The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09

States Department of Agriculture, in a lecture says: When you buy beef steak or milk, you are paying for wa ter. Milk is so per cent water, beef steak 60 per cent Ergo-don't eat beefsteak or drink milk! He appar- ently forgot to state that the human body is also about so per cent water and needs quite a little of that pecu- liar liquid each day to keep it intact, and nature provides food wisely blended.
 "Then he proceeds to say that Amer jeans eat too much meat. That is one of the few practical things he does say. But observe his peculiar pro- cess of induction when he cites the Japanese as a reason for not eating meat, saying: Their diet of rice makes them shorter and harder to hit in the war, and they don't have so much to carry around with them.' Re- markable conclusion. Don't eat any meat. You may have to go to war some time and it will not be so easy to hit you If you are simply a rice eater. That hope should compensate a man for going through life dwarf!
 Then follows another glorious trtb- ute to science: Hay fever is no more nor less than the result of Over-eat- ing He does not explain whether he means overeating of meat or hay. Huh!
 "A short time ago the doctor an- nounced to some reporters that in his experiments he had discovered that all most all of the tomato catsups were charged with salicylic acid. which Ns detrimental to the human system, but he would be easy on the catsups. for the astonishing reason that they need cd a preservative or they would spoil
 The good doctor says some sensible things, fortunately. He advises the people to eat less meat and not quite so much food altogether.
 "Tt Is a well-established fact that Americans. as a rule. are inclined to over eat rather than under-eat.
 He advises against the use of ni- trogenous foods. and then contradiCts himself by giving his own diet. his hreakfast being made largely of eggs. heavy with nitrogen, and he includes a glass of milk. which he had pre- viously warned people against because it is so per cent water.
 Then he says in reply to ques- tion about modern breakfast foods, that the old-fashioned mush is just as good and costs less
 Tt seems humiHating for q man In his position to make so many conflict ing statements and expose himself to the criticism of even an office boy con-
 
 concerns of the country. inasmucn as any one of our office boys could tell him things he has yet to learn about food, particularly the 'old-fashioned mush.' made from corn meal or wheat or oats which consists of a heavy per centage of raw starch. and the way 1t is ordinarily prepared requires some what unusual strength of digestive or gans to transform that starch into a Trs. z Nl,oN AN.,s.T ,T. be turned into by the body before it can be asslmlated. and if the body Is deficient in power, part of that starch remains undigested passing down through the intestines, where, in the moisture and warmth of the body, it rots, creating gases and causing va rious forms of intestinal disease: very certainly the cause in many cases, of peritonitls or appendicitis; therefore 1t is entirely plain, even to the layman, that if the eater does not perfectly di- gest all of this raw starchy food he cannot extract from the food the nec- essary calories and the strength and nourishment that the food really con- tains; whereas. when wheat and bar ley are prepared by skillful cooking. so that the starches are transformed into sugar, and thus presented to the stomach in a predigested condition. prdctlcalIy all or the nourlSnment or the food is made use of by the body. greatly to Its benefit.
 T would be very glad indeed to de- poslt ten thousand dollars. or twice that amount against like sum put up by Dr. Wiley or any of his associates. and we will proceed to feed individ- uals on the raw starch food, the old. fashioned mush.' which he so glibly announces as the equal of modern breakfast foods, and if We do not ob- tain better results by my method than be does by his. the total sum will be