. Review of reviews and world's work. Atkinson at $1,000,000,000. On the sub-subject of nutrition. Professor At-water, of Wesleyan, has done a noble work, andto him we owe much of our knowledge of thel)hysical facts regarding metabolism. In thechemistry of digestion. Professor Chittenden, ofYale, has rendered notable service. These areboth phases of the pure-science view of foodscience. There has been, however, very littleattention paid to the subject of food science asa whole in our college scientific knowledge, for instance, of the exact com-position of foodstuffs is fully as i
. Review of reviews and world's work. Atkinson at $1,000,000,000. On the sub-subject of nutrition. Professor At-water, of Wesleyan, has done a noble work, andto him we owe much of our knowledge of thel)hysical facts regarding metabolism. In thechemistry of digestion. Professor Chittenden, ofYale, has rendered notable service. These areboth phases of the pure-science view of foodscience. There has been, however, very littleattention paid to the subject of food science asa whole in our college scientific knowledge, for instance, of the exact com-position of foodstuffs is fully as important aproblem in physiological chemistry as the studyof how the body utilizes those foodstuffs, andone which we know just as little about. To get the chemistry, manufacture, sale, andutilization of foodstuffs upon an exact, honest,scientific basis is a worthy ambition for ourgreatest merchants, statesmen, economists, hy-gienists, and scientists. The pure-food ques-tion itself is but a detail of the legitimate aimof food MAP TO INDICATE RAILROAD LINES CONNECTING THE MIDDLE WEST WITH ATLANTIC AND GULF PORTS. Railroads feeding Eastern ports: 1, New York Central; 2, Erie; 3, Pennsylvania; 4, Baltimore & Ohio; 5, Chesapeake & feeding Southern ports: A, Illinois Central; B, Missouri, Kansas & Texas; C, Louisville & Nashville; D Frisco; E, Texas & Pacific (Gould line); F, Mobile & Ohio; G, Kansas City Southern. RAILROAD RATES AND THE FLOW OF OUR FOREIGN TRADE. BY FREDERIC AUSTIN OGG. ASIDE from the unfailing production of food-stuffs in sufficient quantities to supply ourown people at reasonable prices, the largest eco-nomic concern of the United States to-day isthat just and stable conditions shall exist forthe transportation of the vast agricultural sur-plus of the Middle West to the markets ofEurope. This matter is of vital importance tomany more people than one might at first thoughtsuppose. It involves prosperity or the lack of iton the part of a very
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