NEW DAIRY PRODUCT.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 347, 1 January 1903, Page 5

NEW DAIRY PRODUCT.

■asnSeetare of Pfauwos Ojnmsb KSSSs sVRes tfe* Butter Baa Vests ■ertraveteS.

Many new industries have tftate developed in the British islee at the close of the last century. One of the most novel had its birth in the vicinity of Buckingham—namely, that of the manufacture from the milk of creameries, after the butter has been extracted, of a substance known by the highly classical name of plasmon, says Chamber's Journal. This substance takes its name from the Greek, meaning "that which gives form." The fresh milk as it comes from the cow is put into a separator, all the cream being removed by this method. The separated milk is afterwards treated so as to coagulate all the protoids of the milk; and this coagulated mass is then kneaded and dried at a temperature of 70 degrees centigrade under an atmosphere of carbonic acid gas. When perfectly free from moisture, the plasmon is ground into a granular powder which is completely soluble in hot water. As to the economic value of plasmon there can be no doubt, when it is'f known the German government supplies it in very large quantities to the army and navy. As a portable, concentrated nutrient, according to the German government departmentfor tha investigation of foodstuffs for the troops, it hae been found that one ounee of is equal fa nourishing and sustaining properties tflflhrse and a quarter pounds of the finest beefsteak, or to about M off It pints of milk.