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cates a relationship between diet score and intelligence. In Carver, 65 per 

 cent of the diets of children in families judged of high intelligence were 

 scored between 60 and 90; 62 per cent of those of the children in families of 

 medium intelligence, between 30 and 60; in the diets representative of homes 

 of low intelligence, 83 per cent between 30 and 60. 



In Southwick, also, the diet scores of most of the children from families of 

 high intelligence are relatively high, 72 per cent being scored between 60 and 

 90. The diets of the Southwick children from families of medium intelligence, 

 however, do not drop in their scores as those of Carver, 61 per cent being 

 scored from 60 to 90 and 39 per cent from 30 to 60, contrasted with 35 per 

 cent in Carver having scores from 60 to 90 and 62 per cent between 30 and 

 60. The explanation of this difference is to be found in the more universal 

 use of large quantities of milk in Southwick and the consequent increase in 

 the total diet scores. 



In Southwick as in Carver, the same downward trend appears in the diets 

 of children from families of low intelligence, with 70 per cent of these diets 

 scored between 30 and 60. 



Diet score and family income 



The relationship between the child's diet score and the family's apparent 

 income is in both towns almost exactly the same as that between diet score 

 and family intelligence. The children from families of high income tend to 

 have high diet scores; those of lower income, lower scores. 



Milk Supply 



As was stated earlier in this report, Soutliwick has dairying as one of its 

 chief industries, and many large herds are owned by the parents of the school 

 children. Carver, on the other hand, has no large dairy interests. Of the 

 Carver households reported as owning a cow, almost none posses.sed more 

 than one animal and that was frequently of poor enough stock to be dry 

 four or five months of the year. In spite of the fact that 34 per cent of the 

 native families of Carver were reported as owning a cow, the frequent state- 

 ment of the mother that the "cow's been dry a long thne and I can't buy any 

 fresh milk" bore testimony to the difficulty of obtaining regularly an amoimt 

 of milk adequate for the family's needs. Fifty-three per cent of the native 

 families of Southwick owned cows and the presence in the town of fine dairy 

 herds made it possible to get very easily milk of good quality. "We have 

 more milk than we can use" was a comment often heard in Southwick. 



The Milk Scores 



The great difference between the amount of milk consumed by the children 

 of Carver and that used by the Southwick children shows clearly in Table 7 

 and Chart 5. Of all the Carver children, only 16 per cent had approximately 

 one quart of milk daily, as compared with 64 per cent of all the Southwick 

 children. Among the children of native and mixed parentage, 16 per cent in 

 Carver and 67 per cent in Southwick were reported as using that amount of 

 milk daily; while of the children of foreign parentage 12 per cent in Carver 

 and 56 per cent in Southwick had that much. Inasmuch as the two groups of 



