Show t 1 nS VED 7 FOOD r r TR n. n l ll l r a Ln et F Food d Administrator Writes President dent A America merica merits Conserved lEI 1 r j I Po O Bushels Wheat What e 1 j jT T CREDIT RE IT DUE E TO TO WOMEN Meat c t and F Fat Shipments Increased b by Y 8 Pound Pounds v SS Conservation measures applied by the American people enabled the United United Unit Unit- ed States to ship to the A flied Allied peoples and nd to our own forces overseas Hl- Hl OO bushels or of wheat and 8 8 pounds of meat meat during the past year valued In all nn at This was accomplished in the face of a serious food shortage In this country bespeaking the wholeheartedness and patriotism with which the American people h have e met the food tood crisis abroad hood Food Administrator Hoover Hoo In a letter letter letter let let- ter ter to President Wilson explains how the situation was met The voluntary conservation program fostered by the rood Tood Food Administration enabled the piling up of ot the millions of of bushels of wheat durin luring during 1017 IS 18 38 and the shipment of meat during 1 1917 1017 17 IS The he total value of or all nIl food shipments shipments ship ship- ments to Allied destinations r l to 1400 COO all nIl this food heir heln bought through or 01 In collaboration with the Food Tood Administration These fh figures are all based on reports mul represent food exports ts for the harvest rear year that closed June Juno 30 1018 1113 The shipments of or meats ments and fats tats Including meat products dairy products products prod prod- acts vegetable oils etc to Allied destinations destinations destinations des des- were as fiS follows Jow Fiscal Piscal year lb Fiscal year 1017 Increase Our animals at et the beginning be be- ginning of the last fiscal year ear were not appreciably bl larger than tha the year before before before be be- fore arid particularly in n hogs they were probably less lees The increase in shipments r Jl Jae to conservation and the extra wd w i of animals added by our om farmers The full rull effect of If f t these se e efforts began to bear heal their best hest re results In the last half halt of the fiscal year wh when n the exports exports ex ex- ex ports to the Allies s were 2 pounds us as against 1260 pounds In the same p period of the year before This compares with an fin ern a average e of ot pounds of total exports for forthe forthe forthe the i same mme half years ears In the year three war pre period In cereals cel and cereal products re re- diced to to terms of cereal J bushels our shipments to Allied destinations have been Fiscal d year ear 1916 Q G bushels Fiscal jear 1917 17 bushels i Increase Increase bushels i Of these cereals our shIpments ot of the prime breadstuffs In the fiscal carU ear car 1917 18 U 17 to Allied destinations wore were Wheat bushels and of r rye re c 13 bushels a total of bushels The exports to Allied destinations during the fiscal year 1916 were Wheat bushels and r rye re e bushels a total of bushels In addition some sone bushels or 17 wheat heat are now ow in port for Allied destinations or or en route thereto The rhe total shipments to Allied countries countries' from our last harvest hanest of or wheat wrent will be therefore about bushels or a total of bushels of prime breadstuffs In Inid addition id nd- t ion to this thise ve e ve have shipped some bushels to neutral dependent depend ent upon us and ond ve we have ha received recci some Imports from her quarters I hc accomplish r of our people i in this matter mutter stands out even en mOl moi more clearly I if vo we hc hear cir ar In Ii mind that tha we wc hn d available in the fiscal year UH from net over carry and as surplus over over o o our r normal consumption about bushels of wheat which w wo we were able ahle to export that year jear ear without trenching on our OUI home loaf Mi Mr Hoover said This last year however howe owing to the tile large laige failure ni o of or the 1917 wl wheat ent crop we had available n from ne cm over curry i over j-over and production and Imports only just about our normal consumption tion Therefore our wheat shipments to Allied destinations represent approximately ap ap- proximately savings from our own wheat bread blead f I These figures however do not fully tully e convey comey the volume of ot the effort and sacrifice made during luring the past year jear yearby ear earby by the whole American people Despite Despite Despite De De- spite the magnificent effort of or our agricultural agri- agri cultural population In planting a n much increased acreage in 1017 1917 not only was there a ver very large failure In wheat but also the corn failed to mature properly properly prop- prop erly erly and our corn is our dominant crop I am sure Mr Ir Hoover Hoo wrote In concluding his report that all aU the millions of our people agricultural a awell aswell n. n w well as urban who have contributed contrIbute to these re results should fuel feel eJ a aery very ery definite satisfaction that In a year of universal l food shortages In the north north- em hemisphere all aU of those people joined together against Germany Gelman have haye come corne through Into sight of the coming harvest hanest note only with wealth and r strength fully maintained but with only temporary periods of ot hardship It Is difficult to distinguish between various sections of our OUI people the people the homes public eating places food trades urban or agricultural In In assessing credit lt for these results re re- cults hut but no one will den deny the dominant dominant domi domi- nant part of ot the tho American women |