LONDON'S MILK.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17814, 13 July 1923, Page 11

LONDON'S MILK.

. * „ , fe \ ' • , ,r- *i i The people of London drink no fewer** ; than 80 million gallons of milk & yefcr£ i,' (a writer in the London j News" informs' us). This means ttiatij[ 1; 160,000 cows have to bo milked and morning, since the yield.of thof'i' average cow is abont 500 gallons-a .•' ' year. Much of this milk comes distances.' The increased eest of' land'* > and labour in the county of London}"* <• have compelled the milk traders tcugOi.f' ■' far afield in search ■ for cheaper SO»~~> X plies. Some of London's milk'is de" 1 -* * rived from farms as far north \ Derbyshire and as far south as Dorset. L t London, in fact, draws upon an are*/-* with a radius of 200 miles.' AJmoafc<6 <' the whole of London's milk'is producoc^'r/i in this country, for the eompetiljor^", abroad can only compete with-"<o ( tt-/* densed milk in air-tight Cans., Many,i3 Vv ' problems arise during the of"S , L r the milk to London. The chief * eon- '<' > aideration is keeping the milk cool. <M f *' temperature below 69 degrees is aimed - ;, at, and in practically all dairies from/ which the milk comes long distances ■_./ by rail the milk is artificially cooled?., before starting, and kept as cool *as possible' in the railway trucks, Some", of the cows are milked by machinery, , and big plants are used in the large, London dairies for hoisting cans v and ' measuring the milk. All of ; it must A conform to the legal requirements of* s 3 per cent, of cream fat. , ,