BUTTER HAS NOTHING TO FEAR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 224, 10 June 1918, Page 8

BUTTER HAS NOTHING TO FEAR

I'KOM MARGARINE COMPETITION. Speaking at a dinner to the dolcgaiis attending the South Island Dairy Association's meeting, Mr. W. 11. Singleton, Assistant-Director of the Hairy Produce .Division, gave some renews why he thought (hut bullei' producers need nut: fwir for i.-orupetition of margarine. Jle believed it would only require an educalion.il campaign to show the public the necessity of butter an a food for the growing child. Chemists had contended that butler w only wjii.nl i<> any other fnt as far as its food value was concerned. Duriug the past iwo years, however, Dr. M'Calluni, formerly of Wisconsin University, but. now of the John Hopkins /University, hiul proved conclusively by exoerimeiits that butter-fat contains .some siilMfcjnce that, h necessary tor the growth of young animals, and fliis was being accepted in the United .States a* one of the slvonjja>l arguments in favour of the sup.r.-k-rily of butler over margarine as a food. An dlier factor which led him to believe Ihst there would be a continued demand for dairy products was the fact ihal so many cattle, and milch cows especially, had been destroyed since the war started.