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RECREATION. 



tion. Here is an accurate list, showing 

 the number received each month: 



January 255 



February 283 



March 322 



April 199 



May . . • 182 



June 168 



July 206 



August 211 



September 146 



October 147 



November 161 



December 132 



Total 2,412 



Straws show which way the wind blows, 

 and here is a bunch of straws from which 

 we have thrashed out a very satisfactory 

 bunch of wheat. Yours truly, 

 D. T. Abercrombie & Co., 36 South St. 



My subscription receipts for Janu- 

 ary, 1899, were $2,968 



My subscription receipts for Janu- 

 ary, 1900, were 3,205 



A gain of §22,7 



The news company's order for Jan- 

 uary, 1899, was 17,000 



The news company's order for Jan- 

 uary, 1900, was 19,000 



A gain of 2,000 



See reproductions of these 2 orders on 

 page xlii of this issue of Recreation. 



This does not look exactly as if my cru- 

 sade against the game hogs was destroying 

 my circulation, does it? 



The Teton Guides' Association, although 

 organized only one year ago, had 20 guides 

 in the mountains last season, hunting and 

 guiding. They gave, entire satisfaction, 

 and can with pleasure refer parties to any 

 sportsman they had out. The game is 

 wintering unusually well. With the splen- 

 did protection given by the game wardens 

 there will be no loss whatever, insuring 

 plenty of game for next season. 



Mr. E. C. Benford, of Johstown, Pa., has 

 sent in 200 subscriptions to Recreation, 

 and has received, as a premium, a Wing 

 Piano, listed at $750. Any advertiser can 

 see these 200 names on my subscription 

 list, if he cares to call here. 



"Augustus Van Sassifras Biltworthy 

 was panting heavily," read Farmer Hay- 

 rick, from the latest dime novel. 



"Wait a minute," said Mrs. Hayrick. 

 "I reckon that means he had on his winter 

 pants, doesn't it?" 



Recreation is doing a grand work. I 

 hope some time to have the pleasure of 

 meeting you personally. 



William D. Jenkins, 

 [Secretary of State,] 

 Olympia, Washington. 



PURE AND IMPURE FOODS. 



" What a Man Eats He Is." 

 Edited by C. F. Langworthy, Ph.D. 

 Author of ''On Citraconic, Itaconicand Mesaconic Acids," "Fish as Food," etc. 



FOOD VALUE OF EGGS. 

 Eggs are generally regarded as a valua- 

 ble and nutritious food. According to a 

 large number of American analyses, an 

 egg on an average weighs 2 ounces and 

 has the following percentage composition: 

 Shell, 10.5; water, 66; protein, 13. 1; fat, 

 9.3, and ash, 0.9. A side of beef contains 

 on an average about the same percentage 

 of protein, but a larger percentage of fat. 

 Eggs belong to the nitrogenous group of 

 foods, and would naturally and quite prop- 

 erly be combined in the diet with mate- 

 rials supplying carbohydrates (sugar and 

 starch), such as cereals, potatoes, etc. An 

 extended study of the physical properties 

 and chemical composition of eggs was re- 



cently made at the experiment station at 

 Berkeley, Cal., the chief object being to 

 determine whether there was any basis of 

 fact for the popular opinion that eggs 

 with a brown shell have a higher food 

 value than those with a white shell. The 

 brown-shelled eggs were from Partridge 

 Cochins, dark Brahmas. black Lang- 

 shans, Wyandottes and barred Plymouth 

 Rocks, and the white-shelled eggs from 

 Brown Leghorns, Buff Leghorns, White 

 Minorcas and Black Minorcas. The size, 

 weight, specific gravity and the ratio to 

 total weight of the shell, yolk and white 

 were determined and found on an average 

 to be practically the same in the brown- 

 shelled and white-shelled eggs, the slight 



