FOODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 165 



With respect to tbe tendency to uniform prices throughout the year, an ex- 

 amination of the data collected regarding the range of prices indicates " a 

 tendency toward uniformity of prices with regard to butter, eggs, poultry, and 

 fresh mutton, and a tendency away from uniformity with regard to fresh beef 

 and fi'esh pork." 



With regard to the extent of the cold storage enterprise, the report points out 

 that " this business of storing foods has grown to such proportions that con- 

 sumers have a riglitful concern with its management for economic as well as 

 sanitary reasons. From the returns made to this Department by the cold-storage 

 warehousemen, it is inferable that the fresh beef, fresh mutton, fresh pork, 

 poultry, butter, eggs, and fish received into cold storage in a year amounts to a 

 weight of at least 1,000,000,000 pounds and very likely to a quarter of a billion 

 more. The eggs received into storage in a year are approximately ISJ per cent 

 of the farm productions; the fresh beef is over 3 per cent of the census com- 

 mercial slaughter of cattle; mutton over 4 per cent of that slaughter of sheep 

 and lambs ; fresh ])ork 11^ per cent of that slaughter of hogs ; and butter 25 

 per cent of the creamery production." 



From the investigation as a whole, the fallowing recommendation is made with 

 reference to publicity : " This is no indictment of the men who keep foods in cold 

 storage except in so far as they sometimes speculate, nor need they be indicted 

 for offenses in order that the public economic interest in their business may be 

 made to appear. . . . The man who places food in cold storage is somewhat in 

 the situation of the man who forestalls the market. He may not attempt to do 

 so, but the power may be a temptation. 



" The affairs of such a business as this should have publicity. The public 

 ought to know how much goods are in storage from month to month and what 

 the movements of receipts and deliveries are. 



" The food warehousemen should be required to send to Washington monthly 

 reports containing the desired information. Here these reports could be 

 promptly aggregated and the results could be given to the public on a previously 

 announced day of the month, somewhat as the crop rejtorts are." 



An inquiry into the cost of living in Australia, 1910-11, G. H. Knibbs 

 (Noted ill Jour. Soc. 8tatts. Paris, 53 {1912). No. 3, p. 163). — Statistics regard- 

 ing the expenditures of 212 Australian families with an average income of 

 $100 per month are here summarized. The weekly expenditures for food for 

 individuals of different age and sex are found to stand in practically the same 

 proportion to each other as the figures given by Atwater to represent the rela- 

 tive nutritive demands of individuals of different age and sex. 



[Food analyses and other pure food and drug topics], E. F. Ladd and 

 Alma K. Joh.nson (North Dakota Sta. Spec. Bui., 2 (1912), Nos. 2, pp. 17-32; 

 3, pp. 33-JiS). — The first of these bulletins contains data regarding the registra- 

 tion of beverages, the examination of crackers, biscuits, and similar goods, mis- 

 cellaneous food products, and proprietary articles, and a discussion of a number 

 of matters relating to pure foods. 



The second bulletin contains some data regarding the registration of bever- 

 ages, the examination of kippered herrings from a corroded can with reference 

 to the tin, lead, and zinc present, analyses of " crisco," a commercial fat, and 

 canned goods, the examination of miscellaneous food products, and analyses of 

 waters. 



A paper by T. Sanderson reports a comparison of the milling quality of 

 samples of hard red. &T3ring wheat and hard red winter wheat. The data showed 

 that from a milling standpoint the winter wheat is superior to the spring wheat 

 and produces the largest amount of flour per bushel, with the smallest loss in 

 milling. The 2 types of wheat, it is noted, are very similar in their general 



