The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-04-25
Warden lyman Tells
What esp. is Doing
to Conserve Flour
Canon City. Colo.
April II, 1913.

Mr.. Guy Y. HARDY,
Fremont County Food Administrator,
Canon City. Colorado.
My Dear Mr.. Hardy:
Answering your letter regarding
the food situation and especially the
flour situation in the Colorado State
Penitentiary. wish to say that it is
about as follows.
While the law requires the commits
sioners of the State Penitentiary to
purchase semi-annualiy six-months'
supply of all products needed by the
institution. yet at the time of our last
purchase. in December. we took into
confederation the flour situation in
the nation and concluded not to pur-
chase six-months' supply of flour.
which would have amounted to about
three cars. but concluded to purchase
only one car at that time. By the adj
dition OF such substitutes as potatoes.
corn meal, oat meal and barley flour
In the bread at the prison,we have
been able to make that car OF flour
go at least twice as long as any prev
ious car purchased by the institu-
ton. While 1t takes considerably
more money to buy these substitutes,
1t has not been a question of saving
money. The question with US is the
saving of flour. Although we have
recently purchased some more flour.
yet VIC have not purchased car load.
We bought only a small amount
which We have trucked in on the Pen
itentiary trucks. for We did not feel
that we should even put in another
car of hour at this time
Our bread. in my judgment and in
the Judgment OF those people who
have tried II. ia that il ia as nutri-
tious and beneficial as the whole
wheat bread. and it is liked by the in
mates OF this institution just as we'll.
To three hundred pounds OF flour we
add fixty pounds of potatoes. twenty
five pounds of corn meal and twenty
five pounds of oat meal or barley
flour With this we make three hun
dred and twenty-five pound-loaves of
bread. or six hundred and forty
pounds of very good bread. Besides
this we serve corn bread three days
In tho week We also serve oat meal
mush and corn meal mush twice u
week.
During the past six months We have
made a large addition to the Peniten-
tiary dairies. and we are now able
to serve whole milk with these sub
stitutes, 30 you con see that in this
way we have cut down the consump,
ton of wheat flour at the institution
nearly two-thirds. and there has been
no complaint from any quarter. I
rather believe that we are today serv-
ing more palatable. nutritious and
wholesome diet than ever before. We
have found out that TO obtain the best
results when adding the substitutes
to the wheat flour is TO cook the po-
tatoes until they are thoroughly done.
then mash them thoroughly. and put
them in with the yeast. Cook the oat
meal and corn meal together into
mush, and add II to the potatoes and
yeast. This is then mixed with the
flour
Our saving in flour is more than we
hoped for when we started to use the
substitutes. and our secret OF success
in making this bread La to let II
proof one hour the first time. three
quarters of an hour the second time.
and thirty-five minutes the last time.
This is a shorter time than is re-
quired for bread made from the flour
alone. We have had more or less
trouble in setting sufficient supply
of substitutes. but uy placing our or
ders ahead. we will have much better
success now.
Hoping this Will give you an idea
of how the food situation is at the
Colorado State Penitentiary. and as
suriny you that we are studying the
situation continually with the idea in
view of farther saving of wheat flour
without regard to the cost Of substi-
tu,es at this time, am.
Yours truly,
THOS. J. lyman.
Warden