SEPTEMBER 15, 1913 



stalk or one of decidedly undesirable qualities to 

 leave that plant unmarked, .because it is in "unde- 

 sirable company," and has become contaminated. 



Probably you think thi* will not pay. The Corn 

 Club boys think it will pay, and are proving it by 

 growing three and four times as much corn per acre 

 as their fathers. 



Later. — The Olvio Farmer for Sept. 6 has 

 a most excellent and timely article on se- 

 lecting seed corn. 



They suggest that the ears for seed 

 should be selected before the corn is per- 



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fectly mature. Go through the field as has 

 been directed; and when you find an ear 

 with environment and eveiy thing else ac- 

 cording to your ideas, break down the tassel 

 just above the ear. This is quicker than 

 tying a piece of cloth about the stalk as I 

 have suggested. Then just before the corn 

 is cut (or, indeed, it may be done while 

 husking, providing you have some careful 

 men who obey orders) sort out and pre- 

 serve these selected ears. 



Health Notes 



HEALTH FOODS^ CEREALS, ETC. 



My good friends, how many different 

 kinds of cereals and health foods do you 

 suppose there are on the market in the 

 United States'? Well, in my hand I hold a 

 report from the Connecticut Experiment 

 Station in regard to food products and 

 drugs. They enumerate something like one 

 thousand different kinds of flour, cereals, 

 health foods, etc. Among other things there 

 is quite a good-sized list of diabetic foods. 

 Tn fact, I do not know but half of them are 

 siDecial foods for the treatment of diabetes. 

 Now, this report is entirely unbiased. No 

 one can well maintain that this Connecticut 

 station is prejudiced in its reports and state- 

 ments, and the report is just about what I 

 expected. 



While many of these health foods are 

 really good and wholesome, the price is in 

 almost every case excessive and often ex- 

 orbitant. Let me say again what Terry 

 and I have so strongly urged: Get some 

 good nice wheat directly from the farmer, 

 just after it is thrashed. Then have a little 

 hand mill, or, better, one run by power if 

 your fanaily is large enough, and make your 

 own graham flour, cracked wheat, etc. This 

 health food, direct from " producer to con- 

 sumer," is more wholesome, I do believe, 

 than any thing else you can find in your 

 stores and gToeeries; and you can easily 

 tell how much cheaper it is by weigliing the 

 grocery cereal and then weighing the wheat 

 and counting the cost. Now, aside from the 

 matter of cheapness, a great part of the 

 health foods are not at all what is claimed 

 for them in the advertisements. The gluten 

 breads and gluten meals, some of them, are 

 really not suited for a diabetic patient ; and 

 when you come to the so-called meltose 

 syi'ups they are no better than maple syrup 

 or good honey, while the cost is ever so 

 much more. Macaroni, noodles, etc., are 

 probably wholesome enough, but they are 

 tremendously expensive compared with 

 cracked wheat. Terry buys his oatmeal, 

 etc., in quantities, and gets them at very 



low rates. You can buy oatmeal by the hun- 

 dred pounds at a very low figure indeed 

 compared with what j-ou pay at the gro- 

 ceries when you buy it in embellished paper 

 ]jackages. For an illustration, the break- 

 fast foods to be found in our groceries cost 

 from 12 to 65 cts. per lb. ; and the farmers 

 who gTow the wheat get from 1^/2 to 2 cts. 

 per lb. ; and the wheat just as it comes from 

 the farmer's field is ever so much better to 

 sustain health and strength than any wheat 

 ' product you can buy, that has gone through 

 the mills to make it into flour, etc. Nuts 

 are a good and wholesome substitute for 

 meat; but the nut preparations on the mar- 

 ket cost awfully compared with the expense 

 of grinding the nuts in this same little hand 

 mill. Allow me to copy a little. A manu- 

 facturer of malted nuts claims as follows: 



Cow's milk is an excellent food for young calves, 

 but it is a very poor food for a human infant, and 

 still less adapted to adult human beings. Thousands 

 of persons have discovered for themselves its un- 

 wholesome properties. Malted nuts supplies the place 

 of cow's milk as a liquid food. Its composition is 

 similar to that of milk. 



In regard to the above, this bulletin says : 



Its composition is not " similar to milk," even 

 considered on the dry basis, as it contains much less 

 protein, fat, and ash, and much more carbohydrates 

 than dried wluDle milk. Such extreme and unfair 

 statements regarding such a useful food as milk 

 should not be allowed to pass unchallenged. 



This food bulletin contains about 100 

 pages in regard to false claims for foods 

 and drugs put on the market for sick peo- 

 ple; and it is altogether a tremendous pro- 

 test against the fashion of " robbing sick 

 people " by holding out extravagant claims 

 for special food products and drugs, in- 

 cluding various wines. 



TRUE SCIENCE VERSUS SUPERSTITIOUS NON- 

 SENSE. 



There are a lot of old people who probably 

 will never give up their notions about plant- 

 ing tilings in the right time of the moon, 

 about Friday being an unlucky day, the 

 No. 13 hoodoo, nailing up a horseshoe to 



