Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-06-01
WASHINGTON
CONGRESSIONAL.
RECORD

Il In the last issue of the Compression
| al Record We find the following com
ment by Hon. Edward E. Browne O
this district, which we publish show
ing how he stands upon this subject
His farmer friends will be glad t,
know
The gentleman from Wisconsin (M1
Browne) is recognized.
Mr.. Browne of Wisconsin. Nh
Chairman, one-ffth of the Nation'
food supply comes from dairy prod
ucts, and it is, of course, importan
that these dairy products are pure anC
not adulterated. What do the filled
milk people do? In the first place
they extract the butter fat, the cream
| the valuable vitanine product, out
Of the milk and leave the milk abso-
lutely without nutrition to speak of
And this substitute for milk can not
be detected by any person except 8
chemist upon examination.
Now we know that throughout the
United States today, in every State
that has not outlawed it, they are sell
ing filled milk, and the majority of
people who are buying it think it is
/ pure milk with the valuable life-giv-
ing, growth-producing vitamine pro-
duct contained in it. Even the Govern
ment of the United States was deceiv-
ed and defrauded in the State of Ohio
during the war, when it bought two
carloads of condensed milk for bows
at Camp Willis and they thought it
was pure, unauthorized milk, when
1t turned out to be filled milk. So our
boys were being fed product to build
them up and make fighting men of
them that did not contain enough nu-
triton even to support the life of a
rat, as was shown by Professor McCul
lom's demonstration.
The filled-milk industry is growing
very fast. In 1917 we produced only
about 35,000,0O0 cases of filled milk,
and in 1921 we produced 86,0OO,OOO
cases of this filled milk, and if we con-
tinue at that rate it is going to drive
legitimate manufacturers of full con-
densed milk out Of the market, as sew
eral of the large manufacturers have
said, among them the Borden people.
1t is also going to substitute the CO.
| conut COW for the Jersey or the Guern-
sey or the Holstein cow. You can man.
| ufacture this filled milk, as the evil
dence shows, for cents a pound can.
Think of it for a minute! And YOU
| can place it on the market and make
it an object to the retail dealers to
sell it good deal cheaper than they
can sell the other milk, and, of course,
they will make a larger profit. There
fore many retailers are substituting
filled milk for whole milk. In the
State of Wisconsin, where they made
an investigation in preparing their
case for the Supreme Court, they
found in Is cities IS cases of fraudu-
lent sales of this milk.
Mr.. WALSH. Mr.. Chairman, will
| the gentleman yield?
Mr.. BROWNE. of Wisconsin. Yes.
Mr.. WALSH. Where do the manu-
facturers get this skinned milk?
Mr.. BROWNE of Wisconsin. From
the farmer.
Mr.. WALSH. The very man that is
in favor of this legislation.
Mr.. BROWNE of Wisconsin. They
buy the full milk of the farmer and
| extract the cream and sell the cream
and keep the by-product, the SKINNED
milk, and add the coconut oil in place
of the cream A law prohibiting the
sale or manufacture of filled milk was
sustained by the supreme court in the
State of Ohio. The case went to the
Supreme Court Of the United States
and the highest court in the land sus-
tanned the State law. (Applause.)
Mr.. Chairman, I am in favor of this
| bill to prohibit the manufacture Of
filled milk in the District of Column.
bia Or it's shipment in interstate OF
foreign commerce.
| favor this bill because it will pro
tect the public from a counterfeit thai
when used in place of milk will under
mine health, especially the health Of
children.
The public is unfamiliar with tht
term filled milk" 1t is an imitation
of condensed or evaporated milk. I
is made by robbing milk as it is takel
from the cow of It's butter fat or nu
tritive value. In other words, tn
cream is SKINNED off and coconut OF
or peanut oil, or buttermilk and sod;
is substituted. The milk is then mad
into condensed or evaporated milk an,
sold in competition with condensed O
: evaporated milk made from the Who'll
milk with it's butter fat and its valu
r able and ife-giving vitan1ine ingredi
ents. This compound, which is know
as filled milk, and it is impossible 70
;. anyone except chemist to tell tn
difference between pure evaporate
milk and the filled milk containing
or s per cent coconut fat in place G
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