McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-01

OoopC ViCy GiC uolnS Siouhu iiihSooohS
with good results, but burnt lime is
stronger and better. The hull of
wheat requires lime, and the whole
grain needs it. And we need the
lime of wheat to make our teeth and
bones strong. Corn is good food, but
nothing is so perfect as wheat. DR..
Harvey w. Wiley, the great chemist
for the Department of Agriculture.
said one night in lecture at our
Home Club in Washington that a man
can live whole year on nothing but
wheat and water, and seven bushels
of wheat will keep him from starving
that long. OF course he would need
some salt, and some fat would be
good with it. But seven bushels of
wheat will feed one man one year.
He said if wheat were parched and
then ground or broken up in hand
mill and boiled and eaten with butter
or gravy it was splendid dish. Some
people here have their handmills and
make their own breadstuff at home.
The white bolted flour we get at
stores is half killed with the process
in the big mills in the north; the life
is taken out of it in fine pulverizing
and taking the hull and heart away
make it look pretty. | want dark
bread for mine; rye bread is fine.
But if could get my meal from the
Alexander brothers at Selmer and
have it made up like it was when my
mother was Secretary of the Interior
at our home, either raised, or with
eggs and soda, or Gin season. with
cracklins, would not want anything
better. Grant Alexander and his
brother Harve q think they were the
ones-there are so many of these
splendid fellows | can't keep track Of
them, only | can spot Grant mile
away by his WALK gave ne peck of
their fresh-ground cornmeal last fall,
and my wife used it for quite a while
to make bread, mullins and batter.
cakes with. You can't get such meal
in the whole city of New York; just
the right degree of coarseness, and
white and rich as only McNairy corn
can be-. The stuff they call maize
meal" here is yellow, and never
makes bread that tastes done to me.
The gist of all this is that bread
stuffs must be raised in Tennessee
more than ever before, and meat too
We used to raise lots of sheep when
| was boy. They have just passed
a law here to get rid of dogs SO as to
enable the farmers to raise sheep.
You can't eat dogs you know-not
yet a while, nor cotton either. Yes,
/ know the gamblers have run the
price Of cotton to between Fl and %
cents this week, but, mark my words,
you can't eat it. And it will be a
Question Of what we can get to eat,
if this war keeps up. There is talk
of making one man food controller
| for the United States; also, of putting
the buying authority for US and the
i Allies in the hands of one man at
Washington, who will have the buy
ing Of ten billions of dollars worth of
supplies, year. Let McNairy farm
ers raise not only enough to feed
themselves, but to help feed the
J country and our Allies who are fight
ing to help keep the world from Ger
man slavery. Let more people keep
! bees; the little fellows work fol
nothing and board themselves, and
, don't leave you when you rob them
| Where can you get any other servants
} or workers like that? Give then
! good houses to live in and look after
them at swarming time and they vii
: do pretty nearly everything else, al
though you ought to plant good pas
turage for them. heard of one
] stingy Yankee who tried to cross hi
t bees with lightning-bugs so the!
e would work day and night. but gooC
t bee will find enough in daytime il
J McNairy to keep him busy. If Uncl
e Byron were still alive he could Civ,
9 the boys some valuable lessons in hov
n to raise them.
n Billy Sunday is still raising Cai
n with his Satanic Majesty here, an
y thousands are turned away from hi
II tabernacle every night Yesterday h
U preached against card-playing an
dancing. He looks upon dancing a
g the worst sin of all, almost, and re
:: ferred in sarcastic terms to tn