Uncle Sam's Cook Book 



Though no department or bureau of the Government 

 has ever issued an edition of a book bearing this title, yet 

 the title itself has become so widely known and so gener- 

 ally used that it can not be altogether ignored. 



All of the Government prints relating to foods and their 

 preparation issued by the Agriculture Department and 

 its several bureaus and by the Fisheries Bureau, the Gov- 

 ernment Hospital for the Insane, the Public Health Serv- 

 ice, the commissary departments of the Army and the 

 Navy, and other branches of the Government have been 

 small pamphlets like those which this Price List offers for 

 sale to the world in general at the modest price of 5 cents 

 or 10 cents each. 



Still the popular name " Uncle Sam's Cook Book " didn't 

 spring up from nothing. It had a source and a reason. 

 It originated in the fertile brain of some Representative 

 in Congress who wanted to discover or invent something 

 novel and attractive for the pleasure of the people at home 

 who had honored him and whom he was willing to have 

 honor him some more. It is well known, we think, to most 

 readers that each Senator and Representative is entitled 

 by law and by custom to a considerable number of the 

 cheap but meaty and handy little publications known as 

 " Farmers' Bulletins " for distribution among the voters 

 and citizens of his State or district. These are printed in 

 cheap form so that the money provided for them may go 

 farther so that each dollar may provide a greater num- 

 ber of readable bulletins for general information. 



The " Farmers' Bulletins " now number more than 600 

 distinct publications, each on a different subject, and the 

 whole list covering almost every branch of farm and house- 

 hold economy. A few years ago, when they were less num- 

 erous than now, some ingenious Congressman, casting 

 about for a way to increase the favorable feeling among 

 the home folk, and at the same time offer them something 

 novel and useful, conceived the idea of sorting out the 

 bulletins relating to cookery and household science gen- 

 erally from the others and having them bound together in 

 bright red cloth and lettered in big gilt letters with the 

 words " Uncle Sam's Cook Book." This title was a hit, 

 The demand for the books was large. Those who did not 

 " catch on " felt disappointed and aggrieved. 



But the departments kept on printing little pamphlets 

 as before. And apparently they intend to keep on. 



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