—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 24, 1973
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$ By Doris Thomas,
Extension Home Economist
Food Still A Bargain
in United States
Most people-think food prices
are high and it appears they will
continue to steadily increase. But
food is a bargain compared with
many other countries.
Americans spend only an
average of 15.7 percent of their
paychecks for food and this
figure is declining.
One reason your grocery bill
now seems high is that it includes
more than food Actually about 23
percent of the total bill is spent
for non-food items. Food costs
represent only about 77 percent of
the total.
The price of food eaten at home
has increased 29 percent from
1961 to 1971 According to an
article in a food retailers
magazine, other costs have in
creased much more during the
same ten year period.
For example, clothing costs are
up 33 percent; auto repairs 45
percent; restaurant meals and
dentists’ fees 54 percent, home
maintenance 56 percent; daily
newspaper 68 percent; postal
costs 73 percent; auto insurance
81 percent; movie admission 101
percent, and hospital room
charges 165 percent
Food costs have risen much
less than most other goods and
services we use. The facts in
dicate that food is still a bargain.
Tips on Buying Seconds
and Irregulars
Sometimes you can save up to
50 percent by buying factory
irregulars or seconds.
Ladies,
Have
You
Heard?
Seconds and irregulars are
slightly damaged products that
have flaws in them because of
production or shipping problems.
But some of them are prefectly
usable.
Some manufacturers repair or
destroy their seconds, but most
continue to sell them at greatly
reduced prices. Among such
frequent seconds available are
towels, sheets, tires, clothes,
shoes, china, carpets and crystal.
The trickiest part of buying
seconds is finding them.
Manufacturers don’t want their
seconds to steal business from
their firsts. So they’ll usually sell
them to out-of-the-way places
such as back street shops, factory
outlets, or the basement and
discount sections of department
stores.
Stores that handle seconds
usually are not allowed to ad
vertise the manufacturers’
names and often are forbidden to
display the seconds in their
windows.
Seconds normally aren’t sold if
they are seriously damaged or
won’t retain the characteristics
of the original product. Tires, for
example, often will be sold as
seconds because the white walls
are dirty, yet there is nothing
structurally wrong with the tires.
Clothing seconds are a good
bargain, too. They might have a
dirt spot, a button missing or
crooked stitching.
Most people learn of stores
where seconds are sold by word
of-mouth from their friends. But
if you’re new at seconds shop
ping, the following guidelines
may help you in your bargain
hunting.
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If there is a factory near you
that sells a product you want, find
out if it has a factory-outlet store.
If it does, that is probably where
the seconds are sold.
Check newspaper ad
vertisements closely for such
phrases as “huge savings,” “if
perfect,” “nationally advertised
brands,” and “discount prices.”
Also tour shopping streets of
warehouse districts or small
neighborhood shops in large
cities.
But most important, before you
buy seconds, examine the
product thoroughly and find the
flaw that made it a second.
Determine if the flaw is ob
jectionable to you and how it
might affect the performance of
the product. A large flaw, for
example, in the weaving of the
fabric could reduce the wear-life
of a garment.
Reputable stores that carry
seconds or irregulars label the
product as such. Failure to label
merchandise properly has been
considered unfair practice by the
Federal Trade Commission,
Better Business Bureaus, and
state agencies concerned with
truth-in-advertising.
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Bird in Hand, Pa. 17505
Recipe Correction
A line in Mrs. Miles Nolt’s
recipe for Fresh Coconut Pie was
inadvertantly omitted last week.
The correct recipe should read:
Coconut milk and milk to make
one quart. (Reserve 1 cup).
Heat 3 cups milk in double
boiler. Add the following beaten
together:
2 cups sugar
pinch of salt
3 egg yolks
Stir often till starting to
thicken. Mix:
% cup flour
1 tablespoon corn starch
1 cup milk which was reserved
Add to hot mixture and cook till
thick. Beat the egg whites stiff.
Add hot thick liquid and pour into
three baked pie shells. Top with
ground fresh coconut. This takes
one coconut.
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HALES 0 HUNTER CO.
Franklin & High St Palmyra, Pa. 17078
Ph. 717-838-1338
FEED LETTER
6000 POUNDS OF MILK
VS. 12,000 LBS. OF MILK
Being too young myself, I'll trust the reports of my
elders that a while back, Holstein cows had to run like
mad to make 6000 pounds of milk. Today some folks
claim, most Holsteins can give 15,000 pounds without
half trying. This is pretty interesting in light of the fact
that the capicity of the cow didn't increase two and
two-thirds times what it was then. Ever wonder how a
cow can produce more milk if she can’t eat more feed? “
Wonder if the feeds that are available today are more
efficient tjian those of yesteryears? Wonder if anybody
is making feeds better than those of yesterday?
Hummm! Maybe some companies are trying right now
to make better feeds? Might not be a bad idea to check
around a little? Maybe there is something better?
KINDA MAKES A BODY WONDER,
DON'T IT?
® ELMER M. SHREINER
Trading at Good’s Peed Mill
Specializing in DAIRY & HOG FEEDS
siNrPISTb New Providence, Pa.
oINCE_IB7O Phone 786-2500
Fresh Coconut Pie
Romantic
William Cody, known as
Buffalo Bill, was an Ameri
can frontiersman and Army
scout who greatly romanti
cized the Wild west. Hun
dreds of dime novels, most
ly written by Prentiss In
graham and Cody, plus
Cody’s 30-year Wild West
show, dramatized the cow
boy West throughout the
world.
ERTH-RITE
SEA-BORN
ALGIT
ZOOK &
RANCK, INC.
R.D. 1 Gap, Pa. 17527
Phone 717-442-4171