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pensable elements of nutrition are rejected by man 

 and turned over to cattle. 



Seven hundred and fifty million bushels of wheat, 

 containing fifty-seven pounds to the bushel, will pro- 

 duce, as a result of our wasteful methods, no longer 

 permitted in Europe, 135,912,000 barrels of patent 

 flour weighing 196 pounds each, and 81,792,092 bar- 

 rels of "waste" weighing 196 pounds each. 



France was the last of the European nations to 

 put an end to this waste. March 12, 19 17, the 

 French regulations requiring that all bread shall be 

 made of meal containing all of tte wheat went into 

 effect. 



§ 7 — SCARCITY OR PLlENTY 



If we were to follow such regulations in the 

 United States we would immediately increase our 

 production of flour by 81,792,092 barrels, or nearly 

 one barrel for every man, woman and child in the 

 country. 



The quantity of flour now rejected as human food 

 by the United States citizen is in itself sufficient to 

 supply all the flour needs of this country, leaving the 

 balance of 135,912,000 barrels for export. 



Yet, if instead of rejecting this quantity of food- 

 stuffs by our present systems of milling we were to 

 convert it to our own use we would have eight loaves 

 of bread every week for every man, woman and 

 child in the United States, thus making it possible in 

 our extremity to share what we have with Europe 

 without loss to ourselves. 



Out of every unit of eight bushels of wheat pro- 

 ducing five bushels of Ijiighly milled flour we produce 



