Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-12-06
SAVING OF FOOD
IS DISCUSSED BY
COUNTY OFFICIALS
Gather From Many Sections OF
the State to Confer With
State Food Administrator
on Many Matters.

More than 90 county food admins
traitors who gathered in Omaha yes
terday for a conference with State
Food Administrator Wattles, went
home with much definite information
regarding the cooperation OF all
lines in the state toward conserving
the, food supply and carried definite
instructions how to organize effective
committees of their own for the local
work. 49,, WI.
So many representatives of various
lines of industry and representatives
of important state committees and
organizations were present to give
specific information that the day was
like a day spent in a great school,
Miss Julia Vance, director of home
economics of the University of Ne
braska, and of the state food ad-
ministration, told the assembled COM
mitteemen that according to an ac-
curate survey made, the average
human being is consuming 247 per
cent more fats than the system needs
or can make use of. She told them
that the average American is eating
49 per cent morem cat than his sys-
TEN needs or can make use OF.
Dairy Herds and Milk Supply.
Prof. J. H. Frandsen of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, department OF
| dairy husbandry. and Robert McGin-
mis-, Lincoln, of the state dairy COM
mittee, pointed to the importance of
increasing dairy herds and the milk
supply.
George Coupland, vice chairman of
the State Council of Defense assured
the county chairmen of the full CO.
| operation OF the council in all matters
which should come within their juris-
| diction
Mr.. Wattles in the afternoon went
into the price fixing situation at con-
siderable length. He said that the
price fixing will be arranged on the
cash and carrying business basis. He
| said an extra charge would be ordered
for delivery, so that those who buy
and carry their own purchases home
will get the advantage of that act. lie
said distinction would be made III
the prices between cash and credit
purchases; that -four and sugar would
be touched first, and. perhaps, corn
meal, in the price fixing. with oat-
meal, butter, eggs and other staples
quickly following.
To Increase Hog Supply.
e. w. Pugsley of the University
! Extension department, and chairman
| OF the subcommittee on live stock
production, said the committee hopes
to encourage hog breeders to in
crease the hog supply in the state
by rs per cent at least, and that the
farmers are being urged not to sell
hogs under. 500. pounds, as it has
been calculated, the price of feed
considered, that hog will continue
to grow into profit until it has at
tanned at least that weight.
| DR.. George (. Condra, director OF
soil survey, University of Nebraska,
reviewed the work of his department,
which is surveying the soil condi-
tions in all aprts of the state, and
recommending the crops best adapted
to the various sections. He said the
sugar crop of Nebraska is 100000
600 pounds annually and that this
could very easily be doubled in the
state.
Increasing the Live Stock. =
w. B. Tagg of Omaha, president
of the South Omaha live stock ex-
change, and member OF the live stock
committee of the food administra-
ton outlined the plans of the com
mittee to boost increased production
of live stock, prevent the cutting OF
the price too low to make it profit
able for the breeder to raise his
stock and-at the same time aid in the
proper redistribution of the stock
throughout the country so as to
bring thin stock and vaailable feed
always together.
Much of the morning session was
taken up with a technical discussion
of the Torrens system of land regis
tration.
County highways and the cost OF
constructing county bridges were dis
cussed during the afternoon.