Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-03-09
WAR AFFECTS FOOD SUPPLY
Present Conflict Helping Solve
Problem of Feeding All Peoples.
WORLDS Canning Industry Evolved
from NapoiconS Desire 10 Preserve
Valuable Eoods-Nev plant Prod d
ucts Utilized As Human Food. a.;

War always brings food questions 70
the front. says W. j. Showalter in q
study prepared for the National Geo
graphic society in Washington. y. c..
investing the ardcr with political and
stra logical dignity seldom admitted in
times OF peace when three sufficient meals
day belong to tho prosy routine Of life.
ana some OF tho most important stimuli
toward the increased production and bet
ter conservation OF foods have been born
in The stress OF war necessities The cam
ming industries have become such an all
important feature of our modern exist
cuce that it is almost impossible to ina g
inc time when heir nnuncrablc prod
nets we're not. and vet it is pointed out
that the greatest of historv's generals
called tho canning industry into being
AS ono Of the imperative clements in his
ma snifcent military projects. The prcs-l
ont war gives evidence of bringing in its
rain Of horrors and dcsolations it's contrib
buttons toward tho progressive solution
Of feeding all the peoples of earth.
~ the present tuncturc. while great
issues of world politics hang critically
, upon the effort of tho entente powers in
! tho European war TO force the central
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N''n "''I Ne' ""'"et anu 10 pause ior
q passing moment 20 sec what effect war
! has had on the worlds food supply I'M
tho past. what it Is having to-day. and, ~
rossible to forecast its effect upon tho
4 future food problem of the earth.
/ IF We go back ono hundred wears il
""' pe "'So"N ere" mt france was fac-
/ i'- "'''"S' u'' S"H'' P'"p''HS 'nch mat
I''''"uE II l"''hG 'o-oaE. England y
| Iico' hlocNaded france ports then just
Us '"'N 'i"'h""e Germany 'o-nsS' ana
oversee l"odStuits had niue cnance 10
reach tho French
/ How lar TINS won't. ana now great an
erect II had on conditions in Napoleon =
empire. is revealed by the fact that sugar
sold for two dollars pound. And that
the world is not sugsr-hungrv to-day isl
due to the steps taken by Napoleon to
! overcome the effect Of the blockade on
sugar. Years before. some Prussian
scientists had hecn trying to get sugar
| from the boo. and. under the patronage
! OF tho King Of Prussia, Frederick Will
! liam III succeeded in their task
/ NAPOLEON borrowed their ideas. set up
heet-suCar factories around Lille. and
) gave TO tho bect-sugar industrv that i'm
/ pctus which has resulted in it's develop
ment to point whore it Yields half Of
the worlds supply OF sugar.
! The little corporal saw himself serious-
! ~ cmba ERASED in the matter of food sun.
plies for his army. lie wanted something,
for his mon besides things that were
dried smoked-a desire that was en-
| HANGED ny His knowledge that millions
OF dollars in valuable but perishable foods
We're wasted because of the lack OF ade'
auate means of preserving them.
! He therefore offered "a prize OF 12'W
francs 10 any one who would devise a.
practicable method or preserving such
foodstutfs' Slch method was QUICKLY
evolved ana OUT OK IL mas grown TN"
"or'd canning h'dustrS-one OF the III"