. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. CHAPTER XXI. CoXDKNSKD Usefulness of Condensed Milk—Its Nutritive Value—First Miinufacturo by Professor Horsford, of Massachusetts—Mr. Borden's Experiments—He Discovers the Necessity of Protection from Atmospheric Influences-Adopts the Vacuum-Pan—Other Minute Precautions Necessary—Cause of Ferment and Decomposition Mr. Dorden's Hules for Milk-Sellers —Description of the Borden Apparatus and Process-Growth of tlie Trade in Condensed Milk. r ^ ~V. of our readers are ' doubtless a
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. CHAPTER XXI. CoXDKNSKD Usefulness of Condensed Milk—Its Nutritive Value—First Miinufacturo by Professor Horsford, of Massachusetts—Mr. Borden's Experiments—He Discovers the Necessity of Protection from Atmospheric Influences-Adopts the Vacuum-Pan—Other Minute Precautions Necessary—Cause of Ferment and Decomposition Mr. Dorden's Hules for Milk-Sellers —Description of the Borden Apparatus and Process-Growth of tlie Trade in Condensed Milk. r ^ ~V. of our readers are ' doubtless acquainted with condensed milk; travellers by sea are familiar with it, and it is carried to dis- tant parts of the earth for use where it is impossible fresh milk. As a rule its consumption is at present for the most part confined to those who cannot pro- cure fresh milk at all, or cannot pro- cure it regularly, and it is not commonly usal to the exclusion of fresh milk where the latter is available, unless in cases where it is difficult to obtain a pure and genuine article in the fresh state. It is probable that the Adulteration Acts, under the operation of which pure milk is now obtainable almost everywhere in our towns and cities, have cheeked somewhat the growing consumption of condensed milk; and it is more than probable that it would by this period have come to be very extensively used as a regular article of diet in private families, if the saj)])Iy of fresh milk to our urban populations had remained in the unsatisfactory state of a dozen years ago. But as matters now stand, fresh milk of fairly good quality is almost everywhere obtain- able, though not always at a moderate price, and the vacancy which condensed milk would other- wise have been called on to fill no longer exists, or exists on a much diminished scale. But outside the bounds of family use there is a very wide demand for condensed milk; for the army abroad, the navy, the merchant service, for
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