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[Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1890 , by the Rural New-Yorker, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.l 
“SKIM-MILK ON THE SQUARE..” 
T HIS was the terse comment of one of 
the most practical and successful busi¬ 
ness men in New York after examining 
specimens of the products illustrated be¬ 
low. For years, skim-milk has been re¬ 
garded as a waste product. Laws have been 
passed to regulate its sale and it has passed 
into literature as an example of meanness, 
stinginess and fraud. This is due to the 
fact that skim-milk has been regarded as 
valuable only when mixed with other foods 
which would pass as substitutes for the 
butter fats. Had the fact been known 
that the solids of skim-milk can be cheap¬ 
ly removed from the water and utilized as 
food, there is no reason to doubt that the 
product would have acquired as much dig¬ 
nity as that accorded to bran or any other 
by-product of flour-making. 
“Skim-milk on the square” means the 
placing of. ; this substance on its own 
grounds, so to speak. It is the proving of 
the fact that the hitherto despised skim- 
milk can be made to supply two valuable 
articles of food, which, when supplied in 
sufficient quantities, are capable of upset¬ 
ting all our former rules for animal diet. 
The processes through which the skim- 
milk passes were fully described in the R. 
N.-Y. two weeks ago. Briefly stated, the 
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SKIIYI-IYI ILK ON THE SQUARE." 
DRAWN FROM NATURE. FIG. 49. 
