Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1916 — POTATOES SAID TO BE WASTED [ARTICLE]

POTATOES SAID TO BE WASTED

If Housewives Are Not Gainful Sup* ply Will Run Short. ; With the potato, crop of the United States 46,000,000 bushels less than the estimate of a month ago, experts say housewives must economize or many will go without. The crop estimate gives bushels. “It ie rare to see a family meal in any community in which the housewife has not included, so generous a portion of potatoes that from half to a quarter of the cooked tubers are left over,” a potato handler said. “Some of this surplus is, of course, used for warming over, and some hS fed to household pets, but a great part of it in wasted. “It would work no hardship on the houeewife to calculate a little more accurately the amount of potatoes that will be eaten. If this were done in the 20,000,000 households of the United States, the present figure of fifteen bushels year consumption could be maten rially reduced without, in fact, affecting the amount of potatoes acn tually used for food.”—New Yorlq Herald. *