..
183,777,331 395,140,238 *349,123,235 66,383,084 121,668,823
Total sugar, pounds..
621,745.507 3,084,390,281 2,149,787,050 1,108.559,519 1,065,398,247
* Wheat harvest 1917-18 was 200,217,333 bushels below the average of the
three previous years.
Upon the same subject Mr. Hoover himself after the harvest of 1918 said:
It is now possible to summarize the shipments of foodstuffs from the
United States to the allied countries during the fiscal year just
closed--practically the last harvest year. These amounts include all
shipments to allied countries for their and our armies, the civilian
population, the Belgium relief, and the Red Cross. The figures indicate
the measure of effort of the American people in support of allied food
supplies.
The total value of these food shipments, which were in the main
purchased through, or with the collaboration of the Food Administration,
amounted to, roundly, $1,400,000,000 during the fiscal year.
The shipments of meats and fats (including meat products, dairy
products, vegetable oils, etc.) to allied destinations were as follows:
POUNDS
Fiscal year 1916-17 2,166,500,000
Fiscal year 1917-18 3,011,100,000
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Increase 844,600,000
Our slaughterable animals at the beginning of the last fiscal year were
not appreciably larger in number than the year before; and particularly
in hogs, there were probably less.
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