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Show 'comparisons show milk j TO RE CHEAP FOOD Is milk an expensive food? The . Department of Animal Husbandry ot 1 the Utah Agricultural College thinks not. With milk at ten cents a quart, it makes the following comparison to prove its point: One quart of milk is equal in food value to eight eggs, worth 33 1-3 cents; to three-fifths of a pound ot J ham. worth 25 4-5 cents; to tw pounds of chicken, worth 50 cents: j to three-fourths jjound of beefsteak, worth lS?i cents, and to four-fifths j pound of pork, worth 24 cents. From further statistics collected by the department, it becomes clear that skim milk is also a food not only cheap but valuable. Skimming milk takes out nothing. but the fat. and it leaves the product high in proteids and sugar, both essential foods. Two and one-half quarts of skim milk contain almost as much protein aTid yields about the same amount of energy as a pound of beef. Quoting skim milk as high as four cents per quart, two and one-half quarts would cost but ten cents, or less than half the cost of one pound of beef. |