MILK AS FOOD.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2714, 23 June 1925, Page 10

MILK AS FOOD.

Milk and the products made from milk are among the oldest classes of food in the human diet. Milk, butter, and cheese are mentioned in ancient writings as far back as 2000 B.C. They are mentioned in several places in the Bible, even so far back as the Book of Genesis 18th Chapter, Bth verse; “And he (Abraham) took butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed ,and set it before them.” Again in Proverbs 30: 33 Solomon says, “Surely the churning ot milk bringeth forth butter.” The cow has long been the object of veneration among many 'races and nations, and she has fairly been called “the foster mother of the human race.”

It is a noteworthy fact that those peoples which have made the most liberal use of milk and milk products in their diet are among the hardiest and longest-lived peoples on the face ot the earth. Motchnikoff, the great scientist, and author of the volume entitled “The Prolongation of Life,” credited the long life of the Balkan nationalities to theii very liberal use of sour milk.