Evening star., 1945-06-07
Civilian Meat Supply
Reduced Only Slightly
For Coming Quarter

/ ClVllldnS nave Deen given only q
slight cut in meat supplies for the
next quarter, and beginning in the
fall an increase in cattle and hog
marketings is expected to. relieve the
problem further, food officials said
today.
The War Food Administration an
nounced yesterday that lease-lend
and relief supplies Of meat will be
cut of during the July-August-Sep-
tember quarter, while the armed
forces will take a per cent cut in
meat allocations during the quarter.
Allocating 3,740,000,000 pounds of
meat for civilians in the third quar-
ter, VITA said this would provide
per capita consumption at the an
nual rate of lis pounds, the same as
in the second quarter
Cut Is 1.2 Per Cent.
The third quarter ALLEGATION of
meat for civilians actually is IL per
cent under the second quarter, but
VIA said some areas can expect an
improvement because of recently in
itiated Government programs de-
signed to channel more livestock into
Federally inspected plants and more
meat to deficit areas.
Similarly, the proportion of va
rious kinds of meat-beef, veal, pork,
lamb and mutton-available to the
housewife will run about the same
as in the April-June period, VIA
said.
The agency estimated the total
supply of meat for all claimants
during the next three months at
7,088,0 900, 900 pounds, carcass weight,
about 8 per cent less than the pres
ent quarter.
THE currently tight United States
meat supply situation and the fact
that it has not been possible to build
up reserves in recent months has
not made it feasible to allocate meat
in the third quarter for foreign re-
lief feeding nor for export to the
United Kingdom and the U. S. S. r."
VITA announcement stated.
May Resume Shipments Later.
The VIA said that on the basis
Of present prospects of increased
livestock marketings in the fall, it
may be possible to allot ase-lend
and foreign relief claimants about
700, 900 900 pounds in the last quar-
ter of the year. This possibility
will depend largely, it said, upon
the success of a new distribution
control program set up by the OPA
recently in an effort to obtain more
equitable distribution among civil
ians.
Second quarter foreign ALLEGATIONS
included about 300 900 900 pounds for
Russia and about 25,000,0O0 pounds
for Great Britain.
The VIA said foreign shipments
during the first half of the year will
amount to about 300 1000 900 pounds.
1t said, however. that these ship
ments will largely be Offset by
770,000,000 pounds being supplied
American armed forces by Australia,
New Zealand and Argentina.
Foreign demands on this country's
short meat supply would be much
more severe, the food agency said, if
it were not for supplies Canada is
furnishing Great Britain. Canada
was said to have contracted to sup
ply Britain with 50o,000,000 pounds
of beef and bacon this year. It is
possible, VIA said, that Canadian
shipments may substantially exceed
this amount.
The military and war services
were allotted 1,212 100000 pounds,
compared with 1881 ,000, 900 pounds
for the current quarter The re-
naming IS, 400 900 pounds will go to
United States territories and for
other commercial exports to Western
Hemisphere countries.