White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-02-03
HELP TO PRODUCER
AND THE CONSUMER
Bureau of Home Economics
Is of Assistance to Both.

prepared by the United States Department
Of Agriculture.)
From one point of view much of the
Investigation work of the bureau of
home economics might be said to
stand between the producers of house
hold commodities and the homemaker-
consumers. Its findings often serve
as a guide to production or distribu
ton, and at the same time may be
used by the consumer as an aid In
choice and use of household equip
ment and materials. The work is of
significance to each group in differ
ent sense.
The recently inaugurated household
refrigeration studies are good ex-
ample of the two-sided function Of the
bureau Of home economics. These
studies, aided by the financial coop
GRAFTON of manufacturers of ice and
of mechanical refrigerating units, are
aimed at obtaining facts to guide the
design and distribution policies of the
manufacturers, and also to enable the
housewife to select and operate her
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unit to best advantage.
Again, in the dietary studies, which
show what foods are actually being
consumed in the group of families sur
veyed, and how completely these foods
meet nutritive needs, information Is
assembled for the guidance Of food
producers, and also for use in educa-
tional programs directed toward the
consumer through radio releases,
newspaper articles, bulletins and 9TH
er agencies carrying information
about good nutrition.
Other studies may reveal to the pro-
Queer the reasons for conditions in
his particular field as in the case of
studies of the present use Of cotton
fabrics for clothing and household ar
ticles.
Again, the bureau offers neutral
territory for the meeting of equip
ment manufactur and homemakers,
as in the permanent exhibits of differ
ent makes and types of washing ma
chimes, ironing machines and sewing
| machines.
In the annual report for 1927, DR..
Louise Stanley, chief Of the bureau of
economics, outlines its three main
branches of work-focds and nutri-
ton, economic Studies and clothing
and textiles-and indicates the inves-
legations now going on in each divf.
ion. AS most Of the research work of
the bureau consists Of longtime prof.
ects, the report Is chiefly statement
Of progress.
In the food and nutrition division
| the principal lines of work are the vi
famine studies cooperation in the prof.
ect dealing with palatability Of meat,
the collection Of data on the chemical
composition Of foods, and the coop.
erative study of household refrigera-
ton.
Dietary studies have been given es-
pecial attention in the economic divi-
sion. which is continuing its analyses
Of clothing and other household ex-
penditures, and the studies of the use
Of the housewives time in order to
determine the most needed household
equipment. This section has also un-
dertaken a study Of the changes In
the consumer demand for cotton fab
RIGS, and the reasons for those
changes
Much Of the work of the textile and
clothing division has been directed to-
ward helping the cotton situation, es-
pecially through suggestions on the
use of cotton fabrics for women's and
children's clothing and household ar
ticles. Fabric finishes, especially
starches. have been studied, and also
the most effective temperatures for
laundering clothes.