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require as much nitrogenous food, as a laborer in the streets. That 

 is the reason a farmer always has a farmers' appetite. 



Just so in the human body. If the tissues are not strong and 

 healthy, it will not be well built up, and it is for the mother to con- 

 sider, giving health to the children, and to nourish them with good 

 healthy food to build up the bodies, to the age of ten years. We 

 are all slaves to habits that have been formed. We may be able to 

 overcome this to some degree, but we can never fully build up our 

 bodies, if they have been neglected in early life. 



Mineral elements — bones, teeth, hair, nails — and unless a certain 

 amount of these elements enter into the body, especially iron, the; 

 blood becomes thin, and of a pale color, and we have a pale com- 

 plexion. Iron is found in all the various fruits that are grown. 

 And then we need a certain proportion of other minerals to form 

 «ound bones and teeth, which is especially desirable, because many 

 children have poor teeth in early childhood. In the cities there is 

 getting to be an excess of delicatessen stores, and people are 

 getting to depend more and more on them, instead of studying for 

 themselves this important question of diet. 



In the olden times the primitive method of milling was as you see 

 it here. The good housewife took two stones, one on top of the 

 other, and rotated them together. From this was envolved the 

 burr method, with which you are all familiar. From this method 

 we have progressed until we have flours of various kinds, almost 

 innumerable. In the illustration before us we have a wind-mill, 

 such as used in Holland today. In olden times the farmers milled 

 in this way. They also had the tread-mill — another primitive form 

 of the milling. Then we have the modern water power mill, such 

 as they operate in the far west — in Minnesota. This shows the dif- 

 ference between primitive and modern methods. In one of these 

 large modern mills, the output is fifteen thousands barrels a day. 

 So you see that as we have changed, the conditions of milling have 

 changed, and so conditions have changed regarding food values. 

 Very often people say '^I have always eaten what I wanted, and 

 I am perfectly well contented, because I am well enough anyway; 

 I don't want to know any more about foods." I am always sorry 

 for individuals of this kind. If there are any such in this audience 

 tonight, I want you to try to do better in the future. What I am 

 striving to do is to show yon how to build up the human body, and 

 keep it sound and healthy. Sin and suffering should be unknown, 

 simply through injurious habits of eating. 



The salivary glands. In these is produced the excretion which 

 mixes with our food, and aids digestion. Still, we want to so try 

 to govern our tastes that when we sit down to the tabLe, the first 

 question will be "is what we are going to eat the best thing for our 

 bodies?" But this is rarely the case. Just consider whether you 

 don't give more attention and care to your live stock than you do to 

 the human body. And yet, it is of far more importance to keep the 

 human body at its best, and how can we keep it at its best if we do 

 not keep it in good condition by proper diet? 



The cylinder method of milling, invented in 1870. It consists of a 

 set of small steel rollers into which the wheat is fed, so that you 

 can follow it to the bins in the process. The next is the bolting 



