Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1921-09-13
SOUTH PARIS, MAINE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER I3, 1921
The cocoanut Cow.

II
"The oriental 10 ready to grow whisk
ers and cit down for his children to car
for him before he 10 fifty years old o
esrlier," was statement made BY ON
OF the worlds leading scientists, DR.. z
". NcCollum, professor OF chemica
hygiene of Johns Hopkins University
when testifying before congressiona
committee recently In hearing on "fll
ed milk" He contrasted the orienta
diet which includes large quantities o.
leafy vegetables with that OF our owl
and he pointed out that the vendors O.
oleomargarine and filed milk advise peo
pie who consume these products to es
freely Of vegetables.
But what 10 filled milk and what con
neotion has 1t with oleomargarine ant
a diet Of leafy vegetables? That Is .
fair question, for probably not one per
son out Of 10, 1000 has ever heard of sflled
milk.
The manufacturers of filed milk have
taken upon themselves the grave respon
sibility of modifying the product OF the
"foster mother of the human race"
They skim the cream from the milk and
then replace 1t with like amount OF
cocoanut oil. This 10 then evaporated
or condensed, canned, and sold as Q
substitute for evaporated or condensed
milk. This product occupies the same
shelves In the grocery store and very
frequently is sold as condensed or evapo-
rated milk.
The dairy interests of the nation are
up In arms against this imitation product
which masquerades as the true, whole
some, life sustaining, helpful. product,
condensed milk, which is being pro-
duced In this country In increasing
quantities. These dairymen realize,
il the mothers who feed filed milk to
their children and babies do not, that
the removal of butterfst from the milk
takes with It practically 90 per cent Of
the fat soluble vitamines, which are 80
necessary In the promotion OF growth
and the conservation OF health.
Vegetable oils do not contain vita.
mines 40 they cannot be relied upon as
protective foods. The dairy interests
long have fought the oleomargarine in
terests on this same basis and now the
manufacturers Of filed milk are seeking
to pawn off on the gullible public an
other substitute or imitation which the
dairymen claim will not only injure their
industry, out II allowed to grow and
expand will work havoc with the health
OF the consumers.
DR.. McCollum told the committee that
men fed on . normal diet with milk left
out, even when given normal ration Of
collards and other leafy vegetables With
fat pork, developed pellagra and were
cured of pellagra by the addition of milk
to their ration.
Since about 10 per cent of the filled
milk comes from the oil of cocoanuts
some wag has facetiously dubbed filled
milk as the product of the "cocoanut
COW Of the South Sea Isles" However,
this problem has nothing to do With
comic opera, as far as the dairymen are
concerned at least, for 1t offers very
serious and insidious competition. In
1917 the output of the manufacture Of
filled milk was about 10000, 900 pounds
The manufacture has increased by leaps
and bounds until In 1920 about SO, ,0O0, 900
pounds were produced. The dealers
CAIN that this has euchred them out OF
a market Of about 1900, 900 pounds of
butterfat, since about that amount Of
vegetable oil was substituted.