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country will fall 26,060,000 bushels short o£ meeting 

 our own needs up to next harvest if we continue 

 to export on the same scale as last year. 



It is evident, then, that we find ourselves in the 

 position of the head of a household who is called 

 upon to feed a constantly increasing number of chil- 

 dren with a constantly decreasing quantity of food. 

 Unless we open our eyes it can't be done. If we do 

 open our eyes it can be done and none of us will be 

 any worse off for our experience. 



The European governments, who have had three 

 years of war with all its horrors to educate them, 

 now manifest an interest in the production and dis- 

 tribution of foodstuffs which our own government, 

 even when preparing to enter war regardless of its 

 consequences, showed no signs of imitating. 



In Europe the food value of so-called cereal by- 

 products discarded in times of plenty, is now fully 

 recognized. In America, although the situation is 

 just as tense, we do not appear to be interested. 



§ 6 — WH^AT 



We know nothing of the actual quantity of wljeat 

 which will be produced in 191 7 in the United States. 

 But we do know that the average production for 

 the last ten years is approximately 750,000,000 

 bushels. Let us hopefully assume that the 1917 pro- 

 duction will not be less than 750,000,000 bushels, all 

 of which will be milled into white flour. 



As we now conduct our milling processes it re- 

 quires eight bushels of wheat to produce five bushels 

 of flour. Out of every unit of eight bushels of wheat 

 three bushels of the most nourishing and most indis- 



