Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17

similar manner as oiiSe va 90 . " Us
ing for food.
In making the oil the seeds are
ground to a meal placed In q copper
kettle and one-third or one-fourth or
their weight OF water IS addeo. neat
is applied and when oil appears upon
the thick mass Of material it is put In
canvas bags and placed In an OIL press
Through q simple method 1T Is possible
to obtain 10 to 20 per cent or the
oil is extracted the meal which re.
mains has q high protein content and
is relished by cattle as FOOD
Another valuable by-product which
a sirup which is produced from the
saccharin material which adheres to the
seeds. The strip Is clear and trans
parent and has the pleasant, character
ictic taste Of the raisin The sirup con
sugar. and for this reason 1T fs capable
OF producing q large quantity of
alcohol.
extracted from the SEEDS. ana experts
made a practical test OF this by-prod-
uct for tanning purposes. The sample
of leather tanned with the extract was
good in all general appearances ana
indicated that the great waste piles OF
grape seeds can be made to furnish
much valuable tanning extract.
4
In the announcement just made of a
| publication on prenatal care. which is
now ready for distribu-
Prenatal Care ton by the United States
childrens bureau. the
OuAi0Sin' public is given an idea
Of how earnestly and rapidly the govern
ment is working to reduce the mortality
Of infants under one year of age Only a
week ago announcement was made Of
the distribution of a children's welfare
bulletin which outlines what the various
city governments are doing in baby-sav-
ing campaigns. this new booklet now
available tells what individual mothers
can do
The new bulletin is the first Of a series
of government publications which will
give mothers the most authentic infOYma-
ton and complete instructions on the best
care of themselves in order that their
children might be brought into the world
with excellent chances for a healthy life.
Many health departments Of cities and
! also private institutions have published
useful information and instructions on
prenatal care from time to time, but the
new bulletin. with the official o. K. of the
leading government authorities who have
supervised it's writing. will likely have a
prestige and popularity not held by most
of the privately published works on the
subject.
Ignorance and indifference to the prin-
ciples of prenatal care are said to be the
cause Of seven-tenths Of the deaths of
babies who do not live to complete the
first month of life. Approximately 10000
babies die each year in the United States
before they are one month old, and with
the lack Of care Of the mothers offering
the cause of the deaths of seven-tenths
of the number, it can readily be seen that
there is an almost useless death roll Of
nearly 10000 babies less than one
month of age who might be saved. OF the
900. coo babies who die before reaching
that thousands would live to grow up into
healthy children had mothers understood
fully the principles Of prenatal care.
Individual mothers may take an impor-
tant part in the work to reduce the rates
Of infant mortality in the United States.
which today are considered excessive, and
it is to make easily available the most
authoritative Information. prepared with
the assistance of medical experts and
written by mother for mothers, that the
new publication has been issued. A post
card request for 1.-The Prenatal Care Bull
the United States Children's Bureau
WASHINGTON. D. c.. is all that is needed
to instruct Uncle Sans child well
fare workers to mail it directly to ones
home.
Rocky mountain spotted fever, which
has hung like blight over the eastern
slopes Of the Bitter Root
Spotted mountains in Montana for
~ thirty years, may soon be
EoseA' conquered if the govern
ment's public health experts continue
to make progress in a series of expert
! ments aiming at the eradication OF the
wood tick, which transmits the disease.
Exactly one year after the tragic
death of Surgeon Thomas b. McClintic
of the United States public health serv-
| ice. who contracted spotted fever while
he was engaged In a study of the dis
ease. another government physician
has just transmitted to Surgeon Gen.
| eral Rupert Blue a report on the prog
ress OF the work which was begun by
his unfortunate brother officer: NC
Clintic' died August Is. 1912. but since
tinued almost without interruption by
Surgeon L. D. Fricks.
The interesting feature of the gov
ernments campaign to free the Bitter
Root country OF Inc QTedO UlScdSS -
the use of herds Of sheep to trap in
their wool the offensive wood tick
which transmits the fever. The wood
tick, whose scientific name is Derma-
centor Anderson. attaches itself to the
sheep. but does not give the animals
the disease. The sheep are graZed over
areas Of the forest where the ticks
are known to exist and when many OF
the pests have been caught in the
wool of the sheep the animals are
dipped in a strong solution which kills
the ticks without the slightest injury
to the sheep.
The officers Of the public health service
have demonstrated that the infestati0
Of community can be very materially
reduced by the persistent practice OF
trapping the wood ticks in sleeps WOOL,
although it seems improbable that TIM. TINS
method will entirely eradicate the TICKS
and solve the spotted fever problem, be-
| cause many sections Of the country are
given over to other purposes. 1t mas
been spr0ven, however, that wherever
sheep Craze the ticks decrease rapidly
bot that there Is an increase in the sec
lions given over to cattle grazing. Otner
methods will have to be adopted to erad'-
cate ticks in cattle range country.
| working with the public health service
in the experiments which aim at the com
plete conquest of spotted fever. and the
Secretary of Agriculture has just granted
the free grazing privileges for 900 head
of sheep upon the Bitter Root national
forest, where the experiments Will De
continued. The United States biologlcai
eradication Of the wood tick. and Is as
sisting the public health officers in every
'''>- RAYMOND w. PULLMAN.