The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-06
EFFECTS OF VARIOUS FOODS.

A correspondent Of the Country
Gentleman, (B. F. j. says: An ex.
perieuced and accomplished butcher
will tell, with almost absolute GER
tainty, how q dressed hog has been
fed, by the kind and measure Of re-.
siatance offered to The knife in cut
ting up. * fed slop III IN eexcess, or
butcher oaat exclasiyeiy, the: cellu-
liz tissues vial be much increased il
Substances: and The hsty p pilar having
asla4fett, po1tison Of oiia1: thanss ,tsa,>
issss1siR besaaer and b spSnsY,
md h euttiax up, ofIsl. ~ .re.isk
.nce 70 The kuiil; Tho carcass Of the the
hog fed and finally fatted on beech
nuts, will, when hung up and cold,
drop oil FOR days, and the clear
aides when sailed and smoked will
become translucent: The fat pack
ing part Of corn-fed swine, at a tenn
perature not above sixty-6ve de-
grees, is harder and firmer, and offers
less resistance to the knife, than that
Of swine fed on more albuminous
food, and will keep quite as we'll if
not better in cold ATTITUDES, because
the fat has more stearine than oleine
but in the case Of high tenn perature,
with heat enough to soften or melt
the stearine, corn.fed pork is quite
out Of the question. European and
continental governments reject Amer
lean pork for ships destined for the
tropics. and for expeditions bound
for low ATTITUDES. There is another
illustration Of how food effects cellu-
lar tissue, in the fact that corn-fed
American clear pork cannot be used
for Harding, since it is quite too ten
der to be cut into strings, and then
sown through or wound around
game, to favor and enrich it; and
for that reason the custom of Harding
"A great resource for the culinary
artist-has pretty much gone out Of
fashion in American cookery. While,
then, an exclusively slop or o8al
diet increases tissue but decreases
stearine, and therefore makes the
product soft, spongy and oily, an ex-
elusive corn diet decreases tissue to
the extent that such meat cooks al
most entirely away, and in hot eli.
mates softens so as to be compare
lively worthless. The true way
seems to be to feed corn principally,
but to increase the albuminous "a
ton to the extent that there will be
. considerable addition of muscle and
cellular tissue, and consequently
more strength and greater power Of
resistance to disease in the creature.
Another illustration and l have done.
The suet Of CRASHED and tatted beet,
when made into candles, will not
run or melt when used as much,
even in the summer climate of Ken.
lucky but the suet of corn-fed cattle
must be hardened by the addition of
beeswax, or treated with q solution
Of alum, in order to be made to an.
swer the same purpose. These facts
taken together, seem to show that in
some senses nature is more plastic in
our hands than we have imagined
her to be, and in some much more
stuhborn-stubborn in the sense
that the starch and sugar foods, or
the carbonaceous ones can never be
made to fill the places of albuminous
and r'ce versa, but 80 easily managed
in other senses that if We want eggs,
milk, suet, fat or muscle, in extra
quantity, or of a particular kind, we
have only to use and feed the right
kind of food to procure it.