30 THIRTY CENT BREAD 



45.049j902,033 pounds. This does not include the 

 milk delivered in bottles or cans for home consump- 

 tion in the cities or the milk delivered to the cheese 

 factory. It represents the milk in which last year's 

 production of butter, 1,621,796,475 pounds, origi- 

 nated. 



This quantity of butter represented 3.6 per cent, 

 of the total quantity of milk produced. The total 

 solids of such niilk, less the butter fat, amounted to 

 9.1 per cent., or 4,099,541,038 pounds of one of the 

 best, although little utilized, foods known to man. 



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If this food were handled in a clean, decent man- 

 ner and treated as it is treated in France, every 

 pound of it with its precious load of proteins, caseins, 

 sugars and mineral salts could be converted for 

 human consumption. 



Following the outbreak of the war, the French 

 government forbade the exportation from France of 

 this food, which by the French is called mammala. 

 Thousands of physicians in the United States had 

 learned the uses of mammala as an infant food, and 

 were prescribing the French product in their ordi- 

 nary practice. 



An American living in Paris, James R. Hatmaker, 

 at once came to the United States and established a 

 mammala factory at Knoxville, Pa., for the pur- 

 pose of supplying the American trade with the 

 product, which could no longer be obtained from 

 France. 



I know the character of mammala, for I have 

 used it for a year in my own household, not only 



