hay and other feedstuffs they produce, buy, or sell. Very few feedstuffs are sold where the actual makeup and inherent values are not actually tested and reported. How strange it is that we base the nutrition for ourselves and our children on tables that many animal growers scorn. The USDA performs some tests, but often uses results from approved private food laboratories across the USA. Sadly, the USDA is mainly concerned with size, color, and appearance grading standards.  They must walk a political tight-rope for as surely as they would admit that some produce is of high quality they would be simultaneously confessing that most farm produce is of low quality. The only agreement is that QUALITY varies tremendously. Some authors claim that the best quality fruits & vegetables have up to 1000 times ( times , not percent) more vitamins & minerals than other fruits and vegetables that pass the same USDA size, color, and appearance standards. Think about "average values." If YOU start testing your own food, YOU will soon dislike AVERAGE. It will have as bad a taste in your mouth as the average quality fruits & vegetables the grocer now sells you. Questions, questions---people do ask questions. The questions tend to change from time to time and, hopefully, the answers will, too. For the brix concept is as modern a science as can be---and it is evolving day by day. Many people who read the words on these pages develop an uneasy feeling. They begin to