The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-17
WANTS POTATOES
 | WEEKLY FEATURE
oRocERs ARE ASKED TO MAKE STUDS ATTRACTIVE ON DAY
 WHEN SALES ARE LIGHT.
Food Administration Planning Cam paign to Increase Use of Irish Po- tatoes 10 Save Other Products.

And now, among other war meas ures for the conservation C. food, we are going to nave potato day! )ont misunderstand that for il doesn't mean "potatoless day" hu. rather the contrary--a day when po- tatoes are to be featured, when con- sumers are Co go to the stores and buy a good big supply of them and when grocers are urged to retail them at ithe most reasonable profit possible. That Is the substance of request lthat came to Hamp Williams, federal food administrator for Arkansas, from the Food Administration depar ,meut, Washington
 The United States Food Adminis- 1 tration is planning q consistent cam paisn 10 increase the use of Irish po- ] tatOes Grocers will be urged Co in laugurate a potato day. each week, Iselecting whatever day Is slack Ill de l liveries and making special price for potatoes delivered on that tday Housewives will be asked to buy po
 tatoes, 6 weeks supply, on each po tato day The Administration wishes
 Co place the Irish potato, every day
 in the year, on every table in Amer
 lea.
 The Food Administration declares
 that it is necessary right now as a Iwar measure tor everybody to eat pO-
 tatoes and also to purchase them in lfairly regular quantities week by lweek, so that distribution will be Iequal eYervNh here for the next five or fs.s. hn tion and enabling growers and dis
 trihutors to handle potatoes at the lmost reasonable prices and Co furnish encouragement for production of a larger crop this spring,
 The Department Of Agriculture is working to improve potato g )wiue methods and to increas2 our crops Tho cooperation of the consumer and | the grocer are needed more now than ever before, Every American family lis urged to buy and to eat potatoes freely through the winter and into the
 summer Hotels and restaurants are being asked 10 serve potatoes llber- lally.
 Cooperating with the Department lof Agriculture, the Food Administra- Ition has taken definite meas,res tc l stabilize the potato industry, DOtn ds 3 to production and as 10 distribution
 Standard grades and the system o , Isale by the hundredweignt basis have already been introduced
 The potato today is plentiful, cheaI land the best substitute for t0oC Q istaples we are heinz asked to save tOi } tlie Allies, the Army aHd the Navy. 4 Furnishes nourishment, bulk, minera
 salts and a corrective alkalinity in the ldiet
 Germany plants more than twice at
 many potatoes as the United States lGeermany gets more than twice az many bushels per acre, and she eats
 three times as many potatoes Ger Imany's wise use of potatoes helps hel
 Ito hold out against the Allies. ? "If we are going to win this wal i've must fight Germany man fOl lman, shelf for shell, potato for pota ltO," the Food Administration declares l"We raise too few potatoes on toc
 great an acreage If our yield pei iacre was as great as Germanys tho
 State CT New York alone. pr Mich igan, or Wisconsin, or Minnesota 3 knight raise all the potatoes we ca We eat too few potatoes because fine f iQualty Is not good We speculate ir Ipotatoes from year to year-farmer Iiobber, retailer, everybody Tha'
 makes fluctuation in prices. for wAicl we dearly pay