Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-11-15
PRESIDENT ELLIOT'S ADDRESS AT
MA TIONAL APPLE SHOW

thrift are just as much needed now
for the development of this country
as they were fifty and one hundred
years ago. The national drift from
simple habits of living is one of the
dangers now confronting the coun.
try.
Food Values Of Apples.
The food value Of the apple is not
understood we'll enough, and this
should be made plain by the grower
and those interested in helping him
to obtain the widest possible market.
An examination of the cookery
books and the periodicals devoted to
food shows that there are many ways
in which fruit and fruit products can
be cooked and served. At the apple
show of the Berkeley County Horti-
cultural society, held at Martinsburg,
w. Va. November 4. and 5. 1909, de-
| tailed recipes were furnished show
ing one hundred and one ways for
using their apples. One most desir-
able exhibit of the National Apple
show is the department of domestic
economy, where apples are served in
various forms.
Apples, when dried, and therefore
more concentrated than when fresh,
compare favorably with bread, dried
beans and similar foods in the total
amount of food material present, and
the apple, either fresh or dried, or
preserved, is source of energy
rather than of tissue forming mater
ial. On account of the great de-
crease in the total amount of apples
produced in the United States, the
fruit is becoming something of lux
ury and is used rather for it's pleas
ant flavor than for it's food value.
Very careful experiments have been
made by the California experiment sta
ton, in cooperation with the nutri-
ton investigation of the office of ex-
pertinent stations "a subdivision of
the agricultural Department. by the
North Dakota agricultural college and
by Harvard college, as to the results
to be obtained from different forms of
diet. 1t seems very clear from the
Investigations that have been made,
that fruits should not be looked upon
simply as luxury, but should be con-
sidered as an economical source of
nutrition for the average family.
Fruits, especially cooked. are almost
completely digested, and have high
er nutritive value than is popularity
attributed to them. The result of ex-
are reasonably cheap sources of ener-
gy in the diet, and are we'll suited, on
grounds of economy, for combination
in reasonable quantities with cheap
prOteid foods to furnish a we'll bal
anced ration. Ten cents worth of
fresh apples, used as food, furnishes
1867 units (calories) of energy to the
body; ten cents worth of porterhouse
steak furnishes 444 units (calories)
beans furnishes 1872 units ,calories) So
hat, in general, it may be said that
he apple furnishes wholesome, pal
atable and very attractive addition to
he food supply of the family; and
he increasing production of the apple
should help to Offset the growing price
# meat and other forms of food.
Decrease in Production.
The great falling aft of the produc-
ion of apples is probably due to the
act that in the older states in the
asst, the growing of apples was in
idental to other forms of agricul-
IRE, and was not a business by itself.
When the trees were young, the pro- (
uction was good, but gradually, as t
he trees grew older and orchard pests
lcreased, the attention necessary for i
crop Of apples became greater, and {
he orchards not receiving it gradu- i
lily failed. T
twenty-five years ago, in a small 4
[ichigan town, dependent for its e
rincipal business upon the handling
nd packing of apples, large ware a