Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-02-25
Peoples $ Pulpit

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hereby call your attention to a
clipping from the Chicago Tribune Of
October II, 1902, and wish to state as
a miller of forty years material work
believe that the following article
written by DR.. H. c. Howard of Cham
paign, H.. to be absolutely true from
NV own practical experience as a
miller. When l commenced to learn
the trade l boted all flour upon one
straight reel using Nos. {, s, 9 and 10
boiling silk, while today the flour. Cor
most of iD is made upon Nos. II, IA
and 16 silk cloth and double extra
heavy at that
In the old way Of manufacturing 1
used to also put in the bulk of the
germ middlings that came through the
No. and boiling cloth. The germ is
the life of the berry and Is an oily
substance and by the new process of
milling will flatten out and tail over
No. ~ to No. 16 cloth, unless pulver-
lied so fine that the phosphates ex-
isting chiefly in the germ are de-
stroyed or passes off into the hog
feed.
| used to make -four as white as is
made today upon the new process ma
chinery. However l had softer varieties
of wheat than they use now, but all
the difficulties can be overcome even
with hard Wheat and the germ be left
in the flour. First by properly clean
ing the wheat, proper tempering the
same before reducing and proper diff
ferentials Of the rolls and corrugations
We want to keep the germ life OF
the wheat in the flour to insure good
health and avoid appendicitis, which
is increasing at an alarming rate from
day to day Use coarse flour and whole
wheat products and be in health.
The Tribune article follows.
Changes in milling processes are
responsible for appendicitis accord
ing to a physician who has been in
the practice of medicine for fifty
years and who has observed the
-pread of the disease This physician,
Dr. Fl. G. Howard Of Champaign. ILL.,,
asserts that unlii the ;iade demanu
for exceedingly white flour changed
the methods of grinding wheat there
was no appendicitis.
To prove this assertion the phys
ician points to the fact that where
coarse breads are used the disease is
unknown, but that as soon as the fine
DreadsruffS are introduced appendicitis
comes along as q sequence.
By this reasoning it is shown that
the people of agricultural commune
ties who secured their flour from
small mills did not have the disease
until the small mills were crowded out
supplanted the coarse.
Then the negroes Of the south so
long as they ate corn bread were free
from the disease, but when the new
process flour began to be used the dis
ease came among them. The same re-
suits attended the departure of the
German folks from their coarse bread
to the refined flour.
II can remember that prior 70 about
1875" said DR.. Howard. that there
was little or none of the ailnlent
aT:,.e the people. In tw,nts .nine
yea 9 of practice among the peo be-
ftre that time l do not think ] saw
Ny they are common.
Large and extended changes in
the diet of people has contributed to
| this. For example, about the date
mentioned there began to be general
change from the old method of grind
ing grain to the present method of
roller mills and excessively fine bolt
| ing cloths. This plan of milling be-
gan first in the large cities, and APP
pendicitis began to increase first there.
Later the new process crowded out the
small mills in the country, and the
people could not get flour made by the
old processes. They bought products
Of the large milling establishments,
and then the farmers began to have
appendicitis.
'Still the negroes of the south did
not have it, but in time they began to
get away from their plain corn bread,
and they, too, began to have Appendix
citis. So it goes. They did not have
| appendicitis in Germany until they be-
| gan to eat our fine white flour and
put in the new process of milling after
our fashion. Now they have appendi-
citis in Germany Just as we do.
Experienced millers will tell you
that the fine flour Is a less desirable
flour than that made by the old pro-
cess but the trade demands it chiefly
on account of it's whiteness. On ac-
count of it's indigestibility the disar-
rangement Of the digestive organs
of the people eating it has greatly in
creased. The prime cause of appendI-
citis is found in this disarrangement.
quite small children have it.
know one boy who has had thirteen
we'll defined attacks of the disease and
came out of all of them without sur
gical operations. He changed his food
to corn bread and mush, with coarse
breads in general, vegeta bles, little
meat and some fruit and he has taken
on flesh and has not had 4 symptom
of the disease for three years.
"The lack of phosphates in the food
is visible in the people, and physicians
have greatly increased the use of med
J icines containing phosphates. 1t is a
J necessity. Children ere brought to
, me suffering from conditions result
, ing from a lack of material in their
} systems to form their teeth. Ten days
, Of treatment, giving phosphates, will
} bring relief and the teeth will begin
J to grow. They are suffering because
J the ingenuity Of men and the foolish
, demands Of trade have resulted ir
} taking from their food the material
, which nature put in it for their
growth.
"The new process which is held ac-
countable for disease takes from the
grain the phosphates chiefly existing
in the germ or the wheat and just un-
der the bran and leaves only the
starch and gluten'