The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-03-29

ored the crowd with two selections
from James Whitcomb Riley, 1.-The
Story of Old Glory and "That OLD
Sweetheart of Mine" These We're
we'll received. A lunch and refresh
ments were served and at season
able hour the party broke up, after
the singing AUD Lang Syne."
Address BY A. D. Wilson.
At the afternoon session, A. d.
Wilson, federal food administrator
for Minnesota spoke on Present Food
Conditions" He spoke in part as
follows:
Fortunately some of the conser-
walton measures and food plans have
borne fruit Large reserves of meat
have been accumulated through tbs
saving practiced throughout the
country and through generous feed
ing of fine stock on farms. The guar
anteed price on pork induced many
farmers to feed hogs to twenty tC
leo pounds greater weight than they
would have done had the price beer
allowed to drop as it normally would
have done last fall.
1.-The great shortage at present is
wheat. There is in sight at present
about twenty million bushels of wheat
per month until harvest time. While
under normal conditions, we would
use forty-two million bushels TIC
supply our own soldiers and those
fighting in France and to insure a
safe margin every one is asked to
use only six pounds of wheat flour pei
month which is one-third of our nor
NAL consumption.
"There is no danger of anyone 60
ing without food for we have an
abundance for ourselves and for the
allies. The only difficulty is that we
must use coarse flours and meals in
of these.
Abundance of Coarse FIours.
Besides having an abundance OF
coarse fiours we are fortunate that
our serious shortage of wheat comes
during the early summer when we
have such an abundance of potatoes
and when eggs, milk and other dairy
products and garden truck are plen-
tiful. There would be no serious
suffering if no wheat flour at all We're
available.
Some people have feared that the
course 1ours were not healthful, q
few we'll known examples will dispel
any fear one may have. Our Yankee
ancestors lived great deal of the
time during the early days in this
country, very largely on cornmeal
Cornmeal mush and milk We're the
standard, New England evening mea
for many years. Surely our hardy
ancestors would for physique and en-
durance put to shame most of the men
of our own time. The people in tn
southern part of the United States
use as much cornmeal as white flour
and they seem no worse off for it. The
Scotch people use oats for very con
siderable portion of their diet anC
surely for strength and health they
are at least equal to our people who
have been reared on white bread.
Johnny Cake Not UnhealthfuI.
another fallacy is the belief thai
hot breads like baking powder bis
cults and Johnnycake are unhealthful
The best food experts, in the country
can find no proof of any detrimental
results whatever from the use o.
belief has come about through ovel
eating. If one gets hot breads very
seldom he is likely to overeat be-
cause they are so palatable but i
hot bread is served often this diff.
Guilty is not likely to occur
Everyone is interested in the
prospects for wheat next year. The
indications are that the allies will b,
short from 500 million to 600 million
bushels. This will in all probability
have to come from the SURPRISES il
the United States and Canada. Be
cause it is not likely that ships will
be available to bring wheat from sucl
distant points as Australia, India ant
Argentina.
'The winter wheat croD shows
prospects for about 100 million bush
els more winter wheat than was pro
duced last year. The United State
department of agriculture has asket
us for a twenty per cent increase il
spring wheat 1 feel confident that j
we have favorable spring, that is
reasonably early spring, we will ge
| the increase. Just at present price
| for coarse grains are more attractive
than the fixed price of wheat, but TIL
| fact that the fixed price of wheat il
| fixed and that 1920 per bushel i
| high enough to bring very liberia
profits with an average yield will il
my judgment appeal to most farmer
as very safe and profitable crop
Besides thousands will SOW wheat be
cause they know the world needs i
and without any reference as to it
relative profitableness.
1--WE probably have strenuous time
ahead and many disappointments blu
the people of America are becomin
more and more conscious of thei
national obligations and the priv
leges they have enjoyed and are pre-
pairing 100 million strong to bac
President Wilson in making the worl
safe for democracy
The afternoon session was called t
order by President Robert Forrest q
The Lake Wilson Pilot. A numbe
of matters came up for consideration
One Of the features of the sessio
was rapidfire talk by Frank A
Day, who discussed about everythin
from Genesis to Revelations. He al
so moved vote of thanks for til
excellent address delivered by M
Wilson. He spoke very eloquent