SAVE WHEAT
_REASONS WHY OUR GOVERNMENT ASKS US TO SAVE WHEAT, WITH PRACTICAL
RECIPES FOR THE USE OF OTHER GRAINS_
A slice of bread seems an unimportant thing. Yet one good-sized slice
of bread weighs an ounce. It contains almost three-fourths of an ounce
of flour.
If every one of the country's 20,000,000 homes wastes on the average
only one such slice of bread a day, the country is throwing away
daily over 14,000,000 ounces of flour--over 875,000 pounds, or enough
flour for over a million one-pound loaves a day. For a full year
at this rate there would be a waste of over 319,000,000 pounds of
flour--1,500,000 barrels--enough flour to make 365,000,000 loaves.
As it takes four and one-half bushels of wheat to make a barrel
of ordinary flour, this waste would represent the flour from over
7,000,000 bushels of wheat. Fourteen and nine-tenths bushels of wheat
on the average are raised per acre. It would take the product of some
470,000 acres just to provide a single slice of bread to be wasted
daily in every home.
But some one says, "a full slice of bread is not wasted in every
home." Very well, make it a daily slice for every four or every ten
or every thirty homes--make it a weekly or monthly slice in every
home--or make the wasted slice thinner. The waste of flour involved
is still appalling. These are figures compiled by government experts,
and they should give pause to every housekeeper who permits a slice of
bread to be wasted in her home.
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