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from Canada alone. Following their example the 

 Quartermaster-General's Office of the United States 

 War Department prepared to make similar use of this 

 kind of food. In the spring of 1918 the army used 

 14,000,000 pounds of dehydrated goods, and later an 

 order was placed with American and Canadian food 

 driers for more than 40,000,000 pounds to be delivered 

 before July I, 1919. 



The use of food that is recognized as a valuable army 

 ration and as a war-time economy, is to be encouraged 

 in normal times. The same reasons which made it prac- 

 tical and economical during the war will be arguments 

 in favor of its continued and increased use. Certainly 

 for many years to come, just how many nobody can say, 

 food will be a world problem. In the solution of this 

 problem dried food can and should play a constantly 

 growing part. 



The expert testimony in favor of dehydration is well 

 summed up in a statement by David Fairchild, agricul- 

 tural explorer in charge of the Office of Foreign Plant 

 Introduction, United States Department of Agriculture. 

 He has made this statement: 



I believe the American public should learn to use 

 dried vegetables, because in so doing great economies 

 can be brought about in this country as they have been 

 in Germany and Austria. The dehydrated vegetable 

 saves transportation of both bulky fresh vegetables and 

 bulky canned vegetables, not only those portions which 

 are actually consumed but the waste which forms so 

 large a part of the garbage of our cities. The dehydrated 



