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Nourishing Fat. The presence of fat compensates for a vitamin lack in the diet. Dr. Herbert McLean Evans and Dr. Samuel Lepkovsky of the University of California told Academicians that they had kept rats alive for months without vitamin B (necessary to prevent beriberi) by feeding them coconut oil, lard and cottonseed oil. Coconut oil was most effective, cottonseed oil the least...
...Lard and Edible Fats
...many hogs.' If you must raise hogs, raise thin ones, raise them for meat, not for fat. We must remember the younger generation in Germany. It is keen on sport and hygiene. It thinks of its waistline. It absolutely cannot be made to eat hog fat and lard...
...will-to-work, so vital to reparation payments and the stability of Europe, has put it ahead of France as a U. S. customer. In the first eleven months of 1929, the U. S. sent to Germany $369,256,518 worth of goods (oil, copper, lumber, fruits, lard, lead, chemicals), whereas U. S. exports to France were only $239,741,535 (cotton, oil, machinery, wheat). Of German goods the U. S. took $239,493,977 worth (iron, steel, coal tars, cinema film, toys, paper), while U. S. purchases from France were down to $160,417,371 (clothing, lingeries, perfumes, leather...
...25¢ per bushel (30¢ was the farm demand). Beef went up from 3¢ to 6¢ per pound (farmers wanted an 8¢ rate). Butter was left at 12¢ per lb., whither President Coolidge had temporarily raised it from 8¢. Tariff duties on milk and cream were doubled. Poultry & eggs, lard & swine, vegetables & fruits all moved up proportionately on the new tariff scale...