692 GLE A NINGSINBEE CULTURE 



Special Notices by A. I. Root 



November, 1918 



THE ITINERARY OF A BREAKFAST 

 BY J. H. KELLOGG, M. D. 



If you want an " inside view " of what happens 

 to your breakfast after putting it in your mouth, 

 you will read this book with interest. By means 

 of the wonderful possibilities in the use of the X 

 ray the doctor traces the breakfast thru the entire 

 system. 



By the way, while I heartily indorse the book as 

 a whole, I am not yet ready to agree that it is the 

 right and proper thing for myself, to have my 

 bowels move three or more times every day. Dr. 

 Kellogg, while discussing the matter, admits that 

 Horace Fletcher and probably other good authorities 

 do not agree with him. I am ready to admit that, 

 while many people get along very nicely by having 

 a movement of the bowels after each meal, I feel 

 satisfied that my makeup does not seem to favor 

 such a program. 



In the back part of tha book I was much pleased 

 to read what is said about nuts as a substitute for a 

 meat diet. I was also interested in the chapter that 

 is headed "The Blight of the Baby Crop." The 

 chapter starts out with the following: 



" There "are born in this country every year 2,- 

 500,000 babies. Of these, 300,000 die before they 

 are one year old. The mortality of bottle-fed in- 

 fants is ten to twenty times as great as those that 

 are breast-fed. In other words, ■ the failure of 

 mothers to nurse their infants is responsible for the 

 death of scores of thousands of infants annually. 

 Every year we lose babies enough to people a large 

 city because they are not supplied with their natural 

 food, breast milk, for which cow's milk is by no 

 means a complete substitute." 



In Our Homes for June I mentioned Dr. Kel- 

 logg's statement that it takes 10 pounds of grain to 

 make a pound of beefsteak ; and Prof. \Thorne said 

 their experiments indicated that this is not far out 

 of the way. Well, since then I have been wonder- 

 ing how many pounds of grain it takes to produce 

 a dozen eggs, or, say, a pound of eggs. Dr. Kellogg 

 says in this new book, " For every pound of food 

 in the form of eggs we must throw away nearly 20 

 pounds of good food." 



Now, OMX eixperiment stations have again and 

 again figured out the cost of eggs ; and ever since 

 grain has been away up at present prices there 

 has been complaint that the price of eggs has not 

 gone up accordingly. WTiere one keeps just a few 

 chickens and lets them run around the premises, 

 and gives them the refuse from the table, there is 

 no doubt that it is a money-making operation, or 

 rather, a vaaneiy-saving scheme. But where one 

 starts an egg-farm and keeps laying hens by the 

 hundred or thousand, I tell you he must figure 

 close and be up to date or he will sink money. Every 

 little while somebody writes me to know if he can 

 not move down to Florida and get rich keeping 

 chickens. When I say emphatically no, very often 

 somebody suggests that he can grow his own chicken 

 feed and not have to buy it. Yes, that Is true; but, 

 my dear friend, woixld not that same chicken feed 

 that you grow, at least a part of it, sell in the mar- 

 ket for more money than the eggs would bring? So 

 far as green feed is concerned, this can be gi'own 

 in Florida all winter ; and down there the chickens 

 seem to do well on a very large amount of green 

 feed that takes the place of expensive grain. 



I think it will pay you well to get this two-dollar 

 book and read it carefully. There are quite a num- 

 ber of X-ray illustrations. Address Modern Medi- 

 cine Publishing Co., Battle Creek, Mich. 



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