Some Possibilities of the Milk Diet 
May I ask The It. N.-Y. big family if the milk diet, more than a few weeks oil a white flour die! Is it 
as shown in recent issues of your great paper, is of 
value in diabetes? I have had this some eight years, 
and regular physicians have no remedy and no treatment 
save a certain restricted diet on which one barely exists, 
and cannot be at normal weight, therefore is weak and 
frail. Hence my inquiry on the milk diet and the 
results for diabetes. v. T. 
Illinois. 
M EDICAL ENDORSEMENT.—The exclusive milk 
diet is suggested by Mr. McFadden and Dr. 
Sanford Potter as being beneficial for diabetes, and 
i . well worthy of a trial. While they do not posi- 
1 ively state the results will be as rapid and, one may 
say. miraculous in the treatment of kidney disorders 
as they have obtained in treating diseases of the 
stomach, liver, lungs and circulation, they do recom¬ 
mend an effort; drinking six to seven quarts of milk 
daily for at least four weeks or as much longer as 
may be necessary. Writing in Physical Culture 
Magazine for May, 1910, Dr. Harry B. Gallatin 
states: “That the exclusive milk diet is literally a 
life saver is attested by the case of a young lady 
who had been told that she would be dead in less 
than a year, because of anemia. Her hemoglobin 
was less than 50 per cent and the red cells one-third 
of normal. Today she is alive and well, red cells 
and hemoglobin normal, 30 lbs. heavier.” This is 
only one instance of many he cites of almost mira¬ 
culous cures by the exclusive milk diet. It must be 
understood that to realize these results no other food 
not supreme folly for us to imagine bread made of 
a material that will not sustain animal life could 
be the Staff of life for us, as many are wont to call 
it? There are many wise (?) people in the world 
who will poke all kinds of fun at anyone suggesting 
the relief of disease by milk, and the remarks of 
these wise (?) ones are very facetious (to their way 
of thinking) and illuminating—showing their base 
and malicious ignorance. I ran the gauntlet of the 
whole bunch, let them make all the bright remarks 
they considered the situation warranted, and have 
found a safe, sane and remarkably short method of 
bringing a run-down system back to good normal 
health, while the ones who can only see fun in the 
use of milk are running from powders to pills, doctor 
to doctor, and then have the supreme joy of airing 
their symptoms, i*eal or imagined, upon all improper 
occasions. 
TRIBUTE TO THE COW.—I will close this 
article by quoting the beautifully expressed tribute 
to the cow by Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois 
in a pamphlet issued by the Illinois Department of 
Agriculture: “The cow is a most wonderful labora¬ 
tory. She takes the grasses of the pasture and the 
roughage of the field and converts them into the 
most perfect food for man. In that food there is a 
mysterious something which scientists have found 
whatever must he added while using milk, even in essential to the highest health of the human race 
tubercular cases and which can be found nowhere else. Men have 
METHODS OF TREATMENT.—Several months sought for centuries the fabled fountain of youth, 
ago The R. N.-Y. published an article outlining the The nearest approach to that fountain which has 
treatment of a number of diseases by 
milk. The method to be employed was 
pretty clearly outlined, and some men¬ 
tioned results were rather hard for the 
average layman to credit, but the three 
men mentioned above make much 
broader and more positive statements. 
They claim to have treated thousands 
of cases of minor and serious ills with 
results that have proved almost unbe¬ 
lievable. The greatest virtue of this 
regimen is that where occasionally a 
person is so constituted that the exclu¬ 
sive milk diet proves of no material 
benefit it will in no wise result in in¬ 
jury. One essential to bear in mind is 
the necessity of half a pint of whole or 
skim-milk where the stomach is too 
weak to digest fat every half hour for 
12 or even more hours daily. The 
greatest trouble will be encountered the 
first or second day, as some persons 
are inconvenienced by nausea. Eating half a lemon 
around the end, as outlined for the end posts. 
STRETCHING UP THE WIRE.—The wire should 
be put on the side of the posts from which the 
greatest stress is expected, as on the inside of a 
pasture fence, unless, for appearance’s sake, it is 
desired on the outside where the fence borders a 
road. The end of the fence is placed around the 
end post in the proper position and fastened by 
bringing each horizontal wire around the post and 
wrapping it about itself as at E. Fig. 524, last week. 
This brings pull of fence centrally on end post, and 
prevents it from turning and loosening the fence, as 
it is likely to do if the fence is stapled to the side 
of the fence alone. The wire is then brought to the 
position desired, stapled securely to the post, and 
unrolled along the line of the fence, keeping the 
bottom edge of the wire next to the posts. When 
the first brace post is reached an auxiliary post hole 
is bored and a temporary post set as shown at A 
(Fig. 533). This is braced securely with temporary 
braces, and the stretcher anchored to it. The wire 
is next pulled up as taut as possible by hand, and 
the stretcher damps attached in such a position that 
they will be pulled to within about 2 feet of the end 
post when the wire is finally stretched up. In bolting 
the clamps to the wire arrange them so that the 
nuts on the bolts will be to the inside toward the 
post and brace, otherwise there will be difficulty in 
taking the clamps off after the wire is stretched up 
and fastened. During stretching the wire should 
be straightened up against the posts and frequently 
lifted to insure that it is not caught anywhere, and 
to secure a uniform stretch throughout 
its length. If a lever stretcher is used, 
use a long lever and pull the wire up 
until it gives a good sharp “twang” 
when struck with a hammer handle. 
