. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. MILK CONDENSING IN ENGLAND. 339 following is a statement of the aumial value of Domestic Condensed Milk exported from the United States during the eleven years named :— 1869 81,758 dollars. 1870 'J'J 1871 91,U24 1872 86,808 1873 94,. „ 1874 ... 79,018 187-5 123,565 „ 1876 118,549 „ 1877 123,801 „ 1878 128,118 „ 1879 119,883 „ Various milk-condensing factories have been established from time to time in the British Islands, but they have not, as a rule, been successful. The pric
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. MILK CONDENSING IN ENGLAND. 339 following is a statement of the aumial value of Domestic Condensed Milk exported from the United States during the eleven years named :— 1869 81,758 dollars. 1870 'J'J 1871 91,U24 1872 86,808 1873 94,. „ 1874 ... 79,018 187-5 123,565 „ 1876 118,549 „ 1877 123,801 „ 1878 128,118 „ 1879 119,883 „ Various milk-condensing factories have been established from time to time in the British Islands, but they have not, as a rule, been successful. The price of milk, wages, and general expenses are too high in this country to enable our condensed-milk makers to compete on even terms with those of foreign countries. In Switzerland, for instance, plenty of milk can be bought for 4d. to 5d. per gallon, whereas in England it is worth 7d. to 8d., and in the winter even more than that. Only in summer-time, when milk is most cheaply produced, is it likely that milk-condensing in England can be successfully carried on, generally speaking, and there are obvious disadvantages in having a factory closed during one-half of the year. In this case it eould not be well done except in connection with large iirms in the milk trade, whose outlet for milk in winter is so profitable that the supply then must be kept up, even at the expense of having to convert a considerable quantity into condensed milk in summer, and in this way to keep the farmers going all the year round. We do not, in fact, expect to see milk-con- densing factories established and permanently successful in England, because, however low a price milk may be at in this country, it must of necessity be still lower in the countries where the manufacture is at present carried on; and as condensed milk is so easily portable, it is just the thing we maj' expect to import from foreign countries, in the place of its equivalent in cheese or butter. America appears to us to be
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