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Show ll, Snssspi -a. 4 M b-UM ! Uncle Hum hue been prying Into tha Inner Ufa of tha humble potato and . after a moat IhnrotiKh and rigid In- I . Teallgallon declares In tha year book 1 ot tha Department of Agrlcullura that j tba potato la a deaenrlng and ei- j tremely rnluiibln member of tha coin- munlty. Juft et thla tlma when the , 41 errantry la In the throea ot a potato . "" " aii famine, tha deiluctlona ot Unole Bain j arlll bo of aei Inl Intereat (Scientific InveatlKiitlon on the part of the government haa ahown thnt the practice, which haa become ao generul. of aervlng pntatoea wllh meat and other almllar tooda which contain llb-' llb-' aral amounta of protein la baeed upon ; correct prlnclplea, one food aupplyliig j tha deflclenclea of the other, I'olatoca ; : i and other tooda containing carbo- ; riydiAtea are aomtlniia objected to on tha ground that they are alarchy tooda j and do not aupply much nltrottenoiii material. It ehuuld be reincmbeied, t howover, that the potato doea conlaln '4 by no menna Inronalderahle amount ', ot protein, and further that carbo-I carbo-I hydratea are an enanntlul put of a ! -well regulated diet. 1 I Tha potato called In different reglona arhlta potato, Irlnh polnlo, Knullah po- i i tato, or round potato waa Drat Intro- luoed Into Kuriipe between K.S0 and J I l(,ri by the Hpnnliinla, and afterwards A 1 ,j the Kngllah about the time ot Ha- 1 ielKh'a Toyaaea to Virginia. It la com- 1 taouly believed to be a natlva of Chile. ' Wild putra planla cloiiely rceenibllng hoaa cultivated today are Hill found (here, though It la a fact worthy of j montlon thut. aa tha potato haa been , modified by cultivation, It haa largely ) I loat tha power of producing aeeda, and tha cultivated potnlo ill IT era from tho wild In aelilom producing aeed bearing fnilta. The edible portion of the potnto la made up ot 7H 3 per cent water, 2 2 par cent protein (total nltrogenoua mutter), mut-ter), 0.1 per cent la made up of crude fiber and mnterlnla whlrh In aoma of their modinratlona ennatHuta tha cell walla of planla and give tin m a rigid atructure. Three rkuree, like olhera for cotnpoeltlon of food mnterlnla, rep-reaent rep-reaent general avernitea, from which there are wide varlatlona In Individual apeclmeua. Though the akin, cortical layer, and Arab, differ aomewbnt In compoeltlon, they all reaemble more or Iraa cloaely that of the whole tutier. When potiiliM-a are atored they undergo un-dergo a ahrlnkiiKP. AcrorillnK to teata made at the Michigan agricultural experiment ex-periment atatlon, thla amounted to 116 per cent when they were kept In toragc from Hept. M to May 1. Thla ahrlnknge la probably due to the loa of water by evaioratloii. To obtain the hlKhiet fiKd vulue po-tntora po-tntora aliould not be peeled before cooking. When polutoea ara peeled before cixiklng and placed dliectly In hot water and bolleit rapidly leaa loaa of material la aimlnlned than when they are rooked In water cold at the atari. The wholeaomeueaa of potutoea rooked In dlfTerrnt wuya la largely a matter which each niunt decide tor hlnmeir, tha general etperienra being that for men In health most of the methoda followed aro autlafuctory. Although under ordinary clrcum-atnucea clrcum-atnucea potatoce are umiueetlonably a wholeHome food for moat pereuni, III-neaa III-neaa la aometlmea cauaed by eating - ---www wweeeeevwvw 1 them. There are undoubtedly aoaie peraona In health with whom poutota do not agree, Juat aa there are thrne who cannot eat atrawberrlea wlthoii dlatrraa. Thla la due to personal Idlo-aynrraay. Idlo-aynrraay. and not to the harmful char-arler char-arler of the toot. |