GOOD MILK

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 140, 8 March 1919, Page 5

GOOD MILK

HINTS TO HOUSEWIVES Tito assistant general manager of tho City Council's milk department (Mr. H. A, Waird) lectured in tho Concert Chamber- yesterday afternoon on the subject of milk. Tliero was a small attendance, over which Councillor C, B. Norwood, chairman of the council's Milk Committee, presided. Councillor Norwood gavo a brief explanation of the conditions which had led tho council to take over tho milk supply of Wellington. Ha hoped that tho now department would moan more healthy children in the conununity, and ho trusted that tho sympathetic aid of the publio would be lent to the scheme. The council was nit running the scheme for profit. A lady: What about the limelight you get? Tho speaker replied that there was no money in that ''limelight" for him. Mr. Ward said that there wero two, voiy important aspects of the milk question. The first was the securing of pure milk; the second was the securing of it, on a reasonable commercial basis. Milk had unfortunately during tho last fow year. l ;' largely lost its' status as a food, and had come to bo used chiefly to mako tea palatable. Milk contained all the constituents necessary to sustain a child in good health up to the age of 14..0r 15 years.' Ono quart of standard milk was equal to from three-quarters to ono pound of tho best beef to oe had, or to two pound; of chicken. It contained, moreover, tho equivalent in nourishment to eight eggs. Ho was not suggesting that tho adult should forgo tho beef, or tho chicken, or the eggs, but ho wishod to put in a plea for tho young ones, who needed milk. Wellington was tho first city in the world to assure citizens a supply of milk that had in toto passed the examination, of experts. Tt was quito possible to sond out the best milk from the Dixon Street station, but. unless tho housewives of Wellington took the right, course in dealing with the milk after they received ft, they might undo much of tho good that the council had made possible. If the housewife wanted to liavo milk of oven quality all day long sho should stir it each time she went to use it. It was a rather strange fact that most peoplo kept milk in delf jugs. Cracks' in such jugs provided lurking places for all sorts of bacteria, and minute eraoks wero very frequently to be found in all but the best delf. Enamel jug 9 wero all right only so long as the enamel was perfectly whole. Chipped enamel jugs wore ideal harbours for germs. The typo of jug" to bo coinmendod was the clear glass jug. It could be seen at a glanco whether such a jitig was clean, and it. would generally be free from cracks. In ordor to keep milk cool it would bo best to place the jug containing it in a basin of clcan water and to cover it with muslin or some such thing. . The ends of the cloth should bo allowed to hang from the top of the jug into the watea- in the basin, so that it miglit take up some of tho water and ensure the cooling of currents of air that would strike the milk. It was most important that every child should have a supply of milk to drink whenever it wished.