Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1917 — Skim Milk Most Valuable When Used as Food. [ARTICLE]

Skim Milk Most Valuable When Used as Food.

(From the United States Department of Agriculture.) While skim milk is useful for animal feeding it will serve its best use as food for humans. By substituting grain, green feed, buttermilk and whey in anlnml feeding, much skim milk may be left for human use as a beverage, in cooking, condensing or for making cottage cheese. Only the surplus of this valuable human food should be fed to stock. While skim milk is good for stock, the fact remains tha its highest efficiency cannot be had through turning it into meat. Skim milk is used most economically in animal production when fed to hogs, yet it takes 20 pounds whdn fed alone to produce one pounddfpbrk. The same quantity will make three pounds of cottage cheese. In addition, cottage cheese contains T% times as much protein and one-third as much energy as pork, so that the skim milk in the cheese form gives quite as much energy and 4% times as mucl> protein as it would if converted into ham or bacon. Even at the highest prices recently paid for hogs, skim milk fed to them is worth not more than one cent a pound. Yet one cent a pound or approximately one cent a pint, is very cheap for any human food, and particularly for a food so high in nutritive value as skim milk.