It is almost impossible to pull it too 
taut, as the kinks in the wire take care 
of excess tension and subsequent con¬ 
traction. They also give a certain 
springiness to the wire, permitting it 
to snap back to place when pushed to 
one side by an animal or other force. 
Most wire fences are not stretched 
sufficiently, and become loose in a few 
months. Robert h. smith. 
Champion Spellers at the N. Y. State Fair. Fig. 530. (See Next Page) 
Inspection of Potatoes in New 
York State 
(ERTIFIED SEED.—There has per¬ 
haps never before been so much 
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will usually correct this unpleasant condition. The 
only permissible addition, if the full benefit of the 
milk is to be realized, is acid fruit juice; grapefruit, 
orange, lemon or grape juice taken in small quan¬ 
tities, either with the milk or between the half-hour 
periods. If the half-hour period is entirely incon¬ 
venient a pint can be used each hour, or a quart 
every two hours or more. If a pint or quart are 
used at one time it should be heated, but never over 
110 degrees. 
POSSIBLE OBJECTIONS.—Either diarrhoea or 
constipation may result; in the former less milk and 
in the latter condition more milk is advised, though 
both of these troubles are gradually eliminated as 
the treatment progresses. Mineral (not castor) oil 
is recommended for constipation as preferable to 
ordinary cathartics. There is one way in which the 
use of milk may prove decidedly injurious, and that 
is by drinking one, two or more quarts daily in con¬ 
nection with the ordinary mixed diet. Milk is nitro¬ 
genous—in other words, provides protein—the prin¬ 
cipal element furnished our dietary by meat, eggs, 
cheese, beans, dried peas and nuts; and it is very 
essential to the maintenance of good health that 
milk be omitted entirely if large quantities of the 
above foods are consumed daily. 
RATIONAL DIET.—You will be surprised to see 
how much more wholly alive you feel if the above 
list is cut to a minimum and milk substituted for 
the nitrogenous elements required by the body; the 
bulk of the food being composed of fresh and cooked 
vegetables, fresh or stewed fruits and entire wheat 
bread, instead of the bread we usually see made of 
bolted white flour from which all real nourishment 
except starch and a little protein has been removed. 
Many tests have proved that animals cannot live 
yet been discovered is the udder of the cow.” 
The latter paragraph was taken from the afore¬ 
mentioned article of Dr. Gallatin ip Physical Cul¬ 
ture Magazine. elmer j. weaver. 
Building the Suitable Farm Fence 
Part II. 
SETTING THE LINE POSTS.—With the ground 
in the soft condition usually encountered in the Fall 
the line posts can usually be driven as shown in 
Fig. 531. The holes should be carefully located, and 
punched with a bar, making it much easier to drive 
the posts and to keep the fence straight. Line posts 
should not be set further than one rod apart, and 
should be driven at least 2 y 2 feet into the ground. 
Wherever a post has to be set in a hollow, or where 
there is a change in grade upward, the post must 
be anchored in place, or the stretch of the fence 
will pull it from the ground and ruin the fence. A 
wood post is best anchored by setting it in a dug 
hole and spiking a piece across the bottom of the 
post before setting. This effectually prevents the 
post from raising and keeps the fence taut. Another 
way that is sometimes used for the same purpose is 
to bury a boulder on either side of the post to be 
anchored, fastening the post to them by means of 
a twisted wire brace. This not only effectually pre¬ 
vents lifting, but resists to some extent a pull 
lengthwise of the fence. Where there is a change in 
grade downward a post should be set with braces 
as shown in Fig. 532. Brace posts should also be 
set about every 40 rods where the slope is uniform, 
as this is about as great a distance as it is practi¬ 
cable to stretch woven wire properly The section 
of fence between these brace posts is treated as a 
complete fence, and the wire cut and attached 
interest taken in the use of high-grade 
seed stock as has developed during the past few 
years. Every grower of potatoes is familiar with 
the term “certified” and has himself grown or has 
seen fields produced from certified seed. It is true 
that the results obtained have not always been 
superior to those obtained from other stock, and 
there have been persons quick to condemn the entire 
system because of individual failures. Taken as a 
whole, however, the improved seed, whether certified 
or not, has given very satisfactory results, which 
has encouraged all persons interested in the move¬ 
ment to go on with it, realizing that mistakes may 
be corrected as experience is gained. 
INSPECTION SERVICE.—Information in regard 
to potato seed improvement has been available for 
many years, but no great interest in such improve¬ 
ment was developed in New York State until after 
the organizatYm of the New York State Potato 
Association in 1914. This association, realizing the 
need of locating the best seed stock and making this 
information available to potato seed buyers, ap¬ 
pointed a committee to organize an inspection ser¬ 
vice. Such a service was organized the following 
year, and has functioned ever since. A standard was 
adopted by which the potatoes were to be jud ed. 
If they qualified at each of the inspections made 
according to these standards they were certified; 
that is, the association issued to the grower a certi¬ 
ficate stating that his field or fields had qualified at 
all inspections and sufficient tags were issued to 
him so that one could be attached to each sack of 
potatoes sold from the certified field. This was to 
insure to the buyer that the tubers in the sack came 
from a field that had been judged as satisfactory 
for seed purposes by a certification committee of the 
association, capable of deciding upon such matters. 
Their decision was based largely upon the reports 
