MILK AS A FOOD 



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It is commonly stated that one quart of milk is about 

 equal in food value to any one of the following: — 



2 pounds of salt codfish. 



3 pounds of fresh codfish. 

 2 pounds of chicken. 



4 pounds of beets. 



5 pounds of turnips, 

 i pound of butter. 



J pound of wheat flour. 



J pound of cheese. 



J pound of lean round beef. 



8 eggs. 



2 pounds of potatoes. 



6 pounds of spinach. 



7 pounds of lettuce. 

 4 pounds of cabbage. 



These comparisons are somewhat misleading. We cannot 

 compare foods upon a basis of their total caloric value 

 alone. It is very much like feeding a boiler. We might 

 shovel good anthracite coal into a furnace built to consume 

 coal-oil or bituminous coal and not get good results. 

 Digestibility and assimilation must be considered as well 

 as chemical composition and caloric value. 



The following table prepared by my assistant Dr. 

 Harold L. Amoss, gives instructive comparisons between 

 milk and some other standard articles of diet. 



