Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — Obviating the Waste and Trifles That Mean Great Help in Winning the War [ARTICLE]

Obviating the Waste and Trifles That Mean Great Help in Winning the War

Here are some household “trifles” that will help feed the soldiers in France and the starving people of the war-stricken area: If every family of 20,000,000 American households wastes but one slice of bread daily it means a waste of 14,000,000 ounces of flour, or 875,000 pounds; or enough flour to make more than. 1,000,000 one-pound loaves daily. As a yearly average this means the yield from 470,000 acres, figuring the average yield at 14.9 bushels. * If everyone of these families wastes just a half-cupful of milk, sweet or sour, daily, it means 2,500,000 quarts daily or the yearly product of 400,000 cows. If every family wastes one-fourth of an ounce of butter daily, it means 312,500 pounds a day or the yearly milk product of more than 500,000 cows. If every family wastes an ounce of edible meat, whether it is lean, mixed fat or suet, it wastes 1,250,000 pounds of animal food a day or 456,000,000' pounds a year; or distributing this amount according to the per capita consumption of the various meats (excluding bones) a combined herd of over 538,000 beef, 291,000 calves, over 625,000 sheep and lambs, and more than 2,132,000 hogs. _