Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-21

anaemia what were characteristic of
the cows.
The horses We're at once put back
on whole grains and grasses, where
upon they promptly recovered. The.
cows were continued on the same re-
fined diet until a veterinarian noting
the experience of the stable superin-
tendent with his horses, declared that
the condition of the COWS, favorable
to the rapid development of tuber-
culosis, was directly due to the
character of the food consumed by
them. He Immediately ordered a
change, Notwithstanding the high
calorie value and the scientific pro-
portion of carbohydrates, proteins
and fats with which the certified milk
producers were being nourished.
A contrast to this episode, concern
ing which more will be said later, re-
garding the disastrous results of the
use of demineralized food on milk
producing cows, is to be found in the
| experience of David T. ARIEL, Youngs-
town, Ohio, breeder of thoroughbred
American trotting horses.
ARIEL has bred, broke. trained and
developed prizewnners on four points
| food, pasture, shade and stable. He
so keenly recognized the fact that the
| quality of his horses their health, VI
! tality, endurance, resistance to dis
ease, and general physical perfection
depended upon their food that he went
so far as to provide No. l unbleached
oats for which he paid, prior to the
outbreak of the war, 81 a bushel, laid
down in Youngstown.
AS a practical horsebreeder he had
noticed that his animals fed on I'M
| processed or nonbyproduct foods
remained practically immune to all
| the equine diseases with which the
average horsebreeder Is plagued.
AS against this observation con-
cerning the vitality of the horse,
properly fed, officials of the Bureau
of Animal Industry estimate that
from S5 to so per cent. of all the milk
producing herds in the United States
are affected with tuberculosis. All of
these herds are fed more or less on
exhausted or refined foods.
These diseases of distured me-
tabolism not only with respect to
cows and horses, but also with respect
to the human being, are as prevalent
as the deaths of nearly 100000 chill
dren under ten years of age in the
United States every year might indi-
cate.
Lovelace reports 936 cases of peri
pheral neuritis in a railroad hospital
in North Brazil.
Heizer, Fraser, Aaron. Higet and
others, rs we have seen, have demon
ohi ottu tiiG tCl6DCy OIL
lied foods of high calorie value in the
Culion Leper Colony, the Straits Set
tlement and Bilibid Prison.
Caspari and Mosykowski report
practical experiences in New Guinea
and Berlin which caused them to
conclude that human neuritis is a
widespread disease of disturbed me-
tabolism caused principally by re-
fined carbohydrate foods, the high
calorie value of which is not disputed
Human neuritis is one of the many
symptoms of acidosis.
In probing into the evils respon-
sible for the death of 100000 chill
dren under ten years of age in the
United States during the past four
years and in the rapid increase or or
ganic heart disease. cancer. Bright's
disease, diabetes. hardening of the ar
teries. and other rapidly increasing
disorders of adult life, are we to dis
miss or confront the foodless foods
of high calorie value now so popular
among the American people and their
milk cows?