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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 3 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
SCIENCE FROM THE STAHONS. 
REVIEWS OF IMPORTANT BULLETINS. 
Foodb and Human Rations. —In Bulletin 54 of the 
Minnesota Station (St. Anthony Park), Prof. 
Harry Snyder gives some very interesting con¬ 
clusions regarding composition and digestibility 
of foods. Among other experiments, was one 
designed to show the digestibility of bread made 
from various kinds of Hour. A man weighing 150 
pounds was fed a daily ration consisting of 1)4 
pound of bread, one-fifth pound of butter and 
one-half pound of eggs (four eggs). His daily 
exercise consisted of a four-mile walk. Three 
kinds of bread were used—one made from the 
ordinary patent spring wheat flour, one from a 
baker’s grade of Hour, and one from whole-wheat 
Hour. These rations supplied all the needs of the 
body, and produced sufficient energy for a four- 
mile walk per day. This represented nearly 1'4 
pound dry matter, which was composed of about 
one-fourth pound of muscle-makers, one-fourth 
pound of fat, and .85 of a pound of fat-formers. 
If the bread were purchased of the baker at five 
cents per loaf, with the butter costing 20 cents a 
pound, and the eggs 12 centsper dozen, the ration 
would cost 15>4 cents per day. If the bread were 
homemade, the eggs nine cents per dozen, and 
the butter Hi cents per pound, the ration would 
cost about 10 cents per day. It was found that 
there is, practically, no difference in the total 
digestibility of the bread made from the three 
kinds of flour. The baker’s flour gave, on the 
whole, the highest analysis, and these facts will 
not give much encouragement to those who claim 
that whole-wheat flour is more nutritious than 
ordinary flour. 
Prof. Snyder t^ays that ordinary bread contains 
about 33 per cent of water, 9*4 of muscle-makers, 
2% of fat, one-half of one of ash and salt, and 54 
of starch. The supposed superior merit of whole¬ 
wheat flour is mostly a question as to the quality 
of the wheat from which the flour was made. 
Some samples of bakers’ bread contain an exces¬ 
sive amount of lard or butter. Three pounds of 
flour will make a little more than four pounds of 
bread on account of the water used in making 
the bread. At two cents a pound for the flour, 
four loaves of bread can be made from six cents’ 
worth. At two cents for yeast and shortening, 
the cost of the materials in four loaves would be 
about two cents a loaf, exclusive of fuel and 
labor. A barrel of flour costing $4, if purchased 
in the form of bread at five cents a loaf, will cost 
over $ 11 . 
Prof. Snyder conducted an experiment to deter¬ 
mine whether flour loses its nitrogen by pro¬ 
longed fermentation. In one case, a dough was 
made of flour, water and yeast. It was kneaded 
thoroughly, allowed to rise until it doubled its 
bulk, kneaded again and, after rising a second 
time, at once baked. This was compared with 
the method of allowing the batter to ferment 10 ' 
or 15 hours, or over-night, then adding more 
flour, kneading, letting the dough rise again, and 
then baking. The first method, of course, re¬ 
quired more yeast and a higher temperature. It 
was found that, when the bread was baked with 
a short fermentation, there was an average loss 
of 2.10 per cent of the total nitrogen. With the 
longer fermentation, this loss of nitrogen was 
7 \ per cent. Prof. Snyder puts it in this way, 
« when a barrel of flour is made into bread by 
the prolonged fermentation process, the loss of 
nitrogen over that of the short process is equal 
in value to about seven pounds of the best sirloin 
steak.” 
Another experiment was conducted with a man 
weighing 140 pounds. This man was given a 
dally ration consisting of 3)4 pounds of boiled 
potatoes, eight eggs, 1)4 pint of milk and one-half 
pound of cream. It will be interesting to com¬ 
pare this with the ration of butter, eggs and 
bread. The potato ration contained 1 % pound of 
dry matter, which consisted of one-fourth pound 
of fat, one-fourth pound of muscle-makers, and 
nearly three-fourths pound of fat-formers. As 
the potato contains only 25 per cent of dry matter, 
it will be seen that one must eat a large amount 
of it in order to secure nutriment enough to sup¬ 
ply the needs of the body. Prof. Snyder found 
that the muscle-makers of the potato are not as 
digestible as those found in some other foods. At 
the same time, the experiment shows that pota¬ 
toes justly occupy a high place among our vege¬ 
table foods. We shall give other extracts from 
this interesting bulletin, and we think that those 
of our readers who want to study the problem of 
human feeding, will do well to obtain a copy of it. 
Tub Vai.uk of Milk.— Bulletin 123 of the New 
Jersey Station (New Brunswick), discusses the 
value of milk as human food, and how that value 
should be recognized in trade. Prof. Voorhees 
says that, while milk is one of our best and 
cheapest foods, the average daily consumption 
in our large cities is only one-half pint for each 
inhabitant. Milk is a perfect food—a perfectly 
balanced ration. A quart of milk, weighing 2.2 
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