Sharp County record., 1917-09-14
FEED YOUR KIDS
As WELL As STOCK
Make Your Children Healthier and
Happier and Save Doctors Bills BY
Feeding Them Properly.
BY Miss Isabelle Thurby, Specialist in
Home Economics, in Extension
Division, University of
Arkansas.

| When one stops to consider that 1t
has been a good many years since all
the progressive farmers became con-
vinced 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, it is
surprising strange that so many peo-
pie should doubt the wisdom of con-
sidering a 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, un-
doubtedly prolons human life, and
keep most of us in better health, it is
comprehensive that the government
ahould 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. It takes more money to
maintain q 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
healthy human being is of the gravest
Importance at any period of life, but
it 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 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
20, and in his manhood he will not
depart from it," was not said only OF
character. A mother who feeds her
children on poorly selected food is
putting a 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
er 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
orl,'.
NJ 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 cure for many dis
eases. Just what 1t is in milk which
gives II Its value, not only for main
tanning health, but as specific ror
these diseases, cannot be said to have
been determined as yet with absolute
certainty; yet more and more are ply.
sicians prescribing 1t 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 haN been able to furnish
absolute proof, Dr. McCollpm OF the
University OF Wisconsin fed some
young rats on diet which was sup.
posed to contain all the elements
that were necessary in human food
proteid, starch, fat, mineral and W.T.
amines from grains, chemically re-
moving everything else from the food,
making It absolutely pure, But the
rats would not grow, When certain
amount of butter or fats from egg
yolks 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 es sugar in the grocery
stores But that which Is known az
sugar to the scientists Is an element,
which is found In many foods, and
some amount Of IL 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 II In far more
concentrated form than can be found
anywhere else In Nature, However,
honey not only has u more delightful
flavor, but Ia certainly far more whole
some than cane sugar,
Every farmer who has regard for
the welfare Of his family should keep
a COW, chickens, and few hives OF
bees, and supply an abundance OF
these foods,