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was Henri Nestlé of Vevey (on the Lake of Geneva) whose 
condensed milk, milk powder, infant food and milk chocolates 
have become known all over the world. In 1904 the two con- 
cerns amalgamated and form now the Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss 
Condensed Milk Company. The combined company then re- 
presented a capital of about 40 million francs with the shares 
standing at 300. In 1906 the company operated seven large 
factories in Switzerland, four in England, two in Bavaria, one 
ir. Austria, three in Norway and two in Spain. New factories 
have since been added to the list. 
The only other condensed milk company of comparative 
prominence operating now in Switzerland is the Bernese 
Alpine Milk Company, which maintains three or four plants in 
Switzerland and Bavaria. Besides these there have been es-: 
tablished a number of milk powder plants, some in connection 
with the rapid development of the Swiss milk chocolate indus- 
try and some, more recently, by independent firms for the 
general market. The Anglo-Swiss Company also invaded the 
United States in the eighties, and competed for a number of 
years with the Borden Company for the dominance in the field, 
until it sold out to the latter its entire American interests in 
1902. Since the beginning of the war it has apparently again 
crossed the Atlantic under the name of Nestle’s Food ‘Com- 
pany, which latter is now operating a number of factories in 
the United States and Canada. 
Up until the eighties sugared condensed milk was the only 
kind known in the market. The business entered on a new 
phase with the invention of methods of making unsweetened 
milk and rendering it durable by a process of sterilization 
after its being sealed in air-tight cans. The claim to the in- 
vention of what is now known as “evaporated milk” is accord- 
ed to a native of Switzerland, Mr. John B. Meyenberg. 
While an operator at the Anglo-Swiss Company’s factory at 
Cham, he experimented on the evaporation and sterilization of 
milk during the years 1880 to 1883. He emigrated to the 
United States, and was granted patents on his process and 
apparatus in 1884 and 1887. At Highland, IIl., the centre of 
a large Swiss population, the Helvetia Milk Condensing Com- 
pany was organized in 1885, for the manufacture of evapo- 
rated milk. It took several years, however, before the difficul- 
ties of the process were sufficiently mastered to put the busi- 
