HISTORICAL 



Milk and its products have been known and used from 

 time immemorial. In the Bible milk and milk foods 

 are mentioned in some thirty places. In Gen. 18:8 we 

 read: '\ . . and he (Abraham's servant) took butter 

 and milk and set it before them . . ."; 1 Sam. 17:28: 

 ''And Jesse said unto David^ his son: . . . bring these 

 ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand and look 

 how thy brethren fare . . .''; Prov. 30:33: ''For the 

 churning of milk bringeth forth butter," etc. 



Though in some of these passages butter is mentioned 

 it is hardly probably that this product was really made 

 or used at the time under the climatic conditions in 

 Palestine. More likely it was various kinds of curd 

 and cheese which the translator called butter. At any 

 rate, the Hebrews of that far-off day coveted milk and 

 its products among their most valued foods. From 

 Egyptian, Greek and Roman history it appears that 

 knowledge of cheese goes back to the most ancient 

 times and that it was made from the milk of sheep, 

 goats, cows, asses, mares, in fact from all domestic 

 animals; in the far North, Lapps and Eskimos still 

 make it from the milk of the reindeer, the Arabs use 

 camel's milk, Llama cheese is famous in the Cordilleras 

 and Zebu cheese in Ceylon and India. 



Even in ancient times the great food value of dairy 

 products was recognized. Plinius tells of Zoroaster that 

 for twenty years he lived exclusively on cheese, and 

 Plutarch calls cheese one of the most nourishing of foods. 



As time went by, the cow excelled all other domestic 



