Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1918 — AMERICAN SAVINGS WILL MEASURE WHEAT EXPORTS [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN SAVINGS WILL MEASURE WHEAT EXPORTS

“We have already exported the whole es the surplus of the wheat harvest, over and above the normal demands of our own population. It is necessary, therefore, for the food admlnlstratton to restrict export of wheat M M to retain in th* United States sufficient supplies to carry 'our own people until the next harvest. "Therefore all exports of wheat from now forward ar* limited ontirly to volume of saving made by the AaeoriCan people in their consumption of wheat and wheat products. "We continued wheat shipments for December as for as our ■ituatioa allowed, but even with all th* conservation made we were still unable *• I#<d several hundred thousand:tona of food--stuffs urgently required by the allied qatlons juring the month of December HHRREIBT HOOVER.