Arizona republican., 1892-03-20
DISSERTATION oN EATING.

The wastage of subsste nee in the United States is undoubtedly greater than in any other country of the world and amounts to q crime against nature.
 The primitive food of savage man was probably meat.
 The average consumption of meat in the United States is l75 pounds per annum per capita. In England 100 pounds. On the continent of Europe the average falls below fifty pounds for the very good reason that they cannot afford the luxury on their earnings.
 Horse meat is used largely in France. The official statistics show the consump- ton in Paris to be about 2,500 horses a year with a small proportion of asses and mules.
 Our Apache nsighbors prefer asses to either horses or cattle.
 am not particularly ravenous after the meat of an old dray horse, but from personal experience can attest to the juciness of mustang steak.
 Hog meat is the cheapest meat food that can be produced and is the most deleterious to the health.
 The Jews forbid it's use 1000 years ago and swine flesh is considered abom- ination among Hindoos and Mohamme- dans.
 Beef, mutton, game, poultry, etc., are cheap and healthy meat food.
 The consumption of cereals in the United States is three times as much per m m and beast as it is in Europe.
 For the past ten years the average of grain consumption in the United States per unit of population has been 45 bushels, while in Europe it has not averaged Is bushels per anum per unit.
 Corn (maize) is the native grain food in America but very little of it is either grown or used in Europe.
 The consumption in the United States is B bushels per head and only one bushel in twenty-five is exported. The quantity made into whisky is not stated from modest motives.
 The average consumption of wheat for bread is about five bushels per head, whilst the Europeans consume only about three bushels, making up the de- ficiency with eats, rye, barley, bran and saw-dust.
 There are about 0,OOO, ,OOO persons en- gagged in farm labor fin the United States cultivating 5 ,000, ,000 farms and not one- third of the land is yet taken up.
 The productions of the water are diff cult to estimate as tables are not kept but the seas, lakes and rivers must yield nearly 25 per cent of the sustenance of the people, fresh and dry.
 In China and Japan the productions oi the water furnish large proportion of the food of the people but they have too much sense Of economy to kill fish until they are ready to cook them-no stinking fish.
 In London the consumption of fish is equal to 1000 bullocks day.
 In France all fish must be sold and cleaned out of the public markets before meridian, or they are confscated and sold for manure.
 As to the phosphorus in fish stimu. lating the brain I can only give Mark Twain's advice to a fellow who bored him with the question, and that was to Eat broiled whale every morning for breakfast"
 air form a choice and large proportion of the substenanco of mankind.
 According to the Jewish bible oysters, frogs, eels and all the productions of the water not having scales are forbid den food but notice that the laws of the Jewish bible in this respect as well as many others is broken with the pleasure 1t usually gives to break an absurd law.
 The difference between dressed frog and chicken is scarcely discernible by the finest palate; and a hawk is quite as good as a chicken.
 Roasted grasshoppers could feed the entire population of good grasshopper year.
 They were good enough for Christ and John the Baptist.
 The vegetable productions of the | country are practically unlimited, and