Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1911 — GOVERNMENT PIE IS LATEST [ARTICLE]

GOVERNMENT PIE IS LATEST

Ice Cream Also IS Made for Laborers Constructing Panama Canal—Corv • • ■ sume Much Meat. New York.—Since the United States undertook to build the Panama canal and incidentally to feed and clothe the men there, the government has been getting much experience in such homely pursuits as the baking of pies and the making of ice cream. Something like 15,300,000 represents the value of the food and supplies handled in 1910. More than five milion pounds of fresh meat a year are handled, yet the loss does not exceed twenty pounds a year. The commission supplies the American laborers with good old-fashioned apple pie and a variety of other pie. Ice. cream has become more popular than ever. Although 91,321 galIdns were produced last year, it is expected to Increase the output this year by at least 60 per cent.