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...hunger gnaws 20 minutes before train time, you make for the lunch counter and order?chicken a la King? Beef casserole? Braised pork? More likely, old dependable ham and eggs. They are too familiar to cause your palate much excitement, but as some one has said, they satisfy. Passing the newsstand, if your appetite for fiction is not to be trifled with by a mere magazine, do you pore over cryptic titles, flashy jackets, alluring blurbs? Hardly ever. Briskly, confidently, you seize an Oppenheim or a Dell, a Harry Leon Wilson, Sabatini, Irvin Cobb, Wallace Irwin, Arthur Train?...
Millions of pounds of tinned bacon ("sowbelly") went overseas, a welcome substitute for the "monkey meat" ("canned willie," corn beef), welcome substitute for the "frigo" (frozen beef), welcome substitute for the sloppy, though nourishing slumgullion ' of the ration. This bacon was not so neatly packed, so elegantly handled as was the civilian product yet it was clean, wholesome, nourishing. Fragrant, crisp, dripping grease, on thick white bread and with a canteen cup full of hot coffee-"Bring on your...
...virtually non-existent commercially, brings $1.50 a lb., and New York City alone would have consumed 3,000 elk carcasses last autumn had they been available. Laboratory tests show that elk flesh has a third more nerve and energy-building qualities, a third less fattening qualities, than beef, mutton or pork...
...meat costs less to raise per lb. than beef, mutton or pork. Matured bull elk weigh 700 lb. to half a ton, females 600 to 800 lb. They mature in 16 to 18 months as against four years for cattle. Cattle herds increase 30% in good years; the acknowledged ratio for elk is 90%. The females calve in their third year, commonly twinning...
...meat of cattle. They seemed excellent range animals for the vast northern territories (which Arctic explorers have long been recommending for stock-raising), as they can be left to graze all winter without prepared food or shelter. Asians have long crossed the yak, a draft animal, with cattle, getting beef even finer-grained than steer's meat. Present Canadian experiments are upon a "yakattalo," a tri-brid that may prove juiciest...