The St. Joseph observer., 1920-04-24
KEEP 1T AWAY
DO Not Feed the Children MIX From
TubcrcnIar Cows of Kansas
and Nebraska.

To the Editor Of The Observer:-
No person is, or could be, more in
terestea in the development Of tho
rising generation than | am, bat,
knowing full well that what | would
say in regard to the milk question
and mal-nutrition would be by many
construed as condemning the board
OF health, when in reality / would do
anything reasonable to aid the citizens
of 81. Joseph in procuring supply of
clean, pure milk. Standing on my
back porch today / can see seven slos
and dairy barns standing empty.
/ Two hundred and sixty cows that
formerly furnished milk for the poo".
starving babes that have been usherrd
into this world by minimizing parents,
have gone to the shambles Why
o. why were the poor innocent cows
not saved ana tho parents slaughter
cd?
The COWS are gone, but spring is
ncar and instead of setting the dogs
on the poor rAilaren. running them
down and crammiug their littlc stom-
uchs fun OF bread made of fine. white
flour and washing it down with = per
cent milk from Nebraska and Kansas
cows that have rot been tested Tor
tuberculosis Gone of IT," largest
'creamcrics ip M'.#puri i'm q circular
letter to. IL, 4parruns in the above
uamed states aIys: "It is not ueccs-
s4iy haec your cows tested for tu-
hnrcuiofis in order to sell your milk
in ST Jescph,D just help the boys and
girls t,g a small tract OF ground and
+ tell them to-, plant vegetables and eat
heartily. OF tber products. and let the
starvation foods in the shape Of white
flour and eauncd milk alone. and the
bloom al youth ana health will soon
adorn their pallid cheeks. They need
iron in their blood. No need to gnaw
"a r rail to get it. Iron in the blood
( is of great Importance. -
/ Among other things it enables the
blood to absorb and assimilate oxygen
from the air, So that whom the blood
is deficient in iron, no matter how
deeply he broathcs, person suffers
from oxygen starvation and becomes
anaemic.
Then medical science" and patent
medicine people administer inorganic
iron in the shape of pellets, pills and
Ipotions An absolutely useless and
not only useless but harmful.
The only way TO increase iron in
the blood is to eat foods in which it
abouuds Flour is bolted and deprived
Of most of the mineral elements, vege-
ItubIes boiled and the water discarded,
then physicians and patent medicine
men recommend inorganic iron Ia
make up the deficiency. How foolish
and futile!
As an illustration, wheat flour
made of the whole kernel contains
I0.3O in 1000 parts of water free food
while white flour contains only 0.O5
or one-tenth as much.
The foods most rich in iron are the
green leaf vegetables and to get the
fun value of them they must be eater
raw, as about IS per cent of the min
erals are changed in cooking to the
inorganic form.
Hew are the amounts of iron in
some foods:
Il White sugar, 900.
White flour, O.O3.
Eggs. OF.
Meat, 0.2S.
Cows milk, O.3O.
Apples, O.36.
h Watermelons, LIS.
Radishes, 800.
Strawberries, 3.73.
Spinach, $40.
Onions. $50.
Lettuce, 1l.20.
If consumptiyes were fed plenty %
raw green vegetables and fruit with
a moderate amount of whole graiI
pIedu hlsledu VI beih6 Stuiicu VIII
eggs and milk" and "other goo,
nourishing food" that they cannot di
gest or assimilate, they would max
rapid recovery, and the same is tru
of starving children. Give the boy
and girls a garden, but above all,
you are opposed to the farmers livinI
near St Joseph, Missouri, bringing il
fresh pure milk for the kiddies don
feed them the boiled, nasty stuff fron
the tubercular cows Of Kansas an,
Nebraska. p
Yours for prevention rather thar
cure. q
ROBERT /. YOUNG.