The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-14
G. ". PERKINS GIVES
TIPS ON VEGETABLES
Tricks in Grocery Trade as Wen
as Others, He Says, Ex-
posing Several.
LETTER TO SCHOOL HEADS

George W. Perkins, chairman OF me
United States Steel Corporations finance
committee and also of the Mayors com.
mittee on food supply. sent a letter to all
the public school principals in the greater
city yesterday urging cooperative service
in the campaign to educate pupils. and
through them their mothers, in what food.
stuffs to buy and how 20 buy them at
the neighborhood grocery and butcher
shops Mr. Perkins and his cowoikers
believe that the family health will he
conserved and the family purse will 20
further by a thorough understanding OF
food values and the art Of intelligent
buying, and 10 this end they are dis.
trlbuting circulars among school children
with the sanction OF the Board OF Bduca.
tion.
THE purpose we seek to accomplish
in sending you our circulars" Mr.. Per-
klns warned the principals. lis lost II tho
schools through you and your assistants
do not rise 10 the opportunity presented.
We may confront In this city during the
coming winter a great crisis. and all the
preliminary work that can possibly he
done should be done this fall in q effort
to meet any situation that may impend
This Is the time for cooperative ser
vice of IA patriotic nature all along the
line on this work. You can help th.,
committee very substantially by i'm
mediately complying with our request az
to letting us hear from you as 60 the
! effects OF these circulars on the children
and their parents at home"
The third of a series OF school circulars
10 ready for distribution. II deals with
vegetables and contains much Information
that Is we'll worth knowing. II IL signed
by Mr.. Perldns and Thomas w. Churchill
president of the Board OF Education. and
contains these valuable hints:
I'm buying vegetables select them
yourself and sec that they are fresh
This is all important. There are tricln
in all trades. including the vegetable
trade.
You will md you will get more potatoes
II YOU buy them by weight and not by
measure.
Never buy sprouting potatoe. Seri-
Gus Illness has been known to follow their
use.
I'm buying potatoes ask your dealer 10
cut one in half. Take the two halves and
| put them together: IL they are t,ncy
enough to stick together you have n good
potato.
In buying cabbage be sure you ge. a
hard, heavy head. with crisp. white leaves
and with the stalk cut close 20 tho head
Many n large head of cabbage looks
1
you will find II Is very light. A light
weight head of cabbage should only he
bought at reduced price.
| IN buying beets choose those with
| dirty roots and fresh, green leaves. This
shows that they have not been soaked 10
] freshen them.
I'm buying winter squash choose ono
that has no soft spots. Choose "A medium
size one. the larger ones are very seedv
In buying caulnower choose Arm
white head with white leaves.
I'm buying onions be sure that they
| are firm and hard.
"In buying celery choose n bunch with
crisp white leaves. Use the outside piece.
| for soup and the inside pieces for the
table"
| H. c. Lyte OF Gerrardstown, w. Va.
| has been in town several days looking
| into. the possibilities of the open markets
| for retailing his eggs, poultry and apples
| lie has telegraphed home for a large con
signment OF eggs, with which he intends
| to start the experiment of doing business
| here. He has made arrangements for a
stand.
Retail prices at the open markets yes
terday were as follows:
| FruitA-Apples, three quarts for 10
| cents: Tokay grapes. cents a. pound,
pears, cents n quart; muskmelons, 5
| cents apiece; oranges, six for 10 cents
| observation-disclosures, three punches for 8
cents, carrots three punches for cents;
| celery, three punches for 10 cents; cab
| bages, and cents n head; caulinowers.
o cents a head; cucumbers, three for 5
| cents; egg plants, cents a head; lettuce,
3 cents a head Lima beans. 10 cents q
| pint (shelled) onions. two pound basket
| for cents; peppers, cents for n quart
| basket; potatoes. three and one-haf
quarts for 10 cents; sweet potatoes. 8
cents a quart; string beans. 10 cents
quart yellow turnlps. three for 6 cents
| Eggs-Fresh, brown. "a and 35 cents
| a dozen.
Meats--Lamb chops 20 cents a pound
headquarters. Is cents n pound: shoulder.
| ~ cents a pound Pork loins. 30 cents =
pound. Bacon, smoked shoulder, 20 cents,
and smoked ham, 20 cents.
Poultry-Storage broilers. 20 cents q
pound; fresh. young roasting chickens, IS
and 20 cents pound fowls 10 cents =
pound. ducks, 20 cents n pound.
F'lsh-Buehsh. cents pound: smelts,
| 10 cents a pound; shad. cents a pound;
Writings. cents pound.