Established 1845 
SHELDON’S MARKET 
H. F. HOOPER, Manager 
DEALERS IN FIRST-CLASS 
Provisions, Poultry, Game, Vegetables, etc. 
CENTRAL STREET, 
Pride’s Crossing 
FOOD PROBLEM IN MASS. 
SS 
PropLE Witt Have to Eat Corn 
BEFORE YEAR IS OVER, SAID 
Foop ExpER?T WHEELER 
“New England people will have to 
eat corn before the year is over,” 
prophesied Dr. H. J. Wheeler, who 
spoke to an intensely interested and 
attentive audience in Manchester 
Town hall last Friday evening, under 
the auspices of the North Shore 
Horticultural society. There were 
many present at the meeting besides 
the members of the society and they 
drank in eagerly ever word of the 
speaker, showing how vitally import- 
ant the food problem is considered by 
the majority of people, even in Man- 
chester where the pinch of want has 
never been felt in recent years. 
The speaker was introduced by F. 
P. Knight, president of the horticul- 
tural society. Mr. Knight said there 
was danger of duplication of effort 
and failure to produce the highest 
efficiency in the campaigns to Pome 
home gardens in some places. “Man- 
chester is particularly fortunate in 
having men so well versed in food 
pr oduction and conservation,” he 
said. ‘Those who contemplate plant- 
ing for the first time sed seek prac- 
tical advice of men who know about 
home gardens.” 
Advertising 
MANCHESTER 
Beverly Farms 
NORTH) SHORES SREEZE 
April 27, 1917. 
Telephone 67 
Fresh 
Magnolia 
Dr. Wheeler started off his assault 
upon the old demon, HCofL, by ex- 
pressing his astonishment that there 
were men in Manchester who knew 
anything about food conservation. “I 
was aware that you were famed as 
producers, but I never would have 
suspected you were given to conserva- 
tion—especially after some of the din- 
ners I have eaten at homes in Man- 
chester. 
“Although I am here at the request 
of the state committee on public 
safety to talk about food production 
and conservation, | want to ask if you 
have formed a home guard.” 
Harry W. Purington answered that 
none had yet been formed. 
“Then I would advise you to or- 
ue one,’ said Dr. Wheeler. 
“When the scarcity of food becomes 
pronounced there will be danger of 
food riots and the trouble will take 
place in those communities which 
have no home guard. However, my 
efforts are to be devoted toward con- 
servation rather than destruction. 
“The southern states have suffered 
disasterous results from toronadoes 
and other destructive forces and the 
negroes of Alabama have been re- 
quede to their last resort for food— 
the roots of Johnson grass, which is 
something like our w itch grass. The 
south is not producing anywhere near 
North 
is the foundation of all 
successful enterprises. If 
your advertisement were 
here, it would be read by 
hundreds of visitors to 
the North Shore the 
coming summer. 
J. A. Conley, Mgr. 
BUTTER anno EGGS 
OUR MOTTO 
ALWAYS BEST QUALITY 
Laid Fancy 
Butter for Table or Kitchen, 
Ww. H. LERNED & SONS 
FANEUIL HALL MARKET, BOSTON 
Telephone 1431 and 1432 Richmond 
PASTEURIZED BUTTER 
Breakfast Eggs, and Best Quality 
Delivered as Wanted 
OUR RECORD 
We have supplied family trade for the past eighty years 
Established 1837 
its share of food and it is going to 
bring a big drain upon the north and 
upon transportation facilities which 
should be occupied in handling the 
extra business thrown upon them by 
the war. We in New England do no 
better than the south in proportion 
to our population. We produce only 
from 15 to 20 percent of the food we 
consume. With the freight conges- 
tion at Buffalo, Cleveland and other 
cities along the lines of transportation 
an embarrassing condition exists 
throughout the country. 
“From 1899 to 1915 the yearly 
wheat crop of the United States in- 
creased from 658 million bushels to 
763 million bushels, and the popula- 
tion increased 30 millions, so that now 
we consume almost all we produce. 
We shall all have to eat corn before 
the year is over. I read the other day 
that a certain United States senator 
said there was no cause for alarm 
from a wheat shortage. He was mis- 
taken. Between 1900 and 1910 the 
population increased 21 percent while 
the food production increased only 10 
percent. In the same period the pro- 
duction of beef decreased 30 percent 
and the cost of living went up 59 per- 
cent. The corn crop was increased 
25 percent in that time, but this was 
accomplished by increasing the acre- 
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