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P MEAT PRODUCERS
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increase in American Hogs Will
t:. Help to Meet World Fat
Shortage. > I
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FARMERS SAVE SITUATION. <
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.. . ; Government Justified in Stimulation
t' . of Pork Production?Sevenfold
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Increase Over PreB
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Through increasedN production an#
fonservation we will be able this yea?
So export seven times our pre-war
jtverage exports of pork products.
With the heavy demands added in caring
for the millions who have been
freed from German oppression, the ;
Department of Agriculture and the
pood Administration are justified to- ;
lay In our every action of stimulation :
sf hog production. In the .coming year
the greatest world shortage will be in
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rats, ana pom win iieip 10 um>
situation. The efficacy of the policy j
of stimulated production has built up
In this country supplies which will en:
, able us to supply a very large part of
the fat deficiency of the world. In
beef there must be a shortage in Europe,
due largely to limited refrigerator
ship capacity. All freezer ships
{/ available, however, will be filled by
America, Argentine and Australia.
r The contribution made by the producers
of this country to the war program
as applying particularly to aniv
mal food products Is illustrated by tha
following:
Reports compiled by the U. S. Department
of Agriculture indicate an
increase in cattle of 10,238,000 head
and 12,441,000 hogs. These figures
were compiled to January 1 last
In this period there was a decrease
in sheep of 819,000 head. The indications
are that thi% decrease will show ;
an increase, according to recent reports.
\ Since January 1 unofficial informs- ,
tion indicates an increase in hogs of
not less than 8 per cent and not
, more than 15 per cent as compared
with one year ago, with an increase in
the average weight
Following the request of the U. S.
Food Administration for an increase
to hog production for marketing in the
fall of 1918 and the spring of 1919 the
increase may yield not less than 1,600,000,000
pounds more of pork product?
than were available last year. Without
this increase the shipping program
arranged by Mr. Hoover regarding animal
food products would have been
impossible. j
The dressed hog products during the i
three months ending September 30, |
1917, amounted to 903,172,000 pounds, !
while for the corresponding months of j
1918 the dressed hog products totaled !
1,277.589,000, an increase of over 374,- j
QUO,WO pounds tor tne quarter.
During the same period for 1917 the
records of inspected slaughter of 1
dressed beef showed 1,263,000,000 j
pounds as against 1,454,000,000 pounds !
for the three month period ending
September 1, this year.
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Our food Gospel I
eat less ^
serve less
waste nothing
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PROVED SPIRIT
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Voluntary Basis of Food Saving
Showed Heart of America
Beat True for Freedom.
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To the voluntary service and sacrl- '
fice of the American people must be I
attributed the continued health, j
strength and morale of the Allied armies
and the civil populace.
Upon this spirit of service and sacrifice
will depend Europe's fate in the
months to come, in the past year we
have carried out an export program,
the magnitude of which is almost be- !
yond comprehension. But with the
new demands that have come, with
the liberation of nations freed from
German oppression, onr exports must
be almost doubled Instead of 11,820,- '
000 tons, we must ship twenty million
tons of food to Europe in the coming
year?as much as can be pushed
through our ports.
If the Allies had not been fed by
America, it would have been impossible
for them to maintain their defense
against Germany,
Meeting this world need on a purely
voluntary basis, the American people
have conclusively proved that democracy
is a success ana that in time of
need it will rise to its own defense. ?
If there were no other accomplish- '
ment to its credit the very fact that it
has shown the strength of democracy
has in itself more than justified the
existence of the Food Administration
in the eyes of the world.
Less than four months after the
United States declared war the United
States Food Administrator expressed
his determination to meet America's
food problem on a basis of voluntary
action and reiterated his confidence
that awakened democracy would prove
irresistible.
"Many 'thinking Americans," said
Mr. Hoover, "and the whole world
have been watching anxiously the last
fnnr months in the fear that demo
cratie America could not organize to
meet autocratic Germany. Germany
has been confident that it could not be
done. Contrary proof Is immediately
at our door, and our people have already
demonstrated their ability to
mobilize, organize, endure, and prepare
voluntarily and efficiently in many directions
and upon the mere word of
Inspiration aside from the remarkable
assemblage of our Army and finances."1
The history of the Food Administration
has clearly shown that the ti^ist
of those who put their faith in democracy
has not been misplaced.
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SAVE 16,000,-000 BUSHELS j
OF WHEAT THAT FORMERLY
WAS LOST IN THRESHING
Farmers, Urged by Food Adminfstra*
tlon, Provide Seven Extra Loaves
of Bread for Every American.
By adopting cleaner threshing methods
and by literally combing harvest
fields to gather grain formerly wast- j
ed, threshermen and farmers of the
United States this year saved folly I
16,000,000 bushels of wheat, estimated
as equivalent to about seven one-pound i
a .a i j js ! *
loaves 01 ureau iur vyciy pciouu in |
the country. This result, accompanied i
by corresponding savings of barley, j
oats, rye and other grains, Is shown by
reports from 33 grain states to the U. j
S. Food Administration. Other stateSr I
although not prepared to furnish definite
figures of conservation in the
grain fields, report greatly reduced
harvest losses.
This rural food saving achievement,
accomplished in scarcely six months'
time, was in direct response to requests
by the Food Administration,
which asked farmers and threshermen
to reduce harvest losses from about
Sli per cent?the estimated average
in normal times?to the lowest possible
minimum. Country grain threshing
committees carried into every
grain growing community the official
recommendations for accomplishing
the results desired.
In numerous instances drivers of
racks with leaky bottoms were sent
from the fields to repair their equipment
and frequently bad order threshing
machines were stopped until the
cause of waste was removed. But in
proportion to the number of persons
engaged in gathering the nation's grain
crop, cases of compulsion were comparatively
rare. The Food Administration
freely attributes the success of
the grain threshing campaign to patriotic
service by farmers, threshermen
and their crews. Incidentally
grain growers of the United States are
many millions of dollars "In pocket"
as a result of the grain saved.
NO ONE SUFFERED HERE.
The marvel of our voluntary foodsaving,
now that we are "getting results,"
is that no one ever actually
suffered any, hardship from it; that
we all are better in healtn and spirit
and better satisfied with ourselves because
of our friendly self-denial
Food control in America held the
pride of breadstuffs steady, prevented
vicious speculation and extortion and
preserved tranquillity at home.
In no other nation is there so willing
a sense of voluntary self-sacrifice as
in America?that was shown in the
abstinence from wheat
Find more wheat, it came; more
pork, it came; save sugar, it was done.
So Americans answered the challenge
of German starvation.
Good will rules the new world as
fear governed the old world. Through
sharing food America helps make the
whole world kin.
Food control made sufficiency from
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gave the nation's full strength exercise.
Starvation by Germany challenged
all the world; food conservation In
America answered the challenge.
Food conservation in America has
been the triumph of individual devo*
tion to the national cause.
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