The Carlisle independent., 1918-07-18
American Meat Restrictions Re- faxed to Effect Greater
 Wheat Savings.
ARGENTINE ARRIVALS SHORT
Meat Supply Here Considerably En- larqed - Food Administration, However, Warns Against
 Waste.

| these enlarged demands being caused l to some degree by shortage in arrivals from the Argentine. It is, therefore necessary for the U. $. Food AdmiDis- l tration to urge a still further reduction
 in the consumption of bread and bread
 stuffs generally if we are to meet our i export necessities. The Food Admin 1 istration has issued statement ex blaming the situation in detail, partic
 ularly the reasons which lead it, for the purpose of centering effort for the
 time being upon the cereal situation
 to relax temporarily the restrictions on
 meat consumption.
 Experience shows, this statement
 says, that the consumption of bread
 stuffs is intimately associated with the consumption of meat For various
 reasons our supplies of meat for the
 next two or three months are consid-
 efably enlarged, and we can supply the
 allies with all of the meat products
 which transportation facilities render
 possible and at the same time some
 what increase our own consumption. In these circumstances the Food Ad-
 miniStration considers it wise to relax
 the voluntary restrictions on meat con-
 sumption to some extent with view
 to further decreasing bread consump-
 ton.
 Conservation of food must be ad-
 justed to meet necessities from time to
 time, for neither production, nor al-
 lied demands are constant factors, nor
 can any of these factors be anticipated
 for long periods in advance in the dis
 turbed conditions in which we at pres
 ent live. While the world situation is
 not one that warrants any relaxation
 in the efforts to eliminate waste or to
 relax economy in food, the Adminis-
 tration desires to secure better adjust
 ment in food balances.
 So long as the present conditions
 continue the only special restrictions
 we ask are the beehess and porkless
 Tuesday.
 The meatleSS meal and the pOrkleSS
 Saturday are no longer asked.
 The farmers of the United States
 are responding to the national call to
 increase hog production. Their in-
 crease, to all appearances. is being at
 tained more rapidly. Of more imme
 diate importance. however are several
 complex factors which have effected
 an immediate increase in meat sup
 plies
 The transportation shortage before
 the government took over the rail
 roads, the bad weather in January and early in February, the large percent age of immature corn in the last har- vest and the necessity of feeding this corn as rapidly as possible to save it from decay, have not only resulted in backing up the animals-particularl hoGs-on the farms for longer pc riod of feeding, but have resulted in a great increase in their average weight and will result, with improved trans portation conditions, which already ap- pear. in larger than normal arrivals at market for the next two or three months. The weight of hogs coming to the market for the past two weeks indicates an increase in weight of | from an average of 203 pounds last year to the almost unprecedented average of 232 pounds, or a net in- crease in their meat value of over 15 per cent. This is distinct addition l to the nations meat supply. It there fore now seems certain that we have such enlarged supplies for at least some months to come, that we can not only increase our exports to the allies | to the full extent of their transporta- ton facilities, but at the same time can properly increase our domestic consumption.
 The response of the public to our re- quests for reduced consumption of meat during the past few months has been most gratifying, and this service alone has enabled the government dur ing this period to provide such sup plies as transportation to the allies permitted
 The Administration also suggests that in those parts of the country where the old fashioned home preser- vation of pork is still the custom, this practice should be extended at the l present time, as it will relieve the bur. | den upon transportation to and from l the packing houses and is economical. l ly sound as saving the cost of packing opera tions and at the same time will provide home supplies of pork to lasl l over the months of decreased supplies The Food Administ. ration desires tG repeat that it does not want to give the impression that these are times l when simplicity and moderation of liv. 1 ing are not critically necessary, but l that its sole desire is to secure an ad. l justment between our different food 1 supplies and meet changing conditions 1 from time to time and to keep the pub: l lie fully and frankly advised of Its 1 position with the full confidence and reliance that whenever it becomes nee,
 essary renewed appeals for. saving will fnet the same loyal response as in the nast