Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1875 — Milk as an Economical Article of Food. [ARTICLE]

Milk as an Economical Article of Food.

Milk as a nutritive article of diet is generally under-estimated. Its economic value as compared with other articles of animal food has been given by Dr. Wiggins, of Providence, and is often quoted to show that it should enter into more general consumption among those of limited means; while its healthfulness and adaptation to the general taste should recommend its extensive use among all classes. As to its economy Dr. Wiggins remarks that the quantity of water in good milk is 86 to 87 per cent., while round steak contains 75 per cent.; in fatter beef there is 60 per cent, and in eggs about 68-per cent. His deductions, from recent analyses of animal foods as compared with milk, are that sirloin steak (recovering loss from bone) at thirty-five cents per pound is as dear as milk At twentyfour cents, a quart; round steak at twenty cents a pound as dear as milk at fourteen cents a quart; eggs at thirty cents a dozen as dear as milk at twenty cents a quart and corned beef at seventeen cents as dear as milk at fifteen cents. It must be inferred, therefore, that milk at six to eight cents per quart is the cheapest animal food that can be used. But granting that all this may be true there are some important considerations that seem to be overlooked in urging the substitution of milk for other kinds of food. One of which is that all foods of equal nutrition are not relished alike, and that the natural appetite must to some extent at least be gratified in order to secure the proper digestion and assimilation of foods. Thus we have certain kinds of food that, m the common phrase, “ set well on the stomach” of some, while they disagree with others. You cannot always dictate to- the stomach what is best adapted to it, for it has its likes and dislikes, which cannot be set aside without serious trouble. It is known by experience that milk does not agree with all persons. In some it produces headache and feverish symptoms, in others gives rise to biliousness, while with another class of persons milk is highly relished and promotes the highest health when used in a judicious manner with brea<f, oat-meal or other farinaceous food. The reason why milk should be used in connection with farinaceous foods is thus explained by a writer in a magazine. He says: “ Milk, after being taken into the stomachy is converted almost into a solid curd by the heat and the acid given off by that organ combining with potash and the soda which the milk contained and which was necessary to keep it in a state.of solution. The watery portion being separated and absorbed, the gastric juice finds it diffi cult to penetrate and break down the remaining curd, which now acts as a crude and indigestible substance in the stomach, giving rise by reflex action to headache, and by its Irritating presence, interfering with the digestion of other substances that may be going on. In consequence the contents pass out of the stomach in an imperfect-ly-digested condition, and in their subsequent course through the system are not properly assimilated; and on arriving at the liver clog that great strainer of the blood. The bile not being properly poured gut of this organ the blood in passing through it becomes impregnated with bilious matter, which is carried on through the round of the circulation, showing its effect in the yellow tinge of the eyes and skin and occasioning those general unpleasant symptoms comprehended under the term of biliousness.” There is no doubt milk can be employed as a healthful and economical article of food for most people, when cooked with rice and eggs or in various kinds of puddings, bread toasts, or eaten with bread or bat-meal properly prepared. In this waff it can be better substituted for other animal food than to use it as a drink. MTlk is a very nutritious article of diet, but many need to know in what way it should be employed so as not to derange health.— Rural New Yorker.

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