CASEIN FROM MILK.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXII, Issue 2789, 12 May 1911, Page 3

CASEIN FROM MILK.

APPARENTI,Y PROFITABLE

The following is an extract from a report by the Agent-General for Tasmania :— "My attention has been directed to what appears to be the profitable tieatment of separated milk at the milk factory, and also whey from the cheese factory. From these products lam informed it is possible to obtain casein by

precipitation, worth about 30s per cvvt. in England. From the liquid remaining after the precipitation of casein, by evaporation lactose is obtained, and it is worth at the present time 45s ber cwL. I am informed that the yield to the

manufacturer after paying expenses is 3d per gallon for the separator milk and whey. The plant to treat 500 gallons per day is estimated to cost about £200 and I understand a second hand plant could be obtained for about half that

amount. The demand for casein is said to be good, and it would be necessary if any of the factories were to take up this work, and instal a plant ior that purpose—possible I could pick out one of those emigrants who propose to go to Tasmania who would obtain the neces-

sary instruction at his own cost if he

wpre promised employment at such a factory."