1918 to
 $5,5O0,OO0 as against $1,500,000 in 1914; eggs, dried, frozen, etc, inn . ported chiefly from China amounted 5 in 1918 to 14,500,00 pounds against
 2,50O,OOO in 1914; rice coming chief l ly from Japan amounted to 456,000,- , 900 pounds in 1918 against 270,000,- 900 in 1914; of cod fish, which we f imported chiefly from our neighbors . at the immediate north, the quantity
 brought in in 1918 was 94,000, 900 pounds against 40,000,000 in 1914; of crab meat, brought chiefly from Ja- pan, nearly 5,000,000 pounds against one-half of that quantity four years ago.
 Especially striking in the increase is that of vegetable oils used for food, or the vegetable growths from which 3 they are obtained. Cocoanut oil, for : example, which is largely turned in-
 to butter on arriving in the United g States showed a total important in l 1918 of 259,OOO,0O0 pounds against r 74,OOO,OO0 in 1914, while of copra, Il 0i1 ie oh hfai nd f the importation in 1918 was 87,000,- 3 900 pounds against 45,000,000 in t 1914. Other vegetable oils available l for food also showed large increases.
 Peanut oil imported in 1918 aggregat- , ed over S,OO0,OOO gallons against a f little more than 1 1,000,0 900 in 191 4, and r of peanuts 76,O0O,O00 pounds in 1918 I against 5000 900 in 1914. Soya bean
 oil of which certain grades are avail , able for food, though largely used IT the industries, amounted to 337,O00,- :, 900 pounds in 1918 imports against 16,OOO,O0O in 1914. Of Cacao, or , cocoa, the importation of 1918 were
 4OO, 100000 pounds against 176,0O0,- 900 in 1914s
 | Nothing seems to have been neg. lected in the search of the world fo1
 | dN ported in 1918 aggregated over A.
 OOO,O 900 bushels against a little over Il a half million 1916 and dried peas g couple of million bushels against T 5OO,OOO in 1915. Of pepper the quan- t tity imported in 1918 is 38,50O,OO( l. pounds against 20,OO0,0O0 in 1914; o1
 cinnamon 8,25O,OOO pounds agains Il $500, 900 in 1914; and of ginger roo Hc ca 2 @ 800, 900 in 1914 Of honey the short r. age in sugar caused the importation 1T of nearly $1,OO,OOO worth in 191t
 against $4O,OOO worth in 1914.
 This search for new food supplies
 or for additions to the supply former
 ly received, extends to every part O
 the world. Reindeer steaks from tht
 herds of Alaska are sold in the mar
 kets of the Pacific coast. Whal
 meat, introduced experimentaIIy thu
 far is available in the northern par
 of both the Atlantic and Pacifi
 oceans, and also at the far South, anC
 is now much used as a food suppl, ~ in, Japan. The cocoanut oil and tht
 copra from which it is made conn l. chiefly from the Philippines and othe '. Pacific Islands, also the tropica : coasts of Australia and South Amer :, ica. The tapioca produced from tn cassava plant grown in Latin Amer 'A ica, Africa and the Orient comes t II us chiefly from the Dutch East Indies le Straits Settlements, and a limited 'e quantity from England, which doubt T. less obtained it from her tropical pos sessions, also in smaller quantitie f. from China, Japan, Hongkong an lS British West IndieS The beans i'm st ported come chiefly from Brazf en Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Canada
 Cuba, China, Japan and India, thos al from China and Japan being presum S. ably in large part at least tn ye ''soya" bean for which the deman Is both in the United States and else es where has greatly increased in recen 3e years. The honey imported come is chiefly from Cuba, the Dominica " Republic, Haiti, Mexico and Chile. 1s 1e SOLDIERS CLEAN HOUSE"