Show BIG PACKER AS WAR TIME AID A new idea of the great pirt p played by america in feeding the allied forces in la iven the 1919 year boo bof swift company which has been issued in 1018 1918 these product li shipped abroad totaled 5 09 pou pounds cals more than three times the amount shipped Ded in 1914 the first year of the war the th pork pr product calel shipments totaled 1 CU laso pounds as against in 1914 in increase of 83 per cent during the icar ending no not I 1 alone chipped ago I 1 ja pounds pound of pf meat and meat products to the american Amei ican an iron and nivy navy at home and abroad and to 1 the allied nations for ahti it hamter i and civilian population 1 I 1 he year book mys tha amounts to about 0 carloads car loida of meat which bouli wouw in mike ike i a single train miles lone borne some of the difficulties encountered ered in shipping ire shown in the follow hc PIP the ineat fai europe has eone gone in fleets allt pta of vessels under convoy the food administration ins has often b ben cn unable to know very far in ad vince when cargo spite sp ite would be avail available ible for this reason swift G mcany has frequently been notified that a certain number of millions of pounds would be wanted at a cert certion aln port within a iw fea fe A bays swift A company has often harl had shipments shipment on the way to the seaboard seabo ird within a few hours after the have been received and bolle believes that 11 it L h has as met with signal success in the tilling filling of such rush order arhe the packing industry was vias able to adapt itself to wartime demands perhaps more quickly than any other industry indu if this industry ladu stry had not ben organized on a large scala alon il and een even inter national lines it would never havi been alle to answer all demands as it lu ba war demands dero ands have of f ourse caused tainy i hanges in methods and have inane maile it necessity aty for us to increase facilities ia in many respects 1 for example when the united states entered the war there developed a demand for tinned canned bacon for ship shipment meat to our soldiers over oversea sem swift company immediately too took ovar a semi co soap factor and within 30 days had installed the necessary nei essary machinery and wa was filline stilling government contract more than a million pounds of bacon i a week hive have often been canned in this factor 3 thiis this means that our soldiers have been getting fine cured smoked bacon baon whereas the allies have been demanding only salt wi smoked bacon which does not have to be canned another example blowing the cooperation thit that we have offered the government was when the gover government 11 M ent found it necessary to h have 0 birge quantities quin of butter which it had bought for overseas ship shipment ment put into cans swift company alone among the bg big butter handlers of the country was williaj willing to install the necessary equipment and in the course of three week under tl e most unfavorable began canning butter for the government up lo 10 the time this year book goes to press we have bave put up i some three million pounds of butter owned by the government and also aho two million pounds bisich we have gathered for the government A d tot ti U of five live million pounds of butter that have been put up in tins une |