The Little River news., 1917-10-31
FEED YOUR KIDS
 AS WELL AS STOCK
Make Your Children Healthier and Happier and Save poo4of's Et5ls Gg
 Feeding Them Properly.
By Miss Isabelle Thurby, Specialist in Home Economics, in Extension
 Division, University of
 Arkansas.

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 WI ne stops to consider that it has been good many years since all the progressive farmers became con- yinced that a farm animal, when fed On scientific ration, kept in better | health and was more profitable than one fed on Unit and miss" dla.. il is surpassing strange nat s0 maaE pao- pie should doubt the wisdom cI con- sidering scientific E.o#farE of foods in the feeding Of hu1aa a8i. mals. When we consider tlst a.uat the scientists have found o# suid, if generally known and he#z Ha- doubtedly prolong human Iftr and keep most of us in Letter hcall. it is incomprehens:ble th"tthe government should be spending so compara 5y"lE much on the lives and health Of swine. and so comparatively little cn the lives and health Of human beings.
 Even for him who can understand nothing but the language of dollars and cents, hoaljh% children may be more profitable than healthy horses and cattle It takes more money to maintain family with sickness in it than it does to maintain 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 grayest importance at any period of life, but 1t is of the most importance in child hood. We are, all of us, what our foods make US, and if one has been reared to manhood on a fare which has made him rugged full of vitality. pure blood and abounding health, he is best equipped to meet all the dan gers which threaten human life. Fur ther, youth who is being properly fed is forming correct food habits. Raise a child in the way he should ! go, and in his manhood he will not depart from it." was not said only of character 4 mother who feeds her children on poorly selected food is putting more potont 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 oth- CT 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. It is certain that Nature made these for that purpose, and for that purpose orlr.
 Eo greater tribute could be paid to good, pure milk than the citation of the fact that it is being more and more recognized not only as a pre- ventive but as a cure for many dis eases Just what it is in milk which gives it it's value, not only for main taining health, but as a specific for these diseases, cannot be said to have been determined as yet with absolute certainty; yet more and more are phy- sicians prescribing it with the great est success. There have always been fairly good reasons for believing that eggs were form of food that should never be omitted from the diet of children past infancy but lately the scientists have been able to furnish absolute proof. Dr. McColluiA of thh University of Wisconsin fed some young rats on diet which was sun posed to contain all tho elements that were necessary in human food | proteid, starch. fat. mineral and yit- ! 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 yoIks was added to this diet, the rats grew. He found that neither olive oil nor hog fat would serve the purpose.
 Sugar" in ordinary language, means merely that commercial prod uct usually made from cane sugar. which is sold as sugar in the grocery stores. But that which is known as sugar to the scientists is an element which is found in many foods, and some amount of it 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 element, and contains it in a far moro concentrated form than can be found anywhere else in Nature However, honey not only has a more delightful flavor, but is certainly far more whole, some than cane sugar.
 Every farmer who has regard for the welfare of his family should keep COW, chickens, and few hives or bees, and supply an abundance CT these foods