The Alaska daily empire., 1915-03-03
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Cattle ranches are being turned into
 farms. orchards and market gardens,
 tho price Of land goes up, the meat
 eating population grows, the meat
 eating appetite of prosperous and civ iIlzed man becomes hungrier and the ! price of beef rises higher and higher
 and if the authorities on this subject are right in their prophecies it will continue to rise until the American
 will be under the necessity first ot
 eating cheaper "cuts" of meat and
 finally reducing his meat ration.
 But on the other side of this dark
 picture is a brighter one. It is a pie
 ure of green and blue water, salt.
 tumultuous In storm and shining in gentle weather. It Is the sea. Here supplemented by the rivers and the
 lokes and the bays is the worlds greatest food farm, most unscientifl- cally and wastfully tiled or lshed, at present. but there are hopes and prospects that the situation will be improved
 Every ton of food taken from tho sea not only goes that far toward the support of the human race, but reliey. es by just that much pressure on the land supply of food Tho hieaIy fed and the expensive fed American has in some strange way come t9 consid- CT fish not as meal but as dish something merely to whet the appe- tie for Che roast beef or mutton chops Fish is not merely a brain food" and an accompaniment to the meat il is the real thing Meat and f,sh are nitrogenous food, and either is supplementary Co vegetables. Men must more and moro come to a re- Eance on tho scas and rivers as im- portant food sources.
 The average man In addition Co hav- ing a faulty understanding about the food value of fish has number of foolish preiudices against certain kinds Of fish One Of these preiu- dices incIines his appetite away from the dogfish-a very numerous fish, not because its flesh is unwholesame. | clean and palatable, but because the ! name does not suit He will eat cat l fish. but not the dogfish. The name does not suit man md it does not tit the fish. 4 dogiish does not look as much Ike dog as catfish looks like a cot. lt is not Q beautiful fish, but the lobster and the crab are not generally inspiring in the matter of personal liveliness. The dogiish prob | ably come to be so named because there is not the slightest connection ! between it and the dog.
 It Is a member of the great family of the shark One can eat tho dog fish fresh. saltcd fried or baked also canned in oil like ordinary sardines and canned in mustard dressing. Dosiish cakes made of tho eggs is good. The dogiish Is palatabie, nour ishing. easily digested and can be eat on with nothing but the good results following the eating Of any whole some food Fishing experts say that the dogfish should be used as human food. but it SO abounds on our coasts that it should loo used as fertilizer. while the OH from its liver is said to be quite as good as that from the cod
 The sen holds many other fish that will not ea5. and this for DO good reason. There are sQuid skates, the albocore, sharks. silver iake or whiting and mussels. In this it should be kept in mind hat various fish formerly little es- eemed or altogether wasted are now considered excellent. For an exam 'lo there is the sturgeon, the female # which Is now the highest priced , ish on the market Our anrcstors in he Potomac country held Che shad n very pure repute. lt was the Tn Han food. which meant that it was lot quite fit for the whites to eat [ was not until tho terapin became 2 scarce that 1t came inso full 
 If men would take to eating doghsh hey would not only add Q good food ( Q their tebles. but would help con. erye tho lobster on which Che dog .sh preys.-( Washington Star)
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