The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

ing to mend matters much II but
few families exercise proper care
and prevent the wasting OF food
stuffs, but when millions of families
watch that extra slice Of bead that
has heretofore been wasted. or that
extra ounce Of meat that has not
been put to the proper use. the re-
suit will be apparent immediately
1t Is up to all of us to do our part.
The department of agriculture has
been giving some good advice on
this subject Of late, as follows:
A Slice Of Bread.
A single slice OF bread seems an
unimportant thing. In many house
holds one or more slices OF bread
daily are thrown away and not used
for human food. Sometimes stale
quarter-or half-loaves are thrown
out.
Yet one good sized slice OF bread
such as child likes to cut-wefghs
an ounce. 1t contains almost three
fourths of an ounce OF flour.
II every one of the country's 20,
0OO, 900 homes wastes on the average
only one such slice of bread day,
the country Is throwing away daily
over $4,000, 900 ounces of nour-over
S75, 900 pounds, or enough flour for
over a million one-pound loaves a
day For "a full year at this rate
there would be waste Of over 49,
900 pounds of flour. 500 900
barrels Of flour-enough to make $685.
900, 900 loaves.
AS 1t takes four and one-half bush
els of wheat to make barrel of or
binary flour, this waste would repre-
sent the flour from over 100000
bushels of wheat
Fourteen. and ninetenths bushels
of wheat on the average are raised
per acre. 1t would take the fruit OF
some 100000 acres just to provide a
single slice Of bread to be wasted
daily in every home.
To produce this much flour calls
for an army of farmers, railway men,
flour mill people. To get the flour 10
the consumer calls for many freight
cars and the use Of many tons Of
coal.
But some one says, full slice Of
bread is not wasted in every home.
Very well-make it a daily slice for
every four or every ten or every thir-
ty homes-makes 1t weekly or
monhly slice in every home-or make
the wasted slice thinner. The waste
of flour involved is still appalling
altogether too great to be tolerated
when wheat is scarce.
Any waste Of bread is inexousable
when there are so many ways OF
using stale bread to cook delicious
dishes.
The U. 8. department of agricul-
ture, Washington, d. c., or your state
agricultural college will tell you how
to use stale bread in many ways.
An Ounce Of Meat.
An ounce of edible meatlean
meat, fat and lean, suet or fat trim
med from steak, chop or roast
seems hardly worth saving
Many households take Just this
view of the matter-do not trouble to
put such an insignificant scrap into
the Ice box or soup pot-do not both
er to save for cookery a spoonful or
two or drip2ings or tiny bit Of suer
or fat.
Yet If every one of our 100000
American families on the average
wastes each day oply one ounce OF
edible meat or fat, 1T means a daily
waste of 1.25O,O0O pounds Of animal
food-456,0 100000 pounds of valuable
animal food year.
At average dressed weights 1t would
take the gross weight of over $4,000
steers, or over 100000 hogs-bones
and all to provide this weight of meat
or fat for each garbage pail or kitchen
sink II the bones and butchers
waste are eliminated, these figures
would be increased to 100000 cat
tie and 100000 hogs.
Or, again, if the waste were dis
tributed according to the perca2ita
consumption of the various meats
Excluding bones), it would use up a
combined herd of over $4,000 beef
animals, 291 900 calves. over $4,000
sheep and lambs, and over 2.132, 900
hogs.
Millions Of tons of feed and hay,
the grass from the vast pastures and
the labor of armies of cattlemen and
butchers also would be scrapped by
this meat waste route.
But-every household doesn't waste
an ounce Of meat or fat every day
Very well-make 1t one out of a hun
dred families but keep in mind that
all meat allowed to spoil and all meat
and fat rendered inedible by improp-
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