Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-10-18
WHAT YOU ARE ASKED TO
DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY

DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY.
The men Of the Allied Nations are
fighting. they are not on the farms
The production of food by these
countries has therefore been great
" reduced. Even before the war 1t
was much less than the amount con-
sumed. The difference came from
America and a few other countries.
Now this difference is greater than
ever and. at the same time, but lit
tie feed can be brought in from the
outside except from America.
Therefore, cur Allies depend ON
America for food as they have never
depended before, and they ask us
for it with a right which they have
never had before. For today they are
our companions in the great war for
democracy and liberty. They are do
ing the fighting, the suffering, and
dying in our war.
WHY WE MUST SEND MORE
WHEAT England, France. Italy,
ana Belgium taken together, import
in pace time forty per cent Of
their breadstuffs. But now, with their
reduction in harvest, they must I'M
port sixty per cent We must in
crease our normal export surplus OF
IS 600 900 bushels to 100000, coo Blu.
II can be done but in enc way: by
economizing and substituting. The
people Of the Allies can not substi--
tute corn alone fer bread, as we can.
They are using ether cereals added
to wheat flour 10 make war bread
and can thus use up to twenty-five
per cent of cCrn for wheat. We have
plenty Of ccrn to md them, but, ex-
cept in Italy. whose people normally
use it, cur Allies have few corn mills
and corr meal is net durable enough
10 be shipped by US in large guam
titles. Moreover, the Allied peoples
dc not make their bread at home;
it is all mace In bakeries, and corn
bread can not be distributed from
bakeries. There is hut one way: we
must reduce cur use OF wheat We
use now an average o. five pounds
of wheat flour per person per week
The whol2 problem can be met if wei
Will substitute one pound of corn or
other cereal flour for enc pound of
wheat ficur weekly per person; that
IS, If we reduce cur consumption of
whsat flour from five pounds week
to fear pounds a week.
WHY WE MUST SEND MORE
MEAT The food animals of the Al
hes have decreased by $4,000, 00O
head since the war be an; thus the
source Of their meat production isl
decreasing. At the sane time. the
needs C their soldiers and war wor-
kers have increased the necessary
meat consumption Our meat exports |
to our Allies are now already almost |
three times what they were befor
the war. The needs of the Allies |
viii steadily increase, because their
Owl production Of iocd animals will
steadily cecrearc tecatse Il lack OF
A~~N III mem. ~ We VIII save one |
ounce Of meat per pers n per day we
can send cur Allies what thy med.
WHY WE MUST SEND BUTTER
AND MILK.-The coc~ easing herds
end the lack Of fodder mean a stead
falling off in tbs dairy products of
our Allies. They have been asking
for larger and larger exports from
us. Last year we s<nt them three
times as much butter and almost tenl
times as much condensed milk as
WI used TO send hem before the
wsr. Yet we must not only keep up
TO this leyel, but do still better.
WHY VIZ MUST SEND SUGAR.
Before the wer France, Italy, and
Belgium produced ae much sugar as
they used, while England drew most
Of its supply from what are new enc
my countries France and Italy are1
producing less than they need. While
ENGLAND Is eut off from the source Of
SEVENTY per cent OF her usual imports
These three Allisd countries must