Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1918 — DOG EATS MAN'S FULL ALLOWANCE [ARTICLE]

DOG EATS MAN'S FULL ALLOWANCE

Canines That Serve No Useful Purpose Should Not Be Tolerated by Parmer. MUST HAVE MEAT REGULARLY One Cur In-Single Night Has Been Known to Destroy SI,OOO Worth of Sheep—More Mutton and Wool Wanted by Nation. What are you doing about winning this war, anyway? Of course you take a conscientious interest in it, but are you working at it just as diligently as though it were your own personal war, and as though your own personal salvation depended upon it —which it does? Home folks have got to do a little bit more than strangers. You bought some of our Liberty bonds? Of course you did. But a blessed old pagan away over in the heart of Asia, entirely out of touch with us and owing us no duty whatever, bought SIOO,OOO worth of these bonds by catole. You buy a War Savings stamp now and then. Certainly. But a bunch of poor, hopeless human beings in exile who can never profit by the liberty that is to be won—to-wit, the lepers at Molokai—bought $3,000 worth of our savings stamps. Must Do Your' Part. Now, you, to square yourself with yourself, have got to do more than a prince in Persia, or an outcast at Molokai. It doesn’t mean a great deal to give away a little money, and to lend money to the government on the best security in the world means no sacrifice at all. It just means thrift and good sense. To do your part your own war you have got to give up some of the trifling little things, some of your personal fads and fancies .that to you probably do mean a good deal.

Take, for instance, that dog, silvercollared, silver-leashed, pampered, pet•ted and persiflaged with a pet name. Or maybe he isn’t collared or leashed or named. Maybe he Is just a plain dog that runs where he pleases, even though he may not please where he * runs. But one way or the other he Is your dog. Now, think it over. A dog eats as much as a man —more, if he gets a chance. Every dog absorbs a ration that would feed a soldier. Either you feed it to him, or he goes out somewhere and finds it for himself. Also, a dog demands —and takes —more of a meat diet than a man. A man may get along very comfortably and cheerfully on cabbage and corn cake, parsnips and prunes, tomatoes and tabasco, zliut a dog has got to have his meat. It ' may be beef and bacon from your tabled or it may be live sheep from your neighbor’s pasture. If you feed him his meat, he probably consumes about what a man would require. If he goes and takes It himself, he destroys pretty nearly enough to feed a regiment of men. One dog in a single night has been known to destroy fl,ooo worth of sheep. More Sheep Needed. More sheep is one of the greatest needs toward increasing the nation’s meat supply, and there is only one sound reason why the farmers of the United States do not raise more sheep. That one reason is the dog. It ma/ not always be the actual physical dog, but It is the ghost of the dog, the fear of the thing that bides always in the heart of the farmer. He knows that one dog, absolutely worthless, incapable of producing a single dollar of wealth for the country, can and very likely will, in the dark hours of one night, destroy the accumulations of years and the profits of untiring industry. If that fear could be removed from the farmer’s heart, if he could know that sheep could browse safely dn his grass that , goes to waste, the number of sheep in the United States

would increase many fold in a little while. That is one big-phase of the dog question—this fact that the presence of too many dogs prevents the general raising of animals whose flesh and wool are both seriously needed for our armies overseas. But It Is a phase of it that does not necessarily come into consideration at all. Of course your dog Is not a sheep-killing dog. Nobody’s dog ever was a sheep-killing dog until, suddenly, some man’s sheep were slaughtered and that dog was found to have blood on his chaps and wool in his teeth. The United States department of agriculture is not an enemy to the dog it recognizes certain definite uses for that animal, but It realizes that the country could get on mighty well with much fewer dogs-than It has, and that both the actual and potential meat supply of the country would be greatly increased thereby. It has recently sent out several appeals on that point. If you have a dog that serves a genuinely useful purpose, keep him. He Is a good citizen. But to help in the world’s salvation, get rid of the useless dog!

Milk as a Fqod. Economy in the diet does not always depend upon limiting the use of certain foods, but it is sometimes a question of actually increasing the use of foods which furnish nutritive material at relatively low cost. Milk belongs to the latter class, and the housewife vpuld do well to study its food value and decide whether her family is using as much as It should. The average person in this country uses only a little more than half a pint of milk daily, and this quantity cau very profitably be increased when safe milk is available. Many people think of milk only as a beverage, but if they understood that it is in reality a nourishing food they would Increase their dally allowance. We eat foods for two main reasons: First, to renew body wastes and promote growth by forming new tissues and fluids; and, second, to supply energy for carrying on body functions. Milk contains the body-building materials (protein and mineral substances, such as lime and phosphorus), and also supplies energy. The following table, compiled by specialists of the department of agriculture, shows the quantities of various foods needed to supply as much protein or energy as one quart of milk:

Protein. Energy. 1 quart of milk la 1 quart of milk is equal to- equal to- < 7 ounces of sirloin 11.3 ounces of eir--eteak. ioW steak. S ounces of round 14.» ounces of round steak. 4.8 eggs. »egga _ . 3.6 ounces of fowl. IAI ounces of fowl.