El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-23

Is believed by experts that The CEN
sus returns now being tabulated
will show that the American cow
gives 10000, 100000 gallons of milk a
/ year. There are about 10000, 600 mill
cows in the United States, and it is
! said that nearly so per cent of them fail
! TO yield a profit to their owners. The
dairy business is reputed TO be about
, the only business in the United States
! representing an investment of half a
! billion dollars which is not controlled
| by some central organization. OF the
milk that is produced about one-third
! Is sold in its natural state and nearly
| One-half goes into the making of but
! ter.
! Powdered MIX Possible.
| 1t is believed by many who have inves-
| ugated recent inventions bearing on
| the subject that it will soon be possible
| to produce powdered milk on a COM
mercial scale. Such a change in the
! milk business would amount practically
| to revolution. Two million quarts of
| milk are used in the city of New York
every day. of which more than $780,
600 quarts represent nothing but the
water that is naturally a part of the
milk. On the basis Of one cent a quart
for the handling and sale of the water
contained in the milk, this would repre-
| sent useless expenditure by the peo-
d
year.
Someone has figured that if the ma
tons milk supply would be reduced
to the powdered form, 1T would save
the people $4,000, 900. There are 1000
| 100000 pounds of skinned milk pro-
duced in the United States every year,
] the solid contents of which are said to
| be equal in nutritive value to two and
one-fourth times its weight in lean
beef. If this could be saved by the new
| powder process. 1t would mean the saw
Ing of 700,000,O00 pounds of extremely
rich food.
The conversion of milk into pow
der IS accomplished by process of
| treating milk with exhaust steam under
vacuum conditions at was discovered by
a prominent Danish scientist. who be-
lieves that if this process shall become
universal it will go a long way toward
solving a world food problem, and to-
ward overcoming the great number of
deaths that are attributable to diseases
borne by milk.
Cities Fight for Pure Milk.
The last two or three years have wit
messed remarkable growth in the
movement of cities to protect their in
habitants from the dangers of impure
milk. New York and New Jersey have
long been leaders in this movement.
After large number OF states and rnu-
inequalities had formed pure milk COM
missions. the American Association of
Medical Milk commissions was formed
and this organization meets annually
for the purpose of bringing general at
tention to all the advanced ideas of
milk production and handling. The de-
alterations Of this organization are pub
lished in the form of an annual report,
and this book constitutes one of the
text books of the pure milk crusade
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that it holds first place in many re-
spects with reference to its milk sup
ply. 1t is asserted that no other city
has such good and pure milk on the
whole New York. 1t is also asserted
that it's retail prices of milk are the
lowest in the world. Here and else
where milk shows a smaller ratio of in
crease in retail price than any other
food product. New York claims TO take
better care of its babies than any other
municipality in the world. 1t has free
pure milk depOts for the INDECENT scat
tered throughout the city.
Tuberculosis In Many Herds.
number Of states now are expert
menting with a new system of overcom-
ing the presence of tuberculosis in
herds of dairy cows. This is the Bang
system, proposed by a Dane of that
name. When herd Of cows is found
to be afflicted with tuberculosis, the
healthy ones are segregated from the
unhealthy ones, and the owner keeps
two herds instead of one The calves
from the tubercular COWS are taken
from them as soon as they are born,
and are fed on milk from the healthy
cows. In this way there is no need of !
condemning the infected animals and
pasteurization kills all of the tubercular
germs in the milk of the afflicted cows
In many cases this milk is used solely
for the purpose of feeding pigs and |
calves. Wherever the new system has
been tried. 1t has met with the approval
of the dairymen whose herds were dis |
eased.
Goat Milk May Solve Problem.
An Illinois woman believes that she |
has completely solved the milk ques- |
ton. While travelling in Switzerland !
she became very fond of goats milk. !
and when she returned to the United /
States she found that she could support |
two goats on less than ten cents a day, |
and that from these she got six quarts |
of the best kind of milk. As the goats !
are able to live in luxury where a cow /
might starve, she thinks that goats /
milk is the solution of the whole ques-
ton.
1t is admitted by biologists that Of
all animals, the goat is one of the
most immune from the ravages of dis
ease. Especially is this true with ref