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25. Is alcohol a food? Is it a poison? Can any material be 

 both a food and a poison ? 



26. Do you know the pure food laws of your state? If not, 

 procure a copy and learn them. 



27. What is wrong with our present Federal Pure Food and 

 Drug Law? 



28. What is an adulteration? Does your jiure food hiw pro- 

 tect you from adulteration of food? 



Reports for home work are recommended in the work of this chapter. In this 

 connection, the reports of the Department of Agriculture on various food topics are 

 recommended. See the list of reference books which follows. 



Reference Books 



Hunter, Civic Biology, Chap. XIX. American Book Company. 



Hunter, Elements of Biology, Chap. XXVII. American Book Company. 



Hunter, Essentials of Biology, Chap. XXIV. American Book Company. 



Abel, Beans, Peas, and Other Legumes as Food. Bulletin 121, U. S. Department 



of Agriculture. 

 Abel, Practical Sanitary and Economic Cooking. Public Health Association. 

 Abel, The Care of Food in the Home. Farmers' Bulletin 375, U. S. Department of 



Agriculture, 1909. 

 Adams, The Great American Fraud. American Medical Association, Chicago, 111. 

 Allen, Civics and Health. Ginn and Company. 

 AUyn, Libel on Eggs. Harper's Weekly, August 29, 1914. 

 Atwater, Bread and Bread Making. Farmers' Bulletin 389, U. S. Department of 



Agriculture. 

 Atwater, Billings, Bowdich, Chittenden, and Welch, Physiological Aspect of the 



Liquor Problem. Houghton Mifflin Company. 

 Atwater and Bryant, The Chemical Composition of American Food Materials. 



Experiment Station Bulletin 28, Washington, D.C. 

 Bardswell and Chapman, Diets in Tuberculosis. Oxford University Press. 

 Benson, Facts About the Food Problem. Pearson's Magazine, April, 1910. 

 Bevier and Van Meter, Selection and Preparation of Food. Whitcomb and Barrows. 

 Capes, Duty of Municipal Food Inspection. .Atnerican City, February. 1914. 

 Cereal Breakfast Foods. Farmers' Bulletin 249, U. S. Depnrtnient of .Vgriculturo. 

 Course in Cereal Foods and their Preparation. Bulletin 200, Olfirc of Experiment 



Station, Washington, D.C. 

 Davenport, Why Food is Costly, (lood Housekeeping Mngazint\ April, 1910. 

 Day, Digestibility of Starch as Affected by Cooking. Bulletin 202. Office of Kxi>cri- 



ment Station, Washington, D.C. 

 Eggs and their Uses as Food. Farmers' Bulletin 12S. V. S. Dep.-irtmcnt of Agri- 

 culture, 1906. 

 Fdcis about Milk. Farmers' Bulletin 42, U. S. Department of AKri<ullure. lUOii. 

 /'/.s// as Food. Farmers' Bulletin 85, U. S. Department <>f .Vgricultun'. 1907. 

 Fisher, Food Values. Bulletin 13, American School of Home Economics, Chicago. 



