Show T sv FOOD k a fED THE ALLIES t or Food Food Administrator Administrator Writes President id dent f America Conserved Bushels Wheat t lion e i n i c CREDIT TO WOMEN SD bSH V- V VM I vv and 1 ata fat Shipments Increased by t Pounds Pound Conser measures s applied by br bythe bythe the lle Amel American people enabled the e United United Unit Unit- ti ed States States' to ship to the Allied peoples s and to our own forces overseas 41 OO bushels bushel o ot of wheat and 8 pounds of me meat t. t during the past r year ear valued valued- In in all aU at r This w was s. s accomplished In the Ute face of a s rlou t food food- shortage In n t this bespeaking the whole and patriotism with which the he A American people have met the food crisis abroad lo Food d Administrator Hoover in a letter let Jet ter tb President ent Wilson how 1 the situa was situations Jon was met The voluntary s c conservation conservation- r atlon program m fostered by the f F Food od Administration enabled the piling up of the millions o of b bushels 1 hele of wheat heal during H 18 t and nd the shipment of b meat during 1917 18 The total value alae of of- all of-all all food shipments shipment shipments ship ship- ments ment to tf Allied destinations amounted d to all nil this food being Vii h bought l hf through or orIn In with the food Administration These Thee ff fibres 1 S' S are creel ail based on official report reports n n rc n sent od exports for the c.- c. luU lata st that f Iut closed June sOl 80 1 1915 1 f T p t shIP of meats ana i fa fats fat ln dlug W weal meat l p products s dairy products prod prod- oils ett etc to Allied destinations des del were cJ as follows Fis Fi of har jear 9 ik 7 lb r Fiscal year ea 1917 J a. a r ncr f Ib f r at the beg beginning be- be a g ginning o of th the c l year were Vere not nota blY larger appreciably than the year before bet before be be- t fore r particularly In bogi they ther were probably loss less The Increase In r shipments is due du to conservation and the the extra extra weight oo of t n animals added by our fare forro rs rs' oil Tie Te full tull effect ct of ot t these e e efforts be began bejan an anto to t b In the last li half iI f of the fl fal year when the exi er- er ex- ex i to the re p pounds J IU as pounds In the he same same period of the tlc year before This compares with an an average of pounds pound of ot total exports for exports for r alf lt years tears In the year throe ey r war pre erlO 0 pre In er create a ais and Cereal t al p products reduced to- to re- re to df cereal cereal our ourI I shipments e ts t to to AllI Allied d destinations destinations have b been en Fiscal Fiscal WIG 1910 1916 bushels bushels Fiscal year e l' l 1917 1 1917 bushels g Increase Increase- bushels 0 Of Ot thesa cereals our of In Inthe the fiscal year 18 to Allied destinations were were- bushels and of rye a total of The The a ports to destinations I during th i year 17 were Wheat bushels bushels- and rye Continued on last page 4 k 1 M |