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Show , Food Bureau Hints. The food administration authorizes the following: For the information of housewives who wish accurate information on relative costs in planning economical and at the same time nutritious meals, the food administration ad-ministration has issued a table showing the comparative cost and food values of fifty foods. Bread is taken as the standard of comparison, com-parison, and the coat per pound and the relative cost per hundred calories of the other materials is shown. The prices given are averages of those in twenty-five twenty-five places throughout the country on August 1. The table shows that twelve articles are cheaper than bread on the basis of calories obtained for the money, two are of equal value, and thirty-six higher. Corn meal, notwithstanding its present high price, continues to give the most food value for the money. Broiler chickens stand at the foot of the list. The experts of the food administration think that an intelligent use of this table will help housewives. They point out that it would be impossible for a family to keep in health If it were fed exclusively on the foods in the lower .part of the table. Their advice is that the housewife continue to prepare the usual meal 6f varied diet, and utilize this table as a guide in making combinations that will save money and at the same time be nutritious. The table follows: - Gents Relative per cost witli pound, bread. Com meal B.l 47.4 Rollad oats. . bulk 6 9 4S.4 Wheat flour 7.1 55.1 Hominy grits 7.7 -61.5 Graham Hour 7.9 61.5 Rye flour T.S 62.8 Sugar, granulated 9 66.7 Corn sirup S.1 73.8 Pearl barley ... 10.7 S4.6 Pure leaf lard 27.1 ' 84.6 Rice, fancy head 10.7 So. 9 Cottonseed Oil 29.8 1 H.2 Bread 9 2 100.0 Macaroni, bulk ,.. 12-7 100.0 Com oil 81.0 100.0 Cracker-, built,, soda. IS. 5 . 111.5 Oleomargarine 30. D ' 116.7 "White potatoes 3.8 141-0 Evaporated apples 14.8 143.6 Lima beans 15.fi IHt.O Navv beans 13.5 lUfi.O Italian olive oil 51.2 164.1 Creamery butter 45.7 167 9 Prunes, medium elzedr 15.8 174.4 String beane. canned 12.8 375 .6 Comb honey ... 21.4 183.9 Cocoa, bulk 1 290 191.0 Cheese, American 31.8 .2 Sweet, potatoes 7.0 l?i.7 Milk E.8 219.2 Pineapples, canned 18.6 24S.7 Ham, alired 40. .1 271. S Salt mackerel .21.9 2S0.8 Pork chops 30.3 315. 4. Onions 5.1 a2fi.9 Corn, canned .' 1S.5 864.1 Leg of mutton 29.0 426.9 Salmon, red Alsska, canned 24.1 43A.7 Salmon 24.9 4?8.7 Leg of lamb 32.8 500 0 Beef, round 6teak 28.0 552.6 Eggs, fresh -gat he red 26.4 661.1 Peas, canned ,11.8 605.1 Sardines, domestic 49.2 Halibut 24-5 697.4 Peaches, canned 14.2 729.2 WMteflsh 18.2 7 20.5 Salt Cod 20.9 714.9 Veal cutlets 33.5 8f9.0 Tomatoes, cannad 9.6 1230.8 Chicken, broilers 34.5 1524.4 |