Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1918 — AMERICAN SAVINGS WILL MEASURE WHEAT EXPORTS [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN SAVINGS WILL MEASURE WHEAT EXPORTS

“We have already exported the whole of the surplus of the 1917 wheat harvest, over and above the normal demand* of our own population. It 1* necessary, therefore, for the food administration to restrict export of wheat so as to retain In the United States sufficient supplies to carry our own people until the next harvest “Therefore all exports of wheat from now forward are limited entlrly to volume of saving made by the American people In their consumption of wheat and wheat products. “We continued wheat shipment* for December as far as our situation allowed, but even with all the conservation made we were still unable to load Several hundred thousand tons of foodstuffs urgently required by the allied nations during the month of December alone.”

HERBERT HOOVER.