The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
ADULTURATED CHEESE.
How 1t Has Affected Consumption an,
Expectation.


Expectation.
The prospect Of raising the consump-
ton of cheese to legitimate point is
not very promising. There is in the
first place a deep-seated prejudice
against eating much cheese. 1t is re-
garded as an unhealthful article of diet,
and candidly We confess that We see
little hope of removing that objection
which seems to be bred in the bone. OF
course We admit that person can eat
too much cheese. We admit that COM
paratively speaking small amount is
sufficient. 1t is 3 concentrated food,
just as pressed corn beef, for instance.
is concentrated food. Many people
are injured by eating too much pressed
corn beef. They do not believe that
they are eating so much because of the
compact form of the beef. But the way
the average person eats cheese is ridic-
ulOus. One little piece is taken usually
with pie. Now q person can eat quar-
ter of a pound of good cheese, and not
be injured by it if his digestion is in
good condition. If it is not we do not
advise him to eat cheese at all, or any
thing that will not pretty nearly digest
itself. We are not prescribing diet
for dyspeptics. But for an ordinary
person of fair digestion, We know of no
better and certainly no more convenient
food than good cheese.
But another thing that has led to a de-
crease in the consumption of cheese is
the miserably poor quality of much Of
the cheese that's sold. and the adulter-
alton of cheese in this country. Both
these things have greatly hurt the
cheese market at home and abroad.
A writer for an English publication
affirms as many before him have.
that the reputation of American
cheese in Europe has been greatly dam
aged by the persistent adulteration of
our cheese. Prof. Arnold thinks that
the way for America to keep her place
in the cheese markets of the world is
to send out lecturers to instruct the
people how to make cheese. This is
good as far as it goes. 1t is . position
that We have always taken. We firmly
believe that one of the most profitable
things that our Government could I'M
dertake is to adopt some means by
which everybody who makes butter or
cheese could be instructed to make it
1t would be millions of dol
lars every year in the pockets of our
people. But we must not forget that
our knowledge already is much better
than our practice. It is not the man
or woman who does not know how to
make good cheese that is engaged in
the work of making adulterated cheese.
1t is the man who does know how to
make the best cheese that was ever
who does that.
So we need something more than
lecturer on cheese-making. We need
10 send out q few lecturers to talk on
moral principle, and they ought to be
gifted with such eloquence that they
could portray the business of adultera-
ton so graphically that the adulterator
could not fail to see what . cOnsummate
rascal he IL. OF all the stupidity of
which mankind has ever been guilty.
the adulterati0n of our food products,
and the consequent shutting or partial
shutting Of home and foreign markets
against our products takes the lead.
There is no sense and certainly there is
no decency In it-Western R.rol.