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12s. 6d. per 100 lbs. is paid for milk containing 3 per cent. fat, and 
an additional 2d. for each tenth of a pound of butter-fat above 3 per 
cent. One hundred pounds of milk yield from 8 to 9 Ibs. of milk . 
powder. The total production in United States of America, in 1918, 
was 25,626,000 Ibs., and 18,000,000 Ibs. were used, equal to -16 Ibs. per 
head of population. In Australia, the total production of condensed 
milk and milk powder (Statistics combine these) was as follows :— 
abe lpn .. 283,120,000 Ibs. 
1913 A. .. 82,000,000 Ibs. 
1914 .. .. 82,000,000 Ibs. 
1915 ..  — .. 27,000,000 lbs. 
1916 .. .. 46,000,000 Ibs. 
1 OL Tin ives .. 56,200,000 Ibs. 
Consumption (Commonwealth )— 
Condensed milk and milk powder— 
1916 eae ee .. £1,067,000 
I Oy, a .. £1,422,700 
Fresh milk— = 
1916 .. - .. £3,088,000 
LS T1¢ fame oF .. £4,566,000 
In 1918 there were five dried milk factories in New Zealand and 
one condensed milk factory in operation. Her exports were 36,640 ewt. 
of condensed and dried milk, valued at £153,538. 
Dried Milk Exports (1918) to England. 
United States of America .. 61,000 cwt. 
Netherlands on .. 20,000 cwt. 
Canada .. re . .. 6,000 cwt. 
Victoria .. a ae 600 cwt. 
Other countries together, in 1914, sent 11,560 cwt.; but none 
during the war. 
In 1918, the United Kingdom imported 5,600,000 lbs. of milk under 
such names as humanized, peptonized, and sterilized. This milk was 
used principally as invalids’ and infants’ foods. 
New Zealand exported 38,000 cwt. (Glaxo). 
United States of America exported 6,200 cwt. 
Australia exported 3,832 cwt. : 
_ The cost of manufacturing milk powder in United States of America 
is approximately 34d. per lb. London quotations for milk powders 
about six months ago were:—Netherlands, 115s. ewt. (made on hot 
rollers) ; other brands soluble in hot water, up to 129s.; soluble in cold 
- water, 150s. - From our statistics, it would appear that approximately 
one quarter of the total milk consumed in Australia is in the form of 
condensed milk and milk powder. 
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