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GRASS YIELDS A DEGREE

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16; oe 18, and Charles Schnabel,
tot: . pO

“We have been eating grass for.
jeleven years,” Schnabel related,
“and not a one ever has had a de-.
cayed tooth, although 90 per cent
of the school children do. David:
is our grass baby. We started put-
ting it in his milk. They’ve had only
a few childhood diseases and. almost
no colds. Why, I haven’t had one
|for three years,”

ADDED GRASS TO FOOD. :
Jobless from 1930 to 1935, Schnabel

 

jor 12 cents each, by adding powdered
igrass to their food. They still take
it regularly in concentrated form.

With a bachelor’s degree in educa-
‘tion from the University of Missouri,
jSchnabel served in France in the
‘World war, and on his discharge be-|
gan teaching vocational education in
the high schools. Two years was
spent at Excelsior Springs, Mo. He
quit in disgust when he found “the
stuff in the textbooks wasn’t true.”

Specifically, a student challenged

his assertion that yellow and white,
corn were of equal nutritive value.)
The student showed him two pens,
of pigs, one fed on white corn and
one on yellow. The yellow corn-fed
pigs were’ far ahead of the others.
Later, Schnabel said, laboratory
chemists learned yellow corn con-
tained vitamin A.
.| He began working at the South-
,;western Milling company in 1928,
_jand formed a partnership to operate
_la large poultry farm near Little
")Blue, Mo. In the fall, half the flock
‘lof 4,500 died and the others were
sold. ;

“T determined to find out what was
wrong,” Schnabel. related. “I knew
|that chlorophyl, the green element

in leaves, and haemin, ‘the red ele-
“|ment in blood, were almost the same
1 chemically.

TRIES DIET ON HENS.

“T had a hunch the hens died be-
cause there wasn’t enough blood-
building material in their feed. We
owned two acres near City park in!
Kansas City, Kansas, so I started!
experimenting with small groups of|
hens. I fed them up to twenty:
vegetables, cabbage, spinach, turnips, |
and everything you could think of,,
including alfalfa, Nearly every one,
of the vegetables and forage crops
fed in excess caused trouble.

, “I was about ready to quit. In the
spring of 1930 I planted some oats
for our cow. I ran short of feed for
the chickens so I began feeding them
oats grass. Then things started to).
happen. Egg production from 106
‘/hens went up from 40.per cent in
March to 70 per cent in April, and
in July and August it reached 98
per cent. One day I got 126 eggs
from 106 hens, It was unheard of.

“Y’d get up at 4 o’clock,” he con-
tinued, “to cut the. grass, and that
was part of the secret. I,fed the
chickens twenty-five pounds of oats

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