Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-08-14
THE WEEKS FOOD FACTS
Items From the Office of Federal
Food Administrator for
Minnesota.

sufficient candy in a year to supply
all the sugar requirements under the
rationing system of England for one
year, France for one year or Italy
for two years. The money spent on
candy in one year in the United States
is double the amount required to feed
Belgium for one year.
S. O. S. means Save on Sugar-and
Sugar savings buy w. S. S.
Approximately 10000 bushels of
wheat have been marketed in Mime.
sofa during July under orders of spe.
cial representatives of the state food
administration. The wheat was held
by individuals who failed to comply
with the food administration order to
market their wheat by May Is and as
to prosecution under the food control
act. Violators were listed in Brown,
Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Mcleod,
Clay, Blue Earth, Cottonwood and
Scott counties and in every instance
the hoarders made donations to the
Red Cross, rather than stand prose
cution under the food act. Total Red
Cross contributions paid under this
investigation approximately $4,000
and several thousand dollars worth Of
war savings stamps and Liberty Bonds
were bought in addition, by individuals
who had previously failed to identify
themselves with any war work or
take their quota of bonds or stamps.
Vidian B. wye conducted the investiga-
ton in Brown and neighboring c0un.
ties, A. o. Brown worked in Scott
county, and the Clay county hoarder,
a man with 1886 bushels was brought
to task by Edgar E. Sharp, county
food administrator.
A state food administration exhibit.
at the Minnesota state fair, early in
September, occupying 1000 square
feet of space in the agricultural build.
ing. is being arranged for now by mem
bers of the staff of the administration.
The three essential features of food
control-production, distribution and
conservation-Will be graphically pic.
tured through exhibits and that will
show the various elements that enter
into each different factor and will
show what the people of Minnesota
have accomplished in a year of food
duM1u1SLIdt1Ou SaAu ny "AoI AA0e3Ao
that accomplishment was made posi-
BILE.
Out of the last harvest the Amer1-
can people by abstinence, saved 14O,-
0OO, 900 bushels of wheat to feed the
hungry Allied nations. The 1ndica-
lions are that these same people are
going to stay right on the sugar job
and see it through.
In districts where shortage In the
supply of ice is either evident or prob
able, the food administration points
out that there are many ice economies
through the season. The absence of
ice in the household refrigerator is
a menace to health through the posi-
BILE spelling of milk and other foods
1t deprives the people of very
important comfort during condition
of weather when it is most difficult
to maintain health and working
strength.
The refrigerator should be kept
clean, and the doors kept tight, and
the drip tap kept in place. The door
of the refrigerator should never be
opened except when necessary and
then for the shortest possible space
of time. No hot foods should be plac-
ed in the refrigerator.
Cracked ice should not be put In
glasses to cool drinking water and