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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt:...in 1921. The average daily consumption in 1923 figures out 1.16 pints per person. Farm people who have producing cows consume more milk and cream than do city people, but farm people without cows or with nonproducing cows consume less than city people, the survey shows. Average daily per capita consumption on farms having cows was 1.78 pints in 1923; on farms without cows or having nonproducers the average consumption was.775 of a pint; and in city homes the per capita daily consumption average.87 of a pint. The farm figures were tabulated from approximately 30,000 schedules of consumption on individual farms, and represent the most comprehensive survey ever made of milk and cream consumption. Data on consumption in cities were obtained principally from boards of health and covered nearly 300 cities, or about 25,000,000 people. A MILK-FED train is something new in the history of the dairy industry., Yet it is not an impossibility, as was proved by Dr. H. N. Bundesen, health commissioner of Chicago, when a locomotive burning milk as its sole fuel, recently made a two hour trip, drawing five cars with 200 passengers. The train went from Englewood to Beverly Hills and back, while 150 children from the Chicago Home for Friendless Children and the Chicago Orphan Asylum, pressed their faces against the car windows and cheered at the swiftly moving landscape. "What's the idea?" everyone wanted to know, "is Dr. Bundesen going to introduce milk as fuel to get more power out of locomotives?" His answer was, "No, we are going to introduce milk to get more power out of Chicagoans. Many of us--men, women, and children--have only half the power we are entitled to, and faulty diet is largely responsible." When in his capacity as health commis...