Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-01-23
FIGHTING OLEO
(Hoard's Dairyman)

OleOmargarine does not contain as
Feeding experiments have shown that
butter is far superior to oleomargarine
and that milk fat contains elements,
called vitamins, essential to growth
and are not found in the vegetable or.
animal fats from which oleomargar-
inc is made. Butter, because of its
growth producing elements, is now
recognized by every well informed
person as being superior to cleo
margarine.
alone, oleomargarine is, perhaps
equal to butter, but under the same
terms of measurement lard and beef
tallow are also equal in food value to
butter. But who is there that advo-
Gates the use of lard or tallOw on
bread? Indeed, foods are no longer
measured simply by the energy they
will supply. We know that there are
some other things demanded. and
among these are the vitamins found
in butter.
The superiority of butter to cleo
margarine has been shown many
times in the feeding of small animals.
Rats and guinea pigs have been fed
ratiOns just the same except that one
lot will have received butter and the
other oleOmargarine. The results of
these tests have shown in every in
stance that the rats receiving butter
made better growth and reproduced
their kind in better vigor and
strength.
This fact has also been observed in
various charitable institutions. When
these institutions sought to economic
by using oleomargarine they have in
many cases noted an increase of dis
ease and lack of thrift on the part of
the inmates. Perhaps the most con-
elusive evidence of this was made in
a survey of an Orphanage in the city
of Rochester, New York, some few
years ago. Seven children whose av-
erage age was II years were fed on
uniform diet, except that the butter
fed during the first six months was
replaced by oleomargarine during the
second six months. During the third
period of six months, butter was again
furnished.
The average gain made by each child
in the first six months when butter
was used was 6.32 pounds. During
the second period when oleomargarine
was fed. there was no gain in weight.
Indeed. the children averaged a loss
of 135 pounds. When butter was re-
placed the third period of six months.
the children again came back with a
gain of s.12 podnds for each child.
1t is needless to say that this DEM
onstration was quite sufficient to con-
vince the managers of this orphanage
that they should forever abandon the
use of oleomargarine.
Farmers and those dependent upon
them for prosperity, yet who fail to
consume dairy products and purchase
so-called substitutes, should be held
up for public contempt and ridicule,
not only for their neglect of the
health of their own flesh and blood
but for their treason to the industry
of which they are a part. These men
have no just grounds for complaining
if dairy products become relatively
cheaper than other products. for it
is they who help to create a surplus
and who set a mighty poor example
to the city consumers
The dairy farmer should learn not
only to consume butter as a matter
of business. but he should consume
more milk in his own home. 1t is not
only a valuable food for his family.
but it is economy. In using milk on