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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1915)
19 Skim Milk Valuable By-Product "1 HOME AKD FARM MAGAZINE SECTION SKIM MILK ia an excellent food (or all animals that will drink it. It la better for humans than usually estimated. There still lin gera something of a stigma in the' name, partly due to the ancient and dishonorable practice of adulteration, and also because of its wide use as a feed for stock. Skim milk is distinctively a by product on most farms, the central idea being to produce milk for Its butter-fat. Large factories aad packing-houses have shown the world that a by-product may be made more profitable than the original or main product. At one time kerosene was the chief creation of oil refineries, gasoline being a cheap and little-used by product. Today the situation is re versed, gasoline being the popular and high-priced output, while kero sene is a drug on the market. In an age of intense competition every scrap that was formerly wasted or unprof itable must be made to do its full duty as an income producer. There are farms where even skim milk Is made a more profitable source of Income than butter. Thus In a hundred pounds of ordinary whole milk there are approximately four pounds of butter, four pounds of milk sugar and four pounds of casetu. The butter has an average farm value of less than $1.20 at current prices. The sklm milk (including the but termilk) will weigh about 98 pounds after the butter Is removed. This is sometimes made into an excellent hu man food known as "yogurt" or "Bulgarian soured milk." It is the same chemically as buttermilk, both being fat-free milk, and both are soured and emulsified by churning to give It smoothness of texture, - Artificial Buttermilk. This article brings from 5 to 40 cents a quart, depending upon the quality and market. The writer paid the latter price in Chicago for some bottled "Metrhuilioff" a superior article made by adding a pure cul ture to pasteurised milk just to see what it is like; It is the height of elegance and flavor for those who enjoy buttermilk. A fair article of this "artificial buttermilk" should bring at least 6 cents a quart at retail and IS cents a gallon wholesale. Hotels,' restau rants, drug stores, etc., are usually glad to get It regularly, but It must have quality. At 15 cents a gallon the 96 pounds would bring $1.80 or 50 per cent more than the butter. It is generally estimated that skim milk as animal feed Is worth 1 to 2 cents a gallon compared with corn and other grains. It is not only rel ished by swine of all ages, calves, chickens and other poultry, but it has a decided value In furnishing needed protein to make growth In young animals. If fed to livestock at all it is well to distribute the supply among all members of the barnyard fraternity as a kind of appetiser or medicinal tonic. This helps to take the curse from an exclusive corn or other fat-making ration. Worth More Than Butter. Land is steadily rising in value; cows are higher priced; feed is worth more than formerly, and all the ex penses of conducting the cow depart ment are heavier; but the butter quo tations do not keep pace with them. Therefore It Is more than probable that skim milk, sweet or soured, ac cording to the "yogurt" formula, will Increase as a human food. If such a product will bring but 5 cents a gallon at wholesale, it Is still more profitable to dispose of It at that fig ure and buy cheaper feeds for live stock. In a hundred pounds of skim milk (12 gallons) there are only eight pouuds of solids and 92 pounds of water. The eight pounds of solids would be cheaper in the form of ground grains, tankage or other con densed feeds. The 12 gallons should easily be worth DO to 75 cents if properly cared for and Introduced by advertising or personal solicita tion to city and townspeople, who would welcome it at a fair price. Thus what was once regarded as almost a waste product and at best thrown out lavishly to the pigs can be turned into an article of sale worth more than the butter from the same amount of milk. It offers an attractive field to the farmer or tfce farmer's wife who is willing to learn how to make the fancy brand of but termilk that "makes you live to be a hundred," and who will develop a special trade for it. H. A. Bereman In Successful Farming. Short. Roger W. Babson, a business stat istician of Boston, said to a reporter: "This war is going to lower prices. Our market will be glutted with grain, shoes and so forth. Thus prices will come down. And they who now boost prices are as short on honesty as Stubbs was short on stature. 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