Arizona republican., 1921-07-11

From the beginning of recorded time the human family has counted milk among it's most important foods. From the tropics almost to the re- gions of eternal snow and ice the COW has been a chief producer for man, and upon the quality and the quan- tity of that product has depended to great measure the health and strength and welfare. of the human beings about her. Today. however, science and modern methods have made it possible to have a COW in every home-a COW in tin can, whose product is not only richer. purer and more wholesome than that of the mild-eyed bovine in the raw state. but cheaper and more con- venient, for evaporated milk has be- come necessity now throughout the world and is constantly increasing in demand.
 In the Salt River valley, next door to Phoenix, the white. rich milk of Salt River valley COWS Is being trans- formed into the best of eyaporated products at the rate of 10000 pounds day, which means that daily the Pacific Creamery company is turn- ing out 20.000 cans of condensed, un- sweetened milk which has not it's su- perior,. and hardly its equal, in the world. And this production is grow ing daily, as is witnessed by the fact that this creamery increased it's pur- chases of milk in the month since June 15 by more than 10000 pounds. with a corresponding increase in the production of Lily and .Veribest" evaporated milk-products which are more than favorably known to every housewife Of the Salt River valley as they are to thousands more throughout the western states and even in strange places of the Ear East.
 Two Brands of Milk
 The Pacific Creamery company, producer of Lily and "Veribest" milk, Is under lease to the Hassayam- pa Creamery company and is under the direction of F. J. Paddock as gen. distributed locally and throughout the Southwestern states, while the "Veribest" brand is handled exclu- siyely through the Armour organiza- ton. The creamery at Tempe sup plies "yeribest'' milk to the states of Arizona. New Mexico, California, Col- orado, Nevada and Texas, in addition to the Pacific coast export trade. The extent of this trade in normal times ts shown by the fact that two years ago the Pacific Creamery company had standing order of 10000 cases Of evaporated milk a month in Bom- bay, India, alone.
 All the milk used by the Pacific Creamery company is purchased in the Salt River valley. These pur- chases average now about 10000 pounds a day, or 10000 cans of fin- ished product, and following is the story of how the raw product is con- verted into the eyaporated milk the use of which is gradually displacins that which is untreated.
 When the milk Is received from the dairyrnen it is subjected to rigid inspection by trained men. These in spectors are especially expert in <tell- ing the quality and condition of the milk by smelling the covers of the cans in which it is received, this method being superior to any other, as the trained inspector can tell the quality Of the milk in the container by the merest sniff of the lid.
 The milk is tested then for fat con- tent. d sample being taken daily from each dairy sending milk to the cream cry, the farmer being paid according 10 the butter fat contained in his product. After this test has been made and the milk has been passed by the inspector, it is carried through sanitary pumps and piping to hot wells, where jt is heated before De- ing subjected to the condensation process.
 Boiled and Cooled
 The milk is first boiled in va cuum which evaporates it at tenn perature of between 145 and 14S de- rrees Fahrenheit. It is then homo renized-passed through homosenlz- ing machines which crush the fat rloblrIes and prevent their separation which. in simple language, means that this part of the process keeps the cream in the milk from coming to ths top after canning