Show U S families on relief buy protective foods what do families on relief actually by with blue stamps issued free as a practical method for distributing ing t 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 conclusions says milo perkins perk ins in in charge of the united states department 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 pla plan n was effective in five f ive cities there were minor diff differences erencen in administrative inis methods to discover which variations of the basic plan seemed to work best in general orange colored stamps which were bought bough t by the relief family CID could uld be used to buy any foods and half as many blue stamps given free could be spent only for foods on the official surplus list at that time the surplus list included butter eggs oranges grapefruit peaches pears cabbages peas tomatoes onions dried prunes white flour graham flour corn meal and rice |