Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-10-11
Facts Concerning the Use of Milk and
Conditions IN Regard to Its
Source of Supply.

source Oh supply.
1t is our purpose during the next
few weeks to furnish a short news
item in regard to the value of milk
as a food product and showing the
necessity Of the source of supply be-
ing absolutely uncontaminated.
The food value of milk is well
known to all and of late years it has
been discovered that milk contains
a food element, known by scientists,
as the Vitamine Fat Soluble "A. Num-
erous experiments have been con-
Quoted recently which tend to show
that the use of milk for growing
children, in fact, animals of any kind
is absolutely essential.
At the Iowa State Fair this fall
several exhibits were arranged to
show the effect of milk being left out
of the ration of growing animals.
One exhibit showed two chickens,
one having been fed ration con-
tanning large amount of milk, the
other containing no milk. The same
experiment was conducted with rats,
dogs, and rabbits. In every case
where the young animals had been
deprived of the milk supply they
were sickly, under nourished, show
ing signs of ricketts, and in practl-
cally every case die before a year
has expired.
Herbert Hoover, who has had ex-
perience in feeding thousands of peo-
pie of all nationality and ages, says
"the white race can not survive
without dairy products. DR.. +. V.
McCullum of John Hopkins Univer-
sity says "the people who have made
liberal use of milk as food have in
contrast attained greater size, great
er longevity and have been most sue
cessful in rearing their young. They
have been much more aggressive
chan the non-anill using peoples and
have achieved greater advance in Ii
1erature, science and art"
Milk is our chief source of cal
cium (lime) and every child should
have a sufficient quantity to supply
h m with enough calcium to help
build and harden the bones and
teeth. An Iowa dentist in order to
determine the effect that the use OF
a liberal supply of milk had on the
teeth of his boy and girl patients
found that practically none OF the
children who came to his office for
dental work had been using milk IN
quantities. During the year 1919 and
1920 the school nurses found 40 per
cent of the Iowa boys and girls had
defective teeth. DR.. Jordon says "A
deficiency of food lime is sire to
cause abnormal development of body
structures" This food lime is best
supplied through the liberal use OF
milk. !,
The real value of milk as food
product is not shown in its chemical
ANALYSIS alone although considered
from this point only it constitutes
the cheapest source of food supply.
Its greatest value is in the fact that
it adds the necessary elements which
when used in combination with other
foods make up the deficiencies which
thew may have. Since dairy pro,
ducts are essential for the physical
development and health of growing
bows and girls and for the health OF
adults. and since milk is nearly a
perfect medium for bacterial growth
It is most important that milk DC
supplied in as perfect condition a.
possible. -.
Next weeks article will tend tt
show the relation that the use OF
milk from cows affected with tuDer
culosis has in, spreading the disease
to the human family.