Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-05
LAWS OF NUTRITION REVEALED
IN HOGS IMPORTANT TO HUMANS

seeds of grasses during transit from
point of origin to destination.
September, 1900, DIR. Oscar Aeb-
reich of the Imperial Board OF Health,
Berlin (Geheimer Medizinalrath Or
denlicher Professor der Heilmittel-
lehre und Direktor des Pharmakolo-
gischen lnstituts des konigiscnen uni nj
verstat Berlin) made the following re-
port on the use of eoloring matter by
sausage makersi
ut is now uloss upon half CEN
tury since the eo1oring OF pale-colored
sausaEes was introduced. Many farm
ers and cattle breeders have now
adopted the method which enables
them to enhance the weight OF their
cattle and hogs, Instead Of feeding.
as used to be the done. with legumin-
GUS substances with bran. potatoes.
skim milk, etc., the animals now get
all sorts ef so-eelled strengthening
feedss Ferm-house refuse (tankage,
garbage, byproduots of breweries, cot
tonseed meal. exhausted pulp and the
like.
This method Of fattening produces
a considerable modification In the
comp position Of the flesh. While under
the old system of feeding, animals
with solid, substantial, muscular flesh,
rich in colortng substances, were pro-
duoed. the flesh formed by present ar
tifcial feeds IL very fat, contains a
great deal of water, and Is very poor
In coloring substance,
"The old system OF feeding produced
the f1eehy pork the new system pro-
duces fat pork.
while formerly sausages were OF a
good red color, they are now always
pale, Hence the dye must be en-
ployed where people want the true
character of modern pork to be dis
guised to resemble what 1t should
be-"
Here we have the rapid shrinking of
the wRter-logged tissues of the arti-
ficially fed cattle and the anaemic flesh
of artihcially fed hogs to teach US the
dangers of refined food in the pro-
duotion of enfeebled vitality and dis
ease,
The sheep still feeds itself as 1t has
fed for thousands OF years. 1t follows
natures instinct. It knows nothing
of the artificial byproducts upon which
dairy cows and hogs are orammed. In
consequence 1t resists nearly all dis
eases and maintains such state Of
normal health, as we have seen, that
less than three one-hundredths OF 1
per cent. of all the sheep killed in fed
eral inspected abatttoirs are found to
have anything the matter with them.
In 1918 DIR. NJ. B. Ravenel, profess
sor of bacteriology of the University
of Wisconsin, made an examination of
conditions in the slaughter houses of
Wisconsin and other States. In addi-
ton to the many other diseases with
which he found the hog to be cursed,
he declared in his report
Twenty per cent. of the average lot
of hogs brought to slaughter are tu
berculous. These hogs do not de-
velop the disease within themselves
but contract 1t by feeding on by
products of creameries and following
tuberculous COWS engaged in the pro-
duction of milk"
Here we have a startling similarity
between the pale, watery tissues OF
the hog, including the diseases to
which such devitalized tissues offer
little or no resistance, and the pale
complexion, anaemia or hemogloben
deficiency of the human being.
DIR. Rolf Wilson Is responsible for
the following statement, published in
the Medical Times, January, 1914: "R.
l.. Babcock, Chicago. rarely finds in
city dwellers the hemogloben above
30. l believe the prime reason for
this" he says, us the Decentralization
of the food now put upon the mar
ket."
or course this is no conclusive. 1t
simply means that in the deficiency
of certain food minerals in the diet of
the hog the same results are noticed
as those which are observed in the
human animal under similar condi-
tions of mineral deficiency. We shall
now see how this similarity has as
serted itself in the most extra
ordinary poison squad experiment of
history,