Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 5
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capaoitN of any other crop. Vegetable fats and oils are good, but ti-r a variety of reasons the animal fats are far better. Our second meat undertaking must be, therefore, to produce the largest *nic ints Possible of the animal fats. I PORK Of all forms of animal fat, butter and pork are the m «f desirable, butter for sedentary people and pork for the laborer, the 1 l! ' "—the man who lives out of do. .r.s ami who needs camper, the soldier food. For this purpose por vt lean meat. Pork is preferable for still another reason: the pig can make more pounds ui human food out 0\ his feed than can any other animal except the cow, and that is a fundamental consideration now. The following table from fordan's "The Feeding of Animals" fives the amounts of human food actualN eatable that can be made bv the different animals from one hundred pounds of digestible feed. HUMAN FOODS PRODI CI D I-ROM 100 POUNDS OF DIGESTIBLE MATTER CONSUMED ANIMAL E DIB L I Sol.IPS IN I OI M s ANIMAL EDIBLE 8<>I ID0 I.N POINDS C v. (miik) Pig (dressed) Cow (cheese) Ca'f (dinted) Cow (butter) 18.0 15.6 94 8.1 5.4 Poultry (eggs) Poultry (dressed) Iamb (d retted) Steer (dressed) Sheep (dressed) ... 5.1 4.2 3.2 2.8 2.' Not only is the pig the most efficient source of all the fats, but fortunately Indian corn, the great crop in which America excels, is of all the feeds the best for the making of high-grade pork. Here is a cumulative advantage in food production possessed by no other country in the world. LESS FAT BEEF AND MUTTON If we are to raise more wheat with less labor, it must mean some reduction in the corn crop, and this reduction must be made good by marketing our beef and mutton with less fat. Tallow and mutton fat are far less eatable than are pork and butter, and the carcass of U C 1 ^ _ i »i 1 i _ • * i i • We and, for a time at least, less of it. KEEP UP NUMBERS baco 1 This need not mean that we shall raise fewer animals. Indeed opposite policy should prevail. Europe will need our animals l£
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