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low a point as I had hoped. " The Aladdin oven, — what it 

 is, what it does and how it does it," is fully described in my 

 book upon the " Science of Nutrition," published by Damrell 

 & Upham. The instructions for making substitutes for the 

 Aladdin oven, correspondin«: to the examples before you, have 

 been printed and distributed over the country by the depart- 

 ment of agriculture, Hon. J. Sterling Morton, secretary. 

 My patents have been dedicated to open and public use in 

 these documents. I have suggested to Secretary Morton 

 the manifest absurdity of teaching the people of this country 

 how to nourish the soil, the plant and the beast, thus bring- 

 ing about the most al)undant production of the best food in 

 the world, and then leaving it to chance and to ignorance 

 how that food material should be converted into nutritious 

 and appetizing food. I have suggested the expediency of 

 attaching cooking experiment stations to each agricultural 

 experiment station throughout the country, forty-four in 

 number, with one or two thoroughly developed food labora- 

 tories for the study of the higher branches of this science of 

 which we have yet only mastered the alphabet. It will 

 depend somewhat upon the response to these publications 

 whether that suggestion is adopted or not. A large edition 

 was printed in the first instance, in the expectation of meet- 

 ing every demand; if I am rightly informed, that edition 

 is exhausted, and those who send to Washington for copies, 

 as any of you who choose to may do, may have to wait a little 

 before receiving the copies of the new edition which is now 

 being printed. 



I will now proceed to deal with the practical part of the 

 question. This is a standard Aladdin oven, of which the 

 contents will presently be placed at your disposal. In this 

 oven one can cook in a perfect manner from twenty-five to 

 thirty pounds of food at one time, an average being about 

 twenty pounds at one full charge. It will sufiice for the 

 preparation of fifty to sixty pounds per day of nine hours 

 with the consumption of one quart of kerosene oil in a lamp 

 corresponding to this Bradley & Hubbard lamp which is 

 now working. This work will be done in three charges, say, 

 one of meat and vegetables of twenty pounds, one of bread, 

 twelve to fifteen pounds, one of soup stocks or other com- 



