Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1918 — ALLIES DEMAND MORE CEREALS [ARTICLE]

ALLIES DEMAND MORE CEREALS

Amertoan Meat Restriction* Relaxed to Effect Greater Wheat Savings. ARGENTINE ARRIVALS SHORT. Most Supply Hero Considerably Enlarged — Food Administration, However, Warns Against Waste, The allies have made further and increased demands for breadstuffs, thim enlarged demands being caused to some degree by shortage In arrivals from the Argentine. It is, therefore, necessary for the D. 8. Food Administration to urge a still further reduction tn the consumption of broad and bread stuffb generally If wo are to meet our export necessities. The Food Administration has Issued a statement explaining the situation In detail, partic ularly the reasons which lead It, for the purpose of centering effort for the time being upon the cereal situation to relax temporarily the restrictions on meat consumption. Experience shows, this statemen i says, that the consumption of bread stuffs Is Intimately associated with the consumption of. meat For various reasons our supplies of meat for the next two or three months are considerably enlarged, and we can supply the allies with all of the meat products which transportation facilities render possible and at the same time somewhat increase our own consumption. In these circumstances the Food Administration considers It wise to relax the voluntary restrictions on meat consumption to some extent with a view to further decreasing bread consumption.

Conservation of food must be adjusted to meet hecessities from time to time, for neither production, nor allied demands are constant factors, nor can any of these factors be anticipated tor long periods in advance in the disturbed conditions in which we at present live. While the world situation is not one that warrants any relaxation In the efforts to eliminate waste or to relax economy In food, the Administration Besires to secure better adjustment in food balances.

So long as the present conditions continue the only special restrictions we ask are the boefiess and porkless Tuesday. The meatless meal and the porkless Saturday are no longer asked. The farmers of the United States are responding to the national call to increase hog production. Their increase, to all appearances, is being attained more rapidly. Of more immediate importance, however, are several complex factors which have effected an immediate increase- in meat suppiles. The transportation shortage before the government took over the railroads, the bad weather in January and early In February, the large percentage of Immature corn in the last harvest and the necessity of feeding this corn as rapidly as possible to save it from decay, have not only resulted in backing up the animals—particularly hogs—on the farms for a longer period of feeding, but have resulted In a great increase in their average weight and will result, with Improved transportation conditions, which already appear, in larger than normal arrivals at market for the next two or three months. The weight of hogs coming to the market for the past two weeks Indicates an increase in weight of from an average' of 208 pounds last year to the almost unprecedented average of 282 pounds, or a net increase in their meat value of over 15 per cent This Is a distinct addition to the nation’s meat supply. It therefore now seems certain that we have oueb enlarged supplies for at least some months to come, that we can not only Increase our exports to the allies to the full extent of their transport** tlon facilities, but at the same time can properly increase our domestic consumption.

The response of the public to our re* quests for reduced consumption of meat during the past few months has boon most gratifying, and this service atone has enabled the government durtog this period to provide such suppiles as transportation to the allies permitted. The Admtatotration also suggests that In those parts of ths country whore the old fashioned homo preservation of pork to sttU the custom, this practice should bo extended at the present time, as It will relieve the burden upon transportation to and from the packing houses and to economically sound as saving the cost of packing sparations and at the same time will provide homo supplies of port to last over the months of decreased suppltea The Food Admlnlstmtion deal rm to repeat that tt doos not want to give ths Impresses that these are times when simplicity and moderation of liv* tag are not trittaslly nee emery, but that Ito sols destae to to secure an adfootaeant between our dlltercnt food* eupptim and ascot changing csa dittoes from time to time and to keep the pub tte folly and frankly advised of its position with the full confidence and mitonco that whenever It becomes necessary renewed appeals for saving will met the same toyaliwisi as to the