Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1918 — OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS [ARTICLE]

OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS

By Dr. Harry E.

Barnard, Federal

Food Administrator for Indiana.

The usual fall decline In market prices of poultry is due to large receipts of Immature and poorly fleshed chickens, scarcity of labor and inadequate refrigerating space. A heavy marketing of moulting hens also has a depressing effect on the market. Producers may assist in stabilizing the poultry market by withholding Immature chickens and moulting hens and by extending the normal period of fall marketing well into the winter. Owing to a misunderstanding of the resolution relative to the preferred classification of agricultural lime, the following statement of R. S. Baker, assistant priorities commissioner, is made public: “The state offlelal having supervision of production or soil conservation (in Indiana the director of extension, Pflrdue University) may supervise without direction ,or permit from this division the distribution of burned lime and ground limestone for agricultural purposes, and any manufacturer, producer or dealer in burned lime or ground limestone may supply such products for agricultural purposes under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by such director.” _ ~

The rapid manufacture of the new crop beet sugar in the West and new crop Louisiana cane sugar in the South together with the freer railway transportation conditions, the reductions that we have made in the consumption of sugar In the manufacture trades and the patriotic conservation in the past, four months, enables us to increase the household allowance of sugar from two pounds per person per month to three pounds per person per month, with the same ratio to public eating places, as from November Ist. This makes good our promise to increase the household allowance of sugar at the earliest possible moment that our supplies would Justify and make it possible for tbe householder to more freely use the apple, cranberry and grapefruit products and to use the fruits canned during the summer without sugar.

The regulations are also revised to the extent that aay person may purchase his whole monthly allowance at one time if he eo desires, that is, any family may purchase a month’s Bupply for the entire family in one purchase from the retail trades.

The temporary cessation of the cereal movement of the country due to stoppage of exports to secure army tonnage, has caused a greater ability for internal transportation than would otherwise be the case* and we do not

feel that with ability to make distribution we hate any right to hold supplies for the householders. We are confident that we can continue on this beats for some months to come from the supplies which we have in prospect. Cube’s crop is promised transportation, so that with these conditions we should be able to maintain, allied supplies. Make no changes in classes A B and D. (These include manufacturers of food products, bottlers, etc.)

New, when we have need for every ounoe of food that can bo put Into form for human consumption, it is the seeadest economy to let young turkeys live through the W bug-and-seed-huntlng season. A young gobler that weighs ten pounds in October will weigh twelve or thirteen pounds sixty days later if given e little extra feed along toward the end of that period. A hen in the same time will fill out from seven pounds to nine or ten. Such satisfactory gains can be made at no otter time. The tJ. S. Food Administration suggests that in order to*take advantage of this' favorable season, no young turkey hens weighing, less then six pounds dressed, be merited.