Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-17
FEEDING New YORK
$50 Carloads Of Food Consumed
s.; Every TWenty.FOur Hours.
MENU FROM TIE WHOLE EARTH
Immense Supplies Needed in Storage
in Case of Transportation Tie-up-
Appa:ites are Similar-Motor Trucks
: Play Important Part. .,

= in Case of Transportation Tie-uP-
Appo:ites are Sinilar-Motor Trucks
! Play Important Part.
= We who dwell within the port o.
New York district consume annual!
S,455 200, 900 pounds of foodstuffs. WE
get it from every state in the Unior
and almost every section of the earth
For instance we eat fish from Norway
eggs from Australia, tomatoes from
the Bahama Islands and onions from
the, banks of, the Nile,, says the New
York Herald.
( All this and all its correlated fea-
lures, such as how it gets here, where
: it is stored and how distributed, is SET
forth in. the latest report of. the port
of New York authority issued yester-
day and based on information gather
ed SINCE October, 1921, when nation
al railroad strike threatened to cut of
the food supply of the city Of New
York and t04 other municipalities
large and small, included in the port
district.
81 In discussing the food requirements
. for the port district population, the re-
port says:
"The last census gives the total pop
uIation of the port district as S,00o.0eO
inhabitants. (New York city com
prises nearly three-quarters OF this
total.) Obviously this figure is not q
satisfactory index of unit food con-
sumption, however, for it includes in
fants under one year and grandfathers
over 75..
Among these inhabitants may be
found people of all nationalities and
occupations. A person, then, means
little as an index of food habits and
needs, nor is there any certainty that
100000 persons balance individual
variation and establish an average
type. ,.....t. ..,...
Appetites More Similar.
'If we may believe the United States
Department of Agriculture. sectional
and radical differences in diet are fast
disappearing. At all events we may
agree that the reign of the chain store
and the. quick lunch tends to foster a
homogeneous appetite.
The first problem was to get the
distribution of the population in the
port district, which was obtained
tE,,.,,, Iho 1oet oaosps ond +hoo m ro1Il :
tiply this age distribution by the
scales that make the necessary adjust
ments for sex and age. When this
was done it was found that there are
approximately rs equivalent adult
males to every hundred population
Multiplying the 100000 population
Of the ports district by rs Rer cent.
gives s,24GOe0S eqdiValent adult males;
"The Port of New York district re-
ceives annually for local consumption
about 5Sg.6OO carloads of foodstuffs
Fhis means daily receipt of $50 car
/, ioads by rail, water and truck.
.To show the gigantic nature Of the
problen of supplying the port district
with its food, it may be mentioned that
997,552,4 ,440 quarts of milk are annually
received, an average Of 2,670,S25 quarts
daily. ~. .
Important Live Stock Center.
Contrary to general knowledge, the
port of New York district, considering
the total number of head slaughtered
is one of the most importent live stock
eenters Of the nation.
"The amount of meat held in stor-
age in the port district is very small
in comparison with the daily con-
sumption. There are only slight sea-
sonal fluctuations Of amounts in stor-
age, the smaller holdings being from
September 10 February and the larger
holdings generally in July and that OF
minimum holdings November. During
the winter there was only from six to
eight days supply. in storage.
"Only a small part of the gross re-
ceipts of wheat, rye, barley and flour
are consumed locally, owing to large
expectations from this port. The ap-
proximate consumption in 1920 was:
Wheat and -four lin pounds of fiour)
1.411 100000 pounds; rye, 163,326,4f|
pounds; barley 41,490,4S2 pounds. Tc
produce this amount of wheat, rye and
barley, 2,14O,142 ceres of grain fields
were required, taking 1920 average
production per acres as a basis"
In discussing transportation Of food
stuffs, the report dwells on the mean:
OF transportation and how long the
5000, 900 of people could exist should
transportation facilities be suspended
1t says:
1.-The first and most difficult prob
lem would be to keep up the minimum
necessary daily supply Of fluid milk
This would seem impossible except b!
maintenance Of the regular mill
trains, because of the comparatiyel!
great distance of milk producing area!
end the impracticability of attempt
ing either motor truck or water trans
pOrtation for it on large scale.
STAPLE vegetables such as potatoes
onions, cabbage and carrots would b,
supplied to the port district by motor