The Dermott news., 1917-09-20
FEED YOUR KIDS
As WELL As STOCK
Make Your Children Healthier and
Happier and Save Doctors Billie BY
Feeding Them Properly.
BY Miss Isabelle Thurby, Specialist in
Home Economics, in Extension
Division. University of
Arkansas

hSh ohC StoPo W SODSiutI tLldt IL
has been a good many years since all
the progressive farmers became con
WINGED that farm animal. when fed
On a scientific ration, kept in better
health and was more profitable than
one fed on hit and miss" diet, il is
urpassing strange that so many PEG
pie should doubt the wisdom of con-
sidering scientific knowledge of
foods in the feeding of human ami
mails. When we consider that what
the scientists have found out would.
If generally known and needed, I'M
doubtedly prolong human life. and
keep most of us in better health. IL is
incomprehensible that the government
should be spending SO comparatively
much on the lives and health of swine,
and so comparatively little on the
lives and health of human beings.
Even for him who can understand
nothing but the language of dollars
and cents. healthy children may be
more profitable than healthy horses
and cattle. II takes more money to
maintain a family with sickness in it
than il does to maintain a well one.
for the doctor may take away more
than hogs or horses can bring in
The kind of food which produces a
healthy human being is OF the gravest
! importance at any period of life but
II il of the most importance in child
hood We are, all of us, what our
foods make us. and IL one has been
reared to manhood on fare which
has made him rugged full of vitality.
pure blood and Astounding health. he
is best equipped to meet all the dan
gers which threaten human life Fur
Their youth who is being properly
/ fed is forming correct food habits.
Raise child in the way he should
go. and in his manhood he will not
depart from il" was not said only OF
character A mother who feeds her
children on poorly selected food is
putting more potent curse upon them
! than The most ingenious witch could
devise
On the subject of what is intended
by Nature for animal food there has
been much argument. but the facts Of
Nature indicate that. while many 9th
or things may be. and probably are.
! intended for animal food. there are,
so far as We actually know only
three things intended for that purpose.
These are milk. eggs and honey. II
is certain that Nature made these for
that purpose, and for that purpose
c.l
: greater tribute could be paid TO
F., good. pure milk than the citation Of
the fact that ii is being more and
more recognized not only AZ pre-
ventive but as a cure for many dis
eases Just what il is in milk which
/ gives il its value not only for main.
tanning health but as n specific FOR
/ these diseases cannot be said 10 have
been determined as yet with absolute
/ certainty. Yet more and more are ply.
sieians prescribing il with the great
i est success Therc have always been
/ fairly good reasons FOR believing that
IegCs were form of food thai should
never BE omitted from the diet of
children past infancy. but lately the
scientists have been able 10 furnish
absolute proof Dr McCollum of the
t University OF Wisconsin fed some
Young rats on n diet which WAS sup.
posed 10 contain all the elements
! that were necessary IN human food
+ proteid. starch. fat mineral and VII
amines from grains. chemically re.
moving everything else from the food.
making it absolutely pure But The
rats would not grow When a certain
amount OF butter or fats from egg
yolks was added to this diet. the rat.
grew He found that neither olive oil
nor hog fat would serve the purpose
Sugar" in ordinary language.
means merely that commercial prod
uet. usually made from cane sugar
which is sold rs sugar in the grocery
stores But TINT which is known as
sugar to the scientists is an element
which is found in many foods. and
some amount of II is undoubtedly
necessary in The human diet Milk
contains some, and some fruits
dates for instance. contain a great
deal White cane sugar contains that
clement, and contains It in a TAR NOR
concentrated form than can be found
anywhere else in Nature However,
honey not only has more delightful
flavor. but is certainly Car more whole
some than cane sugar
Every farmer who has regard for
The welfare of his family should keep
A COW. chickens. and n few hives or
bees, and supply an abundance o.
these foods