1 12 THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 
2.000. 000.000 pounds — an increase of 400 per cent. In 
the same way our exports of butter in 1913 totaled 
slightly more than 3,500,000 pounds. In 1917 we ex- 
ported, in round numbers, 26,750,000 pounds. Before 
the war our shipments of cheese averaged 2,500,000 
pounds. In 1917 they exceeded 66,000,000 pounds. 
Our exportation of condensed milk jumped from 
16,500,000 pounds to 259,000,000 pounds. 
If the feeding of our 120,000,000 allies made such a 
drain on our resources, what will happen now that 
180.000. 000 starving neutrals also come to us for food; 
when Russia’s helpless 160,000,000 thrust their hands 
across the sea to us, even as the sinking Peter appealed 
to Christ, saying, “Save me or I perish”? Now that 
peace has come; now that Germany and Austria are 
again to be admitted to the society of nations, as even- 
tually they must be, how can we prevent their hungry 
multitudes — another 100,000,000 souls — from also en- 
tering our markets and bidding for our food supplies? 
Already our former foes are begging piteously for food, 
and President Wilson has assured them that their 
appeals will be heeded. 
Now that these things have come to pass, we must 
feed or help to feed, not 220,000,000 people as during 
the war, but an additional 440,000,000. In short, now 
that the war is ended and commerce restored, we must 
help toffeed two-thirds of a billion of people ! 
Food Administrator Hoover recognized this condition 
as inevitable, and when the armistice was signed he was 
prepared to reckon with it. With the cessation of hos- 
