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. 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.

In cereals and cereal products reduced to terms of cereal bushels, our
shipments to allied destinations have been:

BUSHELS
Fiscal year 1916-17 259,900,000
Fiscal year 1917-18 340,800,000
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Increase 80,900,000

Of these cereals our shipments of the prime breadstuffs in the fiscal
year 1917-18 to allied destinations were: Wheat, 131,000,000 bushels and
rye 13,900,000 bushels, a total of 144,900,000 bushels.

The exports to allied destinations during the fiscal year 1916-17 were:
Wheat, 135,100,000 bush