ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 75 
1. Nor should we overlook the fact that milk is easily- 
digested, and is therefore a healthful food. 
Every principle of economy therefore, is against the 
practice of selling all the milk we produce, and supplying 
our families with food in the form of poor and indigestible 
beef, at a cost per pouud equal to, if not greater than we 
receive for a gallon of pure milk. 
The constituent parts of milk, as all may know, con¬ 
sist of fat, or cream, caseine, and sugar of milk, with a 
small per cent, of ash, combined in just proportions for 
keeping up the animal heat, and supplying the blood, the 
brain, the muscle and the bone, or in other words, for the 
building up and support of the physical system. 
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If this fact can be thoroughly impressed upon the 
minds of the people, the daily use of milk, as an article of 
food, will be greatly increased. 
Consider for a moment the situation of the business 
men in the large cities. 
They go home from their counting rooms so fatigued 
in body and mind that they are incapacitated for healthful 
or refreshing sleep. 
After a restless night, they have little or no appetite 
for breakfast, and so after a slight but hasty meal, they urge 
themselves to their daily tasks. 
Is it strange that long before the dinner hour arrives, 
such men feel that it is absolutely necessary for them to 
take something to support their physical system ? 
It is this felt need of the system that leads many of 
our business men to resort to the saloons, and partake of 
the various stimulating drinks that afford temporary relief to 
their physical depression. 
They do not crave ardent spirits for the love of it, or 
at least not until a constant use of it has become a fixed 
habit with them. 
Now let it be understood by those busy men that a 
glass of milk will afford relief to their physical depression, 
