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be 300,000,000 bushels, a quantity which checks up 

 almost to the bushel with the curious and unprofit- 

 able uses to which we see our corn products are put. 



In times of stress we can easily rearrange the 

 schedule, and instead of wasting the vast quantities 

 now employed for purely technical purposes we can 

 add to our food supply not only the sixty pounds 

 per head as computed above, but also the tremendous 

 saving of 42,000,000 bushels which would automat- 

 ically follow our use of old-fashioned southern 

 water-ground whole meal as a substitute for the de- 

 germinated, highly milled product now on the 

 market. 



Forty-two million bushels at nearly sixty pounds 

 each weigh roughly 2,520,000,000 pounds, which 

 would give us annually an additional twenty-five 

 pounds each, or eighty-five pounds in all. 



Eighty-five pounds of whole cornmeal will make 

 170 pounds of whole corn bread, whole corn muffins, 

 whole corn dodgers, whole corn pones, whole corn 

 johnny cake, or three and a quarter pounds per week 

 per man. 



This quantity of corn bread, added to the eight 

 pounds of whole wheat bread, which we can also 

 save by changing our milling system, gives us more 

 than a pound and a half of bread daily for every 

 man, woman and child in the land. 



And what bread it would be ! Not the broken staff 

 of life upon which we now lean, but a beautiful, 

 golden-brown compound containing every element 

 essential to the maintenance of perfect health, 

 strength and life. 



When confronted with the necessity of saving 

 foodstuflfs heretofore wasted or put to bad uses we 



