The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-06-07

diminishing and necessarily so, be-
cause the great free pastures we used
to have on the prairies of the west,
are being cut up into farms. AS the
population of the country increases we
must economic in foodstuffs, for it
costs so much more TO take food at
second hand in the form of flesh than
1T does to take it in the form of the
original foodstuffs. For instance, when
1t takes one hundred pounds of corn
to make three pounds of beef, you lose
81 pounds of food. The only reason food
is scarce in this country at the pres
ent time is that the cattle and hogs
are eating up our foodstuffs. We raise
three billion bushels of corn year
and of that, the people of the United
States only eat 10%, the cattle and
hogs eating most of the rest of it,
There are over forty million cattle
in this country besides milk cows and
more than that number of sheep. Vir-
chow, the noted anthropologist and
the greatest scientist who lived in the
last century said, The future is with
the vegetarians.' He saw it must be
so, as the world cannot produce
enough surplus food to support the
wasteful methods of the livestock in
dustry indefinitely. Every densely
populated country in the world is prac-
tically vegetarian.
Feed 81 Pounds to Get Three.
you have to feed the animal three
pounds Of food and 81 pounds of food
more in order to get that three pounds
of food back again. Thus you throw
away 81 pounds Of good food in order
to get three pounds of meat. The rea-
son is that the steer needs food for
the same reason that man does, to
keep him warm, to support his life and
activities.
Our people must cultivate the po-
tato eating habit. More potatoes and
less breakfast cereals and bread would
be very great Improvement. Cereals
contain an excess of acids. The po-
bases or alkalis which neutralize the
acids of the body and keep the blood
in healthy condition.
Meat will be used less and less in
the future and the important thing
to know is whether or not we can get
along without it. The experiments
made in recent years by McCollum Of
Wisconsin University and by Mendel
OF Yale University show that meats,
eggs and milk contain certain proteins
that are very valuable for the body,
because they are what are known as
complete proteins. They are capable
of making perfect tissues. This is
not true of cereals, not even Of wheat.
Wheat is better than corn, but none
of the vegetables contain these COM
plete proteins. 1t has been found,
however, that certain of these vegeta-
BILE foodstuffs do contain complete pro-
teins and one of them is the soy bean
which plays such a great part in the
nutrition of the Orient. II will come
along in this country very rapidly. An
other is the peanut, and 1t Is Glso found
that the almond and nuts generally con-
tain perfect proteins. That is the rea-
son why the monkeys, apes, the gor-
illas and the chimpanzees are able to
live on their fruit and nut diet. II
one cuts meats out Of the diet, he must
be sure to put in something else,
which will take its place and furnish
these perfect proteins, which is the
real science of dietetics at the present
time,--to prepare a bill of fare
which furnishes everything the body
requires.
The Real Substitute for Wheat
Corn with milk added is a perfect
substitute for wheat. 1t would do no
harm II a complete embargo should
be placed on wheat -four all over the
United States. The people can live
perfectly on corn as long as they have
milk, eggs, nuts and beans.
There isn't going to be any short.
age of corn. The corn we are now
feeding to our cattle, pigs and sheep
will furnish food for one hundred and
sixty million people for year. 1t is
the greatest economic waste In the
country to feed corn to cattle. OF
course, beer is made Of corn, which is
an enormous waste also, but the big.
gest waste OF corn in this country ia
In feeding Il to cattle"