The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-11-11
Federal Expert Gives List of
Foods to Be Served by
Prudent Housewives
STRONGLY IN FAVOR
OF HOME CANNING
Fruit and Vegetables Should Be Pro
vided Every Day in the Year and
of LaXatives.

of Laxatives.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-THE aver
age American family may steer clear
Of the ordinary discomforts that afliict
the body and thereby improve its
health if the housewife will exercise
more care in getting up the daily bill
of fare.
A food specialist of the department
of agriculture points the way. He says
that the balanced ration OF many
Americans today is made up about as
follows:
Bread Meat
Butter Fish
Eggs Patent Medicine laXatives
Many Americans suffer customarily
from indigestion in it's various forms
and rheumatism, according to the GOV
eminent food specialist. He suggests
that a simple change Of the daily
menu might 20 a long way to remedy
these ailments. The specialist recon-
mends a change to this menu as be
ing more in keeping with nature 5
plans:
Bread Meat
Butter Fish
Fruit Eggs
Vegetables Greens
The specialist recommends that every
family provide a diet Of fruit and
vegetables for every day in the year
lie argues that this would do much "a
eliminate the need for patent medicines
that figure so prominently in the bill
Of fare OF SO many Americans.
of every home said the special
ist, kept on hand enough cauneo
products so that there might be ;
can of fruits, can of greens and ;
can of vegetables for every day during
the winter there would be little nee,
for the laxatiycs now so regularly pur
chased from the corner druggists. Their
would also be great economy in TIN
substitution of an Inexpensive food TO
more expensive ones.
The food specialist suggests tina
housewives should do more home can
ming at the proper season. lie think
this would help to solve the probcr
involved in the cost of living.
1T is estimated, - he said, . tina
over 30 per cent of all the vegetable;
greens, fruit and berries that grow j
this country 90 to waste and are act
ually lost to those who need then
This is Simply because housewives hav
not learned TO care for these surplr
products efficiently and To make thei
available for the winter months h
canning.
Economy in Home Canning.
''That home canning may reduce II
cost of living is not generally appr
ciatcd. Even those who are accustomt
TO use n supply of canned goods in Il
winter do not realize that they som
times pay transportation on goo
from distant parts OF the country witt
there is Il surplus Of the same produ
i'm their own vicinity during the sul
mer months which might have be
saved by home canning.
The food specialist then tells abo
the enormous economic waste tn
could bc prevented by home cannir
'.For example, he said, g a can
tomatoes is bought during the wint
months in Colorado for - cents. II
can was put up in Maryland. The pc
pie of the section where it was pl
chased live in an irrigated distr
where there is always a surplus of
matocs i'm summer, yet they pay ira
portation on vegetables from Maryla
when they might have put UP a SINH
can during the season in their O
district which would have cost f
cents.
''When one considers the number
cans used which have been shipl
great distances one realizes the en-
nous saving u little intelligent no
canning might bring about.