Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-29

VTTAsHINGTON April 25.-Ever since Euro
wv pean war began we have heard much OF the
superhuman cleverness of the Germans in
using thing, which they had in place of another
which they had Their potato bread, kreigsbrot
or war bread is of their principal subsuons and
one of their leading dependencies BY the use OF
potatoes in baking they partly for their
shortage IN wheat and rye.
In the development of substitutes for use place
of wheat the United States ahead of Germany. We
nave Just high grade of chemical skill and train
ing among our experts and have great many more
raw materials TO draw on for wheat substitutes
Experts of the bureau of chemistry the department
of agriculture have baked less dian forty different
KINDS OF bread using substitutes for 20 per
cent Of the wheat -four needed. All these breads
are entirely nourlshing and palatabe, and
considered by those who have tasted them to be
superior to ordinary bread The wheat substitutes.
besides such ordinary buckwheat and oats and
rye, include the of bananas and
chestnus and rice and kar and cotton seed meal
and peanuts The peanut in particular furnishes fine
tasty bread rich and nourishing. and of beautiful
light texture. But all these substitute breads
tasty, nourshng and adequate for foS-
Now there is danger that the United States
is going to be badly pnched for lack of bread There
grounds whatever for panic But there is every
ground for for the of substitutes and for
the taking Of all practicable to the
wheat supply. Master bakers already speak OF the
necessity for higher prices The bread situation be
clearly summed in a few figures and since they
touch every Americans three meals day. these
figures may not dry.
First, IT should be that the bread situation
includes both necessity and an obligation. There is
the domestic need. amounting to 550000000 bushels
from which about 100000 900 barrels
milled. Our consumption of flour is a little a
barrel Then there is the element of
foreign demand. The United States wheat-export-
ing nation and European allies looking to us
for food. 1t is national obligation export
wheat possible. and here is where the shortage
pinches. The crop prospects show that the winter
wheat harvest is going to fall below
short crop The spring wheat crop States
Is normally only one-third of the though
is greatly increased can hardly be
In the war, must keep food exports up and in
order to keep them must piece out our wheat
supply.
The men in the bureau Of chemistry who have
worked out the breads confident can be done
In their list Of wheat substitutes where the
nation can draw on enough materials substitute
for quarter OF the entire wheat consumption. The
list includes materials TO be in every sec
ton-corn, potatoes, rice, peanuts, oats, peas,
beans, bran. cotton seed meal dozens of others
And 1t should be remembered that breads baked
from flour that is three-fourths wheat flour and one
fourth substitute unpaatabe makeshifts They
are all breads whose excellence vouched by the
palate and whose nourishing qualities are proved by
chemical analysis.
In order to increase that available wheat supplv nv
1260OO000 bushels, II is only for an
gency measure to provide that some substitute for
Of one part to three parts OF wheat -four Such an
emergency measure may be needed but the work
In developing the new kinds Of bread has COW
cred about four of research, already been
done Such measure would be a war measure but q
would inhict no hardship on anybody.