Total beef products, lbs. 186,375,372 405,427,417 565,462,445 Total pork products, lbs. 996,230,627 1,498,302,713 1,691,437,435 Total dairy products, lbs. 26,037,790 351,958,336 590,798,274 Total vegetable oils, lbs. 332,430,537 206,708,490 151,029,893 Total grains, bushels 183,777,331 395,140,238 [A]349,123,235 Total sugar, pounds 621,745,507 3,084,390,281 2,149,787,050 July, 1917, to July, 1918, to Sept. 30. 1917 Sept. 30. 1918 Total beef products, lbs. 93,962,477 171,986,147 Total pork products, lbs. 196,256,750 540,946,324 Total dairy products, lbs. 130,071,165 161,245,029 Total vegetable oils, lbs. 27,719,553 26,026,701 Total grains, bushels 66,383,084 121,668,823 Total sugar, pounds 1,108,559,519 1,065,398,247 [A] 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 Belgian 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 -------------- 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. The increase in shipments is due to conservation and the extra weight of animals added by our farmers. The full effect of these efforts began to bear their best results in the last half of the fiscal year, when the exports to the Allies were 2,133,100,000 pounds, as against 1,266,500,000 pounds in the same period of the year before. This compares with an average of 801,000,000 pounds of total exports for the same half years of the three-year pre-war period.