A survey of the growth of the dairy business in Nanking has been made by the Central News Agency which shows that, out of a people who were totally ignorant of the nutritious qualities of milk thirty years ago, there are now sufficient Grinkers of it to keep twenty dairies in prosperity. An analysis of the consumers shows that teachers and students buy most. They are followed by officials. while the ordinary merchant class and those still lower do not yet seem to have appreciated milk og an addition to their diet, The credit for introducing milk to the Chinese in the capital belongs to Dr. W. C. Macklin, then director of the Drum Tower Hospital. He persuaded his patients to take it and through them it became known to others as food. Now the twenty dairies of which the capital can boast possess between them six hundred cows. The biggest of the dairies is that operated by Nanking University, where all the latest modern sanitary devices ha been installed. If the vogue for milk increases, students of comparative an~ thropology will have to revise one of their pet maxims. China has been described as a nation of non-drinkers of milk. Lot the attractions of the cow become more widely known and 'a number of text-books will have to be re-written,
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