Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-07-04
KEEPING FOOD
:. in SUMMER

Department of Agriculture today is
sued the following practical sugses.
tons in regard to keeping food and
drink in hot weather, Will a view
to helping the public to avoid sick
ness from eating spoiled articles or
diet:
while people should be careful
about the condition Of the food they
eat at all seasons OF the year, lhey
should be particularly watchIul dur
ing the summer ...onths. In not
weather bacteria multiply far more
rapidly than in cold weather and pro-
dUce chemical changes in some foods
which greatly lesson their mtritive
value and often make them unfit FOR
human consumption. Unfortunately
there is no quick, absolute, simple.
practical way of determining the
presence of hurttul bactlli in foods,
or OF obtaining positive evidence OF
the existence OF pt0manes. Ihe
average family does not have the
delicate apparatus needed for these
tests. nor the skill to detect these
micro-orsanisms.
THE housewife will find eyes and
nose the safest practical detectives
OF bad food in hot weather. If any
article has any suspicion Of an I'M
usual odor or looks abnormal, it
should be avoided. People eating in
doubtful restaurants should be par
licualrly careful about meats OF fish
cooked with a highly spiced or arc
matte sauce which might disguise a
bad taste Or warning od0r. Only sweet
smelling, Gle nafood should be eaten.
Spotted. green, Shiny, or frothy raw
meat. or meat which is soft in spots
also should be regarded with sus-
picion. Taste of@courses ifga supple
mentary test, but one to be used
after eyes, nose and fingers. A
mother before she allows her clild
10 eat anything, should examine it
carefully in a good light. smell it.
and finally taste it.
Milk particularly deteriOrates rap.
idly under summer heat. especially
if it already contains bacteria.
Housewives, therefore, should see to
it that their milk after being left
by the milkman does not stand for
any length OF time on a hot back
porch Or stoop before it is put in the
ice box. Milk bottles should be kept
closed, both in the ice box and cut
Of it. II there is any doubt at all as
20 the excellence Of the local milk
supply, pasteurize all milk.
":All foods should be kept covered
or wrapped, and always out of the
reach OF flies, which are deadly car
-iers of typhoid. All vessels, pitchers
etc, in which food is to be stored
should first be scalded. Food should
be handled as little as possible. The
ice box, especially its drain pipe,
should be cleaned thoroughly and
frequently WITH boiling water and
washing soda, and given an occasion
al airing. A persistent battle should
be wagcd against lilies in all parts
Of the home.
"Uncookcd foods as a general
proposition should be avoided. Chill
dren should not be allowed to eat
the. skins OF fruits, especially fruits
which have been exposed TO flies or
stree dirt or unscreened stands or
pnsh-carts.r
Those who 80 away for vacation
should not get the idea that every
thing in a summer resort o" strange
city is necessarily pure and whole
some. The danger of typhoid fever
in country resorts is yer" great.
Many of the cases OF typhoid fever
recorded in the fall in cities where
the water is pure had their Origin in
water or contaminated substances
drunk or eaten at some summer re-
sort. Insist on boiled water. II you
absolutely cannot get boiled water,
make very sure about the reputation
Of springs, wells, or tap water. Re
fuse absolutely to take any water that
comes from q source near an out
house or stable, or in a neighborhood
where fever is at all prevalent.
Boiled water can 5be made just
as palatable as unboilsd water. The
flat taste which boiled water has
Don after it has been boiled is due
to the fact that boiling drives out
Of it the air which it held n solution.
If the water after boiling is put in
gcalded shallow open pans and al
lowed to stand for "a hours where
files or dirt cannot get at it, it will
regain its air and have its usual
taste resored by the second day.
ant in summer that people should not
FINALLY it is particularly import.
ant in summer that people should not
be mislcd into believing that the label
guaranteed under the food ald drugs
act on cans and packages means
that the government has tested these
foods and pronounced them pure and
desirable. The government does not
make the guarantee. The, guarantee
is made wholly by the manufacturer,
and meaEs no more than when your
own corner grocer guarantees that
the sugar that he weighs out for you
is all right. Examine goods labeled
guaranteed just as carefully as any
other kind"
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