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Show RAISING A FAMINE CRY. It is remarked by a good many men that there is a censor needed for some of the bureaus connected with the food department depart-ment of the government. Every few days some of these officials announce a famine in some article of food. The last was a dispatch dis-patch under the head "Egg Famine Threatened," dated at New York, saying: "An egg famine threatens the United States, according ac-cording to a statement tonight by W. F. Priebe, head of the poultry and egg division of the federal food administration." The only effect of such an announcement as that is to start hoarding of eggs and force a rise in prices. Only a few days since there was an official statement sent out from Washington saying i that there are about a million more cases of eggs in storage than there were a year ago at this time. But this later statement declares de-clares that 85 per cent of the eggs in storage had been consumed, the other 15 per cent will soon be gone and there will be none left for anybody. All that is insufferable nonsense. There was a large increase in both poltry and eggs last year and there has been no excessive exportation. The allies need wheat, beef and pork and thy are not investing at the present time very extensively in eggs. |