SKIM MILK AS FOOD.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 423, 27 November 1889, Page 8

SKIM MILK AS FOOD.

Nothing moio cieaiiy shows the injury done tp Luc whoja population of the connhy by the sepaiation of the people fsom the soil than the complete ignorance yliich alnifisl uni\ ei sally prevails in towns {is to the certain v. lue of certain, footlftnffs. A discussion, says the Hospital, has been carried on for some time in the ro'nmnsof a morning contemporary about ( skim milk.' A (orie«poiulent, who piofe.-sed to Uio.v the. trade, boldly alii lined that skim milk was of little or no \alne us a foodstuff for human beings. If he hid made such a statement at many a village pump in an evening after work hours, a score of fr.im laboureis. and their io-y-faced sons would have laughed him to scorn. Chemists give the retnltof their analysis, and these are entirely in favour of the popular lural opinion, that skim milk with plenty of bread, constitutes an almost sufficient diet in itself for boys aril girls. The popular mind docs not readily pin its faith to chemical analyses, but in the present case, the chemist?, in seeking proof, have performed a woik of supererogafion. The ' proof of the pudding is in the eating/ and of the skim milk iv the dunking. The piescnt w liter has had a long famihaiify with agiicnlture in almost all its branches, in addition to his medical training and experience. He has seen over ann over again pigs and .calves reared eutiily on skim mi'k, or as nearly so as possible. These animals, although tf ey will not become so fat on skimmed milk as on whole milk, will yet giow and tin ivo remaikably well. Siniilaily, he h.«s seen ihe bo) Sand girls of labouieis, whose patents could have unlimited supplies of skim nvdk from a neighbouring faun, and oilier boys and gills whose parents weiedepiived of any such supply. The contract between the chilili en who had abundance of skim milk with their bread and potatoes, and those who had only wafei cr 'sloppy' tea, was most maiked md unqnestional le In the one case, the milk seemed to be all that was rcquiied as an addition to bread and potatoes, with occasionally a liUle meat, to pioduce perfect health. Even the men in the northern f,-rm houses, who feed in their masters' kitchen, and at his cosfc, and whose supplies of beef, mutton, and bacon are piacticdly unlimited, would feel it a grcf.t deprivation to be robbed of their skim milk. It does not peem to be known at all, that a little pnpf, cub fine and boilpd well in skim milk, makes a most palatable food, and gives to the skim milk a!l the fat it requires. It would be an incalculable nil vantage to the poor of large towns if each child could have at least a quart of sweet skimmed milk cveiy day, either with oi 1 without the added sui.t boiled into it. The man who, by any means, depives the mass of the people of the use of a cheap and abnnlant articled Jood does more harm than a pestilence of a despotic ruler.— Glasgow Herald.