Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-25
BY ALFRED w. McCANN

Inln outer SKIN 1allS away from lile
cooked tuber, with none of the best
parts of the potato adhering.
Baking and steaming, as far as
potatoes are concerned, recommend
themselves to wars attention.
OF barley we produce annually
nearly 200,000,000 bushels. This at
once goes through the pearling or
refining process, which gives us our
"pearled" barley or denatured barley
of the market place and robs us OF
20 per cent. or 20,00O,O00 bushels.
If one should say that this is not
so, for large quantity of our barley
crop is matted for brewing purposes,
the situation only becomes worse and
the loss as far as human food is
concerned, is not only doubled but
trebled.
We would have at least twenty
five pounds of barley for every man,
woman, and child more than we al
ready have if we reformed our barley
milling system.
OF rye we produce annually 4O,-
10000 bushels, most of which goes
into whisky. If we do to whisky in
war time what the Russians ana TO
vodka we will save for every man,
woman, and child another unit of
twenty-five pounds of one of the best
bread grains that ever came from the
soil.
We really know nothing of rye
bread in the United States. The silly,
anaemic thing that is sold in our
bakeshops as rye bread is not rye at
all 1t consists of 80 per cent. patent
flour and 10 per cent. rye Hour. with
the characteristic flavor and virtue OF
nc or. XUh hn
it, it is not wonderful that its color
less personality appeals to no one.
OF rice we produce, approximately
30,000,000 bushels, a large part of
which finds its way into beer. All the
rest is polished. By consuming nat
ural brown rice we save 20 per cent.
of the grain, including its most in
dispensable elements. This saving
represents 100000 bushels or Tour
pounds per person.
Leaving" oats and all other food out
of consideration, we find that the
economy system now practised in
France and Germany would yield for
every man, woman and child in
America over and above the food we
already have:
1876 pounds whole wheat meal.
S5 pounds whole cornmeal.
45 pounds mammala.
25 pounds unpearled barley.
25 pounds whole rye.
pounds natural brown rice.
Total 440 pounds.
Let us examine the meaning of
these figures. Modern dietitians tell
us that the adult needs approximate
ly 5000 food calories a day. The
calorie value of the saved foods emu
merated above, estimated in pounds
+. ,AI4 nal xNrIA A1 q
cornmeal 1920, mammala $3.50, po-
tatoes 37S, unpearled barley 1903,
whole rye meal, 1926, natural brown
rice, 900.
If you will take paper and pencil
and figure the calorie value of the
440 pounds of whole unprocessed
foods tabulated above you will find
that they will yield 721,9SS calories.
This amount, not taking into consid-
Grafton thefact that infants and chill
dren require much less, will supply
all the needs of 00,000,000 adults
for 240 2-3 days.
If will take into consideration the
fact that a large proportion of the
population of the United States con-
sists of old people and very young
people whose calorie requirements
range from 500 to 1000 aNday, it can
be readily seen that the saving of the
seven foods enumerated will yield ex-
actly enough, even though all other
foods had no existence, to nourish the
entire population of the United States
for an entire year.
1t will be seen also that the foods
considered here are complete and
adequate foods containing every
element necessary to the mainten-
ance of life and health.
This means that the food resources
of the United States are simply pro-
digious. If the waste by-products of
seven foods of the hundred available
are alone sufficient to support our
national life, what is there to justify
alarm? Food famine nor any of the
rideous consequences that lift up
their heads from such a nightmare
will be impossible if we ACT!
The trouble is that we do not know
the United States, and doubtless
never will until the consideration of
serious things such as war makes us
look within.
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