The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-11-01
CHEAPER BREAD.
A Crusade Inaugurated to Lower
 the Price of the Staple.
BrLLETIN OK THE COST OF BREAD.
rho Agricultural Department to Investi' gate the Cases of Alleged Texas Fever on Which Germany Prohibits the
 Importation of Our Cattle.

WASHINGTON, Oct 29.-In view of the crusade for cheaper bread inaugurated in q number of cities, including Wash inrton. where the price has been re- duced from to cents per loaf, as a result of the crusade, the agricultural department has given out bulletin on the cost of bread," taken from the forthcoming report of Prof. w. O. At water on the nutritive valuGof food. IL says:
 In practice lO) pounds cf flour will make IS8 to lS7 pounds of bread, an average being lss bounds Flour. such as is used by bakers, iS now purchased in the eastern states at not over 4 ger barrel This would make the cost O, flour in a pound of bread about ln cents Allowing 's cent for the shortening and salt, which k certainly very liberal, the materials for pound of bread would cost not more than cents. Of course there should be added 10 this the cost of labor, rent, in tercst on investment, expense of sell- ing etc, to make the actual cost 10 the baker. Very few accurate weigh inr> and analysis of bakers bread have been made in this country. so far as am aware; but the above statement represents the facts as nearly as I have been able to obtain them. The average weight of a number Of specimens Of 10 cent loayeS purchased in Middletown Conr was one and one-fourth pounds. This makes the prices tO the consumer cents per pound. The price of bread and the size of the loaf are practically the same now as when flour cost twice as much.
 The cost of bakers bread is a comparatively small matter to the person who buys only a loaf now and then, but in the eastern states and ia the larger towns throughout the coun- try many people, and especially those with moderate incomes, and the poor buy their bread of the baker Six cents per pound or even half that amount for the manufacture and distribution seems a very large amount In the larger cities composition has made bread cheaper, but even there the difference between the cost of bread to the well to do family who bake it themselves and the family of the poor man who buys 1t of the baker, is unfortunately large.
 The report also goes into the chem istry and scientific features of bread- making. The nutriments in bakers bread are:
 Protean, 9 per cent; fats, ? per cent; carbo- hydrateS, s per cent; mineral matter, per cent. Total, 6S per cent nutriment, and 32 per cent. water. In wheat flour the total nutri- mentS are ss per cent and water l2 per cent. showing that the nutriments are largely reduced by baking. The potential en- ergy in pound of flour is 1000 per cent. in a pound of bakers bread, I.3J0 per cent With the increase in the proportion of water in the bread as compared with the flour, the propor- tion of nutriments Is diminished, but the addi- tion of shortening and salt brings up the fat and minerals in the bread so that the propor- tiOus arc larger than in four
 GERMAN AND AMERICAN BEEF.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-The action of the German government in prohibiting the importation of cattle and fresh beef was not entirely unexpected by the agricultural department, al- though the officials had hoped, up to the last moment, that the Germans would prove open to reason. The mat ter will not be allowed to rest where it now stands, but our government will cause a thorough investigation to be made of the cases of the alleged Texas fever, on which the German govern mary fashion. No doubt is felt hepe that these alleged cases will turn out to be founded on a mistaken diagnosis, for, if there is any cattle disease that the German veterinarians know little about, that disease is Texas fever, purely climatic, non infectious fever, peculiar to Amer lea. That is the opinion of the agricultural department experts, who have studied the disease for years, and are aware of the state of knowledge on the subject in Europe. If the depart mental examination, as expected, re- suits in disproving the existence of the cases complained of, our government will enter a vigorous protest against the action of Germany, and seek to make it clear that the reason assigned for the destruction of our meat trade is disingenuously stated, which fact is not expected to influence congress very fagorably toward the ratification of the sugar schedules of our tariff act, sought so urgently by the German gov ernment.
 It is said at the department to be ex- tremely improbable that any diseased cattle could have been shipped, for the reason that all exportations are abso- lutely prohibited from the zone in the southern section of the United States where the disease appears, and the rigid inspection system would prevent any such cattle from reaching New York or the eastern ports. It is ad- mitted to be within the bounds of Ios- sibility that some cattle cars with soil and water from Texas might have got ten into the northwest and caused one or two cases of fever, but this is said O be very improbable.
 Policeman Kills a Crook.
 KANSAS CITY, Kan, Oct. 29.--L. D.