Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-01

the grown people.
This protein in the diet should be 10
to 10 per cent of the fuel value for
grown people. with more for growing
children.
To change the menu for variety or
other reason a food of the same value
to the body should be supplied.
The following supplies Of food will
be required to provide a family of five
for one year with rations based on the
above standard dietary:
Four barrels '.flour or substitutest
therefor, such as peanuts, potatoes and
soy beans.
Twelve bushels corn meal (some of
this to be used as breakfast cereal and
wheat substituted.
72S gallons milk (this to take care
of butter).
225 pounds bacon.
$50 pounds lard
100 pounds fresh meat (pork, beef,
chickens, fish.
$50 dozen eggs.
10 bushels fresh fruit.
100 quarts canned fruit (hve or SIX
bushels when fresh).
Is gallons syrup.
40 bushels sweet potatoes.
40 bushels Irish potatoes.
One-half acre in vegetables in sue
cessive paintings. (This will provide
an abundance of fresh vegetables and
500 quarts of canned vegetables for
winter use).
When wheat for -four is not to be had
some satisfactory substitute must be
used, such as potatoes, soy beans, pea
nuts. or. corn meal. Corn meal can also
be combined with % per cent of the sew
eral food stuffs mentioned above in an
emergency. thereby providing a whole
some, nutritious and satisfactory sub
stitute for wheat or light bread. Light
bread which is very good and nutritious
can be made by using wheat flour, %
per cent corn meal, Irish potatoes or
sweet potatoes, crushed roasted peanuts
or soy beans. Corn may be used also
for making grits and I've hominy. there
by adding desirable variety to the diet
The forging estimate is based on the
elimination of extravaganza and waste
The average family no better nourished
than is provided for in this table UNI
doubtedly consumes very much larger
quantities of the various food products
mentioned. This statement Is made to
protect the Indifferent or careless from
their own folly, and to make 1t clear
that the foregoing statement as to food
requirements will be found misleading
by those who exercise skill and intelli-
gence in the management of their home
and the preparation of food dietaries CAL
culated to fully meet the requirements
of our southern people.
To produce the food called for in the
foregoing table, the following acreage
will be required.
One-half acre Of carefully cultivated
and fertilized ground should be devoted
to vegetables planted in proper sequence
and succession
One-half acre should be devoted 70
orchards which will supply a variety Of
fruits. such as peaches, apples, grapes
and figs.
one-haIf acre chould be planted to
melons.
One acre to legumes, such as field
beans. cowpeas, peanuts, and soy beans
to be used either in their natural state
or in the case of the two latter crops as
flour substitutes.
One-half acre in sorghum cane for
syrup.
One acre in sweet potatoes.
One acre in Irish potatoes, one-half
planted in the spring and one-half in the
fall
Two acres I'm corn
Three acres in wheat.
On thin or poorly fortified and pre-
pared land the areas OF most of these
crops would probably need to be in
creased On extra rich and we'll man.
cut down considerably. In this connec-
ton. it is proper to remember that
these areas should be doubled If the cul-
tivator of the soil is to produce. as he
must, an average amount of these prod
ucts for the use of the people living
in our towns and cities and who are not
In position to grow them. In addition
each family OF five will require the milk
and butter derived from two good cows
81 Co..
the meat obtained from the progeny Of
two brood sows and one yearling. and
the chickens and eggs available from a
flock of fifty hens.
RESIsTENT STRAINS OF COwPEAS.
c. r. C.. Allentown. Ga, writes: There
is an impression here that all peas except
the Iron and Brabham inoculate the soil
with bacteria that will damage other
crops. Is this true7 ! plant these two
rieties but my most prolific variety IL what
is known the Claybank or Unknown but
II 1t damages the soil I want to stop plant.
ing II. Velvet beans Is tn emost prolific
crop l have tried. I fatten cattle on them
in the early fall, then turn them under
and afterwards hogs root them up and
ere easily Kept on them until spring.
The Iron and Brabham cowpeas are
largely resistent to what is known as
the Nematode worm, which attacks and
often destroys other varieties. Pre-
sumably your Claybank or Unknown is
much more susceptible to the attacks
Of this pest than the Iron or Brabham
sorts
If nematode worms are present in the
soil they abrade the roots of cotton,
thereby enabling the fungus which pro-
duces the wilt disease to gain entrance
to the plant and thus damage or destroy
the cotton. We presume this is the
thought you have in mind when you
say other varieties of cowpeas inocu
late the soil with bacteria that will dam
age other field crops"
Velvet beans promise to be most prof