The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-01

by Mr.. George Austin. agricultural
tory.
Breeds and Management of Poul-
try" paper prepared by Mr.. w. w
Browning of Ogden. was next read by
Director Foster.
Mr.. W. N. Cole in a short but in
teresting address treated upon the
subject of Orchard Management; its
Cultivation and Care"
'Beebeeping for Farmers was the
subject of an interesting address by
j. H. Parry. which was followed by
some discussion.
The concluding paper for the after
noon was presented by DR.. Fischer on
Diseases of the Cow" a paper of
special interest TO the many dairymen
present, and was followed by a lengthy
discussion
EVENING SESSION.
THE Science of Cooking was the
subject of an interesting paper by
Mrs. L. c. Foster at the Thursday
evening session She said in part:
Stock growers OF every description,
whether it be beef. mutton, pork or
poultry they are producing, go at their
work in a scientific way. So impor-
tant to them is the science of feeding
that the United States government
comes to their assistance and employs
a vast corps of trained scientists, who
put all their power of brain upon the
subject of animal feeding, or some
part of ii. They will tell you the ele-
mentS that enter into the composition
of these animal bodies, and the chem
ical formula for all your feeding stuffs
In short. they will mix for you the
rightful ration. each element in its
proper proportion. But to many of us
1t never occurs that there should be
as definite instructions for feeding
men and women, or that the human
body should also have its true proper
ton of the proteids. carbohydrates and
other elements The speaker did not
anticipate that science will ever mix
our human ration and deal it out TO
us, in definite amounts. at stated times.
The human body has too complex a
nervous system; the machinery of the
brain is too intricate and too delicate in
its organism ever to be brought I'M
der rigid rule. But the time may come
when food will be much more econom-
ically purchased and better prepared
of the kind and amount, as the diff
ferent conditions and occupations re-
quire, and of the foods that best sup
ply these elements. combined with
just appreciation of the chemical COM
binations that constitute the process
of cooking. The phosphates are nee
essary to the production of brain mat
ter, the carbohydrates furnish the |
heat. and the heterogeneous are the |
power-producing elements in the hui
man system as in the animal. DR.. |
allotS to the healthy man /
six pounds daily and divides this into |
three and one-half pounds from the |
mineral kingdom, which includes water
and salt; one and one-half pounds |
"a arab nd nd
from the animal kingdom. This must |
be presented TO the system in digestible |
condition. Through the means of gov
bulletins and various cook
books, dietary tables showing the
chemical composition of the foods are
now within the reach of everyone.
There is no one food that contains in
the right proportion all the elements
required to replace the waste of the
human body, and if there were we are
SO organized that even the natural
healthy BODY would not consent to be
fed upon it; they must be palatable
and varied. We are SO far in ad-
vance of our mothers that the woman
who wills can at any time possess
herself of the means of knowing what
is best to cook and how best to cook
it. Good cooks are becoming quite as
necessary to the health and happiness
Of the human race as are good doc
tors and good ministers. Indeed, I
think they should be rated foremost
in Importance. The old order of things
Is rapidly being done away with, and
people everywhere recognize
the value of the fullest scientific train
ing for woman. In her hands lie the
health and the bodily development of
the human race; and more than this
the intellectual and the moral status
Of a community depends upon her
Keep her in ignorance of the vital
principles of life, bind her down to a
of the three RS" and you
will produce a race devoid of intel
ectual sharpness and lacking in moral
breadth as well as physical beauty;
FOR as the woman, so is the man. Ig-
lorance is harder to meet than actual1
villainy; so whole families must con-
-inue to die an agonized death because
he cook does not know that her plat
-er of half-done ham is liable to con-
ain regiments of trichnia that are ly-
ng in wait to attack the human It's
sues.
The address was replete with good
thoughts. and scant justice can be
lone it in a brief synopsis.