St. Tammany farmer., 1921-10-08
SURROUNDING FARMS MAKE
HEALTH AND PROSPER
GUS TOWNS.
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tables in the diet Indeed, the whole
truth is that all over America people
do not realize how largely good
health depends on the individual
| consumption Of larger proportion
OF vegetable food, and that the
greater the variety the better.
Southern states were. recently very
indignant at a report Of the U. 5.
Government Health officials stating
| that there was an unusual amount
Of pellagra In the South, and that
pellagra is a starvation disease.
Perhaps the story told by DR.. A. W.
McCann in his Science Of Eating,
will clear up the misunderstanding
On April II, 1915, a German vessel,
the Kronprinz Wilhelm, put into an
! American port and was interned
after sinking fourteen French and
British merchantmen. When the
German ship left port 255 days be-
fore, she expected to hunt down
enemy ships until the war would pc
over, and 1t was exceedingly dan
gerous for her to appear in sight OF
land, but 10 of her crew Of 500
men were prostrated with symptoms
of starvation, although they had eat
en- and the ship had an abundant
supply Of fresh meats, -four, Irish
potatoes, butter, oleomargarine, COZ
fee, lard, canned vegetables, sweet
cakes, and soda crackers. Yet these
Germans were starving, and for that
reason alone the vessel had to leave
high seas. Dr. Mccain says: There
was no outside assistance in the
form of offsetting fresh vegetables
and fruits or whole grain foods.
The canned vegetables consumed,
although theoretically contributing,
base-forming elements, were con-
sumed in comparatively small guam
tities.' He says further Onions,
lettuce, asparagus, cabbage, carrots,
parsnips, caulifower, velery, Brus-
sells sprouts, apples, berries, oranges,
grapes and other base-forming foods
assist nature to combat or to modify
some of the evil effects OF the refined
diet on which the Germans attempt
ed to thrive for long period
Thousands of children of the poor
in the United States have always
been like this crew Of the Kronprinz
| v
partially starved condition because
we do not eat enough Of fresh vege
tables? Do we know that there art
a number of diseases which are di
rectly caused by deficiency of fres}
vegetable and dairy foods, notwitn
standing the person eats, like th'
Germans on the Kronprinz Wilhelm
a sufficient quantity of other foods
Prof. Benz. Harrow says, "that q
q per cent of our school children SUI
fer from malnutrition, and that 2
per cent of the country's MANHOOD
are physically unfit" mostly becaus
Of the small quantity Of milk an
fresh fruit and vegetables In OF,
diet.
In the large city for those VIII
are rich enough to pay the pr1c
there is an abundance Of every kin
Of food In the country, II we hay
to depend on our grocers to bu
vegetables and fruit In the city an
ship them here, we cannot expect t
get regularly the best of either, an
frequently as Is actually the cas-
our vegetable and fruit dealers hav
almost nothing on hand to sell to u:
they cannot very we'll avoid th
condition, because they have
ny this perishable stuff in limite
. uantities.
But it is possible and very pra'
cable for us to be better off tina
he city people in our milk and veg'
eble and fruit supply. How?
BY developing the farm industr
nd trucking and orchardihg in tn
= ,arish we can have the finest PR
ducts Of the land the year aroun
for the supply Of our tables, and (;
less cost to the consumer than tbs
can be had in the city. In one
backyard garden, where there
good drainage, enough green veg
tables can be raised to keep tt
family in excellent health. But tt
backyard garden will not supply OIL
winter visitors. We must stimula1
the truck gardener AS a matter !.
fact in every town Of this paris