South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-03-26

! RINEs OR OTHER BUTTER sUBSTI-
TUTES.
'Tel me more about these vital ele-
ments you MENTION" doctor. there are
thousands Of Dairy News readers who
Will be glad 10 get this information
We'll, 10 begin with. perhaps Ne had
better 20 back to the original source OF
our milk supply and consider how ma
ture after thousands OF years Of evolu-
ton finally produced In milk a perfect
food for the young
In some respects milk is like an egg.
An egg contains a potential life. The
mother hen has scratched and eaten from
a variety Of sources, only finally 70 put
Into the egg all OF the food essentials
needed by the unfolding chick
similarly the dairy COW. from her
coarse and bulky feed of grain and
rOughage, takes the essentials changing
and improving them for the production
OF better aud more perfect food than
that which she has eaten--a food con
tanning everything needed for the grew
ing young in suitable proportions 20
sustain life and promote rapid growth.
Five Things Necessary 10 Diet
Five factors are necessary In the
diet for adequate nOurishment. These
are "A sufficient amount of energy or
fuel food, an adequate supply Of good
proteins, sufficient suitable mineral mat
ter and TWO CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES.
OF INkN OWN CHARACTER. CALLED
NITAMlNES. The first three factors are
common 20 almost every Kind of foods
10 enable the human body 10 get along
satisfactorily without milk and its prod
ucts.'
"But why do they term these vitamines
substances Of unknown character = i
asked.
"For the reason that no chemist has
ever been able 10 analyZe them. The
secret of their composition is locked mp
In nature"
DIR. Z. y. McCullum OF Johns Hop
kins University and other eminent spec
ialists have conducted n series Of expert
ments covering period of more than ten
years 20 determine what relation vita
mines bear TO animal life. These inveSti-
cations prove that vitamines are abso-
lutely necessary for growth and prOduc-
ticn. Without them no growth can take
place. Another discovery of vital Inn
portance is that one OF the yitamines.
designated as Fat Soluble A is most
readily available in butter fat or whole
milk. Ii is also found in the leaves of
certain vegetable plants. Dr. McCullum
styles milk and the leafy vegetables as
the protective fOOds-the foods neceSs ary
70 the continued we'll being OF mankind
because they are constituted as to cor
rect the deficiencies of whatever else We
are likely To eat If people We're able TO
eat enough plant leaves they would OBJ
tain adequate amount of protective
food but not being able - do So. they
must have butterfat. the excellent pro-
teinS and the mineral salts OF milk all
OF which they get in ample quantities
flOm butter"
This is why I advise the liberal use
Oh dairy products. milk butter and
cheese. and discourage the use of all
substitutes. Here" Doe added. lis
Bulletin No. POI, issued by the AGricul-
tural Experiment Station of the Univers-
ity of Wisconsin and distributed by the
Food Administration Office i'm the Con
way building Turn TO page fourteen
and you will find something interesting
about butter substitutes"
The pamphlet referred 10 is entitled
MIX Necessary For The Nations Wei
fare" published last June ON page
fourteen l found the following state
ments:
there is i'm these times of food
scarcity a tendency 20 use plant oils as
substitutes for butterfat. even claiming
for them Il value equal 10 lutterfat
No plant oils so far investigated. and
those include cotton seed oil. almond
oil. peanut oil. COcoanut oil. and sun
flower oil. contain the fat soluble vita
mine in appreciate quantities. IT Is
FALSE TO CLAIM THESE As SUBSTI-
TUTES FOR BUTTER"