The Sneedville news. (Sneedville, Tenn.) 191?-19??, 1918-08-23
OUR SAVED FOOD
FED The ALLIES
Food Administrator Writes Presi-
dent America Conserved l4l,-
100000 Bushels Wheat
CREDIT Due TO WOMEN
Neat and Fat Shipments Increased BY
44.soo, 900 Pounds.

Neat and Fat Shipments Increased b,
81, 500, 900 Pounds.
Conservation measures applied b,
he American people enabled the Unit
ID States to ship to the Allied peoples
and to our own forces overseas 14l.
10000 bushels of wheat and 81. 600
700 pounds of meat during the pas
GEAR. valued in all at $l.4o0 000. 900
This was accomplished in the face of q
serious food shortage In this country
)espeaking the wholeheartedness and
patriotism with which the Americas
people nave met the food crisis abroad
Food Administrator Hoover. In a let.
ter to President Wilson, explains how
he situation was met. The voluntary
conservation program fostered by, the
Food Administration enabled the piling
up of the millions of bushels Of wheat
during 1917-1S and the shipment Of
meat during 19l7-1S.
The total value Of all food ship
ments to Allied destinations amounted
to 81 400, 0O0.000 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 80. 1913.
The shipments of meats and fats
uncfuding meat products, dairy prod
ucts. vegetable oils, etc., to Allied des-
tinations were as follows:
Fiscal year I9l6-17. .. q. 166, 500 900 lbs
Fiscal year 1917-1S. SOL. 100000 lbs.
Increase ........... S44. 100000 lbs.
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 ,ex-
ports to the Allies were 2.f33. 100, 900
pounds, as against 1.2G6. 500. 900 pounds
In the same period OF the year before.
This compares with an average of
sol .000. 900 pounds of total exports for
the same half years In the thwe-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 1918-17. .259. 900. 600 bushels
Fiscal year 10l7-lS. $40. 100000 bushels
Increase ........ S00OO.OO0 bushels
OF these cereals our shipments Of
the prime brendstuffs In the fiscal year
l017-1S 10 Allied destinations were:
Wheat f31,OO0,OO0 bushels aud of ryo
10, 900, 900 bushels, q total of l44.9OO,.
100 bushels.
The exports to Allied destinations
Turing the fiscal year 1901 were:
Wheat 35,1O0.O00 bushels and rye
!. 200. 900 bushels. q total of f37, 400. 900
bushels. In addition some 10000, 600
bushels of 1917 wheat are now IN port
or Allied destinations or en- route
hereto. The total shipments TO Allied
from our last harvest OF
wheat Will be therefore, about 141, O00..
100 bushels, or total of 154 ZOO, 900
bushels of prime breadstuffs. In ad-
|ition tn this we have shipped some
Q, 100000 bushels to neutrals depend
mt upon Us, and we have received
ONE imports from other quarters
This accomplishment of our people
q this matter stands out even more
learly IL we bear I'm mind that we had
valuable In the fiscal year 1916-17
rom net carry-over and as surplus
yer our normal consumption about
90. 100000 bushels Of wheat which we
'ere able to export that year without
renching on our home Loaf" Mr..
Ioover said. This last year, however.
wing TO the large failure of the 1917 |
heat crop. we had available from net |
arry-over and production and imports |
My Just about our normal consump- |
on. Therefore our wheat shipments |
} Allied destinations represent APP
savings from our own
heat bread.
These figures, however, do not fully
,nvey the volume Of the effort and
Icrifice made during the past year
: the whole American people. De-
lite the magnificent effort OF our agri-
iltural population In planting much
creased acreage In 1917. not only was
ere a very large failure In wheat.
II also the corn failed to mature prop
~, and our corn il our dominant crop.
81 am sure" Mr.. Hoover wrote in
his report, 'that all the
lllions of our people. agricultural rs
ell rs urban. who have contributed
these results should feel a very
finite satisfaction that In a year az
liversal food shortages In the north
n hemisphere all of those people
med together against Germany have
me through into sight OF the coming
rvest not only with wealth and
rength fully maintained. but with
ly temporary periods Of hardship.
1T is difficult 20 distinguish between
rions sections OF our people-the
mes. public eating places. food
,des, urban or agricultural popula-
ns-in assessing credit for these re-
It's. but no one viii deny the domi-