URGES USE OF CORN.
WASHINGTON, May 14. With a world wheat shortage, the Agricultural Department to-day launehsd a, country -wide propaganda urging general war-time use of corn on the "able. At present only 10 per cent, of lie American corn output is utilised as human food. The rest is feed to cattle. r )f this, 5 per cent, has been exported. Without seriously affecting the meat supply, it is believed, the present 200,---"XX^OOO bushels now , annually used as food could be many' times multiplied. Corn substitutes— unsuitable for the table — it is pointed out, can, to ;a great extent, supplant corn as feed, ■ at least during the war. There is virtually four times as much corn as wheat grown m the country—^and the Department' wants more planted. Circulars and posters describing the various corn, dishes and foods will be circulated' broadcast, bearng the slogan "eat more corn."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14340, 3 July 1917, Page 6
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