Evening star., 1932-11-13

Canning under steam pressure.
Summary of Our Present knowledge of Vita
Minis
The home purchasing agent will be interested
in the work of the bureaus of animal industry
and agricultural economics. You have seen the
little purple stamp "U. S. Inspected and
Passed" of the former, which inspects meats
for wholesomeness at the packing plants. The
latter bureau grades meats, certifying them as
choice" prime" good" and so This
bureau also grades turkeys and has established
standard grades of fruits, vegetables, meats,
eggs and other products
If you're building a home you'll surely be
interested in Construction of Chmneys and
Fireplaces." THE Domestic Oil Burner" and
Simple Plumbing Repairs in the Home" put
out by the Bureau of Public Roads.
Are your ornamental plants diseased? What
to do? Are there various difficult flowers you
would like to grow? Just call on the Bureau
of Plant Industry, where huge corps of plant
specialists are at your service. Perhaps you'd
be better gardener If you read their Her
baceous Perennials' and THE City Home
Garden" The new kinds of vegetables that
find their way to our tables are introduced
from strange lands by the intrepid plant
hunters of the Office of foreign plant introduce
ton of this bureau.
And. speaking of gardens and insects, did you
know that the Bureau of Entomology has three
excellent buletins-"Insect Enemies of the
Flower Garden" Diseases and Insects of Gar
den Vegetables and Clothes Moths and Their
Control" and that the Biological Survey knows
all about getting rid of rats and mice?
Then there are the Government bureaus OUT
side of the Department of Agriculture. Yes,
their activities also apply to the individual
home.
You know. suppose, that every household
measurement rests upon standards maintained
in the Bureau of Standards, United States De-
partment of Commerce, the largest scientific
laboratory in the world. Here they eliminated
false measures for the housewife!
OF this work some one has said '"The lay
man hardly appreciates how important the
work of the bureau is to him. His groceries
are sold by measures controlled ultimately by
the bureaus standards; the electric light con-
forms to its specifications; his doctors ther-
mometer is tested and certified here; from the
druggists prescription to the ton of coal, every
household measurement rests upon standards
maintained in our national laboratory"
In this bureaus division of building and
housing plans for homes are put forth and
people are taught the best methods of buying
homes, how they should be selected and paid
for, and what the prospective homemaker
should look for in house. Every home owner
will want copies of its booklets: How to Own
Your Home" Present Home Financing Meth
ods" How to Judge a House." Care and Re-
pair of the House, "Furniture-Its Selection
and Use" also its mimeographed papers, Some
Problems of the Small Home" and Small House
Plans"
Oh, what to serve to assorted guests on FRI
day? The Bureau Of Fisheries United States
Department of Commerce, will come to the
rescue with recipes for serving caviar, carp and
oysters-98 recipes for oysters, by the way.
They will even tell you how to care for your
pet goldfish.
What about safeguarding the family health?
"There's my Public Health Service branch OF
the United States Treasury Department" says
Uncle Sam. It's National Institute of Health
is maintained for research directed toward the
prevention of disease. Prevention of Disease
and Care of the Sick" miscellaneous publica-
tion No. II, is an excellent family medical
book - The child hygiene division sends out
expectant mothers, as well as material on child
care. Health News" which is mailed out
periodically, gives excellent advice on disease
prevention, children's teeth and the like.
NNE Of the most popular bulletins ever sent
~ out from Washington it seems, is "Child
Management" The Children's Bureau, United
States Department of Labor, assuredly knows
thousands of things about child care, for its
work covers research in the realm Of child
health, child labor. recreation, dependency and
delinquency. A group of the foremost child
specialists In this country advise the bureau
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