It can, of
course, be used as a beverage or in cooking. Whey also has many food
uses. Buttermilk, too, is justly popular and healthful. Skim milk is
not a substitute for whole milk for children.
Cream, valuable food though it is, is also extravagant in its use of
milk. It takes five quarts of milk to produce a quart of cream. Buying
whole milk is, therefore, better policy than buying cream and no milk.
The sale of cream is now forbidden in Great Britain for this reason.
OUR MILK ABROAD
It is our supply of milk that is helping to meet the milk shortage
abroad. Before the war we exported very little. By 1917 our export of
evaporated, condensed, and dried milk had gone up twentyfold. In the
spring of 1918 we sent over the equivalent in whole milk of almost
50,000,000 pounds a month, and should probably have sent much more
were it not for the lack of ships. After the war, when ships are
released, the demand for it will be enormous. It will take years to
build up the dairy-herds of Europe again, so we shall continue to be
their main source of supply.
LEARN AND TEACH THE UNIQUE VALUE AND ECONOMY OF MILK. DO EVERYTHING
TO PREVENT IN THIS COUNTRY THE TRAGIC RESULTS WHICH ARE FOLLOWING THE
CUTTING DOWN OF MILK CONSUMPTION ABROAD.
CHAPTER VIII
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS
Vegetables and fruits represent a different and happier phase of
the food situation than our short supplies of wheat and meat.
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