Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-06-27
IS Experimenting TO
CUT HIGH LIVING COST
Tests Being Made BY the Food
Analyst Of Kansas State
Board Of Health.

Topeka. Kan. Special. The high
cost of living. which has been the sub
lect of numerous Investigations and
much writing i'm the last TWO or three
years. hits the l3boring man harder
than any one else. Kansas has under-
taken a series of Investigations and ex-
perime hts to reduce the living cost and
it is doing this for the particular bene-
mt of the workers in the shops and
factories of the state hat they may
have better food for less money.
Prof. r. H. S. Bailey. food analyst
for the Kansas state board of health,
is sending to each local labor union OF
the state a copy of the preliminary
Foo Thrift experiments which he is
conducting in the state food labora-
tories. Each union is to read the rules
for stopping household wastes and then
M little booklet is to be passed from
pne member To the other TIC tax. home
and study.
Here are the first eight rules of
Food Thrift AS worked out 10y Pro-
lessor Bailey:
Stop eating more than is desired:
stop the waste in the selection of food;
do not waste good food by throwing it
away: food bought in small packages
often costs more than Ii is worth; the
most expensive food IS not always the
best; do not purchase fOds cut of sea-
SON.: the best food may be spoiled by
bad cooking: haNe a system in prepar-
ing foods and avoid the purchase OF
more than is needed for immediate
use.
THE appetite often excites q person
to take more food than is necessary
or is good for his SYSTEM said Pro-
fessor Bailey in his lecture. often
men and women, struck by the excep-
tional goodness of some particular ar
ticle OF diet. eat more than can be di-
gested without inconvenience. tnre-
STRAINED appetite in either food or drink
leads to Il loss of efficiency and adds
to the cost of living. The heaviest
waste in the average family
from the improper selection OF food.
mistakes in keeping or storing and in
preparation for the table.
There is a standard for foods which
can tell fairly we'll. but not absolutely.
the relative food values. The calorie
is taken as the basis for all food values.
and the more calOries in a pound of
food the created nutritive value. The
calorie is the energy required to do a
certain amount of work and by compar-
| ing the number of calories "A pound Of
| one ood gives with that of another. we
| can determine the relative value of one
food with another and determine which
| gives the most nutritive value for the
same amount of money
1t has been asserted that the Amer
lean people are the most wasteful peo-
pie on earth. and 1T is asserted that one
cause of this waste is the poor prepara-
| ton of foods for the table. Too much
is thrown away. To stop as much of
this waste as possible by teaching the
housewives how to cook. the state is
paying a bonus to every high school
that maintains a complete domestic
science course in it's schools. This bonus
rs $500 a year. In addition to this the
state, through the agricultural college,
is sending out a dozen domestic science
schools each year. These are known
as movable schools and stay one week
i'm each town. and the women are IN
vited to attend the lectures by experts
and do practical work i'm cooking. No
fec is charged. except that those who
attend the chools pay for the food
they use and he gas bill for h stoves