FIFTY MILLION STRONG 



rudiments of an education. I saw saloons throughout the 

 length and breadth of Gaston County. There were only two 

 or three factories giving employment to two or three hundred 

 people. Two years ago, about ten years after the people had 

 driven out this curse, I went back. I found macadamized 

 roads in almost every part of the county; I saw magnificent 

 churches of every denomination ; I found schoolhouses in 

 every district. There was not the smoke of a single brewery, 

 and instead of the smoke of thirty-eight government distil- 

 leries I saw ascending to the glory of God in business the 

 smoke of forty-eight of the largest cotton factories in the 

 United States of America." 



And that is the transformation that, on a larger scale, will 

 be witnessed in America a decade after the banishment of 

 the saloon from her borders. 



F. Dietetics 



There is scarcely an intelligently trained farmer in the 

 United States that could not define the term " balanced 

 ration." From one end of the country to the other farmers 

 understand pretty well the meaning of a balanced ration in 

 the feeding of live stock, and have become informed on the 

 nutritive value of various feeds. The result has been that the 

 putting of all kinds of stock in prime condition for the 

 market at a minimum cost, the keeping of work animals 

 ready for service with the most economic use of grain, hay, 

 etc., the securing of the greatest butter-fat returns from cows 

 with the least consumption of high-priced food products, the 

 obtaining of large egg yields from poultry with scarcely more 

 than the utilization of the odds and ends of the farm, have 

 received the most careful consideration by all successful 

 rural life residents. But the thing that has been neglected is 

 human dietetics. Most people in both country and city eat 

 too much, without thought of what constitutes a balanced 

 ration. On the farm food of all kinds is cooked in large 

 quantities and eaten with a hearty appetite. On threshing 

 days, when the work is especially strenuous, the threshers 



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