OATMEAL MORE NUTRITIOUS THAN WHEAT.

Southland Times, Issue 930, 8 April 1868, Page 2

OATMEAL MORE NUTRITIOUS THAN WHEAT.

The following playful comparison between the relative alimentary powers of oatmeal and wheaten flour, is copiedfrom a useful article on Practical Agriculture, in Blackwood's ' Magazine' :— Professor Johnston, in the recent addition of his Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and 7 Geology, tells us that, from experiments made in the laboratory ofthe Agricultural Chemistry Association of Scotland, it - turns out that oats are far richer in inuacular matter, fat, and starch, than the best wheat flour grown in any part of England — tbat they contain eighteen or twenty per cent, of that which forms - muscle, five to eight of fat, and sixty fire of starch. The account, therefore, between shelled oats (groats) and fine wheaten flour stadds thus. One hundred nounds of each contain—

What do you say to these numbers, Mr y Cockney? Tou won't pity üb, Scotch l oatmeal-eaters, any more, we guess. Experience and science are both on our side, What makes your race-horses the best in the world, may be expected to make our peasantry the best too. We r offer you, therefore, a fair bet. Tou shall take ten English ploughmen, and feed them upon two pounds and a half of wheaten flour aday, and we shall take as many Scotch ' I ploughmen and feed them upon the same weight' of oatmeal a-day— if they can eat as much, for that is doubtful^-arid "w&A shall back our men against yours for any sum you like. They shall walk, run, wort 4— or fight you, if you like it— and thej*| shall thrash you to your heart's content..Weshould like tp convince you that Scotch. parritch has some real solid metal iri it.7 We back the oatcake and the parritch 7 against all the wheaten messes in the world. We defy your horiie-made breadj, your baker's breadj your household bread,, your .leaven bread, rand your jbrowEL, Georges, your fancy bread and your raisin, bread — yeur baps, rolls, scones, muffins, crumpets, and cookies— yoiir bricks, biscuits, bakes, rusks— -your Bath buns and 7your Sally Lima— your tea cakes, and saffron-cakes, and sHm-cakes, arid" plank-cakes, and pancake, and soda-cakes, and currant-cakes, and sponge-cakes, and seed-cakes, and girdle-cakes, and singing** hinnies— your shortbread and your currant buns— and if there be. any other names by which you designate your, wheaten abominations, we defy and detest them all. , We. swear by the oatcake ancl the parritch, the substantial bannock arid the , brose-rlpng , may Scotland, produce. them, and Scotchmen live and fight upon .them-!-----" ■.----•■•—.- -.---- ...

■ . : Wheat Oats. Muscular matter .. 10 lbs. 18 lbs. Fat ... ... ... 3... 6... Starch ... .... 50... ,66... 63 lbs. 89 lbs <