Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1918 — And Now The Latest Is To Be “Potato” Day [ARTICLE]

And Now The Latest Is To Be “Potato” Day

With the completion of a state' wide campaign to organize grocers, tee purpose of the Federal Food Administration to inaugtowto sms “potato day” each week will be definitely undertaken in Indiana. Tito plan of the Federal Food Administration is to increase to a maximum, the use of Irish potatoes. Grocers will be asked to select a day when deliveries of other foods are fewest and to make a special point to have potatoes delivered on that particular day. Housewives will be asked to buy a week's supply each potato day. It is hoped by the administration to make potatoes a part of every family menu, every day of the year. The United States Department of Agriculture is co-operating with the food administration in this purpose by helping to improve methods of growing potatoes and increasing yields. .Definite methods have been taken to stabilize the potato indusSr, both as to production and disbution and grading and sales on a weight basis. In this connection. Dr. Harry E. Barnard, Federal Food Administrator for Indiana, author' izes tee following: “The potato today to plentiful, cheap and the best substitue for food staples we are being asked to save for our associates in the war, the army and the navy. It furnishes - nourishment, bulk, mineral salts and a corrective alkalinity in the diet. “Germany plants more than twice as many potatoes as the United States. Germany gets more than twice as many bushels per acre, and she eats three times as many potatoes. Germany's wise use of potatoes helps her to hold out against the Allies.”