The Nevada County picayune., 1917-09-06
FEED YOUR k|OS"
 AS WELL AS STOCK
Make Your Children Healthier and
 Feeding Them Properly.
By Miss Isabelle Thurby. Specialist ir Home Econ 0miCs, in Extension Division, University of
 ATkausas.

When One stops to consider that t has been q good many years since all ths progressive farmers became con yinced that farm animal. when fed on a scientific ration. kept in better health and was more profitable than one fed on d Init and mics" diet, 1t is surpassing strange that 50 many peo pie should doubt the wisdom Of con sidsrisx scientific knowledge of foods ia the fssdins of human aai mAls When we consider that what the scientists have found out would. If generally knowa and needed, un- dovbtsdly prolong human lifs. and kssp most of us in better hsalth, 1t is incomprshensiSlet that tho government should be spending 50 comparatively much on ths lives and health of swine. and ss comparatively little on tho lives and health of human beings.
 Even fer him who can understand nothing but the language Of dollars and cents. healthy children may be and cattle. It takes more money to maintain 2 family with sickness in it than 1t does to maintain . we'll one, for the doctor may take away more than hogs or horses can bring in.
 The kind of food which produces . Aeslthy human being is of the sravest 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 fare which has made him rugged. full of vitality. pure blood and sbsanding health. hs is best equipped to meet all the dan gers which threatsn human life. Eur thsr, youth who is being properly fed is forming oorrsct food habits. ''kaiss . child in the way he should TO, and in his manhood he will not depart from it." was not said only Of character. \ mother who feeds her ohildrsa on poorly selected food is putting more pOteRt curse upon them thaa ths most ingenious witch could SAstss. .,, ,2 On, the sabjsot of Whst is iatanAad l,hT, NAturA for Aaiaal feed thsre has hssa much Arsunsnt. .bwt the facts of Nature. iAaioats that, wAiis many oth- CT tAines may be, and probably arc. | intended for animal food. thsrs 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 | only
 No greater tribute could be paid to good. pure milk than the citation of | the fact that il is being more and
 more recognized not only as a pre- ventive but as cure for many dis. cases Just what it is in milk which gives it it's value, not only for main taining health. but as specific for | these diseases. cannot be said 10 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 ot food that should 1 children past infancy. but lately the scientists have been able To furnish absolute proof pr. McCollum of the University of Wisconsin fed some young rats on diet which was sup l posed to contain all the clements that were necessary in human food proteid, starch. fat. mineral and vit- sminsx from grains. chemically re. moving evsrythina slse from the food making it absolutely pure. But the rats would not grow When a certain amount of butter or fats from egg grew Re 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 s,ores 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 great deal. White cane sugar contains that element. and contains il In far more | concentrated form than can be found | anywhere else in Nature However. honey not only has more delightful l flavor. but is 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 1T bees, and supply an abundance or these foods