The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-14
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly by Consumer
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Warrington, D. C.

Fireproofing Your Christmas Tree
Give your Christmas tree a drink
Of ammonium sulphate if you want to
do away with this holiday fire hazard
during the Christmas season.
Experts in the Bureau of Chemistry
and Soils have developed a simple
household method to fireproof Christ
mas trees.
Buy tree which has been freshly
cut. Cut off the lower end of the stem
at an oblique angle or in a V shape.
This will hasten the absorption of the
solution. Keep the stem damp until
placed in the freproofing solution.
Weigh the tree, and divide the re-
suit by a. The resulting figure is the
number of pounds of ammonium sui
phate that you will need.
Dissolve the chemical in water,
using a pint and half of water for
each pound Of the chemical required.
Put the solution in glass jar or tin
pail, although a narrow mouth con-
tainer is preferable.
Place the tree stem in the solution,
and allow it to remain there for 3 or
a days until the solution has been COM
pletely absorbed. For best results the
treatment should be given in cool
place, IS to 65 degrees F. Leave the
tree in the cool atmosphere until you
are ready to set it up.
Ammonium sulphate is cheap and
effective, and can be bought in any
seed store and in most hardware
stores.
The treatment makes the tree fire
resistant to candles, matches, or elec-
trio sparks, but may not be effective
if large flame is ignited near the
tree. For that reason cotton Snow
underneath the tree should also be
fireproofed. Directions for doing this
are in Leafet 1913, which can be Sc
cured free by writing the Consumers
Counsel Division, AAA, Department
of Agriculture, Washington, d. C.
Other fire checks at Christmastime
include these: Keep no lighted candles
near curtains, trimmings, and other
infammable materials, or within reach
of children; keep a screen in front of
the fireplace; be careful with matches
and cigarettes around Christmas
wrappings; and don't use coal oil' OF
kerosene to start your Christmas
morning fire.
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Tips on Deep Fat Frying
1t takes high heat-resisting fat to
do good job in deep fat frying
whether it's chicken or some other
food that your are cooking.
Bureau Of Home Economics re-
searchers say that for the best job ot
deep fat frying you need a fat that
can stand heat of 400 degrees ano
still not smoke.
When heated fat smokes, it means
it is breaking down, declare these
scientists. Besides irritating the teal
ducts and the digestive system, the
fumes give the food you are cooking
an unpleasant flavor.
Another objection is that when ;
fat becomes heated to the smoking
point, it becomes rancid more easily
and can't be used so many times ol
for as long.
For the best deep fat cooking, us,
vegetable oils-except olive oil--higl
quality lard, or hydrogenated fats
Hydrogenated fats are the cooking
fats you see in grocery stores that arr
much like lard, but are made from
vegetable oils. They are usually solt
under some trademarked name.
Olive oil is unsatisfactory because o.
its low smoking point.
A final tip: If you're frying food.
that are to be served cold, like DO
tato chips, use fat or oil that is
liquid at room temperature-about x
degrees.
Government Aids to Canadian
Consumers
Canada, which already has laws set
ting standards for containers anC
standards of quality for canned fruits
and vegetables, has recently passcc
another important standards law.
This law authorizes the Dominion
Z Trade and Industry Commission, after
study and investigation, to
Q) Prescribe standards of quality
for any commodity and to prescribe
the manner in which the commodity
may be sold, packaged, branded, OF
labeled, and to
(2) Prescribe the words by which
the material content of any commodity
shall be represented.
Violators of the orders of the Com
mission, when found guilty, are liable
to punishment by fines up to $4,000 il
the event the offender is corporation
and by fines up to $1,000 and imprison
ment for term up to months il
case the offender is an individual.
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