The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-01-29
REGENT HITCHCOCK
URGES STATE SUPPORT,

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REGENT HITCHCOCK
URGES STATE SUPPORT.
Stronger financial support OF the
agricultural extension work of the
South Dakota State college, at Brook
lngs, was urged last evening by A.
r. Hitchcock, mayor of Mitchell and
president of the state board of re-
gents, i'll his address of welcome last
evening in the opening session of the
i've stock breeders at the court
house.
That the legislature should be
asked to put the work on a firm fin
ancial basis was the plea of the
regent. By this means, he declared
great things had been done by the
farmers of Minnesota in the organiza-
ton of better farming societies. He
also emphasized the need of better
organization of the agricultural ex-
tension work.
j.. M. Erion, of Mitchell, president
OF the association, in a lengthy ad-
dress pleaded for the general i'm
proyement of conditions in bredine
live stock and declared that the great
demand for cattle at the present time
had increased the necessity of raisinp
and breeding pure bred stock. Presi-
dent Erion also reviewed the work oil
the association during the past year
A. w. Kruger, of Groton, presi-
dent of the State Horticultural so.
clety, in his address considered
briefly the need of planting trees and
shrubbery. the increased value that
would result to property and the nee
essity OF planting only hard varieties
that are suited to South Dakota.
Session for Women.
Woman's place in the home was
emphasized at the session last eve
nlng OF the Corn and Grain Growers
association, held in the basement OF
the First Methodist. church. TIE
growth of the science of domestic
arts and it's present Importance were
considered by two speakers, Miss
Mary Tough, professor of home eco.
Monies at the State college, and
Miss Eva II. Robinson, of the state
university. The meeting was opened
with a short address by President II
b, Dawes. of Fulton.
In a pamphlet received yester-
day. said Miss Tough. II was inter.
ested to note the statement made b,
Dean Bailey, of the New York state
college OF agriculture, that we car
never reach u country life problem.
until we get on u farms as many
well-trained women as w%ell-trainet
men; that we can no develop the
best citizen in the country without
developing the women as we'll as the
men and just as many OF them.
This view of the matter, while
wholly reasonable and inevitably
true, has not perhaps been as much
thought about and worked upon a.
might be desired because of the fac
that mems minds We're directed tow.
ard other problems. 1t looks TODAY
however, as If the time were arriving
when 1T is to have its share of con
sideration when large and importan'
bodies of our best citizens are giving
time and place for systematic ant
careful study of the problems of wo
men in the home.
Food Problem Great.
One of the greatest of these prob
lens, and by all odds the most far
reaching in its effects is the food TO
the family. which must be selected
cooked and served three times a da,
during 365 days of every ear of life
Since upon the food determines in /;
large measure the kind of life, ply
steal, mental and even moral-whicl
a man shall have, to what larger
problem could attention be directed
Every living thing requires its foot
and without it it dies.
Everyone who has had the care
of animals knows how exactly ant
regularly they need to be fed ane
Everybody who has tended plants OF
cared for a garden knows how essen.
tial are air, water and soil for theil
development. 1t is only necessary tt
transfer thai knowledge to ourselye.
to see that, as living beings, we neet
u food i'll the same way. AS human
beings, what we all wish to know i.
what to eat, when and how much. We
also wish a warning bell to caution
us when we are liable to go wrong
These are the reasons for the com
plexity of the matter.
Cooking May Harm.
First, food is liable % be injured
rather than made more digestible by
cooking: second, substances are often
eaten together which do not make
a good mixture in the system and
the person is severely ill or possibly
only heavy or duh. impairing his eff.
ficiency. Third, disturbances OF diges.
ton and assimilation may be caused
by mental states.
Let us keep in mind that the OBJ
Ject of life is the product of energy
power to work, to think, to enjoy.
Progress in civilization should mean
an increase in the power of each in
dividual. This canno. be the case un-
less we give the matter some thought
and study"
Miss Tough further went into the
preparation of foods, analyzing the
food values of different materials.
Foods of starchy nature were declar-
ed to be mor soluble by cooking, but
albuminous foods are made less solu-
BILE by heat. Fats in their natural
state are readily absorbed, but after
being cooked often become irritants
for the human system.
The speaker especially emphasized
the proper serving of foods, declaring
that it was of great Importance in aid
ing digestion. creating an appitite to
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