Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. TO THE FARMERS—PLANT CORN

Washington, D. C., May 12. — I “Plant corn as the most effective I way of meeting the threatened J wheat shortage,” urged the depart- , ment of agriculture today in an apJpeal to the farmers of the United States. Scarcity of other grains, ' said the statement, will compel a ! more general recognition of the , value of corn as human food. Wider use of corn meal in the diet is strongly urged as the best available substitute for wheat flour. The department called attention to the fact that the normal production of corn in this country is three or four times greater than wheat, but that only about 5 or D lO per cent, or 200,000,000 bushels a year, has been used for human food. “A relatively slight increase in the corn acreage,” the statement said, “will place many millions of bushels of human food at the world’s disposal.”