. What America did; a record of achievement in the prosecution of the war . sent abroad, out of our usual consumption,500,000 tons of sugar. Increased production andconservation were responsible for 1,600,000,000 morepounds of pork products ready for export in the fallof 1918 than were available the previous year, whilefor the three summer months of 1918 the recordsshowed an increase of 190,000,000 pounds of dressedbeef. An illuminating instance of the temper of the peo-ple in general toward conservation is afforded by thereports of railway dining cars for two months in theautumn of 1917, in w
. What America did; a record of achievement in the prosecution of the war . sent abroad, out of our usual consumption,500,000 tons of sugar. Increased production andconservation were responsible for 1,600,000,000 morepounds of pork products ready for export in the fallof 1918 than were available the previous year, whilefor the three summer months of 1918 the recordsshowed an increase of 190,000,000 pounds of dressedbeef. An illuminating instance of the temper of the peo-ple in general toward conservation is afforded by thereports of railway dining cars for two months in theautumn of 1917, in which they saved out of their or-dinary consumption 468,000 pounds of meat, 238,000pounds of wheat flour and 35,000 pounds of that time hotels and restaurants reportedsavings of 17,700,000 pounds of meat, 8,000,000pounds of flour and 2,000,000 pounds of sugar. Thatthere was a very general attempt to lessen waste offood in cooking and eating was shown by the factthat nearly all cities reported a considerable de-crease, amounting in most of them to from ten to. O o I?:o Oh o FEEDING THE NATIONS 249 thirteen per cent, in the amount of garbage at the very beginning of our participa-tion in the war we recognized the value of food, mo-bilized our food forces, enlisting the whole nation involuntary service, and kept their operation undercontrol for efficient war use, we were able to pourinto Europe the food without which the Allied armiescould not have continued their necessary effort andthe populations behind them retained their health andmorale. In the years before the war the UnitedStates sent an average of between 5,000,000 and6,000,000 tons of food to Europe each year. In thecrop year of 1918 we doubled that amount, sending11,820,000 tons, and were prepared in the followingyear to send between 15,000,000 and 20,000,000 the midst of these bountiful harvests there wereno food cards and the only rationing that was neces-sary was that prescribed
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