MORE SPENT ON BEER THAN MILK

Chronicle (Levin), 20 June 1946, Page 4

MORE SPENT ON BEER THAN MILK

"It is a criticism of our intelligence that between £14,000,000 and, £15,000,000 a year is spent on beer and not as much on milk," Professor Harvey said when addressing the . 40th annual conference of the Australian Institute of- Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries, states che Sydney Sun. "The milk industry is not selling its products to the public when you consider the amount of advertising being dorie by tne (breweries," he saiu. Milk was more importarit than bread, meat or beer, and the sooner Australians realised the importance of the milk industry the better it would be for their children, Professor Sutton said. Milk consumption per head of population was 50 per cent. more ■ in Canada and the United States than in Australia, whi-ch was now even behind England. Mr. H. J. Geddes, Garland * Lecturer in Animal Husbandry at Sydney University, pleaded for the better education of dairy cows. "Don't think me frivolous. I was never more serious in my life," he said. Mr. Geddes defined an educated cow as "seldom excited, having an air of quiet unconcern and a confident, well-bred look." He paid a tribute to the work of the Land Army girls in milking cows during' the war; quoted the instance of one . girl who was kicked in the face by a cow but "did not put the boot to it, as a boy would have done."