Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-01-26
RESULTS OF FooD TESTS.
Government Chemists opinion In Cone
trary 10 Popular Belief.


prof. II. W. Wiley, chief chemist OF
the agricultural department, has been
making some experiments, the resul's
oil which destroy some beliefs wIti
regard 10 food, In speaking today OF
I'll, opinion III has formed from MS
experiments, DR.. Wiley sud.
MEATS should never be eaten til
they have properly rlpened; that Is 70
say, until they are about to decay
they should be three weeks Old, ~t
least. before being cooked, \ chicken
killed today ought TO hang three
weeks in cool place before going on
the table
Lean hogs are better than fat
hogs, and farmers before long VIII
find more profit in raising the former
than the latter. The falIenlng OF q
pig in old days, and even now, was
all that farmer did with me ami
NAL to III it for market, but soon IL
will be known that lean meat is bet
ter than fat meat for meat eaters.
"My Investigation is the first sys-
tcn,atic and complete effort every
made in this direction, II has been
pursued by what is practically q new
method, because we have worked with
fml knowledge of the history ana
growth of the animals. Thus we have
been able to obtain a better idea as
10 their mllritlyc values and chenr-
cal constituents. The tests have been
conducted under conditions embrace
ing all modern progress in the science
OF analytic chemistry, and the result
gives more accurately than amy other
The composition and value OF the diff
fepnl parts of The animal. I'm eNam-
pie 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
divisions remain the same, but in this
inquiry we take into consideration the
breeding, feeding and eating, as well,
because tbc two former relate to the
latter. They should not be dlsasso-
ciated. Man could not, and should
not, live upon meat alone, for the rea-
son that ii is wanting in carbohy-
drates--that is. sugars and starches.
These are transformed by the body
into faileners. Fat meat does not
give this, although people have always
eaten fat with the idea that II is q
fattener. Cereals contain the carbo-
bNlraies, sugar and starch, and these
are fat -glyers
"A hard working, muscular man,
VINO needs heat and energy, should
eat plenty of fat meat, but a man OF
sedentory habits should partake spar
ingly OF II. and should consume more
lean. The egg is a wonderfully per-
fect food, containing all the chemical
elements needed TO sustain the body
except the carbohydrates. A meal OF
sofi-b boiled eggs and rice is most even
" balanced The egg contains the
needed fat. phosphorus and hydrogen,
and fhe rice possesses starch and
sugar As a fact, however, man feeds
himself largely according to his taste
and ability. His mental attitude tow
ards his food has everything to do
with his power to digest ii, and II he
does not Ike it, the probability is that
II will not, do him any good, no mat
ter how well balanced il may be.
"Meat should be kept three weeks
before eaten. II should be properly
ripened. and then there would be no
danger from diseased meat Hang a
killed chicken out OF a window, as the
Germans do, head down, and when
the head falls off the fowl is ripe for
eating. II should not be touched be-
fore The same rule is true Of game.
Fish and eggs should be eaten the day
they are taken. but fish frozen on the
day caught will be good amy time
taken from the ice. Fish is not q
brain food. That is an old idea, all
wrong. The phosphorus needed by
the brain comes from vegetables, eggs
and plants"