A NEW INDUSTRY.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 131, 21 November 1901, Page 3

A NEW INDUSTRY.

Many new industries developed in the British Isles at the close of the last century. One of the moat novel had its birth in the vicinity of Buckingham—naolely, that of tho manufacture from the milk of creameries, after the butter had been extracted, of a substance known by the highly classical name of plasmon. This substance takes its name from the Greek, weaning “that which gives form." Freeh milk is put into a separator and all the cream is removed. The separated milk is afterwards treated So as to coagulate all the proteidi, and this coagulated mass ia then kneaded and dried at a temperature of 158 dag! Fahr under an atmosphere of carbonic acid gas. When perfectly free from moisture tho plasmon ia ground into granular powder, which ia soluble iu hot water. As to the economic value of plasmon there can be no doubt, when it ia known that the German Government supplies it in vary largo quantities to the army and navy. As a portable, concentrated nutrient, according to tho German Government department for investigation of foodstuffs for the troops, it has been found that one ounce ol this powder is equal to nourishing and sustaining properties to three and a quarter pouuds of the finest beefsteak, or to about ten or twelve pints of milk-