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Show USE OF OYSTERS IS URGED BY BUREAU The bureau of fisheries, department of commerce, is distributing" a poster giving reasons for eating oysters more generally. gen-erally. The oyster production of the United States is greater than that of all other countries combined, and there is available in this resource a vast quantity quan-tity of animal food which should be utilized to the utmost at this time. Particular attention is called to not only the harmlessncss, but the excellence, of "green-gllled oysters." Grecn-gilled oysters are usually fat and of excellent flavor and in France are regarded as the best obtainable. In the United States there has existed a prejudice against them on account of the erroneous belief that the color is due to copper. The bureau recommends oysters as without waste, digestible, wholesome and affording an appetizing variant to the diet. A cook book containing 100 recipes can be bad gratis by addressing division F, bureau of fisheries, Washington, D. C. |