Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
PANTRY NEEDS TO BE STUDIED
AS PART OF FARM AID MOVE
Home Economics Bureau
Chief Sees Step as Help
in Crop Marketing.
Work of Division 10 Give
Producers Better Idea of
Home Demands.
Rx the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Scientific study of what the house
wife wants and needs In her pantry
and kitchen is to be added, through the
Bureau of Home Economics, to the
Federal Farm Boards resources in its
effort to aid farmers in the cooperative
marketing of their products.
If the great co-oparatives are to sue
coed, they must know what the woman
In her kitchen wants and needs" Dr.
Louise Stanley, chief of the bureau,
believes.
To furnish that knowledge, she hopes
to develop the work in the bureau
food utilization and vitanin testing
laboratories and to make available the
conclusions of dietary studies, palat-
ability tests and practical experiments
In packing and processing foodstuffS
to facilitate the housewives task. At
present she thinks, this is the weak
est link in our chain" for assistance
Of the co-operatives.
Definite Service Is Seen.
THE home economists definitely has
a service to render to the co-operativeS, a"
she holds. Women are the purchasers
of foodstuffs. Theirs is the buying
power"
Moving about in her national work.
shop, upstairs and down, she was able
to make her ideas visible by pointing
10 various experiments and citing their
value to co-operativeS.
From ovens at standard heat, savory
legs of lamb, each punctured with an
individual thermometer, were emerging,
to be served to a committee OF f1ve ex-
perts who have already tasted and
charted $500 legs of lamb as to palata-
bility
1.-THE factors which make up parat-
ability are the tests of production, after
ALL" DR.. Stanley observed.
Nutritive Power Analysed.
Analyses which only the nutritienist
can make determine whether diets really
supply nutritive needs. We must think
In terms of these basic needs in plan
ming our production programs. In adj
dition, facts and figures on food COM
position are needed to be used in the
fair advertising programs which we
must demand.
were ranged like bookstacks in a
library, vitamin tests were in progress
with rice, canned spinach, watermelon.
wheat germ and green tea.
Processing offers another great eX-
perimental field, DR.. Stanley declared,
suggesting that new, quick-freeZlng
process, already applied successfully to
fish and other foods, can be carried
over to fresh figs to expand the market,
now reported saturated and willing to
take only the highest quality fruits at
comparatively low prices.
Utilizing Present Waste" ,t
"By the simple expedient of grinding
and chopping," she said, fruits Of sub.
standard size. now thrown away. could
be made available for candy bases, cake
filings, ice cream.
"AI1d a housewifely tip on packaging
might save a laboriously produced
crop"
She cited nuts and honey as exam
pies of the latter need.
Look at the matter from the house
| wife's point of view. Nuts come whole,
and she must take time to crack ano
pick them out, or they come IN perfect
halves and she has to pay twice as
much. Why not broken nuts, evenly
cut up. ready to stir into the cake OF
salad? p.
"a good cook canluse honey in guam
titles to excellent effect, but she won
| do it If she has to spend her time tax.
| ing tight lids from little glasses 10 get
| her honey"