The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-08-23
PRICE FIXING IS
TAKING SHAPE
II. A. GARFIELD HAS ACCEPTED
POST OF FUEL DICTATOR.
SOME SOLUTIONS SUGGESTED
Eat Less Meat, Do More Breeding
and Less Killing, Eat More vege-
tables, Advice Given by Promi-
nent Chicago People.

Washington, Aug. 22.-Events are
sharpening rapidly to put down the
high price of coal and foods in the
country.
Tentative prices averaging about
$2.25 per ton for Wholesale will be
the size of the price fixed by Presi-
| dent Wilson on coal coming from ey-
cry bituminous mine which will be
affected.
The price for the retail consumers
will follow shortly.
III. A. Garfield. president of the Will
liams college and now chairman of
the wheat price fixing board, has ac-
cepted the post as fuel dictator. His
installation will follow the compile
ton of his present wheat task.
The rates which will be fixed by
the president is expected to be zoe
ton for wholesale and soc ton for
retail.
Some Solutions Suggested.
Chicago. Aug. 22.-"Eat less meat"
Mrs. H. H. Harrison, organizer of
the Chicago Housewife League.
More breeding and less killing"
". B. Skepworth, vice president of
the Wilson & Company meat, pack
ing company at Chicago.
Eat more vegetables. e. Rooms,
head chef of the Blackstone.
These are some of the solutions
suggested to the United Press today
as a remedy toward the threatened
meat famine" which is predicted
by Herbert Hoover, who is food die
tator of the world.
Educate the farmer to know of
the values in more breeding and less
killing of the cattle and hogs and ed
ucate them to know of the great
money value therein. This is the
only remedy to this great meat fam
inc which the country is now facing"
concluded Skepworth.
Nationwide Food Survey.
Washington, D. c., Aug. ga ma
tion-wide food survey, authorized un-
der the first of the food laws recently
enacted by congress, will be started
Immediately by the department of
agriculture.
Plans for the census, announced,
show that it will cover nearly 100
items of food and will include sup
plies on the farms, in warehouses
and stores and even the stocks in the
family pantry. A quick survey will
be taken first of the supplies of eight
cen of the principal articles of diet
and probably can be completed in
by complete census after the crops
are gathered.
Information gathered by the de-
partment will be turned over to the
food administration, which will base
it's operations largely on the stats
tics supplied. After the survey is
finished monthly reports will be pre-
pared on the supplies of the princi-
pal foods. The work will be car
ried on principally by the bureau of
markets and the bureau of crop esti-
mates. Both actual inventories and
estimates will be employed. Esti-
mates of the food and feed products
on farms will be made for the whole
country by the bureau of crop esti-
mates through $4,000 picked cooper
ators in the field.
The nearly 100 items on which sta
tistics are to be gathered include
grains and seeds, grain food prod
ucts, dried fruits and nuts, vegetable
fats, sugar, syrups, starch, meat and
meat products, food products pre-
served in tin and other containers,
dairy and related products, fish and
feeds.