HOMOGENISED MILK.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1324, 30 December 1911, Page 8

HOMOGENISED MILK.

/'.will- it revolutionise the- .::;;• ':•,•. trade? •It would ■■ sound.' strange 'to Lear a housewife ordering a week's supply of milk to. bo, delivered at ono time,, or perhaps a months. supply, vet, ,says .',T.'arm_ and Dairy,'.'-suck orders mavbo gty.cn. ,in. tho very, near -future, and be 'possiblc:-of fulfilment,: Tho. Farmers' -Dairy..C6mpau,v,of..-,'llin-onto -is- bynow ■ de.liYfiruigV.''homogenised'' milk. .Homogeni,satipn is.a process -whereby milk is subjected, to, heat..and -pressure, which .breaks up the cream, globules,and-distri-butes the fat equally -all through -the milk. .V temperature- of-220 degrees Pis used. Tho inilkris therefore .'free from , all germs.. . .: j '\. ........ -~.;.! -,? ly ' - I '; ,.£•'. %' m v.r, manager of the ; *armejis,,.Dairyi,(;orapaiiy, claims that .'homogenised milk isnnoro digestlblo than raw milk, that it has not a cooked flavour, and will;keep indefinitely. '• should homogenised milk bo as satisfactory as Mr. Farmer says it will be, ..the--present system of supplying, cities *lth milk will be revolutionised. At present due to tho rapid deterioration in milk,, the supply for cities is beiii" drawn from within a limited area adjoining.. With milk that will keep indefinitely, it can be shipped for hundreds of miles, and (ho farmer u long distance trom a city would have a new market tor this product opened up to him Iho influence of this now process would ■ extend even further. Instead of dairy iarmers. producing-a uniform supply of ■milk, the year round for the city trade they could produce their milk . in the jeason when they consider it most proiitable and hold it over, even as e™s are now held in cold storage. This wouM" have, tho - eficct. of ■ making more uniform the pneo to the consumer. . Of. course homogenising is a new thing,-and may not live up'to the claims made for it. .','.'