The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-12
W|LEYS MENU
FOR THANKSGIVING.
No Use in PIlng So Much Stuff on
the Table That It's Legs VIII
Not Bear the
Weight.
NO DESSERT NEEDED
Turkey, Of Course, But no Sense in
Having Eight Kinds Of
Salad on the
Side.
. NO DESSERT NEEDED

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.-Don't
make it impossible to be thankful on
the day after Thanksgiving
II you are thankful this year be-
cause you have good appetite, try
to retain that blessing.
Don't kill the goose that lays the
golden egg.
This is the Thanksgiving day pre-
scilption given by DR.. Harvey W.
Wiley, chief chemist and pure food
expert of the United States, to the
American people. He was asked to
prepare menu for Thanksgiving din
ner and replied by telling what he in
tends to have himself.
1t sounds simple to those who are
used to seeing the table piled high
with delicacies and all kinds of
goodies, with numerous courses Of
highly season food.
In most Thanksgiving dinners of
prosperous Americans these days the
turkey is merely the piece de re-
sistance"-the feature of an elaborate
meal from which in many cases the
turkey could be eliminated without
being missed.
With DR.. Wiley the turkey is the
dinner. Here is his menu:
| Turkey
Dressing
Potatoes
Cranberry sauce
The turkey, of course, is roasted.
The dressing may be of any simple and
| digestable sort. The potatoes pre-.
sent the most serious problem for
! DR.. Wiley can't tell whether he pre-
fers them French fried, baked
mashed, creamed, Or German friend
Any of these will do.
DR.. Wiley would put the ban or
soup, salad and desert. OF course
there are many things that might be
: added without doing injury, but he
believes that enough is enough
tnat anything added to his menl
would be superfluous.
He does not believe in "feasts." H,
does not believe in Celebrating will
the diet" The best way to be thank
full on the day after Thanksgiving il
Ito confine the turkey dinner to TIN
4 turkey says Wiley.
Uncle llama JIM Wilson, secre
.. tary of agriculture, is preparing hi
Thanksgiving sermon" He preache
by proxy from nine-tenths of the pul
,, pits iof the United States ever
Thanksgiving.
Letters and requests pour into TIL
/ department of agriculture every da,
at this time from ministers VIII,
want to be informed what thew ar
to give thanks for" Secretary Wi
J son always gives them in a genera
way the information desired and /
! his annual report on the fruits O
the year" is not out he extracts ce1
!, tain statistical information from
: for their use. The crop conditions q
!. the last year are included and TIL
financial situation is reviewed by tn
;, secretary for the information of tn
!, ministers.
, Besides the activity of the secrt
/ tary and DR.. Wiley other bureaus CO
Operate with the farmers during TIL
9 year, assisting them in raising "buml
q er crops and improve conditions b
advancing new and scientific methods
!, For example, the bureau of animal i,
!. dustry has just issued a bulletin
: which is being given wide circulatio
among the farmers and poultrymel
J. encouraging the raising of turkeys an
n chickens by machines,
The bulletin is headed Setting til
q Machine" Rules are given for til
$ machine operation. 1t tells how I'll
# eggs should be placed, how the hea
ing should be regulated and explain
y the turning and testing of eggs.
a The machine" is advocated by til
n department as means Of reducin
the price of turkeys, chickens, duck
and other poultry. Though turkey
are more subject to disease tina
chickens, the department asserts tn;
turkey raising returns to good prot
when properly handled. 1t seeks
point out how the popular America
bird can be machine raised" to a
vantage.