Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25

which 1t has been subjected. Milk fresh
from the COW contains SO per cent of water,
condensed milk % per cent. The latter Is
fed to q great many babies, partly on ac-
count of the difficulty found in obtaining
pure milk from the average milkman.
Mixed Milk Said to Be the Better.
It may be as well to mention here that
the one-cow's milk business is swindle
and delusion. To supply milk to Gus
toners regularly from the COW is not possi-
BILE in practice, though perhaps it might pay
to serve single family in this way ut the
rate of 30 cents a quart Experts assert
that mixed milk is more whole some
for the consumer than milk from
one cow, inasmuch as the yield of
single beast varies from day to day.
Many artificial baby foods are manufact-
ured and sold in concentrated form. For
example, products advertised as "substl-
tutes for mothers milk" are made from
cows milk, to which Is added q sufficient
quantity of sugar to correspond with the
constituents or mothers milk. The water
Is removed from the mixture in vacuo, leay-
ing fine white powder, which is put up in
packages. Finely powdered wheat flour
and other nutritious vegetable elements are
added in moro elaborate preparations
Another commercial article is condensed
cider, which is made by evapoiating the
juice of apples One gallon of it, costing 80
cents, will furnish Is or 20 gallons of cider
that is sufficiently strong for bottling, by
the addition of Is pounds of sugar and the
requisite quantity of water. Peach, grape,
trated, are sold for 81 gallon. Root beer
is put up in the same manner, half pint of
it making enough to fill 16 half-pint bottlea
rpfca nF tho
During the last year 9, ,2S2 gallons of con-
densed lime juice were imported to the
United States from Jamaica For manu-
featuring this product, the lines are put
through q squeezing machine, and the juice
is strained and filtered, SO that all seeds
and pulp shall be removed. Then it is
boiled down to the utmost possible point of
concentration in copper vessels, great care
being taken that it shall not be in the
slightest degree scorched or burned, which
would spoil it by causing the acid to un-
dergo q chemical change. Finally it is put
up in bottles. Jamaica during 1891 shipped
A, 492 gallons of this limejuice to Great
Britain. During the same period it ex-
ported to this country its entire CONNER
cial output of sour orange juice, /, 102 gal
Ions, similarly concentrated. This stnte-
ment is taken from report of the United
OeoOOo NohouA az oolhdiCh,I u uos lCCOAfSu Wy
the Department of State at Washington.
Concentrated cocoanut is now sold in
cans 1t is preparation made by chopping
the kernels fine, drying them and extract
ing the favoriug elements. These latter
are made into a syrup with sugar. Vanilla
favoring for ice cream and other pur-
poses is precipitated from the vanilla beans
in the shape OF solid. Extracts Of meats
have grown enormously in popular favor
during the last few years, and vast quanti-
ties OF them are put up at present In Chi
eago. They contain little more than the
fayoring portion of the substances they
represent, being merely stimulating and
only nutritious in very small degree, so
that, 1t is said, dog will starve on an un-
limited supply of them. The tendency
nowadays seems to be to condense every
kind of food, both animal and vegetable.
Compressed salt is even provided for horses
and other beasts, q brick of 1t being put in
frame above the water trough, where the
four-footed creature can lick ii.
1t would be interesting to know what
results would be obtained by rearing hu-
man being from infancy to adult age on
condensed forms of aliment exclusively. If
the normal digestive powers could not as
simulate all that was offered, they might be
given artificial assistance in the shape of
that substance obtained from the stomachs
of pigs which is called ''pep.in," admins
tered, as is usual, in compressed lozenges.
RENE BACHE.