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Show SUCCESSFUL HEALTH CAMPAIGN BY BUREAU Much Good Accomplished in Increasing In-creasing Amount of Milk Consumed Con-sumed by Children. Greene County, Iowa, has attracted considerable attention with a successful success-ful health campaign recently put on through the co-operation of the extension exten-sion service, Ames, and the local farm bureau organization. County Agent, C. W. Davis, in speaking speak-ing of the work, says: "We are receiving many encouraging encourag-ing reports since the campaign of the good which It has done In increasing the consumption of milk on the part of school children. It has also done a great deal of good In bringing the matter mat-ter of care of milk to the attention of people, especially in regard to testing test-ing of cows which are producing the milk. This Is one of the most important impor-tant results of such a campaign, for after all the protection of the children against the use of Infected milk Is of greatest Importance. "A summary of the work shows that members of the committees and workers work-ers traveled 715 miles, that 78 talks were given and that 2,556 people were reached. The number of pieces of literature lit-erature distributed Is 6,000. Plays were put on In several communities and others are planning on putting on such plays sometime during the winter months." . |