CHAPTER IX 

 VALUE OF SKIM-MILK 



One has only to consider the composition of 

 milk to know that there are over nine pounds of 

 the very best food solids, all easily digestible, 

 left in every hundred pounds of milk after the 

 fat has been removed. 



Skim-milk an excellent feed. When the milk 

 is separated from the cream, either at the farm 

 or at the factory, the farmer has, as a by-product 

 of dairying, a quantity of skim-milk which is one 

 of the very best of feeds for calves, pigs, and 

 even chickens, ducks, and geese. In some local- 

 ities there is a strong prejudice against the intro- 

 duction of the centrifugal separator on the 

 ground that the skim-milk is spoiled for feed. 

 This prejudice is wholly unfounded and clearly 

 disproven by the experience of both dairymen 

 and investigators. None of the food substances 

 are removed from the milk except the fat, and 

 this fat can easily be supplied by a much cheaper 

 substitute. 



How skim-milk may be improved for feeding. 

 Butter fat is worth, say, 30 cents per pound. 



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