After long and acrimonious debates in Congress, Mr. Hoover, as Federal
Food Administrator, was clothed with extraordinary powers enabling him
to fulfil the purposes for which he was appointed. The ability with
which he and his associates performed their work was demonstrated in the
complete debacle of Bulgaria, Turkey, Austria-Hungary and Germany. These
countries were starved out quite as truly as they were fought out. The
concrete evidence of the Food Administration's success is shown in the
subjoined table which indicates the increase over normal in exporting of
foodstuffs by the United States since it became the food reservoir for
the world on account of the war.
TOTAL EXPORTS
3-year 1916-17 1917-18 July, 1917 to July,1918 to
pre-war fiscal fiscal
average. year. year. Sept. 30,1917. Sept. 30,1918
Total beef products, lbs..
186,375,372 405,427,417 565,462,445 93,962,477 171,986,147
Total pork products, lbs..
996,930,627 1,498,302,713 1,691,437,435 196,256.750 540,946,324
Total dairy products, lbs..
26,037,790 351,958,336 590,798,274 130,071,165 161,245,029
Total vegetable oils, lbs..
332,430,537 206,708,490 151,029,893 27,719,553 26,026,701
Total grains, bushels.
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