Show n isa n era tr fit n 3 ff MEAT PRODUCERS 1 d dom OlD om FUll DUTY Increase in American Hogs H ys Will Help to fleet World Fat Shortage FARMERS SAVE SITUATION Government Justified In Stimulation of Pork Production Sevenfold Production Sevenfold Increase Over PreWar PreWar Pre Pre- War Exports OJ Through Increased production and conservation we will wiil be able uble this year cur curto to export c port seven times our war pre average exports of pork products With the heavy demands added in car car- tug lug for the millions who have been een freed treed from tram Garman Gf oppression the I Department of Agriculture and the tho Food Administration are Justified today to to- I day Jay In our every action of or stimulation of ct hog production In the coming coining year the greatest world shortage will he hc in I fats and pork will help hep to lo save this I situation The efficacy of the policy i of ot stimulated production has built up I which will enable enable en en- In n this country supplies able us to supply a aery ver very ery large are part of I the fat deficiency of the world In I II beef there must be a shortage In Eu- Eu Europe I II I rope ropp due largely to limited refrigerator eru I tor ship capacity All freezer freezer- ships available however howe will iII be filled f by 1 y I America Ar Argentine entine and Australia The rhe contribution made by bj the pro pro- producers lacers of this country to the war var program pro plo to animal ani gram ram as appl applying ing particularly mal vial food foo products is illustrated by the following Reports compiled complied by the U. U S. S Department Department Department De De- of Agriculture Indicate an in cattle of head bead and 2nd hogs These figures were complied to January 1 last In this period there was as a n decrease In sheep of head The Indications Indica Indica- Indications are ale that this decrease will show an on Increase accor according ing to recent re re- po ports Since January 1 I unofficial Information lion tion Indicates an Increase In hogs of or not less than 8 S per cent and not more than 15 per cent as compared with one year cal ago with an un Increase In Inthe the he average weight Following the request of the U U. U S S. Food Administration for an met increase case caseIn c cIn In n hog production for marketing in the he I theall fall all of lOIS 1018 and the spring of 1010 the Increase may arty yield not less loss than IGOU 1600 pounds more moie of pork 1011 products than han were available last year ear Without With out flit this Increase the he shipping program twanged arranged b by Mr 11 Hoover HOO regarding an an- animal mat imal food products would have bare 1 been Impossible The dressed hog products during th the three months ending end September 30 1917 1017 amounted to pounds I while for the corresponding months of i I I 1918 Ims the dressed hog products totaled l an Increase of over pounds for the quarter During the same period for 1917 the records of Inspected slaughter of 1 i dressed beef showed j I pounds us as u against pounds poun-ls for the three month period ending September 1 this year carI car |