14:6 MODERN" DAIRY PRACTICE. 



change the natural condition of the milk and hide its true 

 quality.* 



Condensed Milk. Another method of preserving milk, 

 to which great hopes were attached in the past, is to pre- 

 pare condensed milk in hermetically-sealed tin cans. About 

 twenty years ago a large number of expensive and mag- 

 nificent factories were erected for this purpose in various 

 countries, but only comparatively few were able to operate 

 for a long time. The products did not, as anticipated, prove 

 of such quality that it could find a good market anywhere, 

 for which reason they are now used only in cases where 

 other milk cannot possibly be obtained, as for instance on 



* The indiscriminate use of preservatives in food articles ought 

 to be prohibited by law ; this is especially urgent in case of such 

 articles as milk and other dairy products, which in a large measure 

 enter into the nutrition of children and convalescents. Most Euro- 

 pean countries long ago prohibited the addition of salicylic and 

 boracic acid, and other antiseptics in food, e.g., Germany, Holland, 

 France, Austria, Spain, Italy, etc. Mr. Hehner, the President of the 

 Society of Public Analysts of England, in the November 1890 meet- 

 ing of the Society, read a paper on Food Preservatives (see Analyst, 

 15 (1890), p. 221), in which he forcibly sums up the question in the 

 following paragraph : 



" We should work for the entire prohibition of all kinds of pre- 

 servatives. It is time that we went back to natural food. I object 

 to being physicked indiscriminately by persons not qualified to ad- 

 minister medicine whilst I am in health. I object still more when I 

 am ill. I object still more strongly to have my children physicked 

 in their milk or their bread and butter. It is no consolation to me 

 to know that the physic is not immediately fatal or not even violently 

 injurious. The practice is utterly unjustifiable, except from the 

 point of view of a dealer who wants to make an extra profit, who 

 wants to palm off a stale or ill-prepared article upon the pub- 



