Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-03-16

SO.75
In addition to this. one mint of
slammed milk per day was used over
the oat meal and corn meal mush No
financial value is given to This be
cause at the time this eypcrimeni was
made the Dalrymen'S association was
running thousands of quarts of
Skim-milk into the sewers, finding no
purchasers for it, and an offer to dc
liver gratis Il hundred cans y day
(about three thousand quarts) to the
poor in the KcnSngton district was de-
Clincd!
The meals were taken about as fol-
lows:
Breakfast 100 am
Oat meal e. ounces dry mcaD, large
soup plate full.
Half pint of milk and Il tCaspoonful of
sugar over tie meal
Corn dodgers or cut corn mush baked
on griddlc. Coffee. milk and sugar.
Dinner 80 pm.
Meat three and threc-quartcr pounds
i'll seven days)
KrOut, baked beans or lcntil SOUP
Supper, $50 pm.
Corn meal mush, hoilcd-half
pint milk. Whole-Wheat
bread, butter Boiled rice,
sugar and milk.
| weighed myself after breakfast
each morning, and found that l had
gained I - pounds during the first
lIu
until at the end of the week my weight
was the same as when | began the ex-
pertinent, 113 pounds. There was some
which | was not usetk to. but it pro-
duccd no Inconvenience. My appetite
was well SATISFIED, aud physically and
mentally there seemed to be no change
in my. capacity for work. If there
was any change in the latter it was
for the better, as | believe | felt
brighter on the lesser quantity Of ami
nal food than / had been accustomed
to taking. AS the change from my
regular mode of feeding, which Is
rather excessive, to that of the diet
herein given was not followed by any
considerable disturbance, it shows that
the food selected by mere chance was
about all that I really required, and
that | had evidently not been absorb
ing and obtaining full value from my
previous regular diet
/ recognize that this experiment is
very crude imperfect, and susceptible
Of great Improvement, and hence OF
much greater usefulness, yet feel that
the following conclusions are justi-
fable:
The cost of this diet for family of
five. including three children, ought to
be from ten to twenty per cent. less,
bocauso children eat less, and the loss
in cooking for five is not so great
as where everything has to be prepared
especially for one, as was my case.
The cost ought to be reduced by buy
ing in quantities, especially the cereals,
at the proper season 1t will be no
ticed that pork was the most expensive
purchase. but that was because 1t was
lust then especially high; ordinarily
if can he bought in the rough for nearly
half the price paid.
THE variety in food substances used
could be greatly increased by substitute
ing fruit, potatoes, and other cereals,
which if bought at the proper season,
and in annuity, would not increase the
cost.
The quality Of the food used, and
IFS nrcDaration and variety, are better
than | frequently see on the tables OF
tho working people with whom l come
in contact when hard times are not
comn1a;ned Of A very common dinner
? FOR tho family of a laborer consists
! of hoiIed meat and potatoes, poor
! bakors, bread and molasses for the
, children and the kettle Of beer for all.
: Is it wonder that so many Oh 'neii
are dvspcptc sluggish and 1ll-tem-
nered? Granting that even my Dill
nf faro was not what any of us would
1.-Two unon by choice, yet it was DeUer
Than what many families ordinarily
| 1.-Two rnon. and is certainly capable OF
sustaining life during hard tunes ana
1;+tlo work. I believe that my own
: 1vorl, both physical and mental, dur
2 ing this weeks experiment was naroer
s than that of lie average laporer' J" Gel
f tainIv had much more OF worry anu
e responsibility associated with II. :,
0 rho moor of this grand country VIII
Q have TO learn more about the Iooo
]. yalno Of the cereals and legumens
!. chaans meas. lentils, g.; more apou,
: tho nroner preparation OF food; ahe
y as,+ hnt not least to be more provlden'
n in times of prosperity, before they car
/, exnect any great sympathy FOR tnen
D distress. Considering the enormou'
haryests of the last three years, 1n'
= extremely low price of almost ever.
; food substance, except the hog, II doe
: : seem as if the hunger cry in any quar-
Z ter Of our population was not IroI
: want Of food, but from inprovidence.