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food into a complete, life-sustaining product contain- 

 ing every element necessary to human nutrition. 



The two-headed factor of expediency and econ- 

 omy obliges us to disregard the objections of the 

 milling industry by assuming government control of 

 every bushel of wheat and every pound of wheat 

 products produced therefrom. 



There is no need to develop hysteria over the food 

 shortage situation. Even though the Department of 

 Agriculture, April 7, 191 7, did show us that we are 

 facing a serious deficit in wheat, corn, oats and bar- 

 ley, and that owing to the extra demands of Europe 

 upon us for these very foods the outlook is exceed- 

 ingly gloomy, by adjusting our needs to our supply 

 we cannot only go on exporting, without incurring 

 the risk of hunger at home, but we can actually part 

 with much more food than any of our statistics seem 

 to make possible and still leave an abundance for 

 human consumption. 



§ 8 — CORN 



The crop reporting board of the Bureau of Crop 

 Estimates, Washington, reports that we had less 

 corn March i, 1917, on our farms by 327,143,000 

 bushels than we had March i, 191 6. But, we are rea- 

 sonably sure of producing in the United States dur- 

 ing 191 7 2,500,000,000 bushels of corn. 



We have not produced less than this quantity in 

 any one year since 1907. In 1915 we produced more 

 than 3,000,000,000 bushels. It is hardly probable 

 that we will now fall beloW the lowest record of ten 

 years. 



Ordinarily we export about 100,000,000 bushels of 



