20 DEHYDBATIOK OF FEUITS AND VEGETABLES. 



themselves or by associations of farmers in different parts of the 

 country; all that land can be put into crops to the benefit of the 

 whole country. 



Senator Eansdell. If your theory is correct and those products 

 could be put in use, there would be a wonderful reduction in the cost 

 of living? 



Mr. HoRST. Xot only a reduction in the cost of living, but an im- 

 provement in the health of the people by eating more vegetables. 

 As Dr. Wiley told me a few days ago, the people of this country 

 do not eat enough vegetable food to keep them in best health, and 

 especially in the wintertime when the vegetables are high or prac- 

 tically none available. 



Senator Ea^sdell. I took a sample of the dried tomatoes from the 

 committee room and had my wife make tomato soup from the 

 powder and it was ^ery good, we thought, but the idea struck me 

 that while that would work with a vegetable that your were going 

 to make soup of, for examplCj take cauliflower or cabbage, where 

 you do not desire to use it in soup, but to eat the vegetable itself, 

 how would you bring the vegetable back so that you will be eating" 

 cabbage ? 



Mr. HoEST. '• The proof of the pudding is in the eating." We have 

 served cabbage to 500 — or something like 500 — men at the Walter 

 Eeed Hospital, and I do not know whether they serve it fuU por- 

 tions, but they serve something like 4 or 5 pounds of dried cabbage 

 for the whole 500 men, and the cabbage was pronounced excellent by 

 all the men. 



Senator Xoreis. When that cauliflower in the glass here [indi- 

 cating the glass on committee table] has been soaked up, it will 

 never come back again to as large a head as it was originally ? 



IMr. HoRST. Those are only little parts of the head ; that is not the 

 whole head. 



Senator Noreis. Take a cabbage head. AVould you dry the whole 

 head or have to cut it up? 



Mr. HoRST. You could not dry the whole head. 



Senator Noeris. You would cut it up? 



Mr. HoRST. We would cut it up. 



Senator Noreis. And make it into a kind of cabbage slaw ? 



Mr. HoRST. You can slice or split up the cabbage head. You have 

 got to make the bulk small enough so that you can dry the inside 

 part. Wherever you reach the point where the drying stops so that 

 you can not dry the inside, you must stop. You must make your 

 product small enough so that the inside can be dried. But that gives 

 you plenty of latitude to take care of everything. 



The Chairman. Will you put in your statement along with the let- 

 ters from the Eitz Carlton and WiUard Hotel the letter from the 

 Walter Eeed Hospital, when you get that later ? 



Mr. HoEST. It is not available at the Walter Eeed, but the oral re- 

 port from the Walter Eeed Hospital and the Washington Barracks 

 was that the products are excellent. 



The Chairsian. We are very much obliged to you, Mr. Horst. 



Senator Eansdell. This is the most profoundly interesting thing 

 we have had before this committee for our consideration since I have 

 been a member of it. If the results are as Mr. Horst says, it is per- 

 fectly remarkable. 



