The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05
Experiments at State Univers-
ity Show the Flour Has a
High Food Value.
MUST Be MIXED WITH WHEAT
Ten Per Cent Added to White Flour
Makes Bread and Biscuits Of
Fine Flavor.

paTtment of home economics of the
University Of Kansas. These expert
ments have eliminated both objections
and alfalfa" bread and biscuits of
fine flavor and quality and high food
value have been made in the depart
ment-
The bread has none of the "weedy''
taste of previous alfalfa flours and
the green color is entirely absent This
was accomplished by dissolving out of
the flour the chlorophylI or coloring
matter, said Prof. Elizabeth Sprague,
head of the department who directed
the experiments. Chemical analysis
showed that the bleached alfalfa flour
lost none Of its food properties by the
process.
The department made its own flour
by grinding alfalfa leaves in a food
grinder. Varying proportions of al
falfa flour were mixed with common
wheat flour, with graham flour and
with whole wheat flour in the baking
experiments. The maximum amount
Of alfalfa flour that may be used sue
cessfully, however, is 10 per cent,
Miss Sprague said. But even when
only half that quantity is used the
bread is of materially greater food
value than when made entirely from
wheat flour
The very restricted food variety the
poor have these days means that their
food lacks necessary mineral or ash
constituents, Miss Sprague said. These
constituents are lost to some extent
by milling wheat flour Alfalfa flour
has them and puts them into the
bread. When 10 per cent of alfalfa
! flour was added to ordinary wheat
flour the mineral content of the bread
was increased about 100 per cent and
| the protein content was increased 25
per cent. When the same quantity of
alfalfa flour was added to whole wheat
flour the mineral content was in
creased about 80 per cent and the pro-
tein content about 20 per cent, max
| ing a much more nutritious bread in
each case.
Mixed with corn meal, alfalfa flour
| Increased the protein content even
more, about 35 per cent, and the ash
content about SO per cent In any
case the food value of the bread was
hmuch higher, said Miss Sprague
The alfalfa flour produced in the
University is of dark, brownish gray
color. Bread from it resembles wheat
and rye bread in color and has
slightly different, although not pro-
nounced, taste. When mixed with
graham flour, however. the alfalfa
taste could not be detected.
Sold Hog for S1Oe.24-CharIes Pet
erson, living near Scandal, recently
marketed an 8O0-pound hog in Kansas
City for $1,000, after eighty pounds
had been deducted from the animals
weight. A shipment of porkers at the
same time brought $3.50 a hundred
weight.
Pioneer stockman Dead. w
Campbell, a pioneer stock raiser and
farmer of Harper County, is dead of
heart disease at his home north Of
Attica. Mr.. Campbell came from Penn
sylvania to Kansas in the early sos
Make Drive on Rooze.-Prisoners at
Gerard are destroying five carloads
Of confiscated liquor. The sheriff has
expert help, as several prisoners are
serving time for driving beer wagons,
and know how to hoist beer kegs and
cases.
Brufse Caused Death.-VaIentine
Hoffman, farmer residing south of
Efffngham, is dead of blood poisoning
resulting from bruise on one of his
legs While Mr. Hoffman was pulling
hedge, he was str1ck on the leg by a
lever when a chain broke
Want Militia to Guard MiIIs.-MiI-
Iers at Wichita have asked Governor
Capper to have the Kansas militia
called into active service and placed
as guards about the many big mills
in the state.
Woman Lawyer Dead.-Mrs Ida H
Gallery, only woman lawyer praeticing
in Crawford county. is dead at Pitts
burg Mrs. Gallery was the wife OF
P. H. Gallery. Socialist lawyer and lee
turer and former yice-mayor Of
Schenectady, N Y.
Fatally Injuries Boy-Hugh Gross,
II years old, was struck by a motor
car on alighting from street car in
Independence The boy died in a hos
pital an hour later.
Wilson County RaIIy.-The Wilson
County rally at Fredonis, elected
much patriotism Business was sus-
pended and a long procession formed.
Two weeks ago Company E, First
Kansas National Guard, had forty-six
enlisted men. It now has 1O4 with
officers and expects to reach the $50
mark soon
:
War Drives Farmer Insane-Jerome
Glazier. farmer. was adJudged in
sane by a commission OF doctors in
probate court at Hutchinson after ne
related the manner IN which he would
torture President Wilson for throwing
the country into war.
Washing out Traos.slrwenty
towns on the Santa Fe Railroad be
tween Strong City and Superior, Neb.,