Milford chronicle., 1927-01-14

with what they eat and wear, in its
raw state, is the farmers part in
the worlds work and as a business
enterprise has no rival.
Science, education and experience,
in legion of ways, are teaching the
world that a sound body and a sound
mind depend chiefly upon good food.
Over 100000 artifically fed children
die annually in our nation. The chief
cause is improper food. More than
this number of adults die from the
same cause. And for the very same
reason very few adults enjoy the
good health that they otherwise
would.
A correct knowledge of food pro-
ducts will demand standards of
quality not now recognized and en-
forced in our market places. Pure
fresh milk is natures simplest and
most useful diet. When produced un-
der the best conditions it is whole
some and benign. Its natural pro-
ducts as butter, cheese, skinned
milk, clabber, cottage cheese or but
ter milk-raw or cooked, the food
value of which cannot be questioned.
Impure milk is a menace to the
health and life of a community.
Nothing will so support and carry
bacteria and disease germs as milk.
Condensed milk and evaporated milk
serve a useful purpose but neither of
them will ever be as satisfactory as
fresh milk direct from the COW.
A fresh egg is a living product,
palatable, wholesome and richly nu-
tritiOus. A stale egg is corpse.
Cold storage does not keep an egg
fresh, it simply retards the decom-
posing process. The same is true, to
some extent, of beef and other ami
NAL foods. The taste, flavor and di-
gestibility are almost invariably
changed.
While the tin can and the paste
board carton have a legitimate place
in modern life their indiscriminate
use for all kinds of eatables, animal
as we'll as vegetable, should be un-
der the most rigid restrictions. The
legion of foods sold in expensive
pasteboard packages have much to
do with the high cost of living. The
back yard of many homes resemble
the refuse heap of summer camp
ing ground.
These package foods are not only
expensive but are too concentrated,
as nature, in it's physical mechan-
ism requires a bulk to food. One spe-
cialist asserts that the use of con-
centrated foods is lessening the
force and fibre of the stomachs and
intestines of the American people.
Let us believe that the people of the
world are using these things only
while they are supplementing be-
tween the farming of the past and
the farming of the future.
Those with experience well know
that a young chicken is better food
than an old one. We know that a fish
is better food the day it is caught
than it ever is afterward. We know
that the quicker vegetables reach
the table, after leaving the field or
garden, the better they taste. We
will never find food at its best until
we get in closer touch with the farm
where it grows.
Scientists tell us that the cell sub
stance of a young chicken, or bird,
or fish, or animal, is more tender
than that of the full grown. In the
young the cells are free and Vigor-
Gus, in the old the cells through eX-
ercise become tough and hardened
and less adapted to supply the needs
of the brain and nervous system.
Fish take almost no exercise, their
cell substance suffers almost no
wear, and, for centuries, fish have
held the reputation of being of spe-
cial nutritive value to the brain and
nerve fibre of mankind.
A hopeful feature of farm life is
that farmers are rapidly becoming
more and more interested in the
constructive progress of the times.
One thing is sure farming will exist
until the end of the race.
The pre-eminent ideal of success
full farming is quality. The genius of
farming is to produce only that
which is the best and educate people
to desire it and demand it. To taste a
good thing is to want it. Supply the
world with the best things that can
be grown and allow no middle man
to take advantage of either end OF
the game, and farm property would
soon find a new value and MAINTAIN
it, no matter how other things t1uc-
tuated in the markets of commerce.
Pure food laws are favorable to
the progressive farmer. Modern So
cial ideas have become Infinitely
more interested in farm life than in
years gone by. Modern enterprise is
rapidly carrying every city convent
ence to the rural home.
Many men of wealth, even million
aires, after enjoying all that the
world at large has to give, have
sought a farm home with its rustic
landscape and pure air., and found it
their greatest and most enjoyable
luxury.
Farm life is ideal for children, es-
pecially for boys. Said Ex-President
Eliot of Harvard University, 1.-THE
boy on the farm has unusual oppor-
tunities to train the eye, the ear and
the hand. The influence of fields and
forests, of growing crops, OF COM
munion with animals and fowls ana
birds and the outdoor sports of hun
ting, fishing and roaming among
valleys and hills must be placed first
in the development of body, mind
and character"
From the firesides of country Sec
tions have gone the effective workers
and leaders in every field of effort.
Inventive genius, progressive
thought and constructive energy
have made our nation great and
prosperous and among the pioneers
and promoters of all these forces our