Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1918 — SEVEN LOAVES OF BREAD FOR EVERY PERSON IN U. S. SAVED FROM WASTE [ARTICLE]

SEVEN LOAVES OF BREAD FOR EVERY PERSON IN U. S. SAVED FROM WASTE

Farmers and Threshermen Patriotically Respond to Call of Food Administration. From Information received by the U. S. Food Administration from the principal grain growing states, it is now possible to announce with fair accuracy the amount of wheat saved last harvest by improved methods of handling. According to Official calculations, efforts toward cleaner threshing saved fully 16,000,000 bushels of wheat with corresponding savings of other small grain’harvested and threshed In a similar manner. In addition, other states, though unable to furnish figures, reported greatly reduced harvest losses. The figure for wheat alone is equivalent to seven one-pound loaves of bread for every person in the United States and represents food that formerly was either an absolute loss or was recovered to only a slight extent by poultry and livestock. While opportunities in this branch of conservation were large, the quantity of grain recovered surpasses early expectations. It is noteworthy also that results were secured principally through voluntary co-operation. No conservation measure of the Food Administration, it is declared, has received more wholehearted support than that pledged and rendered by farmers and threshermen toward reducing grain waste at its source.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1018