Fifty Thousand Millions.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 July 1914, Page 7

Fifty Thousand Millions.

Fat occurs in milk as little globules measuring from .0006 inches in diameter downwards. Fleischmann reckons their number at about 50,000 millions in a pint of milk. Fleischmann, dear reader, is that celebrated German chemist whose book stands out as the book of the dairy business, and you see what he says about globules—that there are fifty thousand million globules of butter-fat in one pint of milk. Fifty thousand million ! Do you know that if you sat down now to make fifty thousand million strokes with a pen you would not have completed your task in five years. This is why we want the scientist in the dairy business as against the untrained, ex-factory employee, who has been, perhaps, a pupil at the "fool school." We want science brought to our aid when we have to deal with things so 'extremely microscopic in size that one pint of milk contains fifty thousand millions. Fancy the frauds we have had foisted on to us as dairy experts—the Valentines, and such-like rubbish. We have heard a lot about Reform (with a capital R), and God knows we want it badly.