Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1917 — Milk as a Source of Protein [ARTICLE]

Milk as a Source of Protein

A quart of milk rnd three q darters of a pound of sirloin steak contain about equal amounts of nutritive material. One quart of milk ~ contains about 520 grains of protein besides its sugar and fat. Milk, then, is our cheapest and surest protein supply. To make it pure and appetising is our problem. People who eat a great deal. of meat rarelyTHK nflßk. In. fact milkand meat are not easily digested together. Of the two milk is so much cheaper and so much better In its results that a comparison with meat is hardly possible. Good, well flavored milk means good healthy cows, well fed and jvell cared for. Really the fine flavored milk cannot be produced unless the milk is drawn in a covered pail. We have tried both ways and the milk drawn in a clotbcovered pall is so much fin er that the other method has long since been abandoned. Milk must be clean all the time. Then, too, milk must be cooled quickly and be kept cold all the time. This is old to most of our readers, but it must be repeated over and over again. The outdoor window shelf, mentioned recently is great for cooling milk quickly in clean air. Then cooled milk must-be set on shelves in a clean place. Those who use separators will not be concerned with cream raising, but I cam not refrain from: saying , giving about sixteen quarts a day, furnishes all the cream and butter for a family of five, three quarts a day to a neighbor and a gallon of skimmilk every other day to a needy friend, besides a two quart pitcher full for tvery meal of the day. The milk that comes to the table is from thirty-six t® forty-eight hours old, and it is aim ply delicious, the best protein food that can be found at any price. Milk goes into the cooking in every possible way. When I hear persons say that the children do not like milk, that no one cares for milk in their family, 1 am pretty sure where the trouble began. The milk simply must be good, appetising, cold and sweet. It may require a little time to cultivate a large de mand for even so good an article of food as milk. But the cases are very few in whidh it cannot be done. "Without protein food all animals starve, even with an abundance of other food elements." Let the farm boys and girls have a truck patch, the proceeds to be theirs.