Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-06-22
SAVE THE FOOD
Tazewell County Agricultural
Council of Safety Outlines
Work TO BE Done in COnserv-
ing Supplies.

qucstcd to be printed. The conJnttec
is composed Of j. a. Leslie, Chair
man; Rev. Mr.. Wolfe; A. j. Steele,
and Mrs. Scion Baach, of Pocahontas.
The report follows:
The great world war which was
thrust upon us, after strenuous and
prolonged efforts to maintain our
neutrality, has placed upon the Shout
ders of the people burdens and re-
spOnsibilities which we cannot shirl
if we would, and would not if ne
could. In view of the fact that an
increased amount of food stuff will
be necessary to supply our brothers
across the seas, whose resources are
well night exhausted, and the large
army now being assembled in the
United States, nation wide move
mcnt has been inaugurated to in
crease and conserve production among
the people. The Importance and ne
ccsslty of this need should be brought
home direct to all of u.s.
The armies of the Allies, our own
troops ond our people Mt home must
he fed, and clothed. Greater crops
must be grown and greater economy
must be practiced if the great war is
TO be won. The war for the freedom
of the world is to be won, we are
assured, not by the men behind the
guns, but "by the men behind the
men behind the guns" by the army
behind the lines, on the farms and in
the homes of the American people.
We are to fight with biscuits rather
than bullets. 1t is highly probable
that by supplying the foreign ar
mics literally with food and war mu-
nltlons, our own armies may not be
called across the seas in any great
numbers.
This, however, is by no means a
certainty. Preparations are being
rapidly made I" .:.... NATION men
III Franco =: ..eccssary. We must not
wait until then to begin to Let ready
to furnish the sinews OF WAY.
BY economy" Is not meant so
much that 0Ir r2cr,e should eat or
wear less, but that we must waste
less, and this should be the policy at
all times. The object right now is,
as far as possible, to eliminate waste
on the American farm and in the
American home. What is wasted and
can be easily saved, from year to
year, would go far toward supplying
our army with food. This is a broad
statement, but the facts and figures
bear it out.
1t is estimated, for instance, that of
every 100 bushels of wheat grown on
the farm not less than ten per cent.
is wasted by careless handling, and
Of every 100 bushels of corn made a
still larger per cent is lost through
various sources. "Insects, rats, moor
ly constructed cribs and bins, careless
and eXtravagant feeding and hand
ling, is responsible for the wastage
OF hundreds of thousands of bushels
oil grain," says recent bulletin 1t
Is urged upon the farmers and gard
eners, fruit growers and fuckers, that
every pound OF food stuff possible be
saved. 1t Is impossible, oil course, that
all waste be prevented, but willful,
carlessness OF extravaganza at this
time particularly, is little short of a
crime.
Wastage in the Homes.
Some one has said that this war is
to be won or lost in the kitchens of
America. The extravaganza and waste
of the average kitchen is startling. A
few facts will be given-facts which
perhaps few people have thought Of
There are" says n prominent maga-
z!ne, 40 million homes in America
/ each home wastes on an average
OF one slice of bread Il day, the coun-
srV is wasting ii million ounces OF
Hour, over $4,000 pounds or enough
Hour Tor over Il million onc-pound
caves OF bread II day. For Il wear.
1T this rate. there would be waste
OF l l-2 million barrels of flour n
year, or 800 million loaves of bread"
There are in Tazewell in round
numbers they tell us, 10000 people.
5000 homes. This means that Taze-
well uses 10000 bushels of flour every
year, to each member of the fam
lily. II each family wastes only an
ounce of -four, a small biscuit, each |
day,-lt means 5000 ounces per day.
2,l90,0OO ounces per year, 1868 |
pounds, 1894 barrels of flour more
chan enough to give each family a |
barrel OF flour. If barrel allowed |
each man a year. this wastage would
mean food for an army of 1000 SOL |
lierS Il year
Take meat. To waste one ounce of
meat day IN the 5000 homes of |
la%eweil, means 5000 ounces per day
amounting to 100000 ounces per
year, equal to Il drove OF 6SI two
hundred pound hogs. and :. good sized
S'>i' : IiCoS AbutcS are START
ing, but are absolutely correct. View
ed from this point it is easy to de
ermlne whether or not we are waste
.ul.. or course some of this waste"
s fed to chickens and pigs and not
Considered wasted but the truth is
hat IN the average hornc much more
nan an ounce Of mcat and flour is
wasted daily, perhaps twicc rs much,
md so. the lesson o: he figures
stand
Take the matter OF coal, now S5.75
'er ton, and may be more. At best,
md under favorable conditions, ex-
'erts tel! as, only about Is per cent.
If the heating capacity of coal il;
!sed IN the furnaces and CRATES. The
70 per cent goes off in gases, thrown
nut in the ash, cinders and half burnt
oke.
This means that out Of a ton Of
oai we Sc: only about 500 pounds
I Id ton in heat and IN the /. nls
# careltss or ignorant coo S, We q
ess The above facts are presan