Twenty lessons in domestic science

Every kitchen should be provided with a tested scale of about 20 pounds capacity. See that every dollar buys a hundred cents' worth Check up your purchases when delivered and see if they agree with your order. Order your groceries for the day early in the morning and do not ask your dealer to deliver twice in one day. Pay your bills promptly and discourage the trading stamp evil. Discourage also the killing of calves for food as one of the reasons for the high cost of beef. Let them grow until they are valuable as food and a profit to the stock raiser. Hints for the House-wife Contributed by Ralph W. Smith, Minn. Dept. of Weights and Measures. Make a business of your kitchen and run that business as carefully as does the merchant who sells you your food commodity. Provide yourself with a reliable scale and correct measures, and in order to give them ,fhe' same legal status as those of your merchant, as well as to assure yourself of their accuracy, have them tested and sealed by a Weights and Measures officer.* Inform yourself as to the Weights and Measures laws of your State or City that you may know haw food products should be sold; use your sealed scale and measures to check your purchases ; if there is a violation of the law or a discrepancy in weight or measure, notify the Weights and Measures officer — his business is to help you. In making a purchase by weight, observe whether the scale is in balance before the weighing is performed, that is, whether the beam oscillates freely in case of a beam scale, or whether the indicating pointer rests on zero in a computing scale. Bear in mind that a liquid quart is not the same as a dry quart, but that the dry quart of 67.2 cubic inches is over 14 per cent larger than the liquid quart of 57.75 cubic inches. Remember also that in most States the sale, of a dry commodity by the bushel, peck, etc., means a sale of a definite number of pounds. In buying dry commodities, therefore, procure the bushel list of your State and check your purchases bv weight from that table. Buy in definite quantities, as so many pounds or so many quarts; DO NOT buy a dime's worth or a quarter's worth. If you buy foodstuffs put up in package form, remember that there is a Federal law requiring the net contents of the package to be marked thereon. Look for this marking and you can still tell just how much you are buying. Familiarize yourself with the tables given below so that you ean think intelligently in terms of the different units : •In the State of Minnesota this service is free as the fee system has been abolished. LIQUID MEASURE 4 gilte (gi.)=l Pint (pt.) 2 pt. = l quart (qt.) =8 gills. 4 qt. = l gallon (gal.) =8 pints = 32 gills. 3V/2 gal. = l barrel (bbl.) =126 quarts. 2 bbl. = l hogshead (hhd.) =63 gallons = 252 qts. APOTHECARIES' FLUID MEASURE 60 minims (m.) =1 fluid dram (fl. dr.) 8 fl. dr. = l fluid ounce (fl. oz.) =480 minims. 16 fl. oz. = l pint (O.) =128 fl. dr. = 7680 m. 8 0. = 1 gallon (cong.) =128 fl. oz. = 1024 fl. dr. DRY MEASURE 2 pints (pt.) =1 quart (qt.) 8 qt. = 1 peck (pk.) =16 pints. 4 pk. = l bushel (bu.) =32 qts. = 64 pints. AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT