Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-12-14


try, aud came to bid mo good bye. for
fear she would never see me sgain. Now
gentlemen, have only to hope you may
never suffer wha. did in those twenty
four hours
PURE UNBOLTED WHEAT FLOUR.
Few persons know the value of pure
wheat brea!. Americans are degener
aling in physical energy and endurance
Just in proportion IS he b,ltinc cloth has
increased in fineness. Were it not for
coarser vegetables. var ously cooked,
thrust upon US With our animal food, the
iamilies of our high livers would become
entirely extinct. Fine -four, "whte as
the driven snow" aud patent baking
powders to puff our hot rolls to the light
ness of bIeached sponge, are building up
n generation destitute of the bone and
muscle requisite for tho battle of life.
A vigorous Irish couple, whose chief
food, for more than score OF years, b
been potatoes, seldom fail to roar large
healthy family of sons and daughlers.-
The Scotch who eat oats, in solnJ furm,
every dav, are invariably strong, athletic,
and prolific; aud the German, whose
every meal has the odor of black bread,
kraui, onions. aud lnger beer, is more
patient, perseyering, AID tenacious in bis
efforts and labors tina. We are, and he
raises children more numerous and more
vigorous.
A large proportion of the original
families that settled America have scarce
ly u single representative. MANY of the
prominent men who coloniz-d Virginia,
Massachusetts, and Connecticut have not
single male representative TO save their
names from oblivion! We fear that two
hundred years hence the same will be
said of the German, Irish and Scotch of
the present day; for SO soon a. the do
scem,lants of Hans, Patrick and Sandy
adopt our mode of 'Fis-cat animal food
three times daytime. hot, wheaton
-four rolls morning, no, a:.d night
and dessert of rich p iding', mincs
pies, and concentrated je'ies of every
kind they too will become martyrs To
dyspepsia and. nervous weakness, and
their races become extinct. 81
Nature has ordained that for perfect
health and yigor all her offspring shall
combine the Coarse ana the fine IN their
food. Ii is not the object of this paper
To show tho philosophy ofthis ordinance.
We merely state the fact. and urge upon
our readers It's consideration. Ii is known
to most Of them that TO produce tre,s,
grain and vegetables, it is not enough
that the roots of the plant shall have the
concentrated constituent requisite to sup
p, The material of which the wood,
grain and fruit is composed. Coarse
properties. forming kin'l of vehicle,
must also be present. The germ or root
must be LEFT free to take up and select. at
pleasure, The concentrated nut iinent held
by this cosser material. Nature knows
how to do this better than art. We may
step in and try to relieve the root and
we produce but a miniature hot house
t:ee or plant. La our efforts to relieve
nature from its accust med work, we act
as absurdly as the man who attempts TO
make butter aud cheese out Of hay and
water without passing them through tho
stomach aud udisr of the COW! 1t can
not be done, And it is just as difficult
to produce healthy animas-bipeds or
quadrupeds-by preparing nIl thor food
for ttem and giving 1t in concentrated
Hrln. Thew must have the conrse with
the fine. The stomach must b. SO dis
tended as to give it work. Ii needs ex
ercise rs we'll rs other muscles Of the
body. Without exercise there is no
strength. Indeed the gastric juice-so
essential to digestion--is not present IN
the stomach until the food arrives. The
presence of The food commands the
stomach to labor. and that effort causes
the gastric juice to flow, just as the Iator
of the hole system brings the psrspira.
ton to the healthy brow.
To give these dssultory remarks a
| practical aud successful turn, we give The
result of series of experiments, on pure
| wheat as staple article of hourishInent,
| in contrast with The fine flour which forms
so large a part of it. o s Hubbelf NJ.
D.. distinguished pharmaceutist of
Philadelphia. furnishes the following:
Il have made a very careful analysis
of the four aud bran which | get from
the wheat that | send TO the mill near
my farm. | gol from every 100 fb.. Of
wheat about 10 fbs, 0: four and 20 lbs.
of bran. The flour CONTAINS of tissue
making elements (gluten. albunen. etc,
I.65; Of rhosphases aul other saiipes,