The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26

| they were worse because the cows were producing only seven pounds daily. l At Little Rock. Ark. the United States war department established one Of it's training camps for our citizen soldiers Camp Pike.
 It was immediately confronted by great dearth of milk. In and around J.it- tie Rock only 5000 pQnnds of milk was be- ing produced daily To breed up these herds to meet the remands would take too long A shorter course was teces- sary and that course was adopted.
 The Chamber of Commerce interested the bankers of Little Rock in the loan ing of money to the dairymen for the pus- chasing of new cows of a stril fly dairy type A loan of S25o.0Q0 was arranged for this purpose of which S9S000 was spent for the purchase of new cattle In t1is way the milk supply was almost immedi- ately increased from 6,o00 pounds daily to ! f2o,000 pounds.
 Alabama's quota on the Fourth Liberty Lean was $12,000.0O0. Of this amount Bir- n-inghams share was $9,3C09o0. This in dicates wealth. To raise the amount nec- essary to purchase the cows required to successfully meet the demands of the city for an adequate milk supply should rot be difficult in city of the wealth as above indicated
 1 It is said that the advancement of tue social conditions of a community is meas ured by the amount of mill, it's citizens i consume per capita. Thss may be broad statement. but be that as it may II seems that different sec--ons of the Unite,t States consume different arEounts of milk per capita. and this consumption depends ] upon the amount or education the public ] has received upon the value of milk as i food. In those sections where the great i est campaigns of education have been carried dn the consumption of milk per ! fe Ina fegt nt public been taught to demand milk. but i the dairymen have been taught to supply l tLat demand.
 New England has the largest per capita | consumption of any section of the United 1 States with a daily consumption of '252 i of a pint. That section of the tinted States in this arbitrary division to which i Alabama belongs is east soutn certral and has a daily per capita consumption of S0S of a pint which is the smallest per capita consumption of any section or the United States.
 | The daily average consumption per capita is 65C4 of a pint for the entire sumption per capita i'll Birmingham Ts { about 2 of pint Comparing this wirn the section of the United States in which Alabama is situated as hegard milk con sumption, we find Birmingham to be con suming less milk per capita than the av-
  ton to which Birmingham belongs Thus, considering the section to which Birming- ham belongs as consuming less milk per capita than any other section of the tTnites. and Birmingham less milk than the average consumption of the section, We soon learn the extent of consumption of milk in Birmingham as compared with other places,
 This low consumption in Birmingham is not due to lack of desire to use milk on the part of the public. but because of their absolute inability to get it because of it's not being produced
 By the replacement of COW for COW throughout all the herds surrounding Bir- rningham by cows of a strictly dairy type, it is possible to increase the quantity Of milk by three times the amount being
 producer. It may be just to say that
 with this amount of increase in the auan-
 tity sold in this city, it may be possible
 to expect reduction of at least 25 per
 cent in the price of milk
 The demands of modern milk inspection
 are more easily complied with by the
 dairymen and therefore more easily en-
 forced by health authorities when the
 dairymen find their business profitable,
 And certainly it is more profitable to the
 dairymen when cows produce more milk
 on the same amount of feed and with the
 same amount of labor