Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-21
MILK A VITAL NECESSITY
An Enthusiastic Tribute to the Fluid
of Life, Fresh, Skinned
or CIabbered.


Did you ever reflect that but for milk
there could be no human race at all?
Everything starts with milk. All men and
women must first be babies, and milk 10
the only food that a baby can take for a
long time after birth. No substitute is
possible. Its little anatomy 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 man or woman. Not only is
milk Indispensable for the baby, but It Is
the best of all foods for adults. Nothing
else equals 1t in wholesomeness, digesti-
bility. sustaining qualities. No wonder,
therefore, that the dairy Is sucI an i'm
portant industry No wonder that count
less billions of dollars are invested in II
and countless thousands of people engaged
in it's various branches The world could
not move an inch without milk. In fact
there could be no world. so far as animal
life is concerned. without this elemental
this primordal. 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 1t Yas
cream. This is good, of course, as our
quaint philosopher observed, but II Is by
no means all. Even skim milk Is valu-
able, much more so than once supposed.
Formerly it was thrown away as worth
less. now every farmer knows that II
possesses fattening power. Nothing Is
better for poultry food. They dry 1t now
and use It as deslccated albumen. Though
much has been taken away by the skim
ming or separating process. much re-
mains Of value. II is used in the mechanic
arts as a factor of numerous processes.
Combs, buttons and sizing for paper,
straw and felt hats, glazing and finishing
leather and textile commodities are the
results Of skim milk in various forms. 1t
would take a long catalogue, indeed, to
state what may be made or partly made
from skim milk in the solidified or pow
dered form Modern science has opened up
a new world on this subject. and no SEN
sible dalryman will now be found turning
his skim milk into the sewer Blessed viii
be the day when men cease to drink in
toxicants, always harmful, and conflne
themselves to milk oven now the bars all
keep II on hand for those sensible enough
to order II, and buttermilk In summer is
potential rival OF beer. Babies, natures
best product, are all raised on milk ex-
clusively, and we are Of opinion that
there would be a finer race than any now
on earth II one could be found that knew
of no stronger drink. but contented them
selves with drinking gallons Of milk every
day. Such a race would be wholesome,
healthy and moral. No moral monster
would grow up on such a diet. It Is peace
full, soothing, softendng.
Tho late Myron Reed was fond of re-
marking that the best things were those
that were cheapest and most plentiful. lie
meant water, grass, air and milk. II lie
not the things that much money Is neces-
sary to buy. the so-called luxuries, that
are the best and most palRtable. We could
do without the imported luxury entirely,
but we cannot do without milk any more
than we can DO without the atmosphere
about u.s. Aside. therefore. from It's COM
mercial value, the money that is in II, II
needs no argument TO prove that dRirying
Is destined to grow more and more IN i'm
portance. Mares milk is popular IN some
countries, fluid Of the goat still more 50 In
0thors; but this country prefers the COW,
ard she seems TO fully answer all pur-
poses We can do without other things,
might dispense with meat entirely and
thus ruin the packers; might even let most
OF the grains go as food. but mink we must
have. There is no way Of figuring or cal
culatlng a civilization, no possibility Of
progress or even existence, without the
wonderful agent that exudes from the I'D
ders OF eows.-Amevican Farmer.