The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-23
CHEESE IS HEALTHF0L :
Government Puts Official o. X. on
Welsh Rabbit.

Welsh Rabbit.
After conducting experiments with
cheese as a food for several weeks the
United States department OF agricul-
ture has officially Endorsed cheese and
has declared that the Welsh rabbit is
much maligned dish. Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson has just issued
formal bulletin giving the results of
the experiments and singing the praises
Of American cheese.
Cheese con no longer be discrimi-
mated against" says the departments
bulletin, because Of suspicion that
1t is not healthful food. The abso-
lutte lack OF any disturbance Of the
general health Of the subjects used In
the experiments is proof that cheese
can be eaten In large quantities with
out danger to health"
The seeretary's bulletin, which is pre-
ps AID nv O = D n;scs assistant dairy
man of the department Of agriculture,
deplores the fact that cheese is used
by Americans chiefly as matter OF
1avorlng. This Is all wrong 1t ought
to be consumed In larger quantities,
according to Secretary Wilson. Eat
more cheese is the general refrain Of
the report. The consuming public, es-
pecially that part Of 1t which needs
to practice economy In buying food,
would do well to turn Its attention
little more toward cheese are the de-
partment's own words In regard TO
this matter.
The fact Is brought out in the re-
port that many Of the volunteers who
we're Gagged and stuffed with cheese
were Wesleyan university students at
Middletown, Conn. ''The work at Mid
dletown," says the report, was plan
ned to include green and ripe cheese,
or cheese as soon after 1t was made as
it was possible to ship samples TO Mid
dletown, and cheese In all stages of
rlpening up TO the point where 1t was
brewing. unfit for consumption.
A total OF fourteen cheese expert
ments were made at Wesleyan, and
sixty-fve human subjects, the most of
them college students. availed them
selves Of an opportunity to fill up on
free cheese. Each undergraduate who
applied got at least three day diet
Of cheese. but one subject liked it so
well that he submitted to fourteen ex-
periments OF three days each, "A forty
two day cheese debauch. The depart
ment's report says that the students
ranged from the ages Of nineteen TO
thirty-two years. indicating apparently
that some graduates or solemn look
ing professors also Joined the cheese
testing brigade.
The students were not held down alb
solutely to cheese. They got few
slices Of bread with the crust remov-
ed, some bananas and now and then,
as treat, dose Of charcoal. The
charcoal was taken In capsule form.
aud everything else possible was done
to make the tests novel and pleasing.
For instance, the students were not
compelled to bite into a lump of the
cheese, for 1t was cut into small pieces
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ated meat chopper When the students
received 1t IT bore absolutely no re-
semblance to the cheese that is eaten
with pretzel, but looked more like a
dish OF breakfast food
The report says that a pound Of
cheese has nearly the same food value
as two pounds Of fresh beef or any
other fresh meat. 1t is worth as much
as or more than pound of ham and
is more digestible and is equal to two
pounds Of eggs and three pounds of
fish. In price good cheese costs about
a third more than round steak and
twice as much as the cheaper boil
ing beef and costs practically the
same per pound as smoked ham or
bacon. The department says that the
only way to account for the compare
lively limited demand for cheese is ON
the basis Of custom and lack of knowl-
edge