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...will give you an idea of the effect of this readjustment on some of our staples. Commodity. Jan.1920. Present Price. Percentage. of Jan. Price. Beans, bushel, $4.65 $3.50 75% Cocoa, .22 .10 45 Coffee, .15 1/2 .07 1/2 48 Cotton, .40 .22 1/2 56 Cotton Yarns, .85 .45 .53 Flour, 16.75 11.00 68 Gingham, .27 1/2 .20 74 Hides, .55 .24 44 Leather, 2.90 2.40 83 Lard, .25 .19 76 Potatoes, 7.50 3.25 43 Rice, .15 .09 60 Rubber, .48 .24 50 Silk, 17.80 5.00 28 Sugar, .15 .12 80 Tea, .31 .20 65 Tobacco, .52 .30 58 Wool...
While we were at war it was highly desirable that as many town people as possible should be persuaded to cultivate war gardens. That was one means of adding a small margin to our food supply, to the end that a little more flour and meat could be spared to feed our friends across the ocean. Now that the war is over, the chief effect of daylight saving will be to enable town people to spend a little more time in self amusement...
Besides this actual gain, there is the moral one which comes from enforcing a patriotic principle. Just as any one individual household saves little white flour by using graham twice a week, so we conserve only a relatively small amount of fuel by dimming out lights. But, as the household, because it has the spirit, helps materially to prevent waste, so the student body can check needless consumption. We shall back up an actual physical profit by the knowledge of having done as much as possible to preserve the vital supplies of the nation...
Blackberry pie requires for its making blackberries, sugar, a little flour; and pie crust with shortening in it as well as flour...
Custard pie takes eggs, milk and sugar as well as pie crust, containing flour and shortening...