People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1897 — Experiments On Diet. [ARTICLE]

Experiments On Diet.

Purdue University is issuing a series of popular monographs about food. The latest of these discusses studies and experiments made at LaFayette (Ind.) upon the dietaries of two families respectively of a tinner and a teacher. The investigation was conducted by Professor W. E. Stone, co-operating with the United States Department of Agriculture the reports being published by the latter. The daily cost per individual in two famlies was respectively 18 and 26 cents, but reference to the character and the composition of the food shows very plainly that the more costly diet was not mere attractive or more nutritious or in any way more to be preferred. On the contrary the cheaper diet was rational and substanial. The difference in cost was due to two causes, injudicious selection in buying, wastefulness in the use of the food. The family wh’ch spent less for its food consumed 96 per cent, which might of bee*n eaten. These and other practical facts presented, make this an exceedingly valuable publication.— Monticello Herald.