The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-11-01

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superabundance Of vegetables. Doub-
le the ase Of vegetables. They tahs
the place Of part Of the wheat and
meat, and, at the same time, are
hbalthful. Use potatoes abundantly.
Sore potatoes and roots properly
md they will keep. Use fruit ,Esner-
ously. n
b Fusl.-Coal comes from . distance.
and our railway facilities arc needed
for war purposes. Burn fewer fires.
II you can get wood. use 1t.
What Yes Are Asked Ts Ds Fer
Yssr Cssatry
/. The men Of the Allied Nations are
fighting; they are not on the farms.
The production Of food by these
countries has therefore been greatly
reduced. Even before the war it WAS
much les than tho amount consumed
The difference came from America
and few other countries. Now this
difference is greater than ever and.
at the sanss, tins. but little food esn
be brought 4 from the outside ex-
cepts from Asssrica.
Therefore, our Allies depend on
America for food as as they never
depended before, and they ask us for
it with right which They never had
before. For today they are our COM
panions In the great war for demo-
cracy and liberty. They are doing
the fighting, the suffering. and dying
lin our war. =
Why We must ssna nsrs wIssst.-
England, France, ItslX and Belgium,
taken together, import In peace time
forty per cent Of their breadStuffs.
But now, with their reduction in hAr-
vest, they must import sixty per cent.
We must increase our normal export
surplus Of ss,0O0.0 900 bushels to 22o.-
O0O,O bushels. It can be done but
in one way: by economixing and sub
stituting. The people Of the Allies
can not substitute corn alone for
bread, as we can. They are using
other cereals added to wheat -four to
make war bread, and can thus use up
to twenty-five 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 durable enough to be shipped
by US in large quantities. Moreover.
the Allied people do not make their
bread at home; it is all made In bak-
cries, and corn bread cannot be dis
tributed from bakeries. There il but
one way: we must reduce the use of
wheat. We now use an average of
five pounds of wheat -four per person
per week. The whole problem can oe
met if we will substitute one pound
Of corn or other cereal -four for one
pound of wheat flour weekly per per-
son; that is, If We reduce our con-
sumption of wheat flour from five
pounds a week to four pounds week.
Why We must ssad nsss snsa&.-
Th3 food animals of the Allies have
decreased by 33, ,000, 900 head since the
war began; thus tho source Of their
meat production Is decreasing. At
the same time. tho needs Of their
soldiers and war workers have In
creased the necessary meat consump-
tion. Our meat exports to our Allies
are now already almost three times
what they were before the war. The
needs of the Allies will steadily In
crease, because their own production
of food animals will steadily decrease
because Of lack Of feed for them. II
we will save one ounce Of meat per
person per day we can send our Allies
what they need.
Why We must ssad bsttss ssd wsilk
The decreasing herds and the lick
Of fodder mean = steady falling of In
the dairy products Of our Allies.
They have been asking for larger and
larger exports from rs. Last year we
sent them three times As much butter
and almost ten times rs much con-
densed milk AS we used to send them
before the war. Yet we must not
only keep up to this level, but do
still better.
Why we nssstDssd ssssr.-Before
the war France, Italy, and Belgium
produced as much sugar as they used,
while England drew most Of its sup
ply from what are now enemy coun-
| tries Franco and Italv ara produc