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Show UTAH MUST RAISE FLOUR jUBSIIIUIE White Flint Corn Can Be Successfully Suc-cessfully Raised and Would Save Much Wheat Flour. To Produce Substitutes for 25 Per Cent of Our Wheat Consumption it Weuld be Necessary to Plant 9,500 Acres of Corn. One of the serious difficulties encountered en-countered In carrying out the Food Administration program has been the problem of supplying substitutes for wheat flour. The price of our wheat Is based on the Chicago price, less the freight from ttah to Chicago. Substitutes Sub-stitutes are produced and manufactured manufac-tured in Utah only to a very limited extent Tttn necessitates their Importation Im-portation with- freight added.-making the ratio of value between wheat products prod-ucts and substitutes equal to the freight both ways from eastern territory. terri-tory. White Flint corn can be successfully raised la Utah and lend Itself readily to small acreages and garden plots. It Is estimated that there are approximately ap-proximately 61,000,000 pounds of white flour consumed In this state. To produce pro-duce substitutes for 25 per cent of this, we must produce 15,250,000 pounds. It Is very conservatively estimated, esti-mated, all kinds of land and conditions Included, that we should produce 40 bushels of White Flint corn to an acre, which In tnrn will make 40 pounds of cornmeal to the hnshet. or 1.600 pounds per acre. Therefore, 9.500 acYeg will produce substitutes for 25 per cent of oar wheat consumption. It is the aim of the Food Administration Adminis-tration not to allow the raining of the corn lo Interfere with other necessary war crops, but rather to raNe It In small areas which would otherwise J prohaMy not b utilised to the fullest ' extent. Arrangements are. also, being msde ! with the local mills to provide the : necessary faculties for grinding the I cornmeal In order that the substitutes Imsy be Immediately available in aU ! localities. |
