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Show MILK WILL SUSTAIN LIFE. Moat Nearly Perfect Food That Man Has Yet Discovered. In twenty pounds of potatoos there aro threo and three-quarter pounds of nutriment; in twenty-five cents' worth of fat salt pork there aro threo and one-half pounds of nutriment; In tho samo valuo of wheat bread thero are two and one-quarter pounds; In the nock of beef, ono nnd throe-quarter pounds; in skim milk cheese, ono and three-quarters; In wholo milk cheese, a trifle moro than ono and one-half pounds; In butter, ono and ono-half pounds, and in smoked ham and leg of mutton about tho samo; In milk, a triflo over ono pound; In mackerel, about ono pound; In round ot beef, three-quarters of a pound; In salt codfish cod-fish and beet sirloin, about ono-half of a pound; In eggs, about seven ounces, nnd In fresh codfish about six ounces. A quart of milk, tliree-qunrters of a pound ot moderately fat beef, sirloin steak, tor Instanco, and five ounces ot wheat flour, all contain about tho samo amount of nutrltivo material, but different prices nro paid for them and they havo different valuo for nutrlncnt. Milk comes nearest to bolng perfect food. It contains all ot tbo dlfTorcnt kinds ot nutritive materials that tho body needs. Bread mado from tho whoat flour will support llfo. It contains con-tains all ot tho necessary Ingredients for nourishment, but not In tho proportions propor-tions best sdaptod for ordinary uso. |