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not be cheese, nor would it be anything like cheese. 

 Cheese loses in the process of manufacture all the 

 soluble salts which are discarded in the whey. Upon 

 a diet of cheese, even though it were reconstructed 

 to the fluid state, infants or children could not live 

 by reason of the withdrawal of these salts. 



Mammala contains every blessed element natural 

 to milk. In addition to this, the simple process em- 

 ployed in its manufacture instantly destroys every 

 disease-producing organism which may be contained 

 in the raw milk. 



The milk slops now squandered annually would, if 

 decently handled and converted into mammala, have 

 a value of at least 25 cents a pound, or $1,250,000,- 

 000, an amount quite sufficient to equip us with the 

 largest navy in the world. 



Are we staggered by the wonders of our neglected 

 food problem? If not, we should be. 



§ 13 — POTATOEIS 



In estimating the quantity of food which can be 

 rescued from the waste pots of the United States 

 by a policy of reconstruction and conservation in- 

 spired by war, we strike a single detail which two 

 and a half years ago seemed to astonish the world. 



At that time messages smuggled out of Germany 

 acquainted us with the fact that Germany's war 

 bread' was made of a combination of 85 per cent, 

 whole meal (wheat, barley or rye) and 15 per cent, 

 whole potatoes, skins and all. 



That the food value of the potato skin should be 

 recognized by the Germans is not remarkable, for 

 the reason that in the treatment of rheumatism, 



