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with cereals. This is obvious, from the greater 

 amount of work, cost of housing and risk of loss from 

 disease and accident. 



Our country cannot, however, afford to discourage 

 meat as a diet, if we expect the American people to 

 maintain their present virility. In every nation, 

 where soil impoverishment has rendered meat produc- 

 tion impossible, its people have become physically 

 dwarfed, and their mentality sluggish, as in India, 

 China, etc. 



