Show emple S FOOD SHORTAGE holdover hold over supply of wheat promises to be ample the prevalent assumption that the country faces a food shortage is sharply denied by chester C davis adjustment act administrator in the following statement issued this week since the beginning of theada program people who represent certain elements in our economic life have been viewing the possibility of crop failures with alarm they have taken a dolorous view since ince the attention of the public has been drawn to drouth conditions after thorough study the experts of the bureau of agricultural economics have concluded conlu ded that the drouth has not endangered the food supply of the united states to illustrate take the facts on the wheat supply in a normal year the people of the nation eat or feed to toi i animals and save for seed for the next years crop bushels of wheat 11 that is what we need for next year bushels th the drouth has damEl damaged ged winter wheat prospects the crop was forecast at bushels on may 1 2 but say it declines still further and only bushels are harvested in that event we should have with the carryover carry earry over of some bushels a total supply of bushels and that does not allow for the spring wheat crop even though it should he be as short as the shortest spring wheat crop in recent years it would be still about bushels so with a very short spring wheat crop and an edtia extraordinary ordinary short winter wheat crop our present big carryover carry over would give us ample supplies of wheat for the coming year do not take it that the economists predict a very short spring wheat crop and a winter wheat crop of only bushels no one can accurately cura tely predict those harvests at present the experts simply assumed the worst outturn out turn tum in order to demonstrate that if worst comes to worst the public is in no danger of going on short rations of domestic wheat the situation with respect to other food is the same as for wheat the country does not face a food shortage the problem is to keep ample food reserves you can take it for granted that this will be done the american people will have adequate supplies of food produced by their own farmers I 1 hope that these farmers will continue to have at least as good protection against the hazards of weather and other natural forces as the present domestic allotment plan affords them |