FACE the FACTS
LET us face the facts. The war situation is critical.
Unless the Allies fight as they never yet have
fought, defeat threatens. Hungry men cannot fight
at their best; nor hungry nations. France, England,
and Italy are going hungry unless we feed them.
Wheat Savings—They must have wheat. It is the
best food to fight on. It is the easiest to ship. We
alone can spare it to them. By saving just a little—
less than a quarter of what we ate last year—we can
support those who are fighting our battles. And we
can do it without stinting ourselves. We have only
to substitute another food just as good.
The Corn of Plenty—Corn is that food. There’s a
surplus of it. Providence has been generous in the
hour of our need. It has given us corn in such bounty
as was never known before. Tons of corn. Train
loads of corn. Five hundred million bushels over and
above our regular needs. All we have to do is to
learn to appreciate it. Was ever patriotic duty made
so easy? And so clear?
America’s Own Food—Corn! It is the true American
food. The Indians, hardiest of races, lived on it.
Our forefathers adopted the diet and conquered a
continent. For a great section of our country it
has blong een the staff of life. How well the South
fought on it, history tells. Now it can help America
win a world war.
Learn Something—Corn! It isn’t one food. It’s a
dozen. It’s a cereal. It’s a vegetable. It’s a bread.
It’s a dessert. It’s nutritious; more food value in it,
dollar for dollar, than meat or eggs or most other
vegetables. It’s good to eat; how good you don’t
know until you’ve had corn-bread properly cooked.
Best of all, it’s plentiful and .it’s patriotic.
Corn’s Infinite Variety—How much do you know about
corn? About how good it is? About the many
delicious ways of cooking it? And what you miss
by not knowing more about it? Here are a few
of its uses:
There are at least fifty ways to use corn meal to
make good dishes for dinner, supper, lunch or break
fast. Here are some suggestions:
The recipes are in Farmers’ Bulletin 565, “Corn
Meal as a Food and Ways of Using It,” free from the
Department of Agriculture.
HOT BREADS
Boston brown bread.
Hoecake.
Muffins.
Biscuits.
Griddle cakes.
Waffles.
HEARTY
Corn-meal molasses cake.
Apple corn bread.
Dumplings.
Gingerbread.
Fruit gems.
DISHES
Corn-meal fish balls.
DESSERTS
Corn-meal croquettes.
Meat and corn-meal dumplings.
Italian polenta.
Tamales.
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Thank You
During the month of October
thousands of men who sell Raw
leigh Products had a sales con
test, the prize for each success
ful man being an Honor Medal.
It gives me much pleasure to an
nounce that I secured enough ad
ditional business to entitle me to
a Medal and I take this oppor
tunity to thank my many cus
tomers who patronized me so
liberally that the Company a
warded me a Medal. I will call
again on all my friends with
my store-on-wheels, loaded with
Raleigh Quality Products and
trust I may merit a continuance
of your patronage.
Sincerely and thankfully yours,
Ben Finney,
Adv. 2t. pd. The Rawleigh Man
EARLE L. KITTRELL
\ Graduate Veterinarian
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(Deputy State Veterinarian)
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Augusta, Arkansas
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NEED BIGJERDS
Europe's Meat Supply Must Come
From America.
Warring Nations Have Depleted Live
Stock at Enormous Rate, Fvei
Killing Dairy Cattle For Food.
American stock breeders are being
asked to conserve their flocks and
herds in order to meet Europe's tre
mendous demands for meats during
the war and probably for many years
afterward.
The United States food adminis
tration reports that American stock
rti'sors have shown a disposition to
co-operate with the government in in
iwising the nation’s supply of live
slock.
Germany today is probably better
supplied with live stock than any oth
er European nation. When the Ger
man armies made their big advance
Into France and then retreated vir
tually all the cattle in the invaded
territory — approximately 1,800,000
head—were driven behind the German
lines.
But in England—where 2,400,000
acres of pasture lands have been turn
ed into grain fields—the cattle herds
are decreasing rapidly. One of the
reasons apparently is the declining
maximum price scale adopted by the
English as follows: For September,
$17.76 per 100 pounds ; October, $17.28;
November and December, $16.08; Jan
lary, $14.40. The effect of these prices
was to drive beef animals on the mar
ket as soon as possible.
In France the number of cattle as
well as the quality have shown an
enormous decline during the war.
Where France had 14,807,000 head of
cattle in 1913, she now lias only 12,
341,000, a decrease of 16.6 per cent.
And France is today producing only
one gallon of milk compared to two
and one-half gallons before the war.
Denmark and Holland have been
forced to sacrifice dairy herds for beef
because of the lack of necessary feed.
Close study of the European meat
situation has convinced the Food Ad
ministration that the future problem
of America lies largely in the produc
tion of meat producing animals and
dairy products rather than in the pro
duction of cereals for export when
the war will have ceased.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
HELPS PAY FOR BREAD
There has been much misunder
standing about the bread program in
England. It is true that the English
man buys a loaf of bread for less than
an American caa, but it is poorer
bread, and the British government is
paying $200,000,000 a year toward the
cost of it.
All the grain grown in Great Brit
ain is taken over by the government
at an arbitrary price and the imported
wheat purchased on the markets at
the prevailing market price. This is
turned over to the mills by the govern
ment at a price that allows the adul
terated war bread loaf of four pounds
to sell at 18 cents, the two pound loaf
at 9 cents and the one pound loaf at 5
cents.
In France, under conditions some
what similar, but with a larger ex
traction, the four pound loaf sells for
16 cents.
CRUEL.
Bob—Before we part give me some
trifle to remember you by.
Bess—I will give you this picture
of Jack. I never really fancied this
one.
Tins Is Our Winter
of Test
SERVING food is a lo
cal problem for each
i community. Prices
f and definite rules for
every one cannot be
formulated. It
is a duty for
each one to
eat only go
much as is
necessary to
maintain the
human body
nealthy and strong. This winter
of 1918 Is the period when Is to
be tested here in America wheth
er our people are capable of vol
untary individual sacrifice to
save the world. That is the pur
pose of the organization of the
United States Pood Administra
tion—by voluntary effort to pro
vide the food that the world
needs.
U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION
GETTING BAv
Josh—Don’t be a fool.
Bosh—You want a monopoly of
the business, do you?
FOOTBALL TACTICS IN WAR.
An old football player throwing
himself upon an alighting shell and
hugging it to the ground as if it were
a football tosbreak the force of the
explosion with his own body and
save the lives of 19 comrades in the
British trench where the shell fell,
according to the St. Louis Post-Dis
patch, was one of the tragic incidents
of unheralded heroism related by
George Sherwood Eddy, fresh from
the front in France, in a speech in
which he pictured with vivid detail
the physical and moral dangers and
miseries confronting the American
troops abroad and' pleaded with the
business men to give all their profits
for a year to helping the Y. M. C. A.
and other organizations in combat
ing these dangers.
ADMIRABLE OSTENTATION.
“Of course, you disapprove of any
ostentation of/ wealth P”
“Not always,” replied Miss Cay
enne. “I thoroughly enjoy meeting
a man who brags about how many
Liberty bonds he can afford to buy.
IDLE QUESTION, ,
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‘'Where are you going?”
“To price a steak.”
“I see. Are you in the market for
a steak or merely gathering addi
tional data on the high cost of hv
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