The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-13
A GREAT DISCOVERY.

Academy of Agriculture, at Stock
holm, the news of a discovery was i'm
parted which promises to be of impor-
lance to the dairy industry of the
Scandinavian countries, and will also
affec, the same industry here.
Dr. NJ Ekeuberg, of Gothenberg
Sweden described a process Of chang
ing milk into a fine flour that after
wards, through solution in a sufficient
quantity of water may again be trans
formed into milk with all its alimen-
tary qualities
The popularity of DR.. Ekenbergs
discovery lies in his having found the
conditions under which the milk will
retain it's solubility in water in spite
Of the transformation into powder
Formerly, when milk was dried, the
components became indissoluble.
The transformation of milk into pow
der requires a special apparatus, which
is said to be so simple that it can be
placed in any dairy, requiring no tech
nical knowledge to operate.
DR.. Ekenberg would not give a de-
scription of the apparatus, as he has ap-
piled for letters patent. According to
his calculations, the apparatus should
not cost more than a common separa-
tor.
The milk flour resembles wheat -four
and has the aroma Of milk 1t can be
kept in tin cans, wooden barrels, and
even sacks and paper bags. one part
of the flour in weight gives about ten
parts of milk. 1t is simply concentrate
eel milk, i'm the form Of flour; it con-
tains all the constituent parts of milk
except the water ana gases 1t does
not turn sour or effervesce, and is not
susceptible to changes in the weather
Samples have been kept for weeks in
thermostat at blood temperature, and
no changes We're noted. Even in damp
air without protection, it does not
! turn sour nor become moldy.
From the milk -four cream, butter
and cheese may be obtained. 1t can be
used in baking bread, buildings, etc.
The working expenses for the pro-
duction of milk flour have been caIcu-
lated at 1 cent per gallon of milk
Flour Of skinned milk was also ex-
hibted by DR.. Ekenberg before the
Academy of Agriculture, and it is par
ticularly for this article that the new
process will be of importance, as the
product has hitherto been largely
wasted.
| The flour will be found to be superior
to such preparations as "proteid" and
"proton," as 10 to 20 per cent of the
albumen of the milk is lost in the pro-
duction of the latter and the flour can
be produced much more cheapIy.
Skinned milk is said to be the cheap
est albuminous aliment known. The
process for the production Of milk flour
is so simple that the article can be pro-
fitably sold at y cents per pound, and
even less, provided skinned milk can
be obtained at 2.9 cents per gallon.
BY means of this apparatus, every
dairy will be enabled to send all it's
products to the market in transport
able condition.
The various preparations of preserv-
ed milk have never been satisfactory.
They do not have the flavor of milk and
though they have served as a subsu-
tute, they have always been a poor
substitute. The flavor of condensed
milk is peculiar and can be detected at
once, even though it has been thinned
with water and is served on the table
in the guise of fluid milk.
If, however, by a cheap process, milk
can be so preserved that it loses none
Of its flavor, and can be quickly con-
verted into true milk, an advance has
been made in the dairy industry which
will practically revolutionize it, Out
Of the way dairies do not know what
to do with their milk save feed it to
pigs. Say, if every one of the noun
tain dairies in KOna could have a
cheap machine for manufacturing milk
| flour the returns would be very much
larger, and they could supply the dis
| trict with pure milk, al a moderate
price.
| Such an industry would also have an
influence upon the health of the people.
/ One of the reasons for the great NOR
tality of children among the Hawaiians
is the absence Of a milk diet There
are children i'm Kona, and in many
other out Of the way districts who
never get true milk. The parents will
| buy preserved or condensed milk but
cows milk is an unknown quantity in
/ their diet.
Further if milk can be preserved as
DE- Ekenberg claims not only could
| milk be circulated i'm the district, but
il might to sent in this form to the
main centers of the group, where the
milk problem, like the beef problem is
| a serious one. Moreover it would open
up to us the produce Of the mainland
dairies. This invention is decidedly a
most importants one, and should be
kept an eye on by dairy men through
ont the prOup