The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-11
FOOD FOR THE BRAIN
THE HISTORY OF WOMEN,S
CLUBS
SPEAKS OF A SOULS HUNGER
Several Able and Interesting Pa
pers Are Read Before the Mime
sofa State Agricultural Society
Prof snyder Had an Instructive
Article on Food yaIues-Miss Mar
garet Swans on Woman Clubs.

Article on Food yaIues-Miss Mar
garet Swans on Woman Clubs.
Yesterdays morning session Of the Min
nesota State Agricultural society opened
in representative hall with paper by
DIR. NJ. H. Reynolds, veterinarian of the
Minnesota school of agriculture, on
Estate Work With Infectious Diseases of
Animals" This was followed by papers
on Judging Dairy Cattle" by DR.. M b..
Wood, Manlkato, and Judging Beef Cat
tle." by Thomas Shaw, professor of ami
NAL husbandry, school of agriculture.
The success of veterinary sanitation,
said DIR. Reynolds. depended much upon
the people themselves. Minnesota was
credited with having one of the best state
laws on infectious diseases among ami
mails.
The subject Of CHAMBERS was consider
ed fully. and the laws relating to same.
The disease was often infectious even
when there were no outward symptoms.
| Horses so afflicted should be quarantined
and tests made A reasonable compen-
| sation should be made for horses so at
| flicted. Fifty-two horses had been killed
for CHAMBERS during the quarter. In so
| the number of horses with CHAMBERS was
greatly reduced, as compared with ~
and '9S.
| He was disappointed with the progress
made last year in stamping out hog
| cholera. There should be mora active CO.
| operation Oh the part of the farmers.
From thirty-two to forty-three counties
| showed infection from SO to '99. Climatic
conditions had something to do with the
| improved sanitation and decrease in
money loss.
GOOD BLOOD AND FINE STOCK.
| DR.. w. B. Wood said.
According to reports there has been
obtained from $4,000 COWS in the state last
| year 62,000, 900 pounds of butter. only a
| few counties showed cows averaging over
| zoo pounds of butter apiece. One cross
| of good blood meant fine stock and good
| profits In milk and butter. he knew OF
| such a COW, that produced seventy-seVen
1 pounds of butter in month. Not 2 per
cent of the COWS Of Minnesota had one
straight cross of thoroughbred blood. .
Prof. Shaw said that the individual
who attempted to judge an animal should
| have a standard of excellence fixed in his
mind. He should understand the laws or
| correlation as well as the Interpretation
| of handling and the distinction and
| forms of sire and dam. He should know,
| as soon as he touched an animal Wheth-
| err it was ripe or oyerdone. First I'M
pressions in judging animals were usually
| correct. Compactness Of form and de-
velopment Of back. hind and forequar-
| tiers and ribquarters should largely gov
efn judgment.
| Prof. Shaw entered protest against
overhandling in Judging.
| SPOKE ON FOOD VALUES.
Prof. Harry Snyder, chemist of the
| school, led with the opening number at
the afternoon session on Food values.
1 Prof. Snyder said that the main object
TO be sought was some standard by which
| to measure the value of food for ami
mails. An experimental feeder can more
| readily estimate such value by compar1-
| sons. But difficulties arose that prevent
| ed accurate measurements and complna-
lions Of foods. It has been scientifically
demonstrated that bread and milk COM
bined were better than when used sepa-
| rately "a human food. Practically it was
the same with animal foods. All this, OF
course. keeping in view the kind OF AMI
NAL TO which the food was given. Ii
had been found by experiment that GER
tain foods greatly influenced gain in
weights, and that the correct combina-
| tiens were deciding factors In feeding Tor
| profit. Corn and shorts combined pro-
| duced far greater increase in WeiStft
Than either fed alone, or separately. The
net value of skim milk was five pounds
of milk to every pound of corn, or other
grain. Combined the percentage OF gain
was increased.
Certain foods were easier digested than
others, yet each possessing the same
amount of nutriment. Foods that are
slowly digested should be combined with
others that arc more easily assimilated.
Another important factor in feeding was
warmth. Too much food was wasted III
heating up the barnyard. 1t is as much
in the way foods are prepared and fed
as il is in the food itself One of the
| best combinations was corn, clover and
| meas There were, also, attendant >fosS-
es of food products in the tnopportune
time of harvest Such waste OF animal
| food on farms was entirely unnecessary.
| Corn fodder shrank 20 per cent from the
time 1t was cut until it was fed. There
was another loss of Is per cent caused by
the animal itself. and it was estimated
| that not more than 80 1-3 per cent OF
food was utilized by the animal.
Following the paper of Prof Snyder
| answered a number of rapid-fire ques-
/ items to the evident satisfaction of the
| audience.
SPOKE FOR woMAN'S WORK. :
| Miss Margaret Evans, Of Northfield,
Mimi, first president Of the State FEEDER
i alton of Woman clubs, was introduced
by President Cooper.
Miss Evans said that 1t was a pleasure
and an honor to address, for the first
time. the society. The subjects she had
heard discussed she said, were as en-
PERTAINING to woman as to man. She
\ had been deeply interested In the paper
/ read by Prof. Snyder, but she could not
forget that there was hunger of the
mind, as we'll as Of the body. There was
the hunger of the child for knowledge;
there was the hunger Of the soul for
God. Both mind and soul yearned
for food values
Grain and cattle raising brought to us
fresh ideas, although, coming as she did
from a college town, she disliked to use
| tho word "fresh." 1t had always been
associated III her mind with the fresh !
1 Young student who comes to Northf1eld.
The older students at once took him
aside and told him that to be in good
form he must approach the president
with his hat on and smoking cigarette,
He did so.
care YOU drunk, or a natural born
idiot?" INQUIRED the offended executive.
"A natural born idiot" confessed the
young student.
The federation Of woman clubs. Miss
Evans said, was only eight years old ID
the sense of largeness and vitalizing OF
J life. The development Of individual
} thought had been slow in coming to
women. There were men yet living who
had voted against admitting girls ito the
grammar school of Boston. There was
one man yet alivo In Connecticut, who
had. opposed letting girl students know
what was in the back part of the arith-
ret,c He thought the elementary Worl,