The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-06-07
FOOD EMERGENCY
PROBLEM FOR ALL
PEOPLE HAVE HAD TOO MUCH
OF SPIRIT "LET GEORGE
DO IT."
SOME WORK FOR ALL TO DO
List Of Recommendations Made to
Farmers, Housewives, Gardeners ,
and Citizens Generally.

and Citizens Generally.
Ra1eigh.-JOhn Paul Lucas, execu-
tive secretary of the North Carolina
Food Conservation Commission, in re-
viewing the food situation in this state
gave out a lot of good advice in his
suggestions of ways every person can
help improve the food situation.
Mr.. Lucas wrote aus follows:
Too many of our people are regard
ing the food emergency, which is real
ly just in it's incipiency, as a prob
lem for the farmer, the trucker, their
neighbor or someone else more or less
remote from themselves. There is
something of the spirit of "Let George
do it." Fortunately, this spirit has
been rapidly disappearing and it is not
too much to hope that all the people
of North Carolina will quickly realize
that, while the farmers responsibility
and opportunity are greatest possibly,
each person has an individual duty
and responsibility.
A large number of people who real
iZe their individual responsibility have
asked themselves and others, What
can do?" In answer to this question
and for the Information of others who
may have given the matter no thought
I am giving below a list of recon-
mendations that are being made to
farmer, housewife, gardener and citi-
zen generally. can think of NO one
in any position or condition to whom
,1N% ~
plicable. Here they are:
Cultivate and fertilize every avail
able foot of tillable land that you can
possibly take care of. Cultivate more
carefully and fertilize more heavily
than under normal circumstances.
Put stubb1e land in corn, soy beans,
peas, potatoes or sorghum aus soon as
the grain is off. Here lies one of our
greatest opportunities for increasing
the acreage in food and feed crops.
Where there is a poor stand of cot
ton replant with soy beans or peas.
Also plant these crops in corn.
Save all the clover and vetch seed
possible. Both are going to be I'M
usually scarce and high priced. Vetch
selves. If you don't know how ito har-
vest clover seed write the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture for Farmers
Bulletin No. 656.
Breed all sows and gifts for fall pigs
and be sure to raise sufficient feed
for them-in the form of pastures
principally Raise meat not only for
Ior dc h11f q
Prices are sky+high.
Raise all the chickens you can,
whether you live in the country or in
town. Shut UP the cocks and cock
erels and preserve your surplus eggs
in water glass solution.
Raise and eat all the fresh vegeta-
bIes you can and can all the surplus
YOU can't eat. See that every glass
Jar is filed with vegetables and fruits
and if you still have surplus buy more
jars or cans.
Don't throw away scraps of meat
and fat. Use meat in soup, hash, GRO
ouets, and fats for frying and short
ening.
Cook potatoes in the peel. Tests
have shown that 20 per cent is lost
when potatoes are peeled before
cooking.
DON'T waste bits of bread. Use them
in buildings or in dressings for meat
Don't despise skim milk and butter
milk. they have a high food value
and are generally cheap. Use them
largely, especially for children.
See that all labor as well as food
stuffs is properly used. The farmers
are handicapped for lack of labor. The
people of town and city must see that
available labor of men and boys is or
fered to the farmers. This service Is
inst as patriotic and effective as that
NJ the hovs who don their uniforms
and shoulder their rifles.