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lire of true knowledge and a stronger race of 

 men and women, stronger physically and 

 mentally; the bearing upon manners and 

 morals may indeed be not less pronounced. I 

 fancy there are few, on or off the farm, who 

 are not becoming convinced that they eat too 

 much. Starvation never follows moderation, 

 but ultimate starvation has come to many a 

 worn-out, over-fed stomach pushed for half a 

 lifetime to excess. 



I question if there is any department of 

 human activity in which men are engaged 

 with greater zest than in the development of 

 the knowledge of foods. In the agricultural 

 schools, the preparatory and training schools, 

 in normal institutions, and in the universities 

 themselves, everywhere the leaven is working. 

 Scientific men, realizing not only that great 

 additions to human knowledge should follow 

 researches along this line, but that out of the 

 investigation should come vast good for the 

 race, have followed these lines of work with 

 the keenest interest. Today the results of 

 these investigations may be the property of 

 the tillers of the soil. They are practical 

 results, having a distinct and helpful bearing 



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