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monly appreciated. When the problem of a milk supply of a 

 city comes to us and we are asked to make some comment, it is 

 customary to assume that a population will consume about a 

 pint per capita per day. Eight thousand quarts per day in a 

 population of 35,000 shows that you are not consuming quite 

 one-half pint per capita, or about fifty per cent of what ought 

 to be expected of a prosperous and well developed city. There 

 is room in this city for a campaign for milk as a food. Before 

 this rise in foodstuffs took place, when food prices Avere nor- 

 mal, it was possible to purchase nearly twice as much food value 

 for a dime in milk than you could get the similar value in other 

 common food stuffs, and now with the price of food stuffs soar- 

 ing nobody knows where — potatoes at $2 a bushel and all other 

 things in the same ratio, the discrepancy between the food value 

 in milk and other things has grown even wider. While we were 

 foolish in not using milk under the former situation we are 

 doubly foolish in not using larger quantities of milk in the pres- 

 ent food situation. 



I know it is the custom of some of our city friends to point 

 out the poor sense of economy that the farmer has, and still the 

 farmer consumes four quarts a day per capita. There is one^ 

 place where the farmer will compare with the intelligent use of 

 foods very favorably with his city cousin. 



Judge Quarton: ''Did you not mis-speak 3^ourself? Is it 

 not four quarts per family? 



A: Surprising as it may seem, the farmer likes milk. If 

 the family moved from the country to the city, the first com- 

 plaint you would hear mother make would be that she has got 

 to learn to keep house all over again especially in her methods 

 of cooking, because she has been accustomed to use so liberally 

 of milk in connection with the cooking — the vast quantities 

 which go into the cooking on the farm makes a surprising aver- 

 age when the whole thing is taken into account, the milk gravies 

 and puddings, etc., etc., so common on the farm, and the fesult 

 in the consumption of milk is great. 



Judge Quarton : "I want to suggest that four quarts per 

 capita is some milk." (Laughter). 



