South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-19
Don't Cry Over Spilled
Milk! Stop Splitting it

I milk doesn't leave the farm. il viii
not be made into cottage cheese
unless the operation is undertake
en- in the farmhouses Even il the
proposition went no further than
! home production and consumption
| Of cottage cheese on farms where
cows are kept, the effect upon the
nations food supplies would be ire
mendous If each person on farms
where there are cows would eat
one-half pound OF cottage cheese
each week. il would replace more
than 5OO,OOO.OOO pounds of beef in
a year-more beef than we export
ed TO the allies in 1917.
But, in addition 10 home con-
sumption. the farmer who makes
cottage cheese from skim milk
would market his product in near
by towns or villages or cities. or
perhaps through creameries Fam
lilies in towns and cities will be able
TO get cheese through local mar
kets if they will make their wants
known. And this they would do
for it is one Of the things that will
help win the war.
Tell your dealer you want cot
tage cheese. If enough people say
that it will insure the transforma-
ton into human food OF great
deal of skim milk that is not now
so used-and the final erect, of
course, viii be TO add TO our war
winning food requirements. We
can't win the war unless we bring
about great increases in our food
supplies, and we can not cause
these Increases unless we utilize
every conservation rs well as pro-
duction opportunity.
We produced about 89.547.5 500. 600
j.. pounds of milk in the United states
last year and of this $1,000. 600, 600
pounds were used for butter max
ing But in the manufacture OF
butter only four percent of the
milk used actually goes into the
butter, and SO percent is by
prOduct-skim milk or buttermilk
Accordingly we had 32,67S, 500, 600
pounds of skim milk last year and
Of this only about 12O0,OOO.0OC
pounds were converted to any form
only one-twenty- of the pos
sible human food value of this
milk. Part of it has been an alb
solute loss-just thrown away. But
most OF it has been fed TO live
stock. This is a utilization of some
of its value-but it is not nearly
so valuable a usuage as it would
be if the skim milk were eaten 10y
humans as cottage cheese instead
of being fed to meat animals. Fed
to a pig, 100 pounds of skim nlill-
combined most advantageously with
other feeds. will produce As pounds
of dressed pork. The same amount
of skim milk, made into cottage
cheese, has the protein value OF
22.5 pounds OF pork.
Perhaps you have though. oil cot
tase cheese as a fluffy. side-line
sort Of a dish, devoid of important
food value and undeseryius CT a.
tention. That has oeen the rather
general American conception. Gun
appetites haven't been directed tc
the dish. Many of US don't know
that il is not only palatable ald nu-
tritious. but that * has a higher
protein value than STEAK Bear thai
in mind-and eat more cottasc
cheese!
A great increase in cottage cheese
production on the farm is entirely
practicable because very little spe-
cial equipment is necessary. Nor dc
or skill.
Demand for More Milk.
While this utilization of by
product that now is not used for
human food Except in a very small
way) is the greatest immediate up-
portunity of the dairy industry for
war winning food production, 9th
er things are necessary. The pres
ent milk production must not only
be maintained, but future milk
production must be increased. which
means that stock must be conserved
now, and that there must be more
breeding Several years are re-
quired to bring about increases in
dairy herds Increased breeding
this year will not be shown in more
milk production until three years
hence.
/
future enlargement Of our dairy
herds is that the European cOun-
tries, both neutrals and belliger-
ents. have been forced during the
war to kill millions of dairy cat
tie for meat. These countries, OF
necessity. have greatly increased
their importations OF cheese, con
densed milk, and other dairy pro-
ducts from the VI ted States. As
the war continues icy will be less
able to supply then elves and must
receive even more dairy products
from us. Unless we breed more
dairy cattle we can not supply the
demand. Furthermore, when the
war is over the depleted dairy herds
Of Europe must be restocked-and
those countries will look 10 us for
| breeding animals. as we'll IS for q
continued large supply Of dairy
products from the time the war
ends until their herds are restab-
lished.
And, in addition 70 all this. We
must maintasn our own milk supply
at home. MIX is practically an in
| dispensable item Of food. IL could
not be eliminated from the ma