DRIED MILK.

Otaki Mail, 28 February 1919, Page 4

DRIED MILK.

Dried milk is already a back number in the matter of.'making the most profitable use of milk, declares the ''New Zealand Dairyman" in its February issue. The reason for this is said to be that: "When mills is dried after 1 skimming' two of its chief components are used (the sugar and the casein);,and next to making butter and feeding the" skim milk to pigs this is one of; the most extravagant ways of using milk of which we have any knowledge. To use two of the ingredients of milk to make one product, instead of separating the two ingredients and selling each for its value, is already out of date. Here we may well take a lesson from the Hun. - Under the name of Sanatogen the wily Hun has been selling a product that is P.j per cent casein at 12s per pound. With the quantities of whole milk available in New Zealand we could pretty well control the Sanatogen sales of the world. Taking the wholesale selling price at threepence per ounce —one-third of the retail price —would give us twelve shillings for the casein in one hundred pounds of milk; to this would have to be added the three pounds of sugar of milk.. which might be valued at eightpenee per lb. This would make 14s for 100 pounds of milk, with the fat still to the good. Take the value of the fat at Is 6d per pound and we have £1 as the value of one hundred pounds of milk.