196 Condensed Milk and Milk Powder 



with their actual value, as compared with the raw or condensed 

 product. Dried skim milk, for instance, sells at thirteen to fourteen 

 cents per pound. When diluted to the consistency of the raw skim 

 milk, one pound of powder yields about ten or eleven pounds of 

 skim milk, costing between $1.25 to $1.40 per hundred pounds, 

 which is almost the price of fresh whole milk. It is obvious, that 

 the average creamery cannot afford to make starter at the rate of 

 $1.25 to $1.40 per hundred pounds. 



For the same reason the demand for dried buttermilk and dried 

 whey is as yet very limited. These products, in their natural state, 

 contain too small a proportion of the valuable ingredients, and they 

 are too cheap to justify the high cost of manufacture, in order to 

 place them on the market in the dry form. This, of course, does 

 not apply to the use of dried skim milk for the many industrial pur- 

 poses mentioned, where properties, other than the mere food value, 

 determine the real merits, value and usefulness of the product. 



