No. 4.] FOOD VALUE OF DAIRY PRODUCTS. 183 



Notice the difl'erence between full cream and skim cheese — 

 the latter is very rich in protein and deficient in calories. 



I'rotein, Pounds. Calorics. 



Full cream cheese, 18 3,300 



Skim-milk cheese, 16 750 



.34 4,050 



To those who are interested in following this subject I 

 commend the studies of Professor Atwater and his elaborate 

 tables giving the food value of many dift'erent materials and 

 also combinations which make perfectly balanced rations. 

 My work in this paper is merely to present a few facts and 

 suggest a few thoughts in connection with the food value of 

 dairy products. 



On the food value of milk from the health stand^point I 

 desire to say a word. I am surprised at the extreme posi- 

 tions taken by estimable, intelligent men, who allow their 

 devotion to science, their prejudices or their animosity to 

 divest them of broad-minded, judicial fairness, and to drive 

 them to become narrow extremists. The claim of science as 

 to possible dangers lurking in milk as the may-be conveyer 

 of disease germs is true, and should be admitted. It is also 

 true that milk is a valuable food, and should be more largely 

 used. But why can we not be reasonable, and i-ecognize the 

 real situation? One agricultural writer in a recent article, 

 criticising some of the developments of modern science, 

 sought to score a point by saying that more people had 

 suffered for lack of the food value of milk than from any 

 disease germs contained therein. 



With this statement I am not going to quarrel. But, even 

 if it is admitted, should we not do what we can to improve 

 the quality of the milk supply, and help the minority wdio 

 may receive injury from it? When a man is killed at a rail- 

 road crossing, we do not get up a scare against railroads, 

 neither do we look on with indiflerence because hundreds 

 have previously crossed there with safety. When the deadly 

 properties of sew^er gas were discovered, we did not go to 

 the extent of creating a scare against sewers, or go to the 

 other extreme of preaching apathy, because, after all, only 



