Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-06-21 | Page 6 | Americans Strong on Nosebag Foods

AMERICANS STRONG ON NOSEBAG fOODS Charged With Consuming Seven Bushels of Wheat Per Heath Head Republican Special Service Service- Washington Ju Juno 2 X Sev l-Sev Seven h bushels ot tC wheat wheal In a n. pile rather 10 large rg-e rg for the average o. person to eat yet the for forthe forthe per capita consumption of ot wheat the he year 1 1507 07 Is estimated by tho the eta sta- ot 01 the department of commerce com coin merce an and la labor or at that figure uro for or this 1 year ear In Iii 1001 1901 wo we were satisfied with about bout four bushels apiece in tIme tile States The Time figures of or the time statisticians show that hat our our- consumption has fluctuate during luring th the tho past ten years according to our appetites perhaps or tho size of o our pile In Tn J 1633 we consumed 29 bushels n wheat per capita In 1809 w a ate ato CO G. bushels Time The last year cr of or the last century wa waa was wasa a n J loan lean nn one as ts 9 W wo wd consumed only 47 bushels apiece but mit the but time tho first year of th tho new mow century found us fru fru- nl due clue perhaps to so IIi many V t twentieth r lunch counters cafes cafe am nn and mills coming coining Into foto existence tence I In that year we limited our consumption to bushels the smallest amount amoun t during the year ten period un under tinder er con con- alteration Theu In Sn I 1502 02 wo we recover recovered our appetites appe appe- tiles to the extent of bushels th the highest of any year yea In the period ex except except ex- ex I eX-I last Jast year when our bread t were loaded with b bushels That the limit ot prosperity n ri y has no noen ntH not n e-n r reached is evident from the estimate estimate estimate esti esti- mate mode made for the tire present F year nr but bu r two months or of which remain these figures all pertaining to the governments government's governments government's govern govern- OVErn ments ment's fiscal year ending June Tune M. M For tIme the full U used nJ year yar nd rl with Tune Juno the is of wh wheat t will WI probably aggregate about n bushels I against n in the tho ft fiscal nl year 1005 1960 and In 1 1805 1505 rh The recent nt Inert In exports of ot wheat t Is credited by hy th this tl government to lo the time natural sequence of the large crop TOp of 1900 1006 was th the tho orul In largest t crop erol ovi r produced in II the