Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-18
CEREALS VERSUS NEAT.
Talk With the Great Canal
Protector.
DoIesseps Considers the Former mech the
more Valuable for Food

more taluaDio fOr I OOu
A Paris correspondent Of the Kan
sas City Journal writes: England Is
. meat eater, while France Is aereal
eater or an eater Of bread ed oil
Yesterday had a long talk wsth lie
Comte Ferdinand de Lesseps In regard
10 the cereals Tor food. NJ. de ISsseps
worked thousands Of Italians, turks
and Frenchmen on the Suez canl.
do you really think the cereMs are
stronger than meat p / asked.
''Certainiy," he replied. Zone sound
OF dry wheat or flower is worth
as much as three pounds q wet
beef. Scald the pound Of foy and
Jee. You have gallon of bush.
You could not eat It in three dag. If
you feed the cereals to cattle asS they
do in England. it takes eight pe1nds
Of grain to make a pound OF peat.
So, why feed the grain to a4imal
trampsp Why not eat it our7slves
and do away with surplus pd bula-
don of 5O,0OO,000 cattle, hog and
heep-animaI tramps? Englaad Is
supporting, perhaps, sO,OOO.OOO title.
heep and hogs, and 100000 paDple;
y rather she supports her Cattle and
Duys bread from America to feS her
Seople France supports 10000. 900
1eople, and about 100000 Attles
iOgs and sheep"
''Then you believe in raising snore
grain and less cattle and hogsS" I
aked
Certainly. One acre Of ceres lis in
srance will support Ave men. wfSle it
you'd take two acres of grass tossup-
Aort one steer; and in the end. one
man would eat the steer. The adtvan-
age OF cereals over meat is as i%e TO
me So you see the steer is ans un-
Necessary tramp. The Englishnsan."
continued Mr.. Lesseps a.insistS on
sOast beef, every pound of which costs
hight pounds of cereals. The French-
nan eats the cereals himself. He buys
millions Of gallons of cotton-see2 oil
IN America at three cents per posind.
This he eats In his salad, in his soup,
and in his bread and pie crust. .The
Frenchman reiines several millions Of
gallons OF American cotton-seed oil,
sends it back TO America and sells 1t
FOR 81 Or 8 gallon. Cotton-seea oil
y superseding peanut oil, and Give
I'll Is almost thing of the past For
gears the peanut crop of Tennessee
and North Carolina has been seDs to
Narseilles and made into an olive oil.
gotton-seed OIL has been found blythe
Trench to be better and cheaper taan
peanut oil. To-day all Spain. SoSth.
I'm France. Italy. Turkey and Aus
hia are living on American cotton
seed oil All an Italian gentlemas or
ADorer wants - OIL maccarOnls bread,
yugar. wine or coffee. COtton-see6 oil
hkes the place Of meat. It is strsage
that your southern states have lseen
Cor years throwing away miliona Of
barrels Of beautiful cotton seed oil and
buying unhealthy pork and lard Ii its
place. Corn meal. cooked like mas,ca-
soni with oil and cheese, is DELICIOUS
sood.
The Count Is right, but he forests
nat il France, where nothing is
wasted. Is, 0OO,nO0 steers win 20 assfar
5 100000 steers IN England. or is,
100000 ii proligate America There
i never q mouthful Of meat or grease
thrown away In France. France can
support . population Of 10O.0OOIDDO
better than England can suppoES q
population of 25.000.00O.