The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-12
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly by Consumer
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, D. C,
Don't Skip Skim Milk


Buttermilk, cents a quart, choco-
late drink, cents quart, Grade A
milk, II cents quart. So read an ad
vertisement in a Washington news
paper recently.
Consumers, and the people who sell
to consumers are waking up to two
important facts about skim milk (but
termilk and chocolate drink are both
skim milk products). The first is that
skim milk is a valuable food. The
second is that there is an enormous
market for skim milk and skim milk
products if they are sold at low
enough prices.
Skim milk is low-cost source of
the almost priceless nutrients, calcium,
phosphorus, milk sugar, and milk pro-
tein. Expectant mothers, children, and
adults, too should get these nutrients
in their meals every day.
Despite the nutritive value of skim
milk, however, very little of it reaches
consumers. Instead it is either fed to
animals or thrown away. Another
milk product, whey, which is by
product of cheesemaking, is also large
ly wasted.
Each year human beings get only
60 per cent of the milk proteins, milk
sugar, and milk minerals contained in
the 100 billion pounds of milk pro-
duced. The remaining 40 per cent of
these health giving nutrients are fed
to animals or thrown away.
The Department Of Agricultures
Bureau of Dairy Industry is now
working on new products which will
utilize these foods and give human
beings healthier diets and farmers
larger incomes.
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Keep Food Cool
Whatever kind of refrigerator you
have, safeguard your food supply by
observing these rules.
Do not overcrowd the refrigerator
Don't let wrappings on food clutter
up an ice box so as to choke off air
circulation.
Cool hot food before storing. =
Place most perishable foods in
coolest spot.
Foods with strong odors-cheese
melons, etc-should be placed on the
warmest shelf where air passes over
them just before reaching the cooling
unit SO that odors will not be picked
up by other foods.
Put only clean food in the refriger-
ator.
Clean refrigerator once a week.
Il
How TO Take The Shine Out of Your
Pants
Nothing you can do will take the
-~. shine out of a pair Of. woolens pants
y permanently, but here's how yeu car
reduce the shine at least temporarily
Put the pants on the ironing board
right side up. Sponge them with
solution of vinegar and water
tablespoonfuls of vinegar to a quart
of water.
Now cover the shiny part with {
dry wool cloth, and place over this {
heavy pressing cloth immersed in the
vinegar and water solution, and ther
wrung out as dry as possible.
When the press cloth is dry, iror
with a fairly hot iron, letting plenty
of steam penetrate into the garment
The idea is to bring up the nap of tht
wool little so it won't shine.
If this fails, brushing or roughen
ing the surface lightly with emery
paper or a stiff brush may do thl
trick.
A substitute solution can be made by
mixing / tablespoonful of ammonia tC
quart of water.
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On The Air
The story of the new Federal quality
grades for beef, and buying inform
alton on how to buy your winters
coat will be featured on the weekly
broadcast of Consumer Time," OF
Saturday morning.
Consumer Time" under the joint
sponsorship of the Consumers Counse
Division of the Department of Agrl'
culture, and the General Federation OF
Womens Clubs, goes on the air every
Saturday morning at this same houi
over the red network Of the Natona
Broadcasting Company.
You can find out the name of the
station nearest you to which the pro.
gram is made available by writing
Consumers Counsel Division, Depart
ment Of Agriculture, Washington, ID