The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-18
No Great Shipments
 Ofr,Ieat ToU.S. Allies
Shortage Here Cannot Be Attributed to Foreign Shp'
 nnents; 1043 Production Estimates Boosted

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 that our record lo42 food produc- ton has moro than offset our ex- perts to our Allies, and that Ameri- cans still have far more to eat than most of the other peoples of the world.
 Pork Shipped
 Of the five meats inyolced In the voluntary Shares -the-Mcat plan |, beef veal, pork. lamb and mutton pork is the only one sup- piled to our Allies in quantity greater than half of one per cent of the total supply, More than 90 per cent Of our years supply Of beef, veal, lamb and mutton have been kept right here at home for tho use of our civilian population or sent to our own armed forces here or abroad.
 As for pork, 87 per cent of the years supply has gone for our own uge. with the remaining B per cent exported to our Allies. But pork pro. duction has been increased sun" cientiy to take care Of these experts and still provide n normal supply for our own uses. It is only because more pork than usual is being de- manded by our civilian population and because fighting men eat twice as much meat as civilians that our ordinarily normal supply has run Q bit short.
 Not only meat but many other of our daily food necessities are being sent to our Allies in far less quan- titles than the popular conception of these experts. Great Britain, for example, now is producing almost tWo-thirds of it's own food and the danger part Of it's food imports comes from countries other than the United States.
 Cheese Supplied
 Certain necessities of life which the British lack are being supple- mented by exports from both this five ounces Of the cheese which the country and Canada. Two of every Briton eats come from the United States. Dried skim milk from this country is rationed to them at the rate of one ounce week per indi- vidual to help out on their own fluid milk ration Of IA pints per week per adult,
 To save shipping space. the eggs VIC send arc dried and are rationed in quantity equivalent to enc fresh egg per person per week, The British fresh egg ration varies geaSonally from one to i've per month.
 Our Cheese exports represent the largest percentage Of total supply of any of our Lend-LeaEc exports g per cent. Less than per cent of our years supply Of milk products have been exported and only about 8 per cent of our eggs,
 Canned fish represents another Of the largest of our Lend-Lease eX. ports q per cent and makes up about two-thirds Of Bri- tain's supply, the remainder cori- ing from Canada.
 Though these quantities arc SO small they are vital, often repre- sentipg the difference between suffi. cient to sustain the British war ef. fort and too little with which to carry on, as President Roosevelt pointed out.
 Insufficient Supply
 So far our shipments of food to Russia have been nowhere near the amount which this one Of our Allies needs, due to lack Of shipping space. Our exports of sugar. wheat, flour and cereals, ..owcyer, although they represent afl infinitesimal part of our total supply mot over one per cent for any enc item) have been particualrly helpful to Russia which has lost most of it's sugar-beet and wheat producing areas to the Nazis
 Tn preparation for the greater needs of next year, Secretary of Ag- riculture Wickard has get i943 pro- duction goals at figures ranging up to 28 per cent higher than this years figures. Despite this greater food production. MT. and Mrs. John c. taxpayer must expect that sup plies of some of their favorite foods will not be as large as they'd like to have them, But there will be enough to give everyone a fair and useful supply and larger amount that either our Allies or our enemies are getting.