The Delta independent., 1921-10-14

back, presto, you have normal milk
again.
This discovery ranks with the big
gest of all time. 1t is on a par with
the discovery of the distillation of
coal tar. 1t is epoch making and war
rants any statement, be it ever so
eNtravagant, one cares to make about
it. 1t will not alone revolutionize the
dairy industry, but it will eventually
do marvellous things for the human
race. because it will place milk with
in the reach of millions who are now
unable to obtain it, and are thus de-
prived of the health-giving properties
of the most vital of all foods-a food,
the use of which is responsible more
than anything else for the physical
and mental supremacy of the races
that use it.
Within twenty-five years this dis
covery will result in increasing the
number of dairy cattle by not less
than half, and 70 per cent of the milk
produced will be dehydrated.
In a few words let us summarize
what the discovery of this process will
/. 1t will increase so materially the
market for milk that for years to
come the demand will greatly exceed
the supply.
/ g 1t will take care of al 1.-The milk
produced in excess of local needs, so
the dairyman will always have mar
ket for his milk under all circum-
stances.
Now let us see what it will do for
the consumer of milk-prospective
and otherwise.
l. 1t puts milk, real milk, with all
it's appetizing taste and flavor. its
health-regulating and growth-produc-
ing vitamines, it's muscle. tissue and
blood building proteins. its energy
producing fat, and it's bone and teeth
building mineral substances within
the reach of every inhabitant of this
globe, From Greenland's icy noun
tains to India's coral strand
2. Milk is S7.17 per cent water. The
economic waste of transporting daily
tons and tons of water is enormous.
as is. too, the economic waste in the
duplication of deliveries. In the
apartment hotel where / live four dis
tributing companies all buying from
the same producers association make
daily deliveries. Think Of the invest
ment in bottles and the enormous
money waste in those that are broken
and lost Think of the enormous
amount of milk that has to be thrown
away because it turns sour. In your
mind compare present conditions to
those that will obtain when dehy-
drafted milk is in general use. Then
the housewife, instead of washing
milk bottles and putting them out Tor
the milk man, will order from the
grocer enough milk powder for a
week, month, six months. rms
powder will then be made up" in just
| the proper amount as it is needed ana
can be used. This will do away with
expensive refrigeration, too. Travel
ers in the tropics will not have to do
without milk as they do now. 1t Will
also be available for camping. survey
ing and exploring parties. mining
crews. lumber camps, soldiers and
sailors. Confectioners and bakers VINO
use milk in enormous quantities VIII
find the powdered form particularly
convenient and economical. And so II
will show its usefulness and economy
in hundreds of ways.
And the wonderful thing about the
Dick process is it's simplicity. When
visited one of the plants the frst
time. | was amazed, and marveled, as
one so often will in the presence OF
| i0 thing that some one
else had not worked out the idea years
| before.
The dehydration takes place in
single cell 26 feet in height and ZZ
feet in diameter. The milk Is brought
| into the cell through pipe at the
top in a series of thin sheets or spray
produced by a centrifugal sprayer'
The spray of milk is met by air cur
rents cf different velocities introduced
into the Gel at different angles. These
air currents from the different noz-
zles mingling in the cell produce a
| rolling or cyclonic action, which is
impaired to the atomized milk, caus-
ing the solid and cohoidal constit-
uents of the milk to be rolled around
in the cell. while the water OF the
| milk is vaporized and passes out. Ihe
result of this action is that the gio'
bules of butterfat remain in their orig
inal condition and the rolling action
of the air currents causes the col
loidal constituents of the milk, such
as the casein, albumen, ETC., to form
an envelope around each of the butter
fat globules. The globules thereby
become coated with the colloidal con-