Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-11-08
WEEKS FOOD FACTS
SUGAR ALLOTMENT NOW THREE
POUNDS PER PERSON PER
MONTH

on the hog producers Of the country to
cooperate with it and the packers in an
effort to maintain through November
minimum price Of $3.50 per hundred
pounds on the average Of packers
droves in Chicago; further, to aid the
packers in carrying out an agreement
to buy no hogs on the market prema-
turely as they have been inclined to do
in the last few years. If they fail to
cooperate in this way it will be entire
ly beyond the ability of the packers to
maintain the minimum price set.
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The need of careful feeding and COM
Portable housing Of animals and poultry
is urged upon farmers by the food ad-
ministator. More than million tons
of the food stuffs, to he shipped over
seas, must comprise meat, fats, and
poultry products The farm is the source
Of American food and the wise use of
animal feeds which produces maximum
results from the food consumed, is the
basis for this food. Meat, milk, and
poultry products all must be saved in
large quantities this year.
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Keep a saving shelf in your pantry.
Have a jar for fats-rinds Of bacon
outside cuttings Of other meats that
may not be cooked: and2also the oils
from cannd fish, and all bits that may
90 into the making of fats for the use
of the government. Keep another jar
for fruit pits. They make gas masks.
Even the time honored prune has come
to the exalted position Of harboring a
stone which when placed with some two
or three hundred other prune stones
may protect one boy against the dead
list Of German poison gas. 1t takes
200 peach pits for one mask. Every
soldier takes two masks into action
Figure for yourself how many
will be necessary when We hav e five
million men in action. Pits of apricots
olives, dates, cherries, plums are just as
good. Seven pounds of the shells OF
Brazil and hickory nuts and walnuts
and butternuts will make another mask.
No matter how small the contribution
may be, send it. Every little bit helps.
Be an ammunition worker on the home
line Of defense.
Fall without pumpkin pie would be
real blow to the average American
household. Therefore the conserva'
ton cooks Of the food administration
have solved a conversation pumpkin
pie for the patriotic cooks in the in
dividual kitchens. This is the way it is
made:
Cups pumpkin cooked and strained
II cup Of molasses or sorghum
l teaspoon cinnamon
II teaspoon ginger
u teaspoon salt
2 eggs
2 cups of milk
Mix the pumpkin with the molas
ses and seasoning. Add the beaten eggs
and milk and bake in pie plate lined
with a conservation crust made from
,,1H cups Of wheat or rye flour, ~ cuI
barley or corn flour, ~ teaspoon salt
n to II cup fat.
Add water to make a stiff dough, re.
membering that wheat substitutes need
little more water than all wheat flour
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The food administration has increased
the household allowance of sugar from
three pounds per person per month with
the same ration to public eating places
from November 1. The new regulations
also permit the purchase of the fami'
lies whole monthly allowance at one
time. The increase in sugar is due to
the rapid manufacture of the new crop
of beet sugar in the west and the new
crop Of Louisiana cane sugar in the
south. Freer railway transportation
+; conditions added to the increase also
and the saving due to patriotic conser'
walton on the part Of the citizens dur
ing the past four months.
The new supply justiies and makes
possible the freer use of the apple
cranberry and grapefruit products and
| the fruit canned during the summer
without sugar.
The food patriots of the United
States are to have the opportunity this
year of being hosts at the greatest
Thanksgiving family party they eve'
have entertained. These loyal Amer
cans will eat at a common table with
120, ,000, 900 Allies.
| NO MORE QUEsT10NNAuREs FOB
THE PRESENT
The draft board announces that they
will send out no more questionnaires Z
the men who registered September u
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