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proportion of the population of the United States 

 consists of old people and very young people whose 

 caloric requirements range from 500 to 2,000 a day, 

 it can be readily seen that the saving of the seven 

 foods enumerated will yield exactly enough, even 

 though all other foods had no existence, to nourish 

 the entire population of the United States for an 

 entire year. 



It will be seen also that the foods considered here 

 are complete and adequate foods containing every 

 element necessary to the maintenance of life and 

 health. 



This means that the food resources of the United 

 States are simply prodigious. If the waste by-prod- 

 ucts of seven foods of the hundred available are 

 alone sufficient to support our national life, what is 

 there to justify alarm? Food famine nor any of 

 the hideous consequences that lift up their heads 

 from such a nightmare will be impossible if we act ! 



The trouble is that we do not know the United 

 States, and doubtless never will until the considera- 

 tion of serious things such as war makes us look 

 within. 



§ 16 — FOOD FOR ANIMAI^S 



"What will we do for milk, bacon, eggs, and pork 

 if we turn all our wheat into whole wheat flour?" 

 asks a critic. "Our Hve stock industry depends upon 

 the ability of the farmer to obtain from the wheat 

 mills the bran, the red dog, the germ, and other by- 

 products discarded in the manufacture of white 

 flour," he adds. 



"If the United States should adopt the methods 

 of Germany and France in milling nothing but th^ 



