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Show Agriculture In the News By W. J. Dryden FACTS ON MILK Four and one-half million farms produce milk. The annual supply in the U. S. would fill a river 3,000 miles long, 40 feet wide, and 2 feet deep. The dairy industry annually supplies sup-plies 15,000,000 pounds of casein used in casein paint. A paste from milk ! fermented is used by Soviet doctors' to bring about j rapid healing of wounds. It is also used in making : fiber and plastics, ; also a wool sub- stitute. Penicillin, in Clean Milk mass Production, was made possible possi-ble by use of casein. Pasteurized milk will prevent the spread of undulant fever. It is the most complete food and the most perishable. Hippocrates prescribed milk in 360 B. C. to build health. Milk exposed to sun for two hours will lose 20 per cent of its vitamin G content. Milk can be rendered sterile by filtering through sand. |