Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — USE LESS WHEAT. [ARTICLE]

USE LESS WHEAT.

The allied nations have made further iricreased demands on os tor breadstuffs — demands that Americans are obligated to meet. In the meantime America’s meat supply has been greatly Increased for some months to come by the unprecedented shipping to market of bogs that averaged 232 pounds each Instead of 203 pounds—the nor* maL The United States Food Administration, endeavoring to adjust the food balance, promptly removed certain restrictions In this country on the use of meat and at the same time asked for a smaller consumption of breadstuffs. We are asked to observe only one meatless day each week — Tuesday. We will have larger meat stocks for awhile. But our bread ration must be held to a minimum. In altering its food conservation program the Food Administration emphasizes that the food situation is of necessity, subject to radical changes, caused by, crop conditions at home and abroad and by the precarious transportation problem, both tn overseas shipping and Tn America’s overburdened transportation system. The Food Administration will keep the American people fully and frankly advised of each change In the developing situation that they may know definitely the part their food sacrifices play in the world war.