LESSON FOR THE FARM HOME 



L. H. Bailey, Director 

 Course for the Farm Home, Martha Van Rensselaer, Supervisor 



VOL. II. No. 4 x ITHA TTfvTT, NEW Y0RK FO °S S l mES 



JUNE i, 1913 No. 8 



RULES FOR PLANNING THE FAMILY DIETARY 



Flora Rose 



" What shall I have for dinner?" asks the housekeeper; and we might 

 add, " and for supper and for breakfast?" Three meals a day, each day 

 in the year! Do we wonder that this is a perplexing problem? Yet 

 consider the importance of its right solution! Like other animals we 

 are largely the product of two factors, inheritance and food supply. If 

 our ability to live an efficient life is therefore at stake, the planning of 

 meals is indeed an important charge which should be attended to in no 

 uncertain and haphazard manner. 



Particularly is care necessary in the dietary of the growing child. Vigor- 

 ous growth and development are his due, and we should see that his 

 choice of food is wisely guided and that proper foods, well prepared, are 

 set before him. The adult members of the family may have sufficiently 

 weathered the years of poor nourishment to struggle along; but the next 

 generation should be better equipped than the present one. In response 

 to right care the human being is not unlike the automobile. If the 

 automobile is well made and its needs are intelligently supplied, it goes 

 humming along the road and steadily mounts the hills with all its intended 

 power at instant command. Distance vanishes before it and its 

 accomplishment is great and sure. If the machinery becomes clogged 

 and fails to supply the requiied energy, the smooth running is disturbed, 

 the hill is hard, the shortest distance becomes too great. 



And so it is with man. If his road is to be traveled and his hills are 

 to be climbed in the fullness of his powers, his physical needs must be 

 understood and satisfied. If the human engine is poorly fed and is not 

 well cared for, it responds to its task no better than does the poorly 

 supplied and badly-cared-for automobile. 



Published semi-monthly throughout the year by the New York State College of Agriculture at 

 Cornell University. Entered as second-class matter October 13, 191 1, at the post office at Ithaca, 

 New York, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. 



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