Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1918-11-06
w eek S r God Fact

Weeks Food Fact
The food administration is calling
upon the hog producers Of the country
to cooperate with the packers in an ef-
fort to maintain through November a
minimum min price Of $3.50 per hundred
pounds on the average of packers
droyes in Chicago; further, to aid the
packers in carrying out an agreement
tor'buy no hogs, except. throw-outs, at
less, than $3.50 per hundred Farmers
are asked to cooperate by not becoming
panicky and. unloading. their hogs on
the market prematurely, as they have
been inclined to do in the last few
weeks. If they fail to cooperate in
this way it will be entirely beyond the
ability of the packers to maintain the
minimum price set. = r
The need sof careful feeding and com
Portable housing of animals and poul-
try Is urged upon farmers by the food
administration More than a million
tons of the, food stuffs, to be shipped
overseas, must comprise meats, fats.
and poultry products. The farm is the
source OF American food and the wise
use of animal foods which produces
maximum results from the food con-
sumed, is the basis for this food. Meat,
milk, and poultry products all must be
saved in large quantities this year.
Keep a saving shelf in your pantry.
Have a jar for fats-rinds of bacon.
outside cuttings of other kinds of meat
which may not be cooked; add also
the oils from canned fish, and all bits
which may go into the making of fats
for government use. 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
Hest German poison gas. It takes 200
peach pits for one mask. Every soldier
takes two masks into action. Figure
for yourself how many pits will be ne
cessary when we have 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 but
ternuts will make another mask. No
matter how small the amount your con-
tribution may be, send it. Every little
bit helps. Be an ammunition worker
on the home line defense.
Fall without pumpkin pie would be
real blow to the average American
household. Therefore, the conservation
cooks of the food administration have
evolved conservation pumpkin pie for
the patriotic cooks in the individual
kitchens. This is the way it is made:
2 cups pumpkin, cooked and strained,
u cup molasses or sorghum,
teaspoon cinnamon,
70 teaspoon ginger,
p teaspoon salt,
2 eggs,
2 cups milk,
M tx the pumpkin with the molasses
and seasoning. Add beaten eggs and
milk and bake in a pie plate lined with
conservation crust made from ~
cups wheat or rye flour, u cup barley
or corn flour, p teaspoon salt, a to u
cup fat.
| Add water to make a stiff dough, re-
Numbering that wheat substitutes need
little more water than all wheat
flour.
The food administration has increas-
| ed the household allowance of sugar
from two pounds to three pounds per
person per month. The ration for pub
| lie earthquakes will be three pounds
for every ninety meals served instead of
two pounds as before. The new regu-
lations also permit the purchase Of the
family's 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