Mower County transcript., 1907-06-19
FARMER BEN'S
COLUMN

The chief chemist OF the agricultural
department, DR.. Wiley, holds that folks
ought not to chew meat but just gulp
it down in chunks same as the wild an
imals do. He says that chewin' raises
the alkalininity of the meat so as to
seriously hamper the work Of the stom'
ick. Wouldn't that cork you? 10
think that the teeth of folks was made
Just to squeeze mush thru. Gulpln
down meat, like a snake does frog,
whole, without masticatin' or salivatln
or ruminatin' or pulverizin' may 90 Tor
wolves that are starvin' but it don't DO
for human beings. My book alWus
told mo that chewin' the food was the
most necessary part OF all dlgestln'.
The trouble with folks today is that
they gulp down their food like they
was worked with sausage filler.
How are you goin' TO get the good OF
meat without masticatin' it? To tell a
wise head that gulpin' down meat is
wise and chewin' it is positively harm
ful would DO credit to Chicago uni
versity perfesser.
The rebel feelin' of 81 must feel high
ly rejoiced at Tawney's states right
speech at Gettysburg. This is what the
rebels fired on the old flag for and what
they bled and died for but the North
had ditferin' opinions and settled things
the other way. Tawney's rot has ben
heard for the past thousand years more
or less. can remember when the old
state banks was goin' and we had no
national banks. We never knew over
night when the money in our pocket
was good and when bad. We had leetle
Detecter books and looked up each
bill every day to see whether it was bo-
gus. I amt forgot that when 1t was
proposed to make a national bankin'
law to uniform money all over we had
the same protests that Tawney is max
in about the national gov tramplin' on
the states rights and invadin' their
territory. I'd put up Roosevelt's opin-
ion on proper government control OF
things as against the proper state busl-
ness over the opinion Of a hundred big
head Tawneys all put in bag and
pounded together.
tell you Roosevelt is right when he
saws that the states cannot do in regu-
latin what the government ought and
can do, no matter what Tawney thinks.
Look at the scrap now IN railroad regu-
latin. We hav two cent fare in Min
nesota and they will soon hav two cent
fare in Iowa but when you buy ticket
between Austin and Bungtown you'll
hav to pay three cents because it's in
terstate commerce and if you buy just
to Lyle with the ldee of payin' two
cents after you get over the state line
you'll get your baggage checked to
Lyle only and then where are you?
And if you take sleeper you'll buy on
ly to Lyle and then pile out or pay
two sleeper short line fares. It's inter-
state commerce you know and Mime
sofa can't regulate what crosses into
Iowa. It's the same with the child labor
question that Tawney kicked on an ap-
preparation for. They might make
slaves of the children in Iowa and what
could Minnesota doabout it? Mean
while Tawney is drawin' his awful big
salary that he voted to increase and
whether he's in Winona or in Europe
he gets 1925 a month every blessed
month of the year work or no.
see Lunnon doctor says that can.
Ger is not caused by any micro-organ-
ism but is the result of faulty diet. 1
dunno but it looks like there was lots
more of this awful trouble nowadays
than used to be. Bad eatin' and drink
in is responsible for lots of physical
ills whether cancer is one of 'em or no.
This Lunnon doctor says that people
that eat freely of vegetables and milk
are better able to resist the approach of
cancer than folks that eat lots of red
meat He says that in his whole ca
reer he's met only one cancer patient
that was a vegetarian. Smokin' is a
direct excitant of cancer. Now l don'+
know whether this Lunnon doctor
knows putty about what he is discussin'
but calkerlate that this takin' care Of
what you eat is alwus in place for
healthy bodies fortified to resist disease
germs. Onions and cabbage and beans
and such alwus was the material feed
for human kind. His teeth show that
he was created herbiverous rather than
carniverous. Farmer Ben don't ask
much outside Of his garden truck for
feed except piece Of occasional salt
pork for the cabbage and beans.
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