Show cow Is important I 1 figure in in industry remarkable variety of articles made from milk washington if tile alie humble cow ever aspired to trademark her products the average shopper would be amazed at the labels made from milk which would adorn his purchases purchases ranging from horn rhia spectacles to chessmen magazines to radio sets says a bulletin from the national geographic socie tys washington headquarters Cons consider lder a debutantes ba ball xv which Illel Is a most inappropriate place to contemplate the unromantic nirom antic cow tile the occasion would lose much of Us its it if the cow supply the milk which lielas provide many other adjuncts than the lee ice cream yonder maidens burnished golden I 1 hair Is kept in place by a flaring comb made of milk she tois toes with a milk handled fan slie she made her toilet somewhat hastily with ith an array army of article largely made ot of milk because she received her belated invitation from a procrastinating young man through a telephone receiver made of milk site she Is jotting down her dance engagements on a pr program made of milk while she chats luring during internals slon blon with an escort flecking ashe nl c s from a cigarette in a milk made holder zlines sounds a bit farfetched far fetched it iut but 3 per cent of in cows milk today Is the raw material for a kaleidoscopic array of manufactured products nor does this take into account that for every six couples at the dance somewhere in the background Is one cow for at our present rate of consumption every twelve persons consume the milk product of one cow milk as staff of life bread has a reputation tor for being the staff of life but milk more nearly fulfills that definition substitutes for or our customary breads may be had but there Is no substitute for milk our ur civilization depends literally upon a plentiful supply oi of good milk even the elimination of the casein from milk the element which provides most of the products byproducts by would be inconvenient chemically casein is the principal nitrogenous constituent of milk popularly it is the curd wid and its first and principal use Is for cheese our animal immigrants have been neglected their importance deserves a society of their descendants economic geography lias his been by the animal winners of our west when in a packet of the lie dutch west india company landed on manhattan island with a cargo of domestic animals and agricultural implements it paved pared the way tor for a principal industry of tile the empire state of 1924 1024 economically no the new amsterdam settlers were after the black gawk war in 1832 the progeny of these settlers ins economic destiny by driving their covered wagons up tile the west anest shore of lake wherefore wisconsin last year produced worth of cheese the very names of cheeses clicc ses cheshire gorgonzola edam cheddar parmesan and many others read like a gazetteer the genealogist sherlock of tile the family tree might get important clues of peoples origin by the cheeses they eat there liere I Is a fascination too in the making of cheese the spherical edam cones are reputed to be dark red to this day because in the days before pure food fond laws a consignment was tinted with a harmles solution of car mine just why people like to ent eat tn in pink rather than yellow Is a problem for tile the psychologists but that preference not only keeps the cheese red cd hut but it has virtually eliminated yellow tomatoes from the lie market and causes a heavy monetary loss to salmon shippers if perchance their catch happens to be white instead of pink somi some decorative cheeses the italian parmesan cheeses are kept for several years and then are polished with a mixture of charcoal and linseed oil until they shine like ebony the housewife throws moldy bread into the garbage pat pall but when she buys roquefort efort cheese she judges its quality by the green blotches blotcher blot ches which are developed by introducing bread mold into tile the cheeps milk of which roquefort efort 1 Is 19 9 made in recent years manufacturers have become active competitors of cheese makers in buying casein the substance la Is highly cohesive and Is little litlie affected by heat best or moisture alence it Is used as glue and also as a binder in making glazed paper in dyeing cotton cloth and in piecing together laminated furniture 1 it I a drug alore s ore were to display on a single shelf its articles in which casein Is used the exhibit would resemble a rummage sale there would be earrings and shoe polish oilcloth and medicinal tablets photographic plates and strings of beads |