Show U S families on relief buy protective foods what do families on relief ac actually by with blue stamps issued free as a practical method for distributing foods of which there is a surplus supply what foods do they choose when they have opportunity to select as they please from a limited list of surplus foods it is too early to draw general con conclusions c fusions lu says milo perkins in charge of the united states de department part of agriculture food stamp program but for a six week period the stamp holders spent a little more than 80 per cent of their blue stamps for protective foods and a little less than 20 per cent for flour corn meal rice and beans for this period the stamp pl plan an was effective in five cities there were minor differences in administrative methods to discover which variations of the basic plan seemed to work best in general orange colored stamps wh which ich were bought by the relief family could be used to buy any foods and half as many blue stamps given give n free could be spent only for foods food S on the official sur surplus PI us list at that time the surplus list included butter eggs ranges oranges grapefruit peaches pears cabb cabbages agest peas tomatoes onions dried prunes white flour graham flour corn meal and rice |