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Farm, Garden and Household.

Farm, Garden and Housenold.
TIE Mosr NUTRITIOUS FOOD. -
Upon this subject writer says: I
submit the following article on
food, hoping it may do a little good
to the poor class in these pinching
times. Oatmeal contains 81 per
cent. of nutritive matter; wheat,
85A per cent. ; potatoes % per cent;
the best flesh meat 25 per cent. It
may be seen by the above that one
pound Of oatmeal contains nearly
four times as much nutrition as one
pound of beef. We pay for beef
per pound fifteen, twenty, and
twenty-five cents.
Nearly half the people of Ire
land and Scotland live on oatmeal
and potatoes; they do not taste
flesh meat once a month. The wri-
ter of this article has not eaten flesh
for year; he finds himself better
physically as well as mentally. His
dinner for one day consists of one
cents worth of oaten meal or
cracked wheat made in the form of
mush. He does not do this for
economy, but for health.
Would like to say a few words
before | close this article on wheat.
Wheat contains Of the carbonates,
or heat and fat producers, sixty-two
per cent; Of the phosphates, the
class that supplies the bones, the
brain, and the nerves, and gives vi
tai power, both mental and muscu-
lar, two and a half per cent. of
the nitrates, the class that supplies
the waste of muscle, twenty-one
per cent.
If wheat were eaten in its natu-
raj condition, without boiling, it
would supply all the needed ele-
ments in the human body; butt in
the process Of bolting nearly the
whole Of the phosphates and nj
trates are removed, SO that bread
made of super6ne flour will sustain
life only few weeks.
The best way to get good wheat
meal is to buy of any miller half a
bushel Of whole wheat, thirty
pounds. Either get the miller to
grind it for you, or take it home
and grind it in your coffee mills.
WHY WE EAT. - "Food is fuel.
We require food frequently for just
the same reason that a fire requires
coals frequently, and a lamp oil
because we are burning away. The
air that we breathe into Our lungs
contains oxygen, and this oxygen
combines with or burns the mus
cles and other organs of our bodies,
Just as it does the Goals in a fire.
The heat produced in mans body
in the course of a day is considera-
ble in quantity, though not very in
tense in quality. Taking the aver
age, it is enough to raise five and a
half gallons Of water from freezing
point to boiling point, and this is
about the heat that would be given
of during the burning of a pound
of GOALS All this heat comes from
the slow wasting or burning Of the
substance of the body, SO that it is
evident that if we did not make up
for this constant loss by eating food.
our organs would soon be wasted
away and consumed. A moments
thought will show how closely this
agrees with well-known facts,
Why does an animal become sc
thin during the slow and painful
process of starvation ? Because the
slow fire in his body is not fed with
the fuel of food.''
Your speech, Professor, is nc
longer a riddle to us. And how We
see why we feel hungry-it reminds
US to put on more fuel. Greedy
people put on. too much. Once the
people of a country were fighting
for their freedom, and one of theil
cities was besiegcl for long time
by the enemy. After fighting very
bravely for long while, the inhab
itants suffered so for want of fooe
that they wished to surrender
Then the governor seized a knife
and said that he would rather bt
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