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fioenty-five per cent, of the cost of fine wheat Jlour is incurred in 

 separatinrj from it its best and mo?t nutritious ingredients. The 

 time required for digestion is anotlier important consideration, 

 for if any nutritious substance takes too long to digest its value 

 is impaired. It also decides what should be eat at night, as it is 

 injurious to lie down for sleep with undigested food upon the 

 stomach. 



The following articles of food digest in one hour : Boiled rice, 

 boiled pigs' feet, boiled tripe. In one hour and a half, boiled 

 trout, barley soup, sweet apples, venison steak, and sago. In 

 two hours, tapioca, broiled beef liver, boiled salt codfish, sour 

 apples, raw cabbage with vinegar, and skimmed milk. In from 

 two to three hours, poultry, lamb, hashed meat and vegetables, 

 green beans, parsnips, potatoes, and boiled beef. In three hours, 

 raw 03'sters, soft boiled eggs, beefsteak, salt pork, mutton, bean 

 soup, apple dumpling and corn cake. In from three to four 

 hours, roast mutton, corn bread, sausage, stewed oysters, roast 

 beef lean, cheese, fresh baked wheat bread, turnips, hard boiled 

 and fried eccgs, beets, and boiled corn. In four to five hours, 

 boiled salmon, roasted poultry, beef and vegetable soup, fried 

 pork, boiled cabbage, and boiled pork, receutl}' salted. Roast 

 pork and beef suet require over five hours to digest. It will he 

 seen here what a difference is made by the mode of cooking. 

 Pigs' feet soused and boiled digest in one hour, while roast pork 

 requires five hours and a quarter. Raw cabbage and vinegar will 

 digest in two hours, while if the same cabbage is boiled it requires 

 four hours and a half to be digested. The three most desirable 

 general articles of food, in strict accordance with these conclu- 

 sions, are venison, which contains nearl}^ the largest per cent, of 

 strength producing substance and 3'et digests in one hour and 

 thirty minutes ; rice, which contains a very large proportion of 

 heat producing substance and digests in one hour; and milk, 

 which contains both and digests in two hours and fifteen minutes. 

 Upon these articles of food, life and health can be maintained as 

 long as upon any other three known. But as venison cannot be 

 supplied in large quantities, beef, mutton, poultry and eggs must 

 supply its place. In addition to the substances named, the system 

 requires lime, potash, and bone forming material, and it is merci- 

 fuU}- provided that a wide range of both animal and vegetable, 

 food is provided for us. The roast fresh pork, of which most of! 

 us are .so fond, is proven to be an indigestible and unnecessary 

 dish, while salt fat pork is essential to the working man who iu 

 cold weather is exposed to the cold air. Grain, frui't and vegeta- 

 bles, with mutton and beef, are much better for summer consump- 

 tion than pork in any shape. "Wheat bread and milk are, abova 

 all things else, the proper food for growing children, supply- 

 ing phosphates for the bones, muscular power, and brain pro 

 ducing material. Ripe fruits and berries, eaten with the regular 



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