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and electricity tor cooking are given. For preparing a dinner tor six people the 



ciist was found to be 6J timet as much with coal oil as with natural gas. The 



corresponding values with soft coal, gasoline, ami electricity were ii.8. 5, ami 

 5.5, respectively, 



Food Surveys ( U. 8. Dt pt. Ayr., Food Surreys, 2 (WW), \os. 17, pp. 16, fly. 

 1; IS, pp. 8; W, pp. 8, flga. 7). — These nuinhers deal, respectively, with stocks 

 Of foodstuffs in the hands of retail dealers July 1, 1918; Commercial stocks of 

 grain, Hour, and miscellaneous food products in the Tinted Slates on February 

 1, 1919; and commercial stocks of wheat, corn, oats, barley, and rye, and their 

 principal products, on January 1, 1919. 



The weekly food purchase of a family (London: Croicther d Goodman, Ltd., 

 r.'l7,j>. I). -Figures are given which show the amounts of different foods to 

 be purchased by different sized families in order to obtain 3,<mm calories per 

 man per day. 



Measurement of the cost of living and wages, \V. F. Oobukn (Ann, Amer. 

 [,<id. Lniit. and So,-, got., 81 (WW), No. 170, pp. U0-L12) — In Investigations of 

 the Increased cost of living it was found that food in October, 1918, had in- 

 creased 75 per cent over the average price of 1914-15. From GOO dietaries col- 

 Lected by the 1'nited States Bureau of Labor, which cost on the average $607 per 

 year for families averaging 3.6 equivalent males, the food per adult man was 

 said to furnish 3,155 calories per day .with no allowance for waste. 



A manual of household accounts, J. C. and M. F. Crandell (Boston: Whit- 

 tomb it Barrows, Wll, pp. 158). — The authors aim to describe a system of 

 household accounts which takes into consideration all of the principles of 

 modern accounting and is believed to be adaptable to the accounts of any 

 family or individual. Blank forms for keeping household accounts are also 

 included. 



A practical dietary computer, A. E. Pope (New York: 0. P. Putnam's Sons, 

 1911, pi'- IV+170). — This "computer" has been prepared more especially for 

 nurses and others whose knowledge of dietetics is not very extensive. It con- 

 tains tables showing the composition and caloric value of foods, and the car- 

 bohydrate equivalents. The fuel value of a large number of recipes is com- 

 puted. It has been the author's purpose to make these tables practicable 1 and 



easy to use. 



Food saving and sharing (Garden City, .V. V.: Doublcday, Page A Co., 1918, 

 l>li. I 1 + 10.!. figs, l.i). — This book has been prepared, under the direction of the 

 T. S. Food Administration, in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture 

 ami Bureau of Education, in response to a request from the National Educa- 

 tion Association for use in public schools as a means of promoting among 

 children the program of food conservation. 



The limiting factors in the food supply of the nation at war, A. E. Taylor 

 1/ air. Pen*., 1 nir. Lnturrs, 5 (1918), pp. S.', 7-366). —The author states that 

 prior to the war our imports of foodstuffs covered the needs of 1.5,000,000 



I pie. while at the time of writing in addition to feeding ourselves we had to 



feed at a conservative estimate 25,000,000 of the allies. He calls attention to 

 the fact that during the year 1917, despite the deflection of labor, scarcity of 

 fertilizer, and reduction in machinery the farmers increased the acreage of 

 the eight principal crops 14,000.(XX) acres. Nevertheless, he believed that in- 

 crease in production would not be able to meet the situation and that decrease 

 in consumption must be invoked. The kind and extent of the repression of 

 consumption Is discussed. 



The food supply of the United Kingdom, 1916 (London: Food (War) Com- 

 mittee, Roy. No,., wn, pp. 1/).— Supplementing the data previously noted (E. 



