Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-05

Cwritten Specially For The Bulletin)
 One of the bureaus of the Washing i, ton department of agriculture has been making a preliminary study of the foods eaten in typical American families Farmers families, among others.
 It wasn't possible, of course, to take anything like census of the whole country, or, indeed do more than DICK out A few families, here and there, from Maine to Texas, and study their dletar- les. Seventy-thFee farm families were finally selected, taken in as many o1- ferent. parts of the country, and repre- senting as large a variety of tarnlns types as was feasible.
 No one pretends that such study is conclusive or that it settles anything. It's results are suggestive rather than statistical It is just sort of peep hole newly opened towards a prospect hieherto overlooked. It may lead 70 fuller examinations and wider 1act' gathering. and it may not
 But. as straws, insignificant in them selves. show which way the wind blows | this little study of farm diets suggests a number of things. When you Know 1 what seventy-three farm families eat III seventy-three widely separated districts of the country, some engaged in stock | raisinp some in general farming, some in dairvinp. some in orcharding, some ir
 potato culture. some in grtin produc- lion. etc. you've gained at least an ldee
 about what a considerable portion o
 their neighbors eat, also. The infor1na
 tion isn't complete enough to put lnt(
 figures or formulate into statistical la
 bles. But it Is enough to set other far
 mers thinking
 And thinking. 1t may be remark et
 parenthetically, is one of the things tn
 New England farmer isn't likely to d'
 any too much of There are some of u
 who might be better off if we did nor of it.
 | The Weekly News Letter of the de partment. summarizing the results O
 this preliminary investigation says:
 These studies bear out the genera
 impression that on the average the Tar
 mers' families have an abundant die . with enough different kinds of food | insure their obtaining all the substance
 necessary to keen them in health. l mere matter of bulk the farm fnmilie
 use nineteen pounds of food per da' : in comparison with the average for a : families which eat only fourteen and
 half hounds It will seem suTprisin z to city housekeepers that eggs are nt II used as abundantlv on farms as anon
 people at large. Milk, however. is ger r erously used Other healthful dair
 products assure farm families decide advantages over other groups. Exec
 In the southern states wheat bread D the staple. . A relatively large pr |. portion of starchy vegetables was l' ported and a relatively small auanu I of green and succulent kinds, althouf Il farm families have the best opportur v ties for growing vegetables at home. -s The fact that almost twice as nut III cooking fat was used by the farm fan !. lies as by the general average conflrr ,l the impression that some farm hous As wives are inclined to cook too maj .u foods by frying"
 b. You see, the officials who made t f. little tentative study of farmers dim sd tables aren't inclined to be dogmat d. They put forth their few facts simr ,. and intimate their deductions modest
 and gently. Let's consider a few
 them in the same spirit.
 They think city housekeepers will ID "surprised" to know that eggs are :. eaten as freely in farm as in e
 homes I doubt If many nctual farm' ss will share this Surprise" There "a not over three farm produ its for wh .. the producing farmer gets even q ,r gently fair share of the price paid m- .,le S.y " ;,,,,rt.a4;o~ VT he liiose tAi 1ss.d tL ro,,,,ie ieoent rr,ce @ forty cents bushel for potatoes- try same potatoes which oity consumers I l., forty cents q peck for. or S1.e0 a bu ne el But the same week I sold my ier. surplus eggs right at the door for for lch four cents a dozen to a huckster V gets only fifty cents a dozen for tn o'n in the city, ten miles away.
 ch. Don't you see why I'd rather sell e ot than potatoes? Why almost any faT1 by o,,i59 v4,a. +hA re+aiI rs-lA+ va ork
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