Oils We Eat 



THE ROTARY CLUB of Kingsville, Texas, devoted its 

 luncheon meeting on January 23, 1945, to the subject 

 of dairying. Leading milk producers and dealers of the 

 neighborhood were invited guests. It was a timely 

 gathering, for the city's milk supply had been upset by 

 war conditions. The three speakers were experts and 

 what they said was to the point. One of them, the very 

 impressive Dean of Agriculture at Texas A. & M. Col- 

 lege, Charles N. Shepardson, made a statement that, 

 considering speaker and audience, was most startling. 



"As a dairyman/' said Dean Shepardson to these 

 Rotarians and dairymen, "I must confess that I would 

 rather eat some of the improved butter substitutes than 

 some of the low-grade butter on the market/' 



If this be treasonwell, the crowd, dairymen and 

 Rotarians alike, applauded that statement as roundly 

 as the Virginia House of Burgesses applauded Patrick 

 Henry's historic speech. And yet, but a few years ago 

 another college man was forced by the embattled dairy- 

 men of his state to withdraw a report which merely 



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