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Show 1 I I 1 I I l-l 1 I 1 1 I I ! 1 I I I 1 1 1 I I-r HOW TO KEEP WELL DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN Editor of "HEALTH" H-l .1111111 H-b b-H- W"H--H-4 (. 19211. Western Newspaper Union.) RAISING ELKS FOR FOOD "PRIMITIVE man planted no seeds and reaped no crops. He got his food from the trees, with no thought of the future. The first man who proposed pro-posed to plant seed for future harvests har-vests was probably looked on as inspired, in-spired, as well he might be. For a still longer period, the human race got its meat supply from wild animals. Then the commoner and gentler animals, as cattle, camels, goats and sheep, were tamed and raised for both milk and meat. Having once domesticated these animals ani-mals and becoming used to their meat as food, man and especially civilir.ti races, apparently paid little attention to any others. Other forms of animal life found in new lands as they were explored were apparently neglected. When America was discovered and explored, ex-plored, no attention was paid to the new food supplies found here nor was any attempt made to develop them. The English were used to beef as a meat supply and to cattle as a "source of milk." So the buffalo, elk, deer and other meat animals were slaughtered slaugh-tered for their hides, hoofs and skiLS, without any attempt to save and cultivate cul-tivate them for permanent use. It Is only through accident that the American buffalo was not totally ex-1 terminated. The American elk, a still more valuable val-uable meat animal, which formerly existed by the million, was also nearly wif.ed out through senseless slaughter. In I8S9 the federal government settled a lierd of thirty-eight elk in Custer park in South Dakota. In 1D01, Roose-vi.'lt, Roose-vi.'lt, as President, started a definite p .-ogram for protecting them. They are now, through protection, rapidly increasing in numbers and may soon be a source of meat supply. In 1005, the Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture issued Bulletin S03 on Deer Farming and a number of farmers took up this line of breeding. In many ways elk farming is easier and more profitable than cattle raising. rais-ing. Elk will thrive on less food than any other member of the deer family, they can live on land fit for nothing else, they grow to large size, a mature male weighing from 700 to 1,000 pounds, and a female from 600 to 800 pounds. They mature early, they are unusually hardy and are free from most of the disease that afflict cattle. There are now about 70,000 elk in the United States and from this supply large quantities of meat could be developed. OUR INSECT ENEMIES ATAJ-. M. A. REASONER of tha A United States army recen':iy delivered de-livered an address in New York before be-fore a manufacturers' association. Coining from an army officer, you would naturally expect such an address ad-dress to deal with the latest and improved im-proved methods of killing human beings be-ings and of new types of submarines, airplanes and long-range guns. But it wasn't. Major Reasoner Is an officer , inj.be medical corps and is consequently consequent-ly more interested in saving human t life than in destroying it. The enemies Major Reasoner talked f.bout are not only enemies of this country, but of the entire human race. They are not other men, but insects. Today the whole world is talking ! about peace among men. This is not ! only sensible, but almost necessary. It is wise and desirable that human beings, the world over, should join I forces against a common enemy, one j wliich,has been fighting human beings ; since time began and which will eon-' eon-' tinue to fight and kill us as long as j life exists. I Instead of being Interested In life-i life-i destroying devices, Major Reasoner is interested in life-saving, and the one invention which he says has saved more lives than any other Is the ordinary or-dinary fly screen. It is Impossible, says Major Reasoner, Reason-er, to estimate the damage that Insects In-sects have done. Small as they are, they have overthrown governments and even blotted out whole countries. Historians have long been unable to explain why such powerful civilizations civiliza-tions as those of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Mesopotamia and Assyria were destroyed. de-stroyed. In many cases this was due to Insect-borne diseases which either wiped out the population or so weakened the people that they were easily conquered by some stronger nation. AVith us, the common house fly Is the most frequent carrier of disease. Typhoid, cholera and dysentery are spread by it. Mosquitoes carry malaria and yellow fever, as well as two tropical trop-ical diseases, f'dariasis and dengue. Various kinds of Hies carry other diseases dis-eases as yaws and tularemia. Fleas carry bubonic plague and dumdum fever. Lice carry typhus fever, trench fever and relapsing fever. 'Picks carry car-ry Rocky mountain spotted fever. For centuries no one suspected that Insects carried these diseases from man to man. They were considered ; too small to be of any Importance. So their very Insignificance was their j protection. Now that we know how dangerous Ibey are, they can be fought In the open. Man's strength will protect him from these little foes If be will use his knowledge. If not, he must pay l.br oenaltv. |