The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-11-14
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly by Consumers
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, d. c.
Bringing Milk Within Pocketbook
Distance


Distance
There are many people not recon-
ciled to the fact that all human be-
ings can't afford to buy the milk they
need for healthy diet. One step for
ward from this condition however, is
being taken with the scent milk pro-
gram.
Nickel milk is one plan by which the
U. S. Department of Agriculture, in
connection with local agencies and
farmers, arranges for milk to be sold
or given to needy families at price
they can afford or the community can
finance.
Another step forward in the same
direction by different path has been
taken in st. Louis, Missouri. There
milk is sold not only in quart bottles
but also in half gallons and gallons,
and consumers who buy the bigger
quantities save on each quart. A gal
Ion of milk delivered to home costs
az cents; quarts in separate bottles
would cost so cents. Stores sell milk
in half-gallon bottles at 20 or q
cents; the same amount of milk sold
in quart bottles would cost % to "a
cents. Still another saving is offered
consumers who take the time and
trouble to go to the dairy plants. There
milk sells for even less. Not only is
the cost per quart between one and 2
cents less per quart, but families who
buy a half gallon get it for Is cents
or a gallon for 35 cents.
What st. Louis is doing, other cities
could do to bring milk-with its
minerals and vitamins-within closer
pocketbook distance.
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Stuffings For Furniture
There are many different types of
stuffng used in furniture, and in some
States consumers find the kind and
percentage of each stated on the la
bel because some State laws say those
facts must be there. Such laws are
to prevent consumers from geettmg
insanitary or used filling.
Best quality furniture has stufting
of long, curled horsehair. Medium
grades have Spanish moss, or cheaper
grades of cattle hair, or a combination
of moss and hair. In the lowest grades
are palm-leaf fiber, sisal, coco fiber
tow, and excelsior. The filings rank
in about that order for residence
comfort, and wearing qualities.
If the label doesn't tell you what
filings are in the furniture, be sure
you get the information from the
salesman and have it listed on youl
sales slip.
"Stuffing should be quilted or seweo
to the burlap undermining to prevent
it's shifting and massing in one spot
of the chair.
Cushions with filling should first OF
all have down-proof ticking. The la
bel should tell you what the filling
is. Best grades have rs per cen
goose down and 25 per cent small
goose feathers. Cushions 100 per cen
down don't have as much body a!
those that are mixed.
Duck, chicken, and turkey feather!
are found in cushions of medium
grade furniture They rank in tina
order for softness and durability
Kapok, cotton, and cotton linters g
into the lowcst-gradc pieces. Otter
these tend to lump or to becom'
powdery.
How To Use Gelatin
If you soak gelatin in cold waite
first, you will find it will dissolve mucl
quicker when you are ready to pu
it in hot water.
Sheet and shredded gelatin must b'
soaked longer than the granulatet
type. Add sugar, flavorngs, anc
seasonings after the gelatin is dis
solved completely. If fruits or vege
tables are to be added they should bt
put into the gelatin as dry as possible
and just after the gelatin has begul
to CONCEAL.
Fresh pineapple and gelatin will no
mix because an engine in the pine
apple liquefes the gelatin. Heating
the pineapple in boiling water vii
destroy the engine.
Beating the gelatin solution aftc
it has become thick and stitf-but no
stiff enough to cause the edges Il
break apart-wiIl result in foam!
mixture and will double It's volume
Whipped cream or egg white shoulc
be added when the solution is at th'
right thickness; both "A too thin AM
a too thick solution will result in al
incomplete mixture.