Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-11-17

Il nutrtive value of its food. then the
United States stands easily at the head
of the dominant nations Of the world.
Not only can the farmers. the meadows
and the orchards supply the needs of
our own citizens, but there Is left an
immense surplus to be shipped to other
countries.
Take wheat, for example, one Of the
leading staples. During the past ten
years the nations wheat crop has av-
eraged about 4G5, 100000 bushels, rang
ing from less than 100000 bushels
in 1898 to over G00,0OO,000 two years
earlier. The average yearly exports Of
this wheat for the same decade were
14O,000,000 bushels leaving 325,000O0O
for home consumption. Excluding the
wheat used for seed and for purposes
other than human food, the present con-
sumption IS estimated to be little less
than one barrel of -four per capita, or
100000 barrels for the nearly 10000
600 population. That means an annual
consumption of 100000 900 pounds Of
flour-a bulk which, put into a single
receptacle, would require barrel twice
the height of Washington monument
and correspondingly big in circumfer-
ence. Were all this flour made into
bread 1t would yield 2OOOO,OOOOOO
pound loaves. Reversing the metaphor
OF the sermon on the mount and "givinp
bread for a stone" these loaves would
pave roadway SO feet wide and ex-
tending around the world. If bakery
wagons were loaded each with 1000 OF
the loaves. 2O,OOO,0O0 would be needed
to move the bread. They would make
a procession over 10000 miles long of
Is abreast from ocean to ocean. OF
course, not all the -four Is made ,nto
bread, since millions of pies, cakes and
other products of the cooks art come
from these 100000 -four barrels.
Last year the farms of the country
raised wheat sufficient to supply this
enormous demand at home, besides
sending 143,0OO,OOO bushels to other
countries. OF this export two-thirds
went to Great Britain and less than ,
tenth to the rest of Europe. Six bush
els IN loO went to our neighbor on the
north and nine more to the other Amor.
lean countries. Australia and Asia tool,
lo'ooo,ooO bushels and Africa 1000 600
bushels. But unless the nations farms
yield larger wheat crop less will ba
exported in the future. At the nresept
rate of consumption the increased nonr-
lation will demand the entire prodnct
in another decade.
The American Corn Cron.
But, while wheat is the staDle Amor,
cans do not live by bread alone. Tho
corn crop Is about four times as LARGO
as that of wheat, and about 7Oo 600
ooO bushels remain for consumntiop j.,
our own country. But only a fraction
or this reaches the stomach of man ~
rect. For the most part it Is taken In
the pork beef, milk, butter, eggs and
other products of animals that fatten
Oh us substance. In recent years. an
parently, the direct use of corn for
mans food is increasing in the form 90
mixed flour, patent food preparotions
brown bread, corn dodgers ana lilo
cookery. Whole regions of the Som,
use corn almost exclusively In prefer
ence to wheat -four.
VI the other grains which are partly
uSed Tor food there is the oat crop' aver.
aging IOo,000,000 bushels, most of
Mhlch remains In this country. Then
mere Is the barley crop of some 70 OOO
"" bushels. And the usual yield Of rva
yearly is 100000 bushels. very Iittlo oe
Which is exported. But barley and rye
are largely reduced to fluid form he.
lore the American consents to take
a enem INTO his stomach. Some $1,000.
ooo bushels of buckwheat enter each
year into the composition of American