The Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1917. WORLD’S FOOD SUPPLY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1657, 4 January 1917, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1917. WORLD’S FOOD SUPPLY.

RIGID economy throughout the world in the consumption of food, in veiw of the deficient crops and the extraordinary requirements of the European armies, is urged by the International Institute of Agriculture, which issued in Rome last month the most extensive report it has made since the Avar began. The institute says all nations are confronted with a grave situation. It is estimated that at least 2,300,000,000 bushels of wheat will be consumed in the year ending July 31st, 1917, and that at the end of this period the world’s surplus supplies of wheat will have decreased to 46.000. bushels. The report says it is only on account of the fact that last year’s harvests were abundant, leaving a balance of 350,000,000 bushels, that there is available sufficient wheat for the year ending with next July. The world’s surplus of five cereals —wheat, rye) barley, oats and corn —is placed at 533.000. bushels. This includes the unexportable Russian stocks and also the stocks of Roumania and Bulgaria. The surplus of oats is placed at 160,000,000 bushels. A general scarcity of fodder is expected. The total Russian stock of wheat now stored which, if military conditions permitted, would he available for export at the next harvest, .are estimated at 300,000,000 bushels.