Show CATTAILS HAVE FOOD VALUE investigation has shown them to contain a satisfactory amount of needed protein flour from the cat coattails cattails tails of the swamps has lieen been found by the plant chemical laboratory at washington to contain about the same amount of protein as rice and corn flours with somewhat less fat than wheat hour flour and it was regarded as a promising substitute with wheat lour flour to the extent of 10 to 20 per cent in the investigation of which he has given an account in the scientific monthly prof P W Clans claassen CIa assen sen tried the flour in several ways both as part substitute with wheat flour in baking and as corn larch tar cli substitute tute for puddings pudding biscuits containing CO 50 and even per pel cent of this flour proved to be palatable not very different from those of wheat flour alone while the puddings had an agreeable flavor and were satisfactory is the flour material Is obtained from the large underground root stalks or rhizomes zomes of which it forms a starch core three eighths to one half inch in dl diameter ameter the dried rhizomes zomes from in an acre of coattails cattails catt cat alls tails were shown to equal pounds and the tore lore substance passed through a meat grinder and sifted yielded fine flour at the rate of pounds per acre many thousand acres of marshes are included in the square miles of swamp land of the united states |