The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-04-25
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly by Consumer
Counsel Division, "A. A. A.
Washington, d. C.
If New York Arteries Were Cut.

If New York Arteries Were Cut. 4.
What would happen if New York
should suddenly find itself cut off from
all its sources of foods?
This department sent reporter one
day last summer to find the answer.
This is what he found!
If such a disaster should have oc-
Cured on day in June, it would have
left only one days supply of milk in
the city.
Menus on the following day would
have included all the fruits and vege-
tables that arrived in the city the pre-
ceding evening: apples, bananas, car
rots, cucumbers, lettuce, onions, po-
tatoes tomatoes, grapefruit, oranges,
peaches, watermelons, plantains, and
pineapples. By the end Of the day,
supplies of avocadoes, artichokes, lima
beans, snap beans, beets, broccoli,
cabbage, celery, parsley, apricots, and
plums would have been exhausted.
From cold storage plants would
have come a few days supplies OF
berries, cherries, asparagus, beans, and
spinach.
BY the end of the week practically
all fresh fruits and vegetables would
have disappeared except potatoes
pineapples and bananas.
Poultry supplies would have lasted
3 weeks.
There would have been bread for q
Int oil nr{o r,f n
gradients except flour ran out, the
bread would have been debased ir
quality until it disappeared altogether
After weeks there would have beer
little left except canned fruits anc
vegetables and black coffee.
This rapid shrinking of available
foods would be only one-half Of the
calamity If New York lost it's fooc
supplies, the food suppliers would lose
their largest market. A half millior
farmers and farm workers who worl
full time to feed and clothe New Yorl
would have become suddenly unem
ployed. Farm and city worker alike
would learn through such an expert
ence how dependent they are on eacl
other.
Cleaning an Enamel Coated Stove
! If you have an enamel-coated ga!
or electric stove, wipe it off after eacl
cooking, and give it very careful
cleaning every week.
That's the advice of the Bureau o.
Home Economics. Following thes'
rules prevents the stove from being
caked with SCOT and grease.
Use cloth wrung out of soap.
water. Never wipe the stove with +;
cold wet cloth when the stove is still
.hot;, this may cause the enamel II
Wipe up Immediately any food tha
boils over, and you will save yourself
the job pf securing which roughen
the enamN and metal trim. Detachable
parts of the stove should be removed
once week and cleaned. Stubborn
spots can be removed with trisodun
phosphate. If you must scour use
very fine scourer like feldspar.
Skim Milk Is Rich, Too
Rich milk to most people mean
milk that's rich in fat, while skin
milk means to those same people mill
that is anything but rich.
That is a food fallacy that doesn'
stand up under scientific analysis.
Skim milk is anything but poor
Detitians know that it is just as ricl
as whole milk in protein and in mucl
needed minerals. In fact it has al
important nutrients of whole milk ex
cept fat and Vitamins A and ID.
Because people don't prize it, no
ings, many of whom could afford i
while they cannot afford to buy Who'll,
milk. Thus consumers and farmer
both lose out. Consumers lose out Oh
an important and economical source o
dietary wealth, and farmers lose ou
on market for an intrinsically valu
able product.
Is the Egg Hard Boiled?
If dark rather greenish rinl
forms around the yolk when you cool
hard-boiled eggs, try cooking them be
low the boiling point and then, as sool
as they are done, putting them il
cold water.
That, according to the Bureau o.
Home Economics, will do away will
the unappetizing looking ring. Also
it's good to remember that hard-cook
ed eggs are better than hard -bolet
ones.
Because the shell Of the egg stick!
to the white, it is no sign the egg i!
fresh. Bureau of Home Economics ex
perts tested this theory with fresh
storage, and old eggs, and found i
didn't hold up. The best guarantee O
fresh eggs is to buy those that ar,
government graded with the date o.