The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-11-09
DAIRY BYPRODUCTS
HELD GREAT VALUE
Wonderful Possibilities
Seen In Minnesota
VIEW OF EXPERTS
Gopher Cows Produce Five Bill
lion Pounds of Milk An
nualIy, Declared
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.1


St. Paul, November 5.-Skim milk
and buttermilk, as by-products of
Minnesota's great dairy industry,
<1hold splendid possibilities for the
development Of future manufactur-
ing in Minnesota, according to DR..
C. H. Eckles, of the dairy division,
department OF agriculture, Univer-
sity of Minnesota.
Minnesota's cows produce annu-
ally about 5,o00,o0O,0o0 pounds OF
milk. Allowing for the daily house
hold use of one pint per capita, the
surplus left for manufacturing pur-
poses is close to 100000. 900
pounds. OF this amount. creamer-
les use in the manufacture OF butter
about 500,000,0e0 pounds; cheese
factories take up about 100000
pounds; cheese manufacturing at
farms 100000 pounds; 47,O00,O0e
ice cream, and about the same
amount into the manufacture OF
powdered milk.
sy-Produets Of Butter
However, more than 1000 100000
pounds OF skim milk, buttermilk,
and whey are produced in the man
ufacture OF butter and cheese, DR..
Eckles explains. OF this amount,
about 10000 900 pounds are used in
the manufacture OF powdered but
termilk, condensed buttermilk,
casein and similar by-products.
Minnesota's calves, pigs and poul.
pounds. This leaves about 1,750,-
100000 pounds for other uses which
hold great possibilities for the peo-
pie of Minnesota, according to DR..
Eckles.
If the American standard of nv-
ing, DR.. Eckles said, would ap-
proach the European, skim milk is,
likely to find a greater use as hu-
man food. In the skim milk, but
termilk and whey produced in the
United States. there are about l.
156,000.000 pounds of protein or 45
per cent a much as in all the beef,
pork and mutton slaughtered. DR..
Eckles figures.
Can Be Made Into Food
Skim milk. he says. can be con-
verted in palatable human foods
such as cheese, while in the baking
industry, powdered skim milk could
be used to a much greater degree
than at present In the feeding OF
livestock and the manufacture Of
such articles as casein, paints, imi-
tation bone. horn or ivory, skim
milk could be used with great pos
sibilities.
The common opinion that hogs,
when it comes to eating. are little
better than garbage consumers is
mistaken one. Hogs insist on nav.
ing certain foods, and IL thew don't
get them they go on a sort of hun
ger strike: or, to he more exact,
refuse to grow as they should to
command the best prices on the
market. A -...
This fact was clearly brought out
at the First Swine Feeders Dav at
the Minnesota experiment station.
University farm, held recently. 1t
was shown, for examnle. that hogs
refused to grow as well on rye as
on corn. unless along with the rye
they got some other grain or
plentiful SUNNY % something like
creamerv huttermilk.
Told Of Experiments
One Of the most striking things
pointed out. however. was that hogs
insisted on having in their diet a
proner SIMPLY Of minerals: air
slaked lime and salt; air-sloked
lime. salt end finely ground hone
meal: thoroughly puIverZied high
c9lcium limestone and salt. or com
hirations Of these and other miner
ais.
One OF the sneakers at Swine
Feeders nov. J. ". Fvvard. OF Iowa
State COLLEGE. told OF exneriments
in which the omission Of minerals
from the hoe menu made II neces-
essarv to continue the feeding OF
hogs for weebs in order tn oct them
ready for market at the same
WEIGHT as hogs that were fed min
erals.
Minnesota nrodnces annually
abort $50 nm nm worth OF hogs. &C
cordinp to w. ". Peters head OF
the ANIMAL hushandrv division OF
the university farm. and the atten-
ton paid TO hog rairing in the
state shonld be increased becanse
Of the growing Importance Of this