Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1911-10-20

Colorado Springs, Colo, Oct. IT.
The sixth international dry farming
congress opened yesterday for a five
days session. The session yesterday
was devoted to the routine business of
the convention. Among the officers of
the international organization here are
Prof. ]. II. Worst of Fargo, N. D.,
president; Prof. F. II. Webster Of Man
haitian, Hans, American vice presi-
dent; DR.. Theodore Kryshtofoivch, Rus
sian agricultural commissioner and
vice president of the organization.
Food Values.
. A scientific presentation of the vital
subject of food values was given bv
Mrs. Mary Pierce Van lille, Prof. of
domestic science at the Kansas Arri-
cultural college, who couched her adj
dress in terms so simple as to be with
in the comprehension of the novice.
"The subject of food values,'' she
said, has been complicated in recent
years by modern methods of transpor-
tation, which have brought the mar
kets Of the world to our very door. The
result has been tendency to serve
anything that is new and novel, with
out consideration of it's bgody build
in values. Millions of dollars have
been spent for research in the develop-
ment OF the system for feeding domes-
tic animals to insure efficiency, but un-
til recently we have been content to re-
main in ignorance of what factors con
tribute to the development of an etic-
lent body and mind in mankind.''
Going into detail she pointed out
the physiological structure of the hu-
man body with reference to tissue
building, describing the elements nee
essary for perfect body and showing
a number of charts which gave the
perfect balanced ration.
The practicability of her address as
applied to the daily menu in farm
homes was emphacized in her conclud-
ing sentences. ECONOMY of food ma
terials is entirely compatible with good
living,'' she said. "The cheapest food
is that which supplies the most nutri-
ment for the least money, and the most
economical is that which is the cheap-
est and at the same time best adapted
to the needs of the individual for
whom it is intended. The plain, stan
dard food materials are as dieestible
A."oA Aoiouo DO any VI GIe cOSCl1er
materials. The trouble lies in the fact
that we try to make our diet suit our
palate by paying high prices for mater
ials rather than by skillful cooking
and serving of the inexpensive mater
ials.' -
Live Stock.
w. Frank Gardner, Sturgis, S. D.,
discussed the raising of live stock in
the semi-arid regions. "The dry-land
farmer should raise livev stock because
feed crops are more sure and more pro.
ductive than grain crops he said
"and they at the same tome greatly
reduce the costs of marketing the pro.
duets of the farm. I find that there is
more money in keeping 100 head of
better stock, better fed and better car
de for, with a very small per cent. of
loss, than there was in keeping the
same number on the open range, and
the more organic matter I have to put
into my soil the more capable it will
be for holding moisture and the less it
will suffer when the drouth comes.
Darying in many sections of the north
west is rapidly gaining on horticul-
ture, and is bringing in more money
than any other industry. The dairy
men are considering the fertility Of
their soil, the greatest asset remaining
to the American people,