Show BIG AS WAR arni inu A new idea of the great part played I 1 by america in Le CUllig tile the allied bior 1 in x europe is IB given lu in the lulu I 1 year BOOK ot of gwilt and ana company ow w which aih has just been issued in these products shipped abroad totaled pounds more than three times the amount quipped in 1914 the ilrath year ox of tue the var ar ahe pork product shipments totaled lounda as against in m 1914 au an in ia crase ot of 83 per cent during the year ending november 1 laia swift and company alone chipped pounds of meat and ana meat products to the american army and navy at home and abroad and to the allied nations lor their arwids and civilian populations the ahe year look book i says baye ibis amounts to about buol carloads ot of meat which would make a single train miles long bottle borne of the difficulties derod in shipping are shown in the Ioli owing the meat for europe has gone in fleets of under convoy and the bood administration has often been unable to know very tar lar iu iii advance when hen cargo space would be available for tola this reason swift company om pany has frequently been noti hotl tied that a certain number of million laih loua ot pounds would be wanted at a certain port within a tew low days swift company has olten had shipments on the way to the seaboard within a low lew hours after the orders have been and believes bei levea that it has na met ath signal success ia the of auch rush orders me ine packing industry indu atry was able abl to adapt itsell to wartime demands per naps more quickly than any other industry it if this industry had not oien organized on a large scale ecale aloof along and even international kincs jinca it at v ouid never have been ab able ia to an dwer ail demands emanus ci as aa promptly as aa it has war demands have of course mused aused many changes in methods and nave maae it necessary lor us to in reuse our in many respect t tor or example when the united states entered the war there developed a demand tor canoed canned bacon tor shipment to our soldiers eold lera overseas oven eaB swift company immediately took over a semi completed soap factory and within thirty days had bad installed the necessary machinery and was fil tilling government contracts more than a million pounds of bacon a week have often been canned la in this factory this means that our soi col diers have been getting tine fine cured smoked bacon whereas the allies have been demanding only salt bacon which does doe not lave have to be canned another example showing the cooperation that we have offered the government was when the government found it necessary to have laret quantities of butter which it hal hai bought for overseas shipment put pui into cans swift company alone among the big butter handlers of the country was vas willing to install the necessary equipment and in the course of three weeks under the most unfavorable circumstances be gan canning butter for the government up to the time this year book goes to press we have put up some three million pounds of butter owned by the government and also two million pounds which we have gathered tor for the government making a total of five million pounds of butter that have been put up in tins |