STRENGTH FROM MILK.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2070, 20 December 1919, Page 1

STRENGTH FROM MILK.

Plenty of milk is one of the simplest ways of improving the general health of children, authorities believe, and home demonstration agents of the I idled States Department of .Agriculture and the Stale colleges are making special efforts to create public interest so that every child will get his share. In some cities, where many children have been found under-nourished and undersized, milk is served in the schools. In 19 Indianapolis schools 2,000 children have been served a half-pint of milk each school day during the past year. The milk is delivered at the'schools in individual half-pint bottles. A hole is punched in the cap of the bottle and a straw in inserted. The children help themselves as they march past, and afterwards they return the empty bottles lo the rack. This work in Indianapolis is maintayjed by the pa rent-teacher clubs, but it is largely self-supporting. The majority of the children pay 3 ('cuts a day, or 31 cents for milk and crackers. Those who cannot pay get the milk free. The children are measured and weighed, and the chart of each child is kept in his schoolroom, so he may see whether he is up to normal or below. All the children are much interested in weighing what they should. The teachers report a marked improvement in the school work’., and want the work continued. The Indiana home demonstration agents co-op-erate with the county welfare committees in weighing and measuring the children.