The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-11-19
FRESH MEATS NOT wANreo.
A Washington Investigation shows yhv
the "Ripe" Flesh is Much the Better
Food.
lFrom the Washington Star. }


Prof. Il. W. Wiley, chief of chemistry
division Of the Agricultural Department.,
states interestingly the results of recent
experiments made by him which knock
out popular bsiiefs and age.old ideas con-
corning matters within his range OF obser-
walton. Two assertions he made to Star
reporter will illustrate. Said DR.. Wiley:
Meats should never be eaten till they
have properly ripened; that is to say, un-
til they are about to decay. They should
be three wesks old, at least, before being
cooked. A chicken killed to-day ought to
hang three weeks in cool place before
going on the table.
LEAN hogs are better than fat hogs,
and farmers before long will find more
profit in raising the former than the
latter. The fattening of pig, in old
days, and even now, was all that.a farm
err did with the animal to fit it for mar
Set, but soon it will be known that lean
meat is better than fat meat for meat
EATERS
Here is violent upsetting of ancient
ideas. Fresh meat" is the cry of the
housewife, and nowadays she wants it
straight from the slaughter house. It's
wrong, however. A hen SO hawks in the
barnyard in the morning and in the after
noon she's in the pot along with big white
dumplings stewing for the evening meal.
Another error.
DR.. Wiley knows he is right, because he
is conducting an inyestiga ton into the
whole question of the dietetic values of
meat from all fowls and animals, from
the chicken to the horse, that contribute
covered one year of time, and he has only
completed his researches into the life and
value of a pig. Years to come win be
taken up by the inquiry into CATTLE, sheep
fowl, game, and other food furnishers.
Nine lusty and lean pigs have SO far
been marty tried for humanity's sake
They were bred at the agricultural ex-
pertinent station near Chicago Some
We're fed in order to keep them lean but
healthy, and others were fattened up SO
as to rival taeir nelghbors on nearby
farTus, who were getting in shape for the
Christmastide killing. Indian corn, hay
ing so much starch, which is heat pro-
Queer, and therefore fattener, is the
chief food of pigs to be grown to mann
moth proportions. But to make pigs lean
and yet lusty, a diet of milk and oil cake,
or swill, made of some cereal that Is not
full of starch, Is given.
These porkers went into Chicago pork
packing place, and following the usual
process, emerged in few minutes killed.
cleaned, and quartered. ready for the in
yestigator. This part of the operation did
not differ from that which falls to the
lot of hog to be eaten BY Tom, Dick, or
Harry, and not to furnish illustrations for
humanity. The total weight of the hog
having been ascertained then, in turn,
the weight of blood, brains. tongue,
jowls, intestines, hair, skin, feet and
every part OF the animal was recorded, in
order TO determine the exact proportion
of each. Then tbs chemical analysis of
the parts was begun in this city at the
laboratory. The fat hogs
were found to have an excess OF heat
elements such as carbon, n.y.
drogen and oxygen. The lean pigs pos
sessed more OF the heterogeneous COM
pounds, whose especial value Is that they
are tissue nOurishers
''This investigation, said Mr.. Wiley,
is tie first systematic and complete
effort ever made in this. direction. 1t has
been pursued by what is practically a
new method, because we have worked
with full knowledge OF the history and
growth of the animals. Thus we have
nutritive values and chemical constit-
uents. The tests have been conducted
undor conditions EN- bracing all modern
progress in the science of analytical
and the result gives more ac-
curately than any other the composition
and value of the different parts of the
animal. An example is that we have |
found nitrogen of several kinds. each with
different properties, while hitherto but
one kind of nitrogen has been recognized |
Of course the three great chemical divfs- |
ions remain the same, but in this inquiry |
we take into consideration the breeding, |
feeding, and eating, as well, because the |
TWO former relate to the latter. They |
should not be disassociatsd.
"Men could not and should not live |
Upon meat alone, for the reason that it is |
wanting in oafbohyd Is sugars |
Ind starehes. These are transformed by |
The body into fatteners. Fat meat does |
lot give this, although people have al
Ways eaten fat with the idea that it is a |
lrates, sugar and starch, and these are
at-giyers.
"a hard working, muscular man, who |
,eads heat and energy, should eat plenty |
# fat meat, but man of sedentary hab-
is should partake spsringly OF 1t ana
hould consume more lean. The egg IS Q |
perfect food, containing all
he body, except the carbohydrates. |
neal of soft-bolled eggs and rice is most |
venly balanced. The egg contains the
needed fat, phosphorus, and nitrogen,
nd the rice possesses starch and sugar.
Is fact, however, man feeds nimseiI |
argeIy according to his taste and aplilty.
lis mental attitude toward hislfood has
very thing to do with his power to d.
est il. and if he does not like 1t, the /
probability is that it will not do him any |
God, no matter how well balanced 1T
nay be.
s'Meat should be kept three weeks be-
ore eaten, 1t should be properly rip
ned. and then there would be no danger
rom diseased meat. Hang killed
hicken out of window, as the Ger