Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-09
MILK MOST USEFUL
DIETARY ARTICLE

at all. We would simply not be
here TO wrangle over reforms, read
the salaciouS evidence in the Thaw
case, or discuss methods to muzzle
the grafters. Everything starts
with milk. All men and women
must first be babies, and milk is
the only food that baby can take
for a long time after birth. No
substitute is possible. Its little an
atomy is not equal to the task of
absorbing any kind of solid food.
1t must have milk, warm milk,
fresh from the mothers breast, or
there will be no germ, no embryo,
no baby out of which to make a
man or woman. Not only is milk
indispensable for the baby, but it is
the best of all foods for adults.
Nothing else equals it in whole
someness, digestibility sustaining
qualities. No wonder, therefore,
that the dairy is such an important
industry. No wonder that count
less billions of dollars are invested
in it and countless thousands OF
people engaged in it's various
branches. The world could not
move an inch without milk. In
far as animal life is concerned,
without this elemental, this prim-
ordial, this all pervading element
of nutrition.
Josh Billings used to start one of
his lectures by saying that he had
heard a great deal on the subject of
milk, but the best thing he had
ever seen on it was cream. This is
good, of course, as our quaint
philosopher observed, but it is by
no means all. Even skim milk
is valuable, much more so than
once supposed. Formerly 1T was
thrown away as VOL thless; now
every farmer knows that it Moth
possesses fattening power. They
ing is better for poultry food
dry it now and use it as dessicated
albumcn. Though much has been
taken away by the skimming or
separating process, much remains
of value. 1t is used in the mechan-
ic arts as a factor of numerous pro-
cesses. Combs, buttons and sizing
for paper, straw and felt hats, glaz-
ing and finishing leather and tex
tile commodities, are the results of
skim milk in various forms. 1t
would take a long catalogue indeed
to state what may be made or prac-
tically made from skim milk in the
solidified or powdered form. Mod
ern science has opened up new
world on this subject, and no sensi-
BILE dairyman will now be found
turning his skim milk into the sew
err. Blessed will be the day when
men cease to drink intoxicants, al
ways harmful, and confine themsel-
YES to milk. Even now the bars
all keep it on hand for those Scnsi-
BILE enough to order it, aid butter
milk in summer is a potential rival
of beer Babies, natures best pro-
duct, are all raised on milk cxclu-
sfvely, and we are of the opinion
that there would be a finer race
than any now on earth if one could
be found that knew of no stronger
drink, but contented themselves
with drinking gallons of milk every
day. Such race would be whole
some, healthy and moral. No NOR
al monster could grow up on such
a diet. 1t is peaceful, soothing,
softening.
The late MyIon Reed was fond of
remarking that the best things
we've those that were cheapest and
most plentiful. He meant water,
grass, air and milk. 1t is not the
things that much money is necessa-
~ TO buy, the so-called laxuries.
that are the best and most palata-
BILE. We could do without the inn
ported luxury entirely, but we can
not do without milk any more than
we can do without the atmosphere
about us. Aside therefore, from
its commercial value, the money
that is in it, it needs no argument
to prove that dairying is destined to
grow more and more in Importance.
Mares milk is popular in some
countries, fluid of the goat still
more so in others, but this country
prefers the COW and she seems to
fully answer all purposes We can
do without other things, might dis
pense with meat entirely and thus
ruin the packers; might even let
most of the grains go as food, but
milk we must have. There is no
way of figuring or calculating a
civilization, no possibility of pro-
gress or even existence, without
the wonderful agent that exudes
from the udders of cows.
UTILITY OF DRY FARMING