Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-09-07
ALL MEALS RIGHT
FROM THE GROUND
\ TULSA COUNTY FARMER DEM
ONSTRiTES SIMPLE" LIVING
Wins Fifty dollar Bet
Broomoo orn Toddy, Alfalfa Meal Flap
jacks, Etc, solve solution Of
Potato ScarCcncsS.

Don't despair, you Tulsa County
farmers because the hot weather has
ruined your corn crop, and potatoes
are scarce. II you follow the advice
Of James Eldon. n Tulsa County
farmer, who boasts of threc-fourths
Usage Indian blood in his veins, and
go according to directions, you can
have a varied menu for each days
meal and it won't cost you anything
Impossible, you say Not at all.
Eldon has hit upon the idea Of
utilizing plants and weeds, not gen
orally recognized as foodstuffs. fer
his daily food. He has successfully
carried out his idea.
The way il came about was that
Eldon made bet Of $50 that he could
procure menu for an entire day
from such plants and weeds. He was
TO visit the out-of-way places on his
farm, along the creeks and valleys
and also the cultivated fields, and
produce breakfast, luncheon and din
ner that would be pronounced by the
man he made the wager with "as
good az he ever ate Here was the
menu:
Breakfast: A toddy for an eye
opener, made from broomcorn wh's-
ky and sweetened to taste with beet
sugar. Breakfast food of boiled kaf-
fir corn; alfalfa meal flap jacks and
milo maize syrups
Luncheon: Kaffir cornbread, boil
ed COW peas, elderberry wine and an
alfalfa cigarette
Dinner: Alfalfa mullins with pea
nut butter that was mixed with cot
ton seed oil instead of olive oil, soy
beans, baked: various fruits from the
farm orchards, wild grape juice.
Mr. Thompson, who held the other
end Of the bet, lost.
Before going TO bed that night,
Thompson placed his $50 on the ia
BILE and acknowledged that he had
been converted. The laying Of the
wager came about as the result of an
argument between Eldon and Thomp-
when the main food crops, products
OF the farm. fail. Eldon declared that
many farm products, not as rule
recognized as a food. and even some
wild vines and weeds could be made
use Of, and that II an investigation
was made, practically every farmer
would learn that he could live well
and wax fat on the things that as a
rule ne turns aside from. Thompson
doubted the statement and the wag-
er was made.
My main point. however" de-
clared Eldon afterward, was to prove
the usefulness II broomcorn. kaffir
corn, alfalfa. milo maize, COW peas
and numerous other farm products
as articles of food. Broomcorn whis-
Ky has much the same flavor as that
made from Indian corn; kaffir corn
bread much resembles the hoecake OF
the Southern plantation; alfalfa meal
mullins have graham mullins skinned
a block; milo maize syrup is just as
good as any corn syrup you ever ate.
while as vegetables you can't beat soy
beans and COW peas. l have known
Of homesteaders in Aklahoma during
the first winter on their claims and
when they were financially hard-up,
to live almost entirely on kaffir corn
bread and cow peas.
In order, to. just to make the
program good and strong for Mr..
Thompson. I washed the dishes after
each meal with sap made from the
Yucca plant. whose Towering stalks
are seen by the thousands over Okla
homa sand hills in the summer time.
and ! swept the floors with a broom
made Of the broomweed. with inside
filling Of the August fower, anot' r
weed, and from Yucca plant fibers.
The Yucca, when properly treated
chemically, makes an excellent soap
and there is one company busy now
all the time manufacturing soap Of
this kind.
In regard to the use OF the broom
weed IN making brooms instead OF
using broom corn. the fact was dis
covered in Eastern Oklahoma not long
ago that such brooms outlast those
made Of broomcorn brush. The weed
is very prolific. much stronger and
tougher than tr0omcorn. and II cul-
tiyated would produce at least ten
times as much 20 the acre as broom
corn. Persons In old Indian Ter
ritory. who eXperimented with this
weed believe that in time It will sup
plant br0omcorn. at leas: TO a great
extent II the neighborhood Of Table
quah and Fort Gibson and along the
Grand River the broomweed grows
o. the extent ~ tons annually and
goes 10 wa every fell when killed
by the frosts
1t became Known during the last
year that excellent syrup could be
made from milo maize, ard as n re-
suit Eastern manufacturers at the
present time are contracting for large
quantities % this year's crop from
the farmers ~ Western and North
western Okla 10ma in particular. It
is claimed that milo maize contains
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