Meade County news., 1917-05-03
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.

cause or alfalfa flourS strong Weedy
flavor and green color, is giving way
to science in experiments in the de-
partment 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 chlorophyll 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 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
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-
| LCll COLlCuL dOOuJ ~ pei COnlg IMAM
ing much more nutritious bread in
each case.
Mixed with corn meal, alfalfa flour
| increased the protein content even
more, about 95 per cent, and the ash
content about SO per cent. In any
case the food value Of the bread was
much 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 a
Slightly different, although not pro-
nounced, taste. When mixed with
graham flour, however, the alfalfa
taste could not be detected.
Sold Hog for $1oe24.-Charles Pet
erson, living near Scandia, recently
marketed an S00-pound hog in Kansas
City for $1O924, after eighty pounds
had been deducted from the animals
weight. A shipment of porkers at the
same time brought $148O a hundred
weight.
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Pioneer stcckman 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.
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Make Drive on Booze.-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.
Bruise Caused Death.-Valentine
| Hoffman, farmer residing south of
Effingham, is dead of blood poisoning
resulting from bruise on one of his
legs. While Mr.. Hoffman was pulling
hedge, he was struck on the leg by a
lever when a chain broke.
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Want Militia to Guard MllIs.-Mil-
lers 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.
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Woman Lawyer 0ead.-Mrs. Ida H.
Gallery, only woman lawyer practicing
in Crawford county, is dead at Pitts
burg. Mrs. Gallery was the wife Of
p. II. Gallery, Socialist lawyer and lee
turer and former vice-mayor of
Schenectady, N. Y.
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Fatally Injuries Boy.-Hugh Gross,
12 years old, was struck by motor
car on alighting from a street car in
Independence. The boy died in a hos
pital an hour later.
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Wilson County RaIIy.--The Wilson
County rally at Fredonia, elected
much patriotism. Business was sus-
pended and long procession formed.
Two weeks ago Company E, First
Lsoooas NaxopoI Nttord bod fo,.t,- -f =,