SUGAR OF MILK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 205, 27 February 1914, Page 3

SUGAR OF MILK.

AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRY. fnvercargill, February 2ij. In a few weeks a new and important industry will be started in Southland. This is the manufacture of sugar of milk. There are many by-products of industry going to waste of which the ordinary individual knows nothing. In the dairying industry there are two notable examples of valuable substances being persistently wasted—butter fat and sugar of milk—both contained in whey. The cheese factories for years wasted in butter enough to pay the wages of their staff engaged in making the butter, but after the butter fat was extracted from the whey there remained in the residuum a valuable substance—sugar of milk—with a worldwide demand existing for it. The idea of making use of this by-product was conceived by (wo chemists (Messrs Neil and FinlayHon), who are the promoters of the industry. The chief market will he for the breweries and babies' milk, and it is expected that it will have a world-wide demand. As to the choice of districts as a lield of operations, Messrs Neil and Finlayson went through the | dairy districts of New Zealand to form a judgment as to one of the most suit- ' able, and decided on Wyiidhain, in the I Edendale district. It was some satis- | faction to be told by the Oovcrnmeiit | expert (Mr. Pedersen) that in his opinion, after a tour of the Continent, the I field chosen was the best for a milk j sugar factory, not only iiv New Zealand, I but in the whole world. A low temperature locality was essential for its successful manufacture.

Mr. Finlayson has just returned from "England after ordering a plant and making arrangements for the ,sale of the company's product. lie lias got together the finest plant of its kind in the world. Everything is of the latest as regards economy of running'. While in Germany Mr. Finlayson engaged a worts foreman, who has been managing a factory which is turning out the highest (piality of milk sugar. Mr. Finlayson also engaged in England an engineer, who is watching the manufacture of the company's plant. Experts in the Old Country and 011 the. Continent consider that the prospects an l bright, and a gentleman who was for years head chemist to an American milk sugar company considers that this local company will i>e able to make and sell milk sugar against any competitors. The plant installation has been so arranged that every bit of steam is used. After the. milk sugar has been extracted the purified hot water Mill be used in the boiler, saving so much in fuel for heating. The coal for .the engine goes down a shoot from the bunkers to the engine room, and is fed into the furnace by a screw in a hopper. This automatic process saves the labor of two men in stoking l . -