PRESERVATION OF MILK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9720, 16 January 1895, Page 3

PRESERVATION OF MILK.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— Having met with the subjoined article in the April number of the Imperial Magazine for 1882, relating to the preservation of milk, I hand you the same for publication as of interest to the New Zealand farmer of the present day, and in case he should think fit to make an experiment of this method of preservation.—l am, etc., W. S. Laurie. Auckland, January 14, 1895.

Preservation of Milk.—Provide pint or quark bottles, which must be perfectly clean, sweet, and dry; draw the milk from the? cow into the bottles, and as they are filled immediately cork them well up, and fasten the corks with packthread or wire. Then spread a little straw on the bottom of a boiler, on which place the bottles, with straw between them, until the boiler contains a sufficient quantity. Fill it up with cold water, heat the water, and as soon as it begins to boil draw the tire and let the whole cool gradually. When quite cold take out the bottles and pack them with straw or sawdust in hampers, and stow them in the coolest part of the ship, or in a cool place. By pursuing this plan milk has been carried to the West Indies, and after a period of eighteen months has been as sweet as when first milked from the cow.