The Nome daily nugget., 1934-12-15

or thousands of others? Are Choice products better than Select?
 What are Standard" tomatoes?
 With the old kind of labelling, you cannot rely on price either, as a guide. Recently group of home makers, working in the Bureau of Economics Laboratory with the as- sistance of expert graders from the Bureau of Agricultural Economies, tested many cans of well-knowni brands of canned peas, corn, and tomatoes. Of the four highest pric- ed brands of canned peas, 8 out of IA cans were found to be NOT Grade A as you would expect, but Grade c quality. Only one can was Grade A. The same thing held true in the cans of corn. and toma- toes-many of the highest priced cans turned cut to be Grade C.
 But now, in the stores of one chain at least, you will be able to tell what you are buying before you take the can home and open it. All three grades, A, B, and c, are good products. There is no question of their wholesomeness. Grades B and C, in fact, will constitute the great bulk of canned foods on the market. The differences are largely in size of piece or uniformity of the. prod uct in the can, the color, maturity, and perhaps flavor In Grade A to- matoes, you should find whole, CT nearly whole, alfred tomatoes, with the superior flavor of the vine-ripen ed fruit, picked and canned at the top of it's quality. Grade c toma- toes are probably the run of the field. Some may be slightly under ripe, the color not evenly red, there may be some. yellowish pieces in with the red. But they are clean land wholesome in every respect, 7 and they must have certain per- Icept, of. solid fruit to make the grade
 < So the question is, how do you Want to use the tomatoes, and what fcansyou afford to pay for them? For 'astewing or scalloping, for soup for sauce the, size of the pieces in a9tthe can makes no difference, nor is the. depth, of the color important. fEven for, juice you can use the paler colored product. In other words, for theses; purposes, you can very 1 wellt use Grade. C tomatoes, instead 'fof the more expensive Grade A or \ Grade B Y. =
 < Something like this is true of oth- CT canned products. Grade A corn , is. the best in color, size and tender mess. and perhaps in flavor. Grade c is less perfect in color, the grains may be broken and uneven in size. But if you are making corn soup, or corn pudding, or corn fritters, you can use Grade c corn and make a perfectly good dish for the family. So with canned peas, snap beans, and the rest, of the vegetables and fruits. If you cannot afford Grade A or Grade B, you can often do well with Grade C, provided you choose the cooking best suited to the cheap Ter product.
 !, At all events, housekeepers have s!emphatically expressed their desire |I for labels that mean something; The IN R A. Code for the canning indus try calls upon the canners' to agree upon some method of their own for labelling quality grades, if they do not accept the one the Government proposes; some method that might be adopted by the industry and ac- cepted by the Government. Now one big firm steps out, not waiting for the rest, and cooperates with the Governmerft by using the recon mended labels and standards estab- lished by the Department of Agri- culture for voluntary adoption.
 This is the time then, says the Bureau of Home Economics, for the houSekeeper, at every purchase she makes, to ask for the can with the grade label, and ask for it in every store she deals with.
 There is something else to remem- Der, in connection with labels on canned foods, the Bureau points out Grades A, B, and c represent stand ! ards sci llTa fnr uolunfaru cononli