The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-01-17
AMERICAN CATTLE ARE TRYING
TO SUPPLY THE WORLD.
NECESSITY FOR PROMPT WORK
Europe Will Be Dependent Upon
America To Replenish Her Stock
and the Time To Prepare
Has Arrived.

affected by the vast struggle of civil
ization against scientific savagery.
Baby's bottle of milk-war
What is the relation?
Because of the war, foreign con-
sumption of American dairy products
has greatly increased. During the
war this consumption will continue
to increase and for some time after
the war these demands will be very
| heavy.
Our domestic consumption of milk
and dairy products has not decreas-
ed, will not decrease, and can not be
| decreased without serious impairment
of the Nations health and vigor, now
| and hereafter.
Dairy herds can not be increased
quiCkly.s This years breeding, for
instance, will not be reflected in more
milk production until three years
| hence.
In order to meet present demands
wo must utilize valuable milk by
products that we have heretofore fail
ed to use as human food and, by more
efficient feeding methods, and dairy
management increase, if possible, milk
production of our present herds.
in order to prepare for future de-
mands we must conserve all good
milk cows, get more farmers to keep
cows, and commence now a breeding
program that will bring about sub
stantial increase in our total number
OF dairy cattle several years hence.
You appreciate very keenly what
would happen if baby's milk bottle
should become empty and remain I'M
filled-or even if its average quantity
should be materially reduced That
is the reason you are concerned with
the war program for the conservation
and increase of dairy cattle, and for
the more efficient utilization of the
present milk production.
One way in which you can assist in
carrying out the program is to eat
moro cottage cheese. That is very
easy and simple---indeed, very
tic and it isn't heroic. But it will
help win the War-So do it!
Fighting With Cheese.
This is why increased consumption
of cottage cheese is factor that will
contribute to the downall of Prussian
autOcracy-the Prussian autocracy
that menaCes your home.
Out of the milk now produced in
the United States almost half is used
for butter making. But, in butter
making only per cent of the milk
that is used actually goes into but
ter-96 per cent remains as a by
product, in the form OF skim milk or
buttermilk We feed this skim
milk to live stock or throw it away.
Skim milk makes cottage cheese, and
cottage cheese is palatable, nutri-
tious human food. Weight for
weight it has more protein than beef
The skim milk that we have thrown
away or fed to live stock this year
actually had more food value than all
the beef we have eaten this year.
Nino-tenths of all the skim milk is
produced on the average all-around
farms of the Country-not the exclusive
dairy farms. So, if we are to utilize
this enormous potential human food
value, the farms where cows are kept
must convert skim milk into cottage
cheese. The farm families will do
this-for the process is simple and
usually requires little or no special
equipment-if there is demand for
cottage cheese.
II is up TO you to say whether there
, will be that demand.
: Tell your grocer or market man or
dairyman that you want cottage
cheese. Insist upon having cottage
cheese.
|; If you do that, the ultimate effect
: of your action will be to help double
the meat supply of our country at a
: time when We must have a great meat
increase to help win the war. You
will also be encouraging and stimu-
lating the maintenance and increase
of the dairy industry in this Nation
and that will insure baby's milk bot
tie not being empty.
Before the war we brought in from
foreign countries much larger
quantity of dairy products than we
| sent to foreign countries. Now the
situation is reversed. We are send
ing abroad-principally to the allied
nations in Europe-more than we
bring in. For instance, during 1914
We imported 64,000,000 pounds of
cheese and exported 100000 pounds.
! For the fiscal year Of 1917 we import
ed 100000 pounds and exported
66,000,000 pounds OF cheese. Our 1914
expectations OF condensed milk
amounted to 100000 pounds, while
! for the fiscal year of 1917 we have
I exported 259.10O,OOO pounds of con.
| densed milk.
4 Slaughtered Herds.
One reason for this greatly incrcas-
cd European demand for American
dairy products is that the European