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Show AMERICAN FOOD SAVINGS LARGE United States Sent to Allies 141,000,000 Bushels of Wheat CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN. ,.. Allies Got 844,600,000 Pounds Mors Meat and Fats In 1917-18 Than In Year Before. www ,. AMERICAN FOOD SHIPMENTS TO ALLIES w : - MEAT. 1916-17......... 2,160,500,000 lbs. 1917-18.. . ...... 8,01 1,100,000 lbs. , , .... . Increase. 844,600,000 lbs. : CEREALS.- 1916-17.., 259,900,000 bu. 1917-18. 340,800,000 bu. . ' :. . Increase... 80,900,000 bu. In spite of a subnormal food supply In this country the American people have been able to ship to the Allies as well as our own forces overseas 141,000,000 bushels of wheat besides 844,600,000 pounds of meat during the year ending June 30 last This has been made possible by the whole-souled whole-souled co-operation of the people, who, besides practicing self-denial, have speeded up production and responded re-sponded nobly to the appeal from abroad. Food Administrator Hoover, In a letter to President Wilson, gives a brief summary of the results of food conservation In the United States and 6f the activities of the Food Administration Admin-istration to this end. The conservation conserva-tion measures have been put through practically on a voluntary basis which Is regarded as a splendid tribute to tbe patriotism of the American people. Meat shipments were Increased 844 000,000 pounds during the first fiscal year, ns compared with our meat exports ex-ports during the year before America entered the war. "The total value of these food shipments," ship-ments," Mr. Hoover wrote President Wilson, "which were in -the main purchased pur-chased through or with collaboration of the Food Administration, amount to, roundly, $1,400,000,000 during the , fiscal year." In 1916-17 the United States sent the Allies 2,166,500,000 pounds of meat In 1917-18, with voluntary conservation con-servation practiced In America, and aided by extra -weight of animals, we sent the Allies 2,011,100,000 pounds of meat an Increase of 844,000,000 pounds. - Wheat 8avlng Enormous. When the Food Administration began be-gan operations In the summer of 1917, this country was facing a large deficit In wheat Counting in all carry-over wheat from the 1916 crop, we had at the beginning of the harvest year Just enough wheat to take care of America's normal consumption, not a bushel of surplus. At the close of the 1917-18 harvest year the Food Administration's official reports showed that our total wheat ! shipments to the other side had been ! 141.000,000 bushels. Every bushel shaped was wheat saved by the American people from their normal consumption. . c In cereals and cereal products reduced re-duced to terms of cereal bushels our shipments to Allied destinations were 340.fl00.000 bushels. 80.000.000 bushels more than the amount sent In 1916-17. Included In these figures are 13,900,-000 13,900,-000 bushels of rye and the 141,000,000 1 bushels of saved wheat In addition ! we sent the neutrals dependent on us 10,000.000 bushels of prime breadstuffs. "These figures do not fully convey the volume of the effort and sacrifice i made during the post year by the j whole American people," the Food Ad- i mlnlstratOT wrote. "I am sure that j all the millions of our people, agiicul- i tural as well as urban, who have con- j tributed to these results should feci ' I a very definite satisfaction that in a j j year of universal food shortages ID , I the Northern Hemisphere, all of those j people Joined together against Ger- ! I many came through to the new hnr-i'j vest, not only with health and strength i I fully maintained, but with only tern- j j porary periods of hardship. I "It Is difficult to distinguish be-'j tween various sections of our people j the homes, public eating places, food 1 trade, urban or agricultural popula- ' tlons In assessing credit for these j ' results, but no one will deny the doio-1 s lnunt part of the Anierlcnu women, j |