Show OUR SAVED FO 0 0 FED THE ALLIES food administrator write writes president america Con conserved 1 A r bushels wheat CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN meat and nd fat shipment shipments increased by br pound pounds Conqer ration mea meri i rca rem siD applied piled by th the american people the unit fd ed states to ship to ike the allied people and to our own forces fore ovic bushel ot of wheat aad ad 00 OC pounds of meat during the th post year valued in all at 1 l this was accomplished in to tb face of a sarious food shortage in thi co country datry I 1 et gesking ipek ln the and patrio thim with which the american 1 people have met the food crula crisis abroad food administrator hoover in a letter to Pre Ment wilson cp talba hew bow the situation was voluntary con 0 R program foet ered by th the food dw up ot of the willious of bushela of wheat during 1917 18 aid the of t most during dwren wl 18 the total value of e all food to 04 ship mente ments to allied as anted to OM OW ai ali thi this food wag bought or 01 ID lo with the fod abe are all based on an official report reports and represent fod exports for the barvest year that closed joae june 30 the it tf waste and fate fats including meat prod nets dairy product products vegetable olla oils etc tc to allied doa ile were ai an follow follows fiscal fineal year 1916 at 1 iscel yeat 1917 18 3 aba increase 8 14 KO ab our ft the be ginning of the last fiscal year wre not appreciably larger than the beor 1 before and particularly in boss hoax they vere re probably pro bally lass 1 the increase in shipments hip mente Is due to conse and the extra weight of animals addel added liy by our fort ners the full effect of these efforts began to bear beer their befit best results in the last halt half of the th foscal year vaca hen the ex pats to the allies were 2 IM pound pounds aernt pounds in the same period of the year before this compares rom parea with an average of WO pound pounds of total export exports for the same halt yeara years in to the three year pre war period in cereals and cere cerela products reduced to cortus ft rf aereal real bumb buchla Is our shipments hip ments to allied dU durations nations lav have been fiscal 11 year 17 BOO 00 fl I 1 heh 1 11 year I 1 18 bushe ln hel increase 80 OW 1 of thaw cereal our shWa tents of the prime broad breadstuff stuffs in the flacil year 1917 18 to allied destina destination tims were wheat b buhl hols and of rye 13 bushels a total of IK 1110 bushels bu ehele the export exports to allied destinations during the birteal year 1010 1916 17 were girat bushels aad and rye 2400 2 M bushels a total of f buntele in audition mame bushel of 1917 wheat are now dow in port for allied or en route thereto tbt th the total shipment shipments to allied from our last harvest riar of wheat will be therefore about bushels or a total of kaha of prime is la in ad admas to thil this we e I 1 aag hipped shipped morne bulini 10 to depend et emit aud we have received bolna solna import imports from other quarter quarters atis of our people in thia this matter stands oat out oven moro dearly it we bear er in mind that we bad available in 1 th fiscal year jear 1918 1916 17 free from net not crry corry over vr and am a surplus over our normal about bushels of f wheat which we were able to export that year without log on our home mr hoover till nis last hemr however owing aln to the liras failure ot of the 1917 wheat crop we bad had from net carryover carry earry over aad and aad and import imports oaly only jut ju t about our out n normaj rwal con sump 1 aloa 10 therefore our wheat shipments to allied represent approximately 11 from oar our own wheat bread nese figures fl eureti however do not fruy corvey the volume of the effort and made during the pat pan year by y the whole wila 49 american people despite the magnificent effort of 0 our karl cultural population in pi a much increased acreage in 1917 not only was there a very large 1 failure failure in wheat but also the corn com fall ad d to mature prop er ariy ly and our corn ui is vor dominant crop 1 I am sure mr ur wrote in mn eluding bla his report tu tt all th millions of our people ae as well writ as urban who hayd contributed to results should fl fael a vary definite that in a yo ar of universal 11 shortages lort agea in the north era an hemisphere it 11 of those people joined together against C germany many have come through into night of the cocaine comine harvest not only with wealth and strength tren rth fully fuhr but with only aly temporary dertod of ba 4 3 no it is I 1 difficult to dist lart lah bear beta on various portions 0 of our t people the e homet homes public gatins i ting food trade trades urban 0 agricultural in 1 apses staS credit for them these re ro wits suits but no one will deny tte Us lona nant pert part of the american woma A boarder la is 9 man who Is 1 more in 1 tes betted sated la in gettles his hl than la in 1 III I bm his bit |