Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-28
MILK THE BEST
 FOOD WE HAVE
Give Your Children MiIk-Use Milk
 Yourselves.
By w. H. Woodley, Dairy Specialist,

certain foods, but it is sometimes a question of actually increasing the use of foods which furnish nutritive mate rial at relatively low cost. Milk be- longs to the latter class, and the housewife would do well to study it's food value and decide whether her family is using as much as it should. The average person in this country uses only little more than a half pint of milk daily, and this quantity can very profitably be increased when safe milk is available.
 A quart day for every child, if possible, pint without fail; third of a quart for each adult. Plenty of milk will help give all your children. bi gand little, the chance for health they ought to have. Use more milk and your family will be better fed.
 Milk Helps Your Children to Grow. Besides being a good all round food, milk has something special in it that makes children grow. This something is found in some other foods, but not in such large amounts as in milk. Give your boys and girls milk for their chance to grow.
 Milk Helps Your Children to Keep WeII.-It will help keep you well, too. Look at children who do not get milk, but get tea and coffee instead. Aren't most of them pale and sickly? There are always very many sick children in cities and in countries where milk is scarce. When milk prices go up and mothers begin to economize on milk, more children become sick. Do not let your children run this risk. Give them pure, clean milk and help them to grow up strong and we'll ani win in their fight against disease. Save on other things if you must, but not on milk, your child's best food.
 Milk gives your children lime and other salts which they need. There must be plenty of lime in their food, for a great deal of it is needed for their bones and teeth, and a little for their blood and all other parts of their bodies. Right food, not drugs, is what children need. Big boys and girls and grown people, as well as children, need lime because the bones are con- stantly wearing away, little by little, and must be replaced.
 Milk is the chief food for lime. It is much richer in it than other com mon foods. Milk is the cheapest food for lime. Buy milk. You and your children need it's lime.
 Milk Gives Your Children the Body Building Protein, one of the materials from which their bodies are made. Milk is like eggs and meat in this. This bodybuilding substance, the pro- tein, of milk is not new to you, for curd is milk protein. Cottage cheese is curd separated out from milk. When we drink milk or eat cheese we give our bodies proteins which are changed and become part of our mus cles, blood, and other parts of the body. The milk protein is good for everybody, and especially good for children. They need great deal of it because their bodies grow so fast.
 Milk gives your children fuel to burn in their bodies. They need the fuel to keep them warm and to help them run and play and work. much as an automobile needs gasoline or a steam engine needs coal. They are so active that they need more fuel for their size than grown people do. The fat and the milk sugar and part of the protein in the milk all burn up as fuel. Milk is much cheaper fuel than meat. A quart gives the same amount of fuel as a whole pound of lean meat or as eight eggs. Think of the cost! Isn't the milk far the cheapest? Still less expensive is a bowl of bread and milk or corn meal mush and milk.
 Skim milk is good food. It has the lime and protein and sugar of the whole milk. Use it, but use whole milk, too. Skim milk lacks fat and has not so much of the growth sub stance as has whole milk.
 Milk should not be the only food for children, of course. They need negetables, fruits, and cereals. But even the bigger boys and girls should have milk. Milk is good for grown people, too. They still need the lime and protein and it's other substances. Don't think of it as only refreshing drink, but as good, nourishing food.
 Be sure your milk is clean and fresh. If you live in the city, buy it pasteurized from clean dairy. In the country see that your COWS and milkers are clean and healthy. Keep your milk clean, cold, and covered.
 Work in Louisiana.
 Louisiana passed a statewide tick eradication law in 1917, and at he tie it was underconsideration plant CTS, cattlemen and others throughout the state hastily sent to their various lawmakers a flood of telegrams urs- ing them to support the measure. This statewide Jaw did. not become, efiec-. tive@ uhtil the first Fof Iast.;April, Rec.