The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-09-06
Oklahoma Farmer, on $50
Wager, Prepares Many
Coursed Meals
WASHES THE DISHES IN
YUCCA PLANT SOAR
Soy Bean. and Cow Peas Appear
as Vegetables and Alfalfa Meal
Biscuit Calls Forth Great
Praise

| GUTHRIE, Okla, Sept. 2.--It has
remained for Samuel Johnson, Lo-
gan county farmer, to emonstrate
| the use as food products of numer-
Gus plants and weeds that are not
generally recognized as being in the
food class
| Johnson made a wager recently
with a neighbor Joseph Thompson,
that he could prepare menu for an
entire day from such plants and
weeds He was to visit the out of
the way places on his farm, along the
creeks and valleys and also the cul-
tivated fields, and produce breakfast,
luncheon and dinner that would be
pronounced by Thompson "as good
as he ever ate" The wager was for
1850, and johnson won. Here was his
menu:
BREAKFAST-A teddy for an eye
opener made from broomcorn whis-
ky and sweetened to taste with beet
sugar; breakfast food of boiled KAT
fir corn; alfalfa meal f1apjacks and
milomaize sirup.
! LUNCHEON--Kaffi corn bread.
boiled cowpeas, young rabbit fried in
cotton lard, elderberry wine and AL
falfa cigarets.
| DINNER-Alfalfa mullins with
peanut butter that was mixed with
cottonseed oil instead of olive Oil:
soy beans, baked, various fruits
from the farm orchards; wild grape
juice.
| Broomcorn Whisky
"My main pAnt." said johnson
afterward. was to prove the useful
ness OF broomcorn. kaffir corn, alfal-
ia, milomaize, cowpeas, and numeE-
Gus other farm products as articles of
food Broomcorn whisky has much
the same flavor as that made from
Indian corn; kaffir corn bread much
resembles the hoe cake of the south
ern plantation; alfalfa meal mullins
have graham mullins skinned a
block milomaize strip is just as
good as any corn strip you ever ate,
while as vegetables you can't beat
cowpeas and SOY beans. I have
known of homesteaders in Oklahoma
during the first winter on their
claims, and when they were hard up
financially, TO live almost entirely on
kaffir corn bread and cowpeas.
| Makes Brooms of Weeds
| In order, too, just to make the
program strong for Mr. Thompson.
washes the dishes after each meal
with soap made from the yucca plant
! swept the floors with a broom made
of the broom weed.
| ut became known during the Il t
year that fine quality OF strip could
be made from milomaize, and as
result eastern manufacturers are
contracting for large quantities of
this years crop from the farmers Of
western and northern Oklahoma.
| only recently has it been discov-
cred that broomcorn seed, which
heretofore has been a waste product
TO great extent, yields a fine ;tco-
hol, which when properly treated is
good substitute for whisky The
seed is now being used for such pur-
poses, but, as a rule, In the manu-
facture of denatured alcohol. On ac-
count of the bitter taste of the hull
on the seed it is unfit for feed, but
as the grain contains a large amount
of starch, it Will produce from two
to -four gallons of alcohol to the hun
dred pounds of seed.
Use Alfalfa Biscuits
Alfalfa biscuits and mullins have
long been the delight o fmen who ara
engaged in the manufacture Of all
| faifa meal for cattle feeding pur-
poses, but its use has not been adopt
| ed by others to any extent At a
recent meeting of the National Assoc
citation of Alfalfa Millers the dele
gates Toasted on mullins made of all
falfa meal and pronounced them A
NO. l. The mullins were served more
as novelty, but the banqueters axe
them with relish The neal is made
from the leaves and stems of alfalfa
nay ground finely. Experiments are
being made, too, to produce break
fast food from alfalfa.
| An investigation, resulting from
the enforcement OF the national purt
1000 laws, brought out the fact that
alfalfa was used principally in the
makings Of that kind Of cigaret that
is smoked by the COWBOYS. The dis
covery was that onlf 81 per cent OF
TOBACCO was used to IS per cent O.
alfalfa
Elderberries produce a wine that
is exhilarsting but not intoxicating
IL Is believed that Fred L. Wenney
OF Guthrie former private secretar,,
10 seferal Oklahoma territorial gov.
erhors, Mas the first to demonstrate.
the usefulness of kaffir corn as
food product"