Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1918 — ENOUGH MEAL TO ENABLE NATION TO GET ALONG. [ARTICLE]

ENOUGH MEAL TO ENABLE NATION TO GET ALONG.

According to an estimate made public by the United States Food Administration following a canvass of the whole country the actual milling output of com meal increased from 3,000,000 barrels in October to nearly 6,000,000 barrels for the month of March. The estimated maximum capacity for milling corn meal in the United States mills running 24 hours per day, 30 days per month, exceeds 9,000,000 barrels per month, an increase of 200 per cent over last year. In view of this great output Americans are now in a position to observe total abstinence from wheat flour and depend wholly on com meal and com products as their source of breadstuffs. Our normal consumption of wheat flour is 8,000,000 barrels per month. It is estimated that during the past 18 months the output of com flour has increased 500 per cent. The estimated production of com flour for October and for March is placed at 250,000 and 540,000 barrels, respectively. There is now enough com meal being turned out to care for all demands in the United States. The remarkable increase in output, which is certain to become greater each succeeding month, is due in considerable part to the conversion of much wheat-milling machinery into cornmilling machinery.