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etc., that the food value of oleomargarine is the same as the 

 food value of butter, when it is not true. It is only true so far 

 as the calories are concerned. If you touch a match to either 

 one you would get probably the same result in calories, but if 

 you put the same stuff into the stomach of a person you would 

 get different results. There is one man to-day who is going 

 down in history with a record ecjual if not superior to that of 

 Dr. Babcock, — a man of his class, — and he is Dr. McCor- 

 mack of Johns Hopkins University. There is a man who is 

 getting at the truth. There is a man who has told the world 

 that a growing animal can get about 66 per cent, for instance, 

 of the protein out of milk, while in other foods it gets only 

 from 17 to 30 per cent. Now, any man knows, who has ever 

 had experience in feeding calves, that there is nothing that will 

 make the calves grow and develop like new milk, fresh milk — 

 absolutely nothing on the face of the earth to take the place of 

 it. At the last National Dairy Show, Columbus, Ohio, there 

 were experiments being carried on right there before our eyes 

 of feeding rats. Those growing rats that were furnished with 

 milk fat were thriving and developing and growing rapidly; 

 those that were fed on vegetable fats were wasting away, and 

 actually dying — the rat there on his back with his toes turned 

 up, dead, in the experiments. Dr. McCormack has carried on 

 experiments of this kind. I do not want to go into this. I 

 haven't time to give you a lecture on the food value of milk, 

 but that has got to be done, and we have got to drive this 

 home to the people, — the food value of milk is there. Fifteen 

 cents a quart for milk is cheap. There isn't a man or woman 

 capable of doing a day's work, capable of buying any food who 

 cannot pay 15 cents a quart for milk if it is delivered to them 

 on a silver platter. Of course, if they are going to send the chil- 

 dren to get it, that is a different thing, but the first thing they 

 should buy is something that will develop the child, and that is 

 milk. The first food that should be bought with that 15 cents 

 is milk, and then if you have got any more, buy something else, 

 and let the moving pictures and tobacco and rum come down 

 to the other end of the column. 



Dr. Gilbert. Is there anything which we can do as a body 

 of dairymen to help out the situation? It seems to me that 



