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Show I i - mi ( RESULTS OF OUR SflK OF FOOD il i We all like 10 sec results. It is hard ; to work for a thing if you never kno how near you aro coming to it. We i have been saving a cup of wheat flour, v a pound of sugar, two pounds of meat, i and all the small household amounts that seem to mean so little at the time, y it has been hard sometimes because - iro felt that wo were not accomplish-l accomplish-l ing anything. I But the food administration has ; made cut a table of exports showing If the progress of world-feedingfrom the United States. It shows in tons just h how much larger our exports have t been this year than at a corresponding : , time last year. It is gratifying to read this table, and know that we in our ' homes aro largely responsible for the r gain, bocause we did save that pound of sugar, that cup of wheat flour. s t In three months, from July to Octo-r Octo-r ber in 1917, we exported 93,962,477 pounds of beef. During this Inst July, August and September, we sent to the allies and our soldiers abroad 311,737,-. 311,737,-. " 957 pounds. This is an increaso of more "than 200 million nounds. i I There was a very large increase in the exportation of pork and pork pro- - ducts. Remember how wo bought lit-; lit-; tie bacon, and instead of the delicious : ham that we liked to have on Saturday nights, had poultry instead? Giving up ; that ham helped to increase the pork ' ! exports from 196,256,750 pounds to ;; 587,C92,445. ; The dairy exports went up from 130,-; 130,-; 071,165 pounds to 1S4.2J7,179 pounds. . As dairy production was very much . less, this increase represents the strik-- strik-- ing results of conservation. The house- r wife's part in making that increase pos-sible pos-sible was our determination not to t 1 waste a bit of milk, butter or cheese, ; ; and not to use butter in cooking. The grain harvest in 1917191S was not so good as usual, but wc managed to send outu almost twice as much in those three months of 191S as inthe same time in 1917. Last year it was 66,383,084 bushels, and this year 124,-791,766. 124,-791,766. This was accomplished by mixing substitute flours with the wheat in all baking, and by cutting down bread allowances in hotels and restaurants and homes. Already France has begun to make it easier for us by harvesting the wheat on the land recovered during the successful counter-offensive of July and August. This wheat has been gathered gath-ered by the agricultural service of the armies with the aid of the offico of agricultural ag-ricultural reconstitution. Lastly, the table of exports shows what our efforts in saving sugar have done. This has been the hardest of all the sacrifices for us because wo have always been such a sugar-loving nation, na-tion, with our candies, cakes, pastries, sweet drinks and rich desserts. But our lowered sugar ration made it possible pos-sible for us to decrease our imports una io release snipping ior war neeus. About 600,000 tons of sugar was saved by the reduction to a two-pound ration. Our sugar exports during the three months of July. August and September, Septem-ber, 1918, were 123,S67,145 pounds. The soldiers in the field who advanced ad-vanced could sec the ground that they covered so that they knew they were advancing. The housewife, who is faithfully faith-fully doing her part in feeding the world by saving food, can never see the big result of it all until she has an opportunity to see more statistics such as these published by the food administration, and to realize that sho has. done her share toward making those impressive figures possible. |
