AN INDUSTRY OF PROMISE.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1349, 22 June 1911, Page 4

AN INDUSTRY OF PROMISE.

How many people realise the possibilities of the dried inilk industry, which Metsrs Nathan and 00. are pioneering and which is being illustrated at the Show? His Excellency the Governor docs and showed tho very keenest Merest iu every process of it. Major-General Godley does, and stayed over trains yesterday incrniug specially to examine t'>e working and to make full enquiries. .At present it is baiug placed on the world's market as au infant's food, and a remarkably good food at that, but it has already been tested iu the Antarctic as a stand-by for explorers iu extreme conditions of cold aud hardship, and it is quite obvious that, oompress'.-d, it would make a iiKst portable, strengthening ami nourishing military ration. This in what the Oommandant of the Now Zealand forces with iiis war experience saw. Tho prooefs of manufacture takes tie purott aud oleoucit milk simply extracts all the it leaving tho solids on. • If fcheso wfi'o then compressed they would take up extremely I small spacfl iu proportion to ;theirj nutritive qualities and they should

then sjve men from attacks of Beriberi or tue like iu the long battles lasting over many dajs when it is impossible to cook food for advanced sectiotiß, conditions that wore so prominent in the Russo-Japanese war. Iu fact tlie only tiling the Japanese Medical Ocrps oould not pievent -sub bßii-ben brought about by the eating of cooked rice that had fermented in holding it for days. A I solid ration of dried milk wouH meet those conditions. There was a ourionß object lesson yettarday iu connection with this law product. The milk that vyas sent in was found to, bo 48 hours old iu oousequeuca the rnachina would net make it. Iu fact, it will ollj work properly when the milk is perfectly fresh aud pure-a guarantee in itself of the produofc.f It would teallv SBem as .though the industry should grow to dimensions hi'theito hardly containplated.