The Forrest City times., 1888-01-21
AGRICULTURAL LETTER.
From the Arkansas Industrial Uni
 yersity.
Cooked and Uncooksd Food.

There are number of men who hold to the opinion that cooking food for hogs very materially increases nutri- tive value. They urge that it softens the food. and therefore it makes it more easily digestible. This is an CT TOT into which d man who does not go beyond mere surface indication might very easily fall. It has also been said that a ruminant with its many stomachs does not need an artili- cial aid to digestion, but on the other hand hog has only one stom acla and therefore the food should be cooked to make it more available to nutrition.
 Carefully performed experiments. per l formed either by the natural or artiii- cial digestion have however curiouSly shown that the mere cooking of food | by no means accomplishes the wonder | ful transformation in the available l digestible ingredients of the food that | the adherents of cooked food would | have us believe. These experiments show the reverse to be the truth. the uneooked food in every instance show | ing itself as of more value than the cooked. Experiments made in Ger
 many have shown that steaming de
 creaseS the percentage of available
 nitrogenous or flesh-forming materials. | Experiments made at the different stations in this country uphold these results. Below is a summary of some interesting results obtained with cooked and uncooked food. Ontaris Agricultural College | Cooked peas were to uncooked as s4.9 to 100.
 Kansas Agricultural College Cooked shelled corn was to uncoVke ]
 as $40 to 100.
 Maine agricultural college. corn meal was to uncooked as s2.9 to 100.
 Wisconsin experiment station.- Cooked barley meal was to uncooked as 9S.7 to 1OO
 Cooked corn meal was to uncooked as BIO to 100.
 Cooked corn meal and shorts was to uncooked as 96.l to 100. Cooked whole corn and shorts was to uncooked as 85.S to 100. Iowa Agricultural College. ge.-Cooked Shelled corn was to uncooked as S23 to 100.
 Cooked corn meal was to uncooked as to 79.3 to 100.
 These results will have to be dis proved before the cooking men can have solid leg to stand on, and the way things look at present it prognosti- cates that they will have to wait d very long time. One of the strong adherents of the cooking theory in- stances that cooking meal will cause it to swell to twice it's bulk, and it will therefore take the hog twice as long to eat it, hence proving to be more economic food. An argument of that description is so weak that it is almost unworthy of notice. We should be glad to hear from farmers interested ill this question who would give results obtained under their own experience with view to further elucidation. Ladies will find relief from their costiyeness. swimming in the head, collie, sour stomach, headache, kidney troubles, etc, by taking dose of Sim mons Liver Regulator after dinner or supper, so as to move the bowels once day. Mothers will have better health and the babies will grow more robust by using the Regulator. If an infant shows signs of collie, nothing like few drops in water for relief. The genuine has the red Z on front of wrapper. Only genuine for sale by C.. F Hinton