Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1918 — Oversupply of Beans and Appeal Is Made to Public To Help Eat the Old Crop [ARTICLE]

Oversupply of Beans and Appeal Is Made to Public To Help Eat the Old Crop

There are 120,000 bushels of last year’s beans in the New York market which are in danger of going to waste unless they are consumed before the 1918 crop comes in, says the New York Bun. In the hope of saving them the federal food board recently issued a call for a “bean drive.” “Just as the consuming public came to the rescue during the spring and early summer to save the surplus potatoes,” the board said,’“so a similar patriotic use of beans is requested. Patriotic housewives are urged to have a bean dinner or bean supper at least one day a week as a means of using up the present surplus. One reason for the existing surplus is a falling off in the consumption of beans during the past few months. “It is true .that the selling price of beans is above the prewar price, but it should be borne in mind that the cost of production last year was exceptionally high. Even at the prevailing prices, however,, beans are cheap when their food value is considered. When combined with milk or eggs in the same meal, they are one of the best meat-saving foods. At 15 cents a pound, at which prices they can be purchased in some localities, they furnish throe times as much protein as round steak at 38 cents a pound and as lean veal at 32 cents a pound. Beans in combination with fruits or seasonable vegetables serve very well as the basis of meat-saving meals.f