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THE UNION-RECORDER, MILLEOGEVILLE. GA., APRIL 3. 1930 Americans Are Changing Their Eating Habits' Cmummiik Mare Fruit end VefetiMn, Mare Milk ui Dairy PrWmcti and More Pork, Leu Beef, Cora and Wkeat and More Poultry By CALEB JOHNSON In ten yuan* the erring habits of . 63 pounds of beef in the course of the American people have under-(the year. In 192b this had fallen jfon* a radical change. We are eating more fruit, more Ifreen vegetables, more poultry, more milk and butter. We aie eating less beef, less wheat, jess com, less m?at generally. The only kind of meat in which there has been an increase in do mestic consumption is pork, and that increase is mainly in the frrm of ham. Figures compiled by the Bureau of Home Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture, which reveal those fait4. throw an interesting side-light <>n the enrage which is going on in American life. Xot so many years ag>* the great majority of Americans were engag 'd in heavy manual labor. Thur work called foi larg.. meal.- of hearty food. Now a large und growing pro portion of factory workers and other laborer are machine-tender*, their work calling for comparatively slight muscular exertion. The wortgng- man's dinnerpail .* no longer the in- stitution which it once v»us. In tne larger cities und even smoll com munities quick-lunch count* r with ham sandwiches and cheese sand- wiches as it* principal staples, j, f« r | more popular with the avi lage young mechanic. That is one reason why we are changing from a nation of heavy eat- to ® nation of moderate o&te-a. Another in the general desirt* to fat. So much his been said in print and otherwise about the physical danger of overweight that even those who cam little about how they look are deliberately avoiding the fattening foods. And as for the Kifl»—;Well, it is hardly necessary to point out tha* they can’t keep tho*«- boyish figures and eat the old-fash ioned three square meals a day. Lettuce is one item of food which has gained most in popularity. Be tween 1920 and 1929 our national consumption of lettuce was multi plied by four, from 13,000 carloads in 1920 to over 53,000 carloads in 1929. And that indicates another reason for the change in our eating habits. Lettuce is one of the chief courcea of the bculth-prcserving vitamins, unheard of by the public ten years ago, now generally under stood to U- essential to the health of everybody who does not spend most of his or her time out of doors. the 192 off to a shade over 51 pounds. In the same period we reduced average consumption of veal from about 7 1-2 pounds to about 6 3-4 pounds. We continued to eat about the same average amount of lumb and mutton, but our consumptio pork ran up in those nine j from an average of 60 pounds t most 74 pounds. Of all kinds ofj meat, we are eating almost 25 per cent !e.*s than we did twenty years ago. We have cut down on bread- - wheat bread and corn bread both- as the statictics of flour and corn- meal shipments show. The fallir.g off here in twenty years h nearly 40 percent. Out of figures like these we obtain | »t only an index of the changing! tastes and habits of the nation, but information of the greatest value to< the forward-looking producers nf and dealers in foodstuffs. growers, for example, that their mar-j ket is getting smaller. That should' make many farmers consider trying to reduce cost M production, cut down wheat acreage, turn part of the wheat 14nd into some other crop which promises a better market. The grower of corn is not so seri ously threatened as is the wheat farmer, for an increasing amount of corn is being converted into pork, probably about compensating for the falling off of human consump tion of corn bread. There is every indication that the trend in food preferences will con tinue about as it is going now. That means there is an enlarging oppor tunity for the fruit and vegetable grower. Already fruits and vege tables total a higher value in annual production than any other money crop except corn. To the Western farmer accustomed to a single crop on large acreage, such as corn or wheat, or the Southern farmer whose sole staple has beefn cotton, such crops as celery, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, strawberries and other small fruits seem like kitchen garden stuff, not worth while bothering with. But the experience of specialists in such crops has been that they are no more hazardous than the grain cron- when intelligently cultivated, that while the investment per acre is higher in production cost, the profit per acre is vastly greater in good years and at least as great in aver-j age years. Already the United States has ceased to become u beef-exporting! untry. In fact, we are importing, ate more than three times celery, more than six times carloads nf carrots. Tbei tables staaj high in the list ol foods containing u high percentage of „ome beef from South America. With vitamins. And we are eating about, tho fa „ iRK off in dome rtic consump-1 twice much grapefruit, cabbage.; tion , there i, „„ encouragement fori cauliflower, wtoe, am) turnip, a, the cattlcfurmer to expand hi, »c-' we d„l ten year, ago. , tivltie,. Hog, offer a better out-! In 1917 we consumed about 42 look for the future, dairy farming, gallons of milk per individual. In'looks like a stable nnd growing in- 1 1928 this had increased to 56 gnl- j d us try in which to start one’s sons. Ions. In the same period we in- but the agricultural prizes of ten creased our butter consumption by three pounds per head and our use of cheese by two pounds. That much of this increased use of dairy products can be traced to the “eat less meat” campaigns is hardly to be doubted, especially when we com pare th«* figures showing the falling years from now will go to the grow ers of fruit and vegetables. If the present tendency in food habits con tinues they will be sitting on top of the world in 1940. off in the In 1920 the 1 of i The voters of Baldwin county are not going to be in a hurry tr line up; in supprot of n gubernatorial candi date. MI S KOCH CHCO.-ES Electrk Maid Bread FOR THE UNION-RECORDER S ELECTRIC COOKING SCHOOL Because of its delicious quality sandwiches and toasting. and its especial titness for VOL TOO SHOULD BE AN ELECTRICK MAID USER Order a Loaf Today From Your Grocer. SOLD BY ALL INDEPENDENT GROCERS ♦ The Electrily Maid Bake Shop Millcdgeville Gw "-Ajeville Operated- .:a>'.'<w^V'i‘ c> v Birdsey’s Flour MISS KOCH Selected Birdsey’s Flour For Use in The COOKING SCHOOL Special This Week 24-Lb. 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