396 lusk: food economics 



Agricultural Experiment stations in this country and abroad. 

 It may, however, be of interest to call attention to the results 

 of a study of the sale of food at Childs' restaurant 2 which shows 

 how this principle of caloric feeding, now adopted in hospitals 

 and upon farms, may be worked out in the daily life of the 

 people. 



The main objection that has been encountered to the sale of 

 food on the caloric basis has been the sensitiveness of the busi- 

 ness world to the introduction of a new and unknown quantity. 

 Why not leave well enough alone? A more highly educated 

 generation will, however, demand that its expenditures of thous- 

 ands of millions of dollars for food shall not continue to take 

 place in unfathomable depths of darkness. 



2 Gephart and Lusk. Analysis and cost of ready-to-serve foods. Pub- 

 lished by Am. Med. Assoc, 1915. 



