New Britain herald., 1914-11-21
Protect Food Bills by Fortifying
 Your Kitchen With Proper Scales
Butchers Weighing Machine Should Be Watched By Women-Fat on Meat Valuable So Take it
 With Your Purchase

Have you d scale in your kitchen? An accurate, tested scale and a set of dry and liquid measures to pro-
 tect yourself against the dishonest tradesman?
 If not, you are less interested in honest weight than your city is. The mayors bureau of weights and meas ures in New York has been carrying off to sea boatload after boatload of false scales and measures. They burned 5000 short bushel baskets on the Wallabout Market square that New York housewives might be as- sured honest measurement.
 Equip Kitchen With Scale.
 The bureau asks in return that each housekeeper provide herself with a good scale and correct measures, and cautions her to keep her eye on the tradesman and his scale when she makes a purchase.
 Do not allow your butcher to put his hands either upon the scale or the meat when it is being weighed. The moment your merchant puts his hand or knife on the scale or touches it in any manner you are being de- frauded. If you are buying a leg of mutton, for instance, be careful that the butcher doesn't hold on with his hand to the meat and manipulate the scale.
 Meat Trimmings Are Valuable.
 Does your accommodating butcher trim away certain portions of fat and meat and bone from your steak? Notice then that he does it after he has weighed it and charged your for the trimmings at the rate of twenty eight cents a pound. These trim mings he deposits in a box under the counter and sells the next morning for seven or eight cents a pound.
 The purchaser should insist upon the trimmings being included with the meat. If the butcher can sell them to some one else they mu ust have some value in your home. The fat can be rendered into lard; the bones can be used in soup, and any careful house. wife can find use for trimmings of meat.
 The disinterested woman who leaves her buying to servants or merely telephones her order is part 1y to blame when her pounds are short and her quarts but little more than pints. Your steward or ser want girl may be honest, and then again. such a thing as servant act ing in collusion with a dishonest mer- chant to defraud has been heard of in New York. Every woman should interest herself actively in the buy ing for her household, unless she is not concerned about fruitless waste l of her household allowance.
 Don't be afraid to carry a bundle 1 unless you are prepared to stand the 1 expense of having it delivered to your l home," says the New York commis | sioner of weights. |
 Do Your Marketing in Person.
 "A great many bakers who will | willingly deliver your bread to yourI house are delivering you a lighter loaf l than the same character of loaf 1 purchased from the counter and car ried home. This same is true of 8 : great many other merchants. Some body has to pay the expense of a horse and wagon If you are will ing to bear it, well and good. But by going into the shops to make your purchases yourself you can protect 1 yourself against both fraud in quality of the goods as well as in weight and
 
 
 The bureau of weights and meas ures warns the buyer against the mer chant who gossips. Your grocer may have a gift for small talk, but what he is saying may be so interesting as to keep attention from the scale.
 "If you must gossip with the butch CT and grocer" says the commissioner of weights, "at least wait until your commodity has been weighed, and then your little talk will not cost you 
 Is Yours Bullying Tradesman:
 Perhaps you have bullying tradesman, and you are afraid to in- l sist upon your rights. The commis- i sioner of weights tells you to just re- ! m member that your butcher is not the 1 only butcher or your baker the only 1 baker. Competition is keen enough. | to warrant your insisting upon proper ], weight and quality. Your merchant knows this and he wants to hold your . trade. Use as much intelligence and i, care in making your purchase in his.