Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-31
CEREALS VERSUS MEAT.
Talk With the Great Canal
Protector.
Delesseps Considers the Former much the
more Valuable for Food.

A Paris correspondent of the Kan
sas City Journal svrites: England is
meat eater, while France is a cereal
eater or an eater Of bread and oil.
Yesterday ! had q long talk with LIE
Comte Ferdinand &c Lesseps in regard
to the cereals for food. NJ. de Lesseps
worked thousands of Italians, Turks
and Frenchmen on the Suez canal.
"Do you really shink the cereals are
stronger than meas % / asked.
Certainly" he replied. Zone pound
Of dry wheat or flower is worth
as much as three pounds of wet
beef. Scald the round of flour and
see. You have a gallon of mush.
You could not eat It in three days. If
you feed the cereals to cattle as they
do in England. it takes eight pounds
Of grain to make a pound of meat.
So, why feed the grain to animal
tramps? Why not eat it ourselves
and do away with h surplus popula-
ton of 50,000,00o3 cattle, hogs and
Sheep-animal trantps? England is
supporting, perhaps 8O,O00,OOO cattle,
sheep and hogs, and;40,000,0 people;
or rather she supports her cattle and
buys bread from america TO feed her
people. France supports 100000
people, and about 20,000,000 cattle.
hogs and sheep"
Then you believe in raising more
grain and less cattle and hogs?" l
asked.
Certainly. One acre of cereals in
France will support five men, while it
would take two acres of grass to sup
port one steer: and in the end, one
man would eat the steer. The advan-
tage Of cereals over meat is as five 80
one. So you see the steer is an un-
necessary tramp. The Englishman,"
continued Mr.. Leiseps INSISTS on
roast beef, every pouad of which costs
eight pounds of cerestls. The French
man eats the cereals himself. He buys
millions of gallons af cotton-seed oil
in America at three cents per pound.
This he eats in his salad, in his soup,
and in his bread and pie crust. The
Frenchman refines several millions of
gallons of Americans cotton-seed oil,
sends it back to America and sells 1t
for 50 or So a gallon. Cotton-seed oil
is superseding peanut oil, and olive
oil is almost thing CT the past. For
years the peanut crep of Tennessee
and North Carolina has been sent to
Marseilles and made into an olive oil.
Cotton-seed oil has been found by the
French to be better and cheaper than
peanut oil. To-day al Spain, South :
ern France, Italy, Tlsrkey and Aus
tria are living on American cotton
seed oil. All an 1tafsan gentleman or
laborer wants is oil, msaccaroni, bread,
sugar, wine or coffee. Cotton-seed oil
takes the place of meas. 1t is strange
that your southern states have been
for years throwing Away millions of
barrels of beautiful coston seed oil and
buying unhealthy pork and lard in its
place. Corn meal, cooked like macca-
roni with oil and cheese, is delicious
food"
The Count is right, but he forgets
that in France, where nothing is
wasted, Is, 100000 steers will go as far
as 100000 steers in England, or IS
600. 1000 in profigate America There
is never a mouthful OF meat or grease
thrown away in France, France can
support population of 1000000OO
better than England ean support a
population of 25,OO0o60.