SOURED MILK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19607, 8 April 1927, Page 17

SOURED MILK.

GREAT ANNUAL LOSS. Nearly half a million sterling is lost ©very year through milk being soared, according to an estimate made by Mr. A. T. R Mat-tick, of the National' Institute for Research in Dairying:, Reading University. In a pamphlet <jn the production/ ,and distribution of clean milk, he says that the unsatisfactory methods of the nnst have been responsible for very serious losses. ■ Stenhouse Williams showed in an inquiry in two areas in England that, from one to two per cent, of a total of; 165,000,000 gallons was lost annually through souring before delivery. Accepting the low figure of one per cent.; and valuing the wilk /at Is per gallon, the loss in these two >, areas works out, at £82,500 per, anmui}. . There is no reason to suppose that this loss is not, applicable to other districts. At the time of the investigations quoted, approximately 950.000,000 gallons were available for distribution as liquid milk. A loss of one per cent. on . this figure r<v pr»sent.Sr the large total of £425,000. Mr. Mattick prefaces.hisdescription of the latest scientific methods of milk production and-distribution by 'the statement. that " it is not possible to produce milk of consistently low bacteria] content srid good keeping ®ixality without light, S&rater and steam." /