The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-29
HAVE WE REACHED THE FISH ERA?

Dr. Carl Augsburg, of the federal bureau of chemis
try is trying to asso the eversoaring cost of living He
has visions beef steak at dollar pound and mutton
at-well your imagination vigorously There's no
telling how mutton will travel. To this high
and mighty habit food necessaries is Dr. Augsburg
big job
Carl Augsburg is &c. energetic bold, resourceful a
graduate physician, a bo-chemst and of the most
thoroughly equipped in any government department.
At rate this is the send off given him by Honore
Wlsie in Harpers Weekly, current
DR.. Wieys successor adds to Wileys zeal in prose-
cutting maefactors and policing food supply more
creative type mind which visions gets
his visions somehow translated into hard facts
One of Augsburgs favorte dreams is the develop
ment food a staple for American tables.
He believes discover in the waters compensa-
ton for the shrinkage of the products of the land.
There has been shrinkage Since 1907 beef cattle
have fallen off in number twentyone million sheep
have declined in the same period two million. Mean
while Uncle Sans family has grown million.
How shall meet this diminishment of food sup
ply? Raise beef stock, kill fewer calves, open
grazing lands, increase cold storage, import and
subsidze stock raising some of the remedies
posed by various and sundry authorities all less
financially interested in the problem.
Dr. Augsburg meets the problem from angle and
proposes inaugurate Americas fish eating era
All other nations have had later
why not we?
economical in every way than
land food. There is limit to the there is
land; water doesn't need be fertilized
fruits the round farming has diminished the output
of the land but fishing cannot lessen the
of the And there is therefore no reason
why shouldn't meat from Neptune while
devote arabic to fruit and Meat
know the DOCTOR sis after all only the supple
n1ent to fruit, vegetables and cereals Why
our land, valuable and susceptible decay,
most important products and take supply from
the which lies unsurveyed and untaxed? we
will shift our source of meat supply from western
prairies to the Atlantic seaboards will
save ourselves millions every year"
But what foods, save oysters and Holsters are
fit for human food query incredulous In reply the
doctor reels off list of edible fish swarmng in count
ess hordes fit for the dinner table. Sea mussels he
claims good for food oysters cheaper and
almost palatable; dogfsh please palate when
properly cooked sword sought by those
who have learned their flavor in Europe the
skate is triangular creature of fantastic proportions
With eyes in his stomach but goes we'll on menu in
spite of his Appearances squid even hero
II Nightmares, with his snaky tentacles favorte in
many lands; and and
But fish merely fit for balancing up the layout
ood for brain food but enough for sta
lie consumption" Not So says the doctor it is mis-
AXE to suppose the fish is peculiarly a PHOSPHORUS
God 1t contains all the elements in any flesh and
nay be used regularly beef.
But oysters bacteria and come from pol
uted beds" Not often, declares the authority: from
aine to Florida there few polluted oyster beds
We engaged in making a survey of all with a
lew to protecting the public against danger from this
ource. Oysters be made safe eating as any
ther We shall place the most rigid restrictions
round the business, of course punish severely anv
ound guilty OF supplying against the rules are
tanning to devote time ENCOURAGING and stir,
ating the legitimate are successful in orr
ians the people need worrying about the
Use in prices.
COULDN'T BE ANY WORSE
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