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Show SHOPPERSlI CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY I' DAIRY DIARY SO YOU can't drink milk? Who said so? Why should you deny yourself what is as nearly the perfect per-fect food as can be found? Your own well-being, as well as that of your whole family, demands a liberal supply of this all-round food. From infancy to old age, milk in some form or other, is a must for . 'MAIN STREET FEATURE health. Look how that baby ba-by of yours thrives on it, and it alone. The older children, too, love it, and it loves them, building build-ing strong muscles, nourishing brain and body tissues. It gives them that boundless energy you both deplore and envy. It gives them the essential essen-tial vitamins A and C, and riboflavin ribo-flavin so necessary to growth and health. You'd do well to go in for milk as they do and match their pep and radiant health. As a matter of fact, people generally, gen-erally, since the war, are consuming consum-ing 20 per cent more dairy products prod-ucts than before the war, with a corresponding decline in consumption consump-tion of the carbohydrates. And we're a far healthier nation for that reason. MILK VARIATIONS Most modern farmers no longer separate their own milk, but turn it over to the creamery. That alone has brought many changes in the ways we use milk. In the past, when farmers did their own separating, sepa-rating, the skim milk went to the hogs, but nowadays its is made available on the market for human food, liquid, or dry or skim. More of it thus finds its way to your store refrigerators and shelves. In 1950, for instance, the production of nonfat milk solids took 9 billion pounds of skim milk, as against 3V4 billion pounds ten years ago. . With the production of butter dropping, last year's spare milk was proportioned something like this: i5Vz per cent in fluid milk and cream; 28 per cent into butter; 7 per cent evaporated and condensed milk; 6 per cent for ice cream; and the balance for manufactured products prod-ucts such as dry milk, malted milk powder, and pottage cheese. |