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Show I DAIRY INDUSTRY I VITAL TO STATE j Campaign Secretary Urges Greater Consumption by-School by-School Children Tho third husinoss luncheon of prin cipals nnd supervisors rf the Ogden j city schools was hold yesterday at tho i Weber club. Supt. W. Karl Hopkins I presided and Introduced Fred W. Mer- I rill, executive secretary of the Salt Iake dairy products campaign, as the I speaker. Mr. Merrill said: "Tho dairy Industry Is more vital I to you as public school teachers than any other industry in the state Milk pertains to the welfan children more than any other industry. If tho j children have been fed milk regularly, j they are better students and it is ens- I fer for the teacher to teach them. "Utab is primarily a dairy state No 1 section of t lie I'nlt' il stales lias the I possibilities of dairy development equal to our own state of Utah. Thin 1 intermountain country, with Its Cll- II mate, its water, its feed, etc., contribute contrib-ute largely to tiio development of the J dairy cow. One ton of hay In this stale is equal to two tons of hay from j the eastern states. Cows in this Inter- I mountain country live longer on ac- ji count of the food they rat And yet,' j Utah Is way down in tho development jj of its possibilities in t'.ie dairy indus- j try. We drink less milk per capita j than other states; our per capita on butter consumption is four pounds j when it should be 26 pounds, our per J capita on cheese consumption i.- very I low, similarly on condensed milk We import approximately two million pounds of cheese and butter a year. OGDEN UNIQUE ! The city of Ogdcn in regard to dairy products is In a unique situation. The i milk comes from Weber, Davis, Box Elder, Salt Lake and Wasatch coun j p ties, and is taken fare of by 35 differ-! ent dairymen, who are competing in ' price, criss-crop sing Bach other's territories, ter-ritories, etc., thus making it cost more, to distribute. The consumption u 1 dairy products in Ogden is lower than J in Salt Lake. With the exception ol Price. Ogden is the lowest of nil the H middle-sized cities in I tab in the con sumption of daily products. "We arc far removed from condi tions which existed when people were raised on the farms. The farm table 1 consisted of dairy products and other, things raised on the farm. The had nqt et adop'ed ( it hatnt.s, Lm now the children live in city environments ! and have adopted city methods. I'tah J has developed Into a commercial state I instead of a dairy state. In BOmi places milk Is almost an unknown I product on the farm table; the farmer! will sell his milk, butterfai, etc, and go to the city and buy condensed milk j and oleomargerine to take back to the farm table. I VALUE OF VITAMINE. H j "A discovery was made in 1914 by a j I Dr. Cullen of the food value of milk. ' I or the vitamine. Our largest source of ! I vitamlnes comes in milk. Vltaminea cannot be stored In the body. We j have to get them through the food we eat. Vitamines are very oecessary to I children, so they may resist disease, i they may perform the duties and re sponsibilities expected in school, so ! they may have a perfect develop- j ment." j Mr. Merrill cited several rases ' whore in cities through the United I StateB, malnutrition bad resulted from children not drinking milk, or not enough milk, and that through ex-I ex-I perlment where the children were al ii lowed one pint of milk per day, very marked Improvement was shown in a I comparativeh short time. In Salt!' J Lake at the beginning ot school in Sep- L 1 tember, the dairy campaign started in , J with a distribution ot 200 half pints I of milk in the public schools and now 1 there Is a daily distributt ion ot r.700 I half pints, he said The result has been phenomenal and goes for better 4 education. Children take hold of the I school work better, by having a food I' they need and having It served to I them rcgulark. according to Mr. Mer- "If we could drink raw milk fro.n ' one cow that we knew was living in a i j sanitary place and that had been test- J ed for tubercular s;.mptoms, it would j be all right not to have this milk pas- teurlzed." said Mr Merrill "Raw milk I is the perfect milk; but we must re- y member that Ogden draws her milk 1 supply from ;JS farms; 328 differ m sources; 328 different families sup- 1 plying and handling the milk supplj 'I Herein lies the danger of contagious diseases, such as tuberculosis,-ty- phoid, sceptic sore throat, etc So be j ,1 sure that the milk is pasteurized be A fore given to li: t!r children. The milk 1 Is just as good- as the raw. there is' j nothing taken from it except any germs which might have been tran3-i j mltted from the cow to the milk." j In conclusion, Mr. Merrill urged an 1 investigation! of the milk question; J urged that it would be an Income for 5 farmers every day in the year, in- I a stead of just a season, as beet raising, I etc. After the late war, he said, there 1 " as nt one single bank failure in anv 3 town where people raise cows and de- I v velop the dairy industry. Mr. Merrill I said, "We have to havo the support j 1 1 of the people and a system of educa- 3i tlon that will develop this industry jfl because of its relationship to public a! heaith." |