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MANUAL OF MILK PRODUCTS 



In the earlier years of the industry, most of the condensed 

 milk was the sweetened product because the addition of the 

 sugar increased the keeping quality of the finished product. 

 But since satisfactory methods for sterilizing the unsweetened 

 milk have been developed, the latter has increased in favor 

 and its production has grown much more rapidly than that of 

 the sweetened form. This is shown in the following table, 

 taken from the Census Report. 



CONDENSED MILK QUANTITY AND VALUE OP PRODUCT: 

 1909, 1904, AND 1899 



The amounts and value of the condensed milk made in the 

 year 1914 are shown in the table on page 455. In that year 

 the sweetened product was made in seventeen states, the un- 

 sweetened in twenty, and the evaporated in nineteen. These 

 figures show the very rapid development and spread of this 

 branch of dairy manufactures in the dairy sections of this 

 country. Since 1914 there has been enormous growth in this 

 industry as the result of greatly increased export trade. 



1 Figures cannot be given without disclosing business of individual 

 concerns. 



