June, 1918 



G I. E A N I N O S IN BEE CULTURE 



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and diets, I a-n satisfied that cottage c-lieete and 

 entire wheat will fully sutetitute for meat in the 

 diet of any well-matured psrson. I am willing to 

 make up a little contest with any man of my age 

 and work it out. The other man may eat all the 

 meat he wants. I will talancei my ration with milk, 

 cheese, and eggs. We will stand for an examina- 

 tion before we begin, and have careful records made' 

 of what we do, how the body stands it, and the 

 cOot. I have seen so many men who felt that the(y 

 could not live without eating great quantities of 

 meat " coma back " after being forced to give it 

 up that I feel very sure of my ground. The scion- 

 tists tell us that a quart of goad milk contains as 

 much food as a pound of beefsteiak. Many a man 

 will listen to that and smile. Then he will sell the 

 milk for five cients or a little more and go and pay 

 30 cents for the beef. I know the scientist is right, 

 and I think this plan of selling a'l the milk and 

 paying five or six times as much for meat is one 



big trouble in the dairy business A 



farmer will sell three cents' worth of gi'ain and 

 pay 12 cents for the same kind of grain^ crushed 

 or partly cooked, and packed in a little box. By us- 

 ing a small hand grinder, that farmer could prepare 

 the grain into a beitter " cereal " than he can buy. 



During the past winter, as I have been 

 telling' yo'a. I have been out in the open air 

 from daylight till dark, with hardly a day's 

 exception ; and I have carefully noted what 

 food staj'ed by me best for my woi'k in the 

 garden. I vei'^^' soon informed Mrs. Root 

 that when I had the oatmeal mush J have 

 mentioned (with the honey), I held out bet- 

 ter than on any other diet — better than 

 when I had fish or meat without the oat- 

 meal. But if oatmeal were omitted entire- 

 ly, I felt used up before dinner time; and 

 much the same experience came with cottage 

 cheese. The latter seemed to be a very 

 im.portant jjart of the menu in order that 

 I might do a lot of work and not bec-ou'' 

 tired. You will notice Mr. Colling-wood 

 seems to agree with me entirely. 



I now wish to call particular attention 

 once more to the importance of having a 

 little grinder in every family, to cut off 

 the expense that comes between producer 

 and consumer; and I am just now plan- 

 ning to have a little patch of wheat in my 

 garden and give it " high-pressure " culti- 

 vation and fertilization as I have been do- 

 ing with potatoes. This wheat flour is so 

 difficult to get just now, Avhat is to hinder 

 not only gi'inding our own wheat flour but 

 growing it in our "war gardens?" 

 Threshing it out in small quantities at 

 home, may be something of a problem; but 

 T am pretty sure I can cut off the heads 

 of grain, put them in a stout bag, and 

 pound out the wheat with a club, just as 

 we have been doing with beans in our ho"me 

 garden for years past. 



Now, friends, are we not ready to show 

 Germany that with " pulse to eat and water 

 to drink," as did Daniel, that we are more 

 than a match for even Satan himself? 



Later. — After the above was in type it 



occuned to me our Ohio Experiment Sta- 

 tion had made some experiments in regard 

 to the cost of beef, and I wrote my " long- 

 time friend," Prof. Thorne. Below is his 

 reply : . 



Replying to yours of May 1. I would say that it 

 is generally assumed that it takes about 10 pound, 

 of grain to produce a pound of beef. In some of 

 our experiments we have produced a pound of in- 

 crease in liveweight from seven pounds of grain; iu 

 others it has required eight and from that lip to 

 10, owing to how the grain is fed; .so that there is 

 no doubt that the necessary cost of human nutrition 

 i.s greater when meat enters largely into the diet. 

 On the other hand it is quite likely that we use 

 more grain than necessary in producing meat, and 

 that a larger portion of our meat might be made 

 from the waste products of our crop.s. I regard this 

 line of investigation as one of the most important 

 now before, the Experiment Stations; that is, to sec 

 how we may rediice the grain and increase the 

 other constituents of the ration in producing meat. 



While the Chinese and East Indians have got 

 along with less meat and less mi'k than we are in 

 the habit of using, yet I believe that it is generally 

 held by those best qualified to judge, that we cannot 

 afford to attempt to do without milk, for the sake 

 of our children. 



Yours cordially, 



Chas. E. Thorxe. 



Wooster, Ohio. Mav 3, 1918. Director. 



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The electric windmill with the builder of the tower 



(Mr. Leon Wheeler) on the platform, 45 feet up. 



The highest point of the wheel is 60 feet from tho 



ground. 



