FLESH FOOD FROM MAMMALS. Ill 



tained. The Northern nations, who are the meat eating 

 people, multiply and govern the earth, and thus the future 

 demand must be immense, and such as the herds and flocks 

 of the whole world will but satisfy. To English, Scottish, 

 and Irish pastures and feeding-stalls, North and South 

 America, Asia and Australia, may join supplies, but 

 Europe is not likely to see over-cheap meat ; and Christ- 

 mas fat stock may always be looked for as a characteristic 

 of the season." 



Professor Atwater has tabulated the results of several 

 authoritative investigations as to the nutritive value of 

 diflferent kinds of foods. As a basis the professor has 

 taken medium quality beef — that is, beef neither very 

 fat nor very lean — as having a nutritive value of 100, 

 and upon this standard he forms the following table : — 



Meat Game, and Fowl. Nutritive Value 

 Beef (lean) 91-3 



Beef (medium) 

 Beef (fat) ... 

 Veal (fat) ... 

 Mutton (medium) 

 Pork (fat) ... 

 Smoked beef 

 Smoked ham 

 Venison 



Hen 



Duck 



100-0 



112-0 



92-4 



86-6 



116-0 



146-0 



157-0 



88-8 



93-9 



104-0 



There are probably two or three facts here which will sur- 

 prise the uninitiated. Few, for instance, would imagine 

 that smoked beef, or smoked ham, contained nearly twice 

 as much nutritive value as venison or mutton, nor will 

 the fact that pork is more nourishing than any other 

 kind of meat not cured, be generally received as a tru- 

 ism. The great nutritive value of the smoked meats is 

 due to the evaporation from them of all moisture, and 

 the compression of the tissues, and the same circum- 

 stances apply in the case of other cured meats, of which 

 the nutritive value averages very high. A second set of 

 figures, computed on the same basis and proportion, 

 shows the strength of various kinds of animal produce 



