The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-16
FOOD CAMPAIGN
Washington County Publicity Commit
tee Tells of Plans.

In response to constant inquiries
around the county as to just what the
administration asks lis to do in this food
campaign | am inclosing you herewith
some general instructions which will be
distributed by the town campaign com
mittees during the week commencing
Oct. 2S. Please note that the date for
the food campaign has been postponed
one week on account of the Liberty loan
drive w. S. Smith, publicity committee.
The men of the allied nations are fight
ing; they are not on the farms. The
production of food by these countries has
therefore been greatly reduced. Even be-
fore the war it was much less than the
amount consumed The difference came
from America and few other countries.
Now this difference is greater than ever
and, at the same time, but little food can
be brought in from the outside except
from America.
Therefore, our allies depend on Amer
lea for food as they have never depended
before, and they ask us for it with a
right which they have never had before.
For to-day they are our companions in
the great war for democracy and liberty.
They are doing the fighting, the suffering
and dying-in our war.
Why we must send more wheat Eng
land, France, Italy and Belgium, taken
together, import in peace time 40 per
cent of their breadstuffs But now, with
their reduction in harvest, they must i'm
port 60 per cent We must increase our
normal export surplus of sS,000000 bush
els to 220,000,000 bushels. 1t can be done
but in one way: by economizing and
substituting. The people of the allies
cannot substitute corn alone for bread
as we can. They are using other cereals
added to wheat flour to make war bread,
and can thus use up TO % per cent of
corn for wheat. We have plenty of corn
to send them, but, except in Italy, whose
people normally use it, our allies have
few corn mills, and corn meal is not dur
able enough to be shipped by us in large
quantities. Moreover, the allied peoples
do not make their bread at home; it is |
all made in bakeries, and corn bread can |
not be distributed from bakeries. There /
is but one way: we must reduce our use
of wheat We use now an average of five /
pounds of wheat -four per person per
week. The whole problem can be met if /
VIC hiil oubntibuLt buC BOuHd VI wi II VI
other cereal flour for one pound of wheat
-four weekly per person; that is, if we
reduce our consumption of wheat flour
from five pounds week to four pounds
a week.
Why we must send more meat-The
food animals of the allies have decreased
by 100000 head since the war began;
thus the source of their meat production
is decreasing AT the same time, the
needs of their soldiers and war workers
have increased the necessary meat con-
sumption. Our meat exports to our al
lies are now already almost three times
what they were before the war The
needs of the allies will steadily increase, s
because their own production of food ami {
mails will steadily decrease because of ]
lack of feed for them. If we will save S
one ounce of meat per person per day T
We can send our allies wheat they need. |
Why we must send butter and milk
The decreasing herds and the lack of ?
fodder mean a steady falling off in the