Xii INTRODUCTION 



men like Dean Russell of the Wisconsin Agricultural 

 College in the Department and Dr. Graham Lusk 

 of Cornell University representing the United States 

 on the Inter-Allied Council of Alimentation, the Food 

 Administration could not long maintain this mistaken 

 attitude but quickly joined the College authorities and 

 the representatives of the dairy industry in advocating 

 a liberal use of milk. And the Department of Agri- 

 culture sent out over the country a large force of dem- 

 onstrators to show the people how to use milk in making 

 cottage cheese and many other ways, and Agricultural 

 Colleges, Farm Bureaus and Home Economics Agents 

 worked hand in hand with Washington in disseminating 

 the knowledge of handling and utilizing milk. 



A genuine interest has been aroused in our country in 

 the economy and conservation of food, and in ''The 

 Story of Milk" the author hopes to place at the dis- 

 posal of the student of Domestic Science a compre- 

 hensive book of reference which may open the eyes of 

 many to the fact that there is no more interesting sub- 

 ject than ''Milk" in connection with the study of the 

 welfare and physical improvement of humanity, and 

 that milk and its products should be used to a much 

 greater extent than heretofore. 



It would make a long list of references if the author 

 should mention the sources on which he has drawn for 

 information beyond his own life-long experience in the 

 dairy and related industries. He desires to express his 

 sincere appreciation of the kindness and ready response 

 of institutions and friends to whom he has appealed 

 for photographs and cuts which have enabled him to 

 illustrate the text so liberally. In the back of the book 

 will be found a brief bibliography of standard dairy 



