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portion of this amount to be assigned to women 
and to children of different ages. The follow- 
ing conclusions have been agreed on: (1) To 
state the weights of the various foods produced 
in each Allied country in metric tons. (2) It 
is not desirable to fix a’ minimal meat ration 
in view of the fact that no absolute physiologic 
need exists for meat, since the proteins of meat 
can be replaced by proteins of animal origin, 
such as those contained in milk, cheese and 
eges, as well as by proteins of vegetable origin. 
The commission, on the other hand, resolved to 
fix a desirable minimal ration of fat—75 gm. 
per average man per day. The ration will be 
made up of (a) fats of vegetable origin and 
(b) fats of animal origin. If the amount of 
fats of vegetable origin are insufficient for this 
purpose, it may be necessary to maintain a 
certain stock of animals to furnish this fat. 
(3) The commission established the “man 
value,” that is, the number of average men 
equivalent to the population of each of the 
Allied countries. This “man value” is taken as 
the basis for calculating the exact amount of 
food which must be provided for the adequate 
nourishment of the total population of each 
country. (4) The commission considered the 
estimates in tons of the home productions of 
the soil furnished by each Allied country for 
the year 1918-1919. These statistics will serve 
as a basis for determining the amount of food 
available for men, and for animals, respectively, 
in each country. (5) Each delegation, in cal- 
culating the amount of calories available for 
men, should assign to men the maximal pos- 
sible proportion of all cereals, excepts oats. 
(6) A uniform average milling extraction of 
85 per cent. for wheat should be adopted 
throughout the Allied countries. This extrac- 
tion may vary from 80 per cent. in summer to 
90 per cent. in winter, and it can apply to the 
United States only as regards their internal 
consumption, and then only in case of scarcity. 
(7) The methods of reserving the maximal pos- 
sible proportion of the cereal production for 
the use of man may vary in each country. 
Man should always take precedence over ani- 
mals in the allocation of food. If this prin- 
ciple be accepted in the fixing of prices, it is 
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the prices of animal products which should be 
limited, rather than those of such vegetable 
products of the soil as may serve equally well 
for feeding men and animals. Thus the pro- 
duction of veal, pork and poultry at the ex- 
pense of food available for man should be dis- 
couraged, and this is best achieved by fixing 
a price for those animal products which will 
make it unprofitable for the producer to feed 
them on cereals. (8) The commission reserved 
for its next meeting the task of examining the 
figures which will enable it ta determine the 
caloric value of the home production of each 
of the Allied countries. The determination of 
this figure, compared with the needs in calories 
of the population of each country, will enable 
the commission to deduce the amount of im- 
ports necessary for the maintenance of the 
population or the exportable surplus, as the 
case may be. (9) In all the Allied countries, 
any propaganda, having for its object the en- 
couragement of food production and of econ- 
omy in the use of food, should be organized 
and directed by men of science well acquainted 
with the subject.- 
FOURTH NATIONAL EXPOSITION OF 
CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES 
Tur Fourth National Exposition of Chem- 
- jeal Industries will be held in the Grand 
Central Palace, New York City, during the 
week of September 23 this year. The man- 
agers are Charles F. Roth and F. W. Payne. 
The advisory committee consists of Charles H. 
Herty, chairman, Raymond F. Bacon, L. H. 
Baekeland, Henry B. Faber, Ellwood Hendrick, 
Bernhard C. Hesse, A. D. Little, Wm. H. 
Nichols, H. C. Parmelee, R. P. Perry, G. W. 
Thompson, F. J. Tone, T. B. Wagner and M. C. 
Whitaker. 
The Journal of Industrial and Engineering 
Chemistry says that the exposition is a war- 
time necessity and, regarding it as such, each 
exhibitor is planning his exhibit to be of the 
greatest benefit to the country through the men 
who visit it, all of whom are bent upon a 
serious purpose—that of producing war mate- 
rials in large quantities and constantly in- 
