The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-16
TEACHING CHILL DREN
 HOW TO BUY FOOD.

New York, Sept. 16.-The chairman of the mayors committee on food sup ply will explain to a delegation of public school teachers at the New York City Hall today his views as set forth in the preliminary report of the executive committee that school chil- dren should be instructed as to the relative value Of foodstuns and the art of buying at the butcher shop and grocery store.
 The committees recommendation was taken up by the school autllord ties who decided that as 40 per cent. of the purchasing of foodstuffs are gers for their mothers, the education of children along these lines is of great importance.
 Detailed plane for the course have not been worked out yet except that instruction will be given after school hours Sides of beef will be among the object lessons and retired butch CTS will give demonstrations to ex- plain the various cuts, their relative tenderness and n11tritive properties and the differences in cost
 Retired grocers will also lend their aid to the campaign of education by visiting the classes and en1tghtening children as to qualities, prices, etc. of things that enter into the family meals. The retired tradesmen were induced by Comm issioner Hartigan to volunteer their services
 At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the mayors committee yes terday. MT. Perkins, In discussing the suggestions of the creation of a de5 while not committing himself to the proposition, said that he believed there. should be an authorized city body with power to supervise and carry out p1ang for the common. good in the matter of food supplies.
 D, w. Cook Of the committee on transportation of the mayors conn .lnittee. reported that advices from all parts of tn country indicate that all kinds of canned stuff VIII be plentiful this winter. Hes said that prices prom fse to be as low. if not lower than last year MT. Cook also predicted that wheat and flour win go down The that only in the event of a long drawn out war; in which case European SUD- plies will be exhausted, will there be a phenomenal call upon the United States for wheat and other grains
 The wholesale price of moderate grade of Texas beef went up yester- day to 13 cents pound. It was 12 cents last saturday. There was no change in the retail price, hcweve-. Lamb which was quoted at IA cents a pound wholesale on Saturd was IA and Is cents yesterday Wheat went down to z cents a bushel All reftn- CTS quoted sugar at $7.25 per 100 pounds.
 At the food probe hearing yester- day before Supreme Court Justice Benedict In Brooklyn testimony was presented showing that large quanti ties of beef are In cold storage houses. Eugene w. Lewis, treasurer of the National Cold Storage Go. said that there are 2,104,o00 pounds of beef. mostly from Argentina, in the Fur man street storehouse Thomas A.. Adams Of the Union Terminal Co.,. said that his company had 2,6s9.763 pounds in storage as sgagatEst 1s5S2, 600 pounds on May 1, last
 Speaking or the campaign to inter est farmers of Long Island in the scity's four new open markets. Borough President Marks said yesterday that his talks with farmers have removed the fast vestige of doubt as to the per naanent success of the free markets.