Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1917 — Big Potato Crop Will Help Relieve Food Shortage. [ARTICLE]

Big Potato Crop Will Help Relieve Food Shortage.

“There is no food which exactly takes the place of the potato when one is accustomed to it,” says a statement which was issued recently. “It has become to be such a part of our dinner that we miss it when it is not served. Besides, any left over potatoes can be used in many palatable ways for breakfast or supper, and this is a convenience from the housekeeper’s standpoint, since it helps her to make a palatable meal. Not only r it is useful from the ease with which it is prepared and the number of palatable ways in which it can be served, but it is very important for the food material it supplies. It is one of the most wholesome of starch and is also fairly rich in the mineral matter which the body needs.. .. Of the mineral salts one must hot overlook the importance of the mild alkaline salts it contains, because they_ are greatly needed by the body to counterbalance the acid salts which meats and eggs produce when assimilated. In this way we have a justification of the use of potatoes in the diet of liberal quantities and of our common custom of serving them with meats. When the price permits, potatoes should, by all means, be made a part of the diet.”