New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-10-18
AMERICAN FOOD
:. SAVINGS LARGE
United States Sent to Allies
1,000,0O0 Bushels
Of Wheat.
CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN.
Allies Got s44, 1900, 900 Pounds More
Meat and Fats In 1919
Than in Year Before.

In spite of a subnormal food supply
in this country the American people
have been able to ship to the Allies
as well as our own forces overseas
IA 100000 bushels Of wheat, besides
84i,G00,O0O pounds Of meat, during the
year ending June 30 last. This has
been made possible by the whole
souled cooperation of the people,
who, besides practicing self-denial,
have speeded up production and re-
sponded nobly to the appeal from
abroad.
Food Administrator Hoover, in a
letter to President Wilson, gives a
brief summary of the results of food
conservation In the United States and
Of the activities of the Food Admin
lstration to this end. The conserve
ton measures have beer put through
practically on Il voluntary basis which
Is regarded as a splendid tribute to
the patriotism of the American people.
Meat shipments were increased S44,-
100000 pounds during the first fiscal
year, as compared with our meat ex-
ports during the year before America
entered the war.
''The total value of these food ship
ments," Mr.. Hoover wrote President
Wilson, (which We're in the main pur-
chased through or with collaboration
of the Food Administration, amount
to, roundly, $1,4oO,00O,OOO during the
fiscal year"
In 1867 the United States sent
the Allies 2,16G, SOC, 900 pounds of
meat. In 1917-1S, with voluntary con-
servation practiced in America, and
aided by extra weight of animals, we
sent the Allies 2,O11, 100000 pounds of
meat, an increase of S44, 100000
pounds.
Wheat Saving Enormous.
when the Food Administration be-
gan operations in the summer of 1917,
this country was facing Il large deficit
In wheat. Counting in all carry-over
whcar from the 1916 crop. we had mt
the beginning of the 1917 harvest yeay
Just enough wheat to take are Of
Americas normal consumptiOn,-not IA
5ushrI Of surplus.
Al the close of the l9l7-lS harvest
year the Food Administrators official
reports showed that our total wheat
shipments to the other side had been
al, 100000 bushels. Every bushel
shipped was wheat saved by the
American people from their normal
consumption.
IN cereals and cereal products re-
iuced to terms of cereal bushels our
shipments to Allied destinations were
$40. 1000 bushels, S0,9U0,0O0 bushels
more than the amount sent in 1867.
Included in these figures are l3,900,-
600 bushels Of rye and the al 100000
bushels of saved wheat. In addition
we sent the neutrals dependent on us
100000 bushels of prime breadStutlS,
''TheSe figures do not fully convey
the volume of the effort and sacrifice
made during the past year by the
whole American people" the Food Adj
miniStrator wrote. II am SURF that
all the millions of our people, agrtcul-
tural as well as urban. who have con-
tribulcd To these results should feel
a very definite satisfaction that in a
year of universal food shortages in
the Northern Hemisphere, all of those
people joined together against Ger
many came through to the new har-
vest, not only with health and strength
fully maintained, but with only ten
porary periods of hardship.
at Is difficult to distinguish be-
tween various sections of our people
the homes, public eating places, food
trade. urban Or agricultural popula-
tions-in assessing credit for these
but no one will deny the DOM
part of the American women.