The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-05-16
MILK WASTE
SOLUTIONS
ARE OFFERED
Livestock Farmers Want
SKINNED Milk for
Hogs

was being carried onto the Ho0r 81 the
Chicago city councils fed price COM
mittee today with promised grand
jury investigation by states Attorney
Grove, the editors mail rained brisk
bats and bopquets. Out Of the storm
Of opinion came a suggestion that Or
fers a partial solution as to how the
flood Of SKINNED milk into the sewers
might be deverted to decent use.
An official OF the Lowell Live stock
Association Of Lowell, Ind. declares
that the farmers Of Lowell will sell
controlling interest in the big hog farm
10 the Milk Producers Cooperative
Marketing Company as an outlet for
great quantities Of the skinned milk
that the Producers Company destroys
at Gary and Indiana Harbor.
A FouRTH AS COSTLY
SKINNED milk has half the hog-fat-
tening food value Of corn and oats and
costs one fourth as much" the com
munication to The Times stated THE
Producers Company can transport the
milk to the hog farm near Lowell by
ruck and after the cost Of transpor-
alton and labor is paid will fatten the
aogs at least one third cheaper than
Nc are feding them now. We are viii
ling 10 give the Producers Company a
controlling interest in tho Association"
chester w Chapin. manufacture of
COW feed, indites the following screed
o tho editor.
"Whoerer wrote your amazing dis
closure Of the milk situation IN Lake
county might we'll do some further in
vestigating
Why call SKINNED milk MILK Does
he know what SKINNED milk IS WORTH
RI not ask the Bureau Of Markets Of the
Department Of Markets Of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture at Washington
Does he eat butter and does he know
what it IS made Of?
THE company am associated with
manufacturers feed for dairy cows and
il would be to its benefit to have retail
prices down to a basis where the con-
sumption would be larger. but l believe
i'll fair play and feel that the produc-
ers' side OF the question has been gross
Iy misrepresented BY you in your issue
Of MAY T."
Tho Milk Dealer, magazine publish
cd FOR distributors, this month con
tains an article on powdered mmk that
IS strictly a SKINNED milk product The
lowing statement:
II am convinced that in milk powder
lies the solution Of the milk world. and
shat already the best milk powder now
produces is superior to AL other forms
of milk"
Milk powder is the form IN which the
$1,000 gallons Of milk now poured into
Lake county sewers daily could be eco
o5,g
the tenement districts Of the cities or 70
the starving people Of Europe and the
orient.
Milk powder Is bul ono Of the mani
rcstations of skinned milk about which
Mr. Chaplin appears 50 III informed es-
pecially for a man IN an industry So
loosely allied to that Of the dairy farm
The Hammond Dairy company makes
cottage cheese of skinned milk and Il
ands a ready sale SKINNED milk Is
used ii the manufacture Of candy. bak
er's frosting and 1t is canned and sold
d a profit. The food value Of skinned
milk Is an established fact and its waste
IS al fnexcusable folly. Skinned milk
also has a chemical value. according to
the department Of agriculture.
sam r. Woods Of the Milk Producers /
Company writes The Times as FOL
lows,
Editor Times in regard 70 your ar
tiele in Thursdays Times about the
milk going i'll the sewer at Gary and In-
diana Harbor | wish "a state that ii
is fact and deplorable fact. CYou
viii notice that Mr. Woods calls II
milk. not skinned milk Skinned or
not. il IS milk.)
product produced a high cost and can't
sell t. Instead Of going On st~ike 81
shutting down shop, We farmers 60 on
producing. We are learning though,
from the other fellow and tt may be III
tie future through our splendid organi-
zation that we can limit production 10
the needs Of the consumer. 1t won't be
two months now until the weather gets
warm and the demand for~1ce cream and
the poorer pasture will bring short
age of milk right here IA the Chicago
district We are not the only ones who
have wasted good food products
t1fr. Woods hero tells Of the waste
II the grain and cotton mills in form
er days)
VIC are in our infancy The milk
producing company Is now selling stock
for two million dollar enterprise 10
build factories and stands to put out
product into condensed and powdered
milk. cottage cheese and one hundred
and one other things. The only reas-
on the milk IS now running down the
sewer is because we haven't the equip
ment to handle tt Some of those ~.
merous families with hungry children
had better come out -to the farm ana
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