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Show YOUR NUTRITION COMMITTEE presents In cooperation with WAR FOOD FACTS A service of the Office of Distribution, Dis-tribution, WFA for westerners working in various wartime food programs and intereted in current food activities. August Canning Calendar Headliners for canning, are peaches, plums, snap beans, tomatoes, to-matoes, corn .... for pickles and relishes, cucumbers, watermelon, water-melon, tomatoes, peaches. Tomatoes Plantings this year for both fresh and processing tomatoes are higher for the nation na-tion than last year, or the previous pre-vious ten-year average .... in the West, however, acreage of fresh tomatoes is less than last year, while processing tomato acreage is greater. The season is late in most commercial growing grow-ing sections. However, present market supplies and Victory Garden Gar-den prospects point to plentiful supplies during the current harvest har-vest season which began in June and lists through November. Red Onions Current supplies of red onions which are juicy and sweet seem to be heavier than the more familiar white or yellow globe. This supply of red onions should be fully used, as this is a perishable food. Soluable Coffee WFA has set aside all stocks and future production pro-duction of soluable coffee until the armed forces, Red Cross and other agencies have what they need. There are a lot of boys in foxholes who need that "quick cup" and who can't employ the silex or drip method of coffee brewing. Food Containers The critical shortage of kraft paper bags for carrying foodstuffs may be relieved re-lieved by taking shopping bags to market. Consumers can also save large kraft bags which the grocer has previously given them and re-use them for food shopping. shop-ping. A kraft paper bag will last through at least half a dozen trips to market. Foods already 'wrapped in paper packages do not need to be put in a paper bag too. Canning Ariihematic Listed below are quantities necessary to fill a specified number of jars Peaches 48 pounds of peaches fill between 18 and 24 jars, de-I de-I pending on how packed. (2 to 12 pounds fill on quart). Plums ! 56 pounds of plums fill 24 to 30 quarts. (2 to 2 pounds fill one quart.) Tomatoes 53 pounds fill 15 to 20 quarts. (2V2 to 3 pounds fill one quart.) Snap Beans 30 pounds fill about 15 to 20 quarts. (1 to 2 pounds rill one quart.) Sweet Co-n 35 pounds fill 8 to 9 quarts. (6-16 ears, depending on size, fill a quart.) Cranberries More cranberries are to be available to U. S. servicemen serv-icemen in the country and overseas over-seas this year than in 1943, but U. S. civilians and other claimants claim-ants will have less. Allocations for the 194-1-45 pack year have been announced by WFA. From the total allocable supply (53,-! (53,-! 000,000 pounds, 16,000,000 pounds short of 1943 production) U. S. military and war services will receive re-ceive about 17- milion pounds, U. S. civilians 32- million pounds. Two and one-half million mil-lion pounds will go to U. S. territorities, allies, and other exports. ex-ports. Less Ice Cream Less ice cream is being made now than was made in Mav. June and July. During the past three months, milk production was high and the amount of ice cream was increased in-creased over previous months even over the amount made during dur-ing the summer of last year. Now milk production is declining de-clining seasonally. War demands for such exportable dairy products prod-ucts as canned butter, cheese, milk powder and evaporated milk continue to climb. As a result, WFA has restored the re I strictions on the use of milk in ice cream which were relaxed during the three months of flush milk production. The order limiting limit-ing the use of milk in ice cream is one of the conservation measures meas-ures necessary to see that enough milk is diverted to creameries, cheese factories, powder plants and condenseries. Wartime Wheat The 1944-45 supplies of wheat in the United States will probably exceed one i and a half billion bushels. That ; should meet all essential require-I require-I ments for the fiscal year beginning begin-ning July 1 and also provide a substantial carry-over in 1946. The 1944 wheat supply will be allocated among U. S. civilians, military and war services, our allies and territories, other friendly nations, and for relief j in liberated areas. As all esti-t esti-t mates of 1944 production and i imports must be based on such uncertainties as weather and shipping conditions, the divisions i are tentative. However, the WFA ' has made definite allocations for the first quarter Junly, August, Au-gust, and September. Of this year's expected supply, 931 milion bushels S3 per cent of the supply is earmarked for civilian food, feed, seed and industrial in-dustrial uses. About 11 percent of the supply 118 million bushels bush-els has been allocated to U. S. military uses, and to the Allies, territories and other friendly na-1 tions. About 65 milion bushels have been allocated for relief to liberated areas. All in all, the wheat situation for 1944-45 is pleasant to contemplate. con-template. On July 1, 1918 the wheat carry-over was 40 million bushels. The carry-over on July 1, 1944 was about 350 million bushels. Civilians and the armed forces have had enough wheat, and flour during this war. And in export these two commodities have waited for ships ships have not had to wait for them. Early 19th Century Food Notes Hops It was said that the perfume of hops is so salutary that when put between the outer cover and pillow, they will procure pro-cure sleep for those who are in delirious fevers. Horseraddish Horseradish, scraped and infused in cold milk,was considered to be one of the safest and best cosmetics cos-metics in the 19th century. Onions Pliny informs us that onions clear the sight by the tears they draw, and that the Romans used them to cure the sting of serpents and other reptiles. Also, the juice of onions was given to those who had suddenly become speechless. s Mcx Canned Fish U. S. civilians civil-ians are ' expected to receive slightly more canned fish during the 1944-45 pack year than was allocated for the corersponding period in 1943-44. About 43 percent per-cent of the expected available supply of canned fish is salmon and 24 percent pilchards. The remaining varieties are Maine sardines, Atlantic sea herring, mackerel, tuna, shrimp and other minor ones. The civilian per capita consumption of canned fish averaged 4.8 pounds per person per-son from 1935 to 1939. This dropped drop-ped to 3.4 pounds in 1942 and to 2.4 pounds in 194i! but is expected to go up to 2.8 this year. |