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Condensed Milk and Milk Powder
THIRD EDITION
REVISED AND ENLARGED
PREPARED FOR THE USE OF
Milk Condenseries, Dairy Students and
Pure Food Departments
By
OTTO F. HUNZIKER, B. S. A., M. S. A.
Author of "The Butter Industry"
Formerly Professor of Dairy Husbandry, Purdue University
and
Chief of the Dairy Department of the
Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station
LaFayette, Indiana
Now Manager Manufacturing Department and Director Research Laboratory
Blue Valley Creamery Co.
Chicago
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR
LAGRANGE. ILLINOIS
1920
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PREFACE
This book treats of the various phases of the condensed milk
and powdered milk industry. It discusses every step in the
process of manufacture, following the milk from the farmer's door
to the finished product in the pantry of the consumer. The processes
of condensing and desiccating milk, skim milk, buttermilk and whey
are given special attention and the defects of the product, their
causes and prevention are explained in detail.
The inception of this publication is the result of innumerable
and persistent calls for definite and reliable information on the sub-
ject of condensed milk and milk powder, from manufacturers in this
country and in foreign lands ; from parties contemplating embarking
in the business ; from national and state experiment stations which
are oftentimes called upon to investigate condensed milk defects
;
from dairy schools desiring to give instruction on the subject ; from
national and state pure food departments, seeking information con-
cerning the possibilities and limitations of manufacture, in their
efforts to formulate and enforce standards and laws ; and from com-
mercial chemists in need of reliable methods of analyses of these
special dairy products.
The information contained in this volume represents the au-
thor's experience, covering a period of twelve years, in the practical
manufacture of condensed milk, as expert advisor to milk condens-
ing concerns in the United States, Canada and Australia, and as
visitor of condensed milk and milk powder factories in this country
and in Europe.
It is the author's hope that the information contained herein
may serve as a guide to manufacturers, investigators, teachers and
food authorities, alike ; that it may assist in a better understanding
and wider dissemination of the principles, phenomena and facts in-
volved in the processes of manufacture ; and that it may lift the
obstructing veil of unnecessary secrecy which has hovered over these
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industries since their beginning, curtailing their development and
depriving them of much of the light of advanced science to which
they are justly entitled and which they need for their greatest devel-
opment for the lasting benefit of the producer, manufacturer and
consumer alike.
O. F. Hunzike:r.
Purdue University, March, 1914.
PREFACE FOR THIRD EDITION
Since the issuance of the First and Second Editions of this
treatise many changes have taken place in the various phases of the
Condensed Milk Industry. Old processes have been modified and
improved, new processes have been invented, the equipment used
for manufacture has undergone changes, new tests have been de-
vised for the determination of the composition of the finished prod-
ucts and the entire status of the industry has yielded to an unex-
pected, unforeseen and important evolution.
Of the most outstanding new features in this edition may
be mentioned the chapters on Directions for the Standardization of
the Sterilizing Process, Evaporated Milk Control, Use of the Mojon-
nier Viscosimeter, Manufacture of Condensed Buttermilk and But-
termilk Powder, New Patents and Processes for the Manufacture of
Milk Powders. Important additions have also been made to the
chapters on History of the Industry, Volume of Output, Markets,
Exports, Imports, Cost of Manufacture, Standardization of Con-
densed Milk, and Prevention of Condensed Milk and Milk Powder
Defects.
In preparing this Edition, the author has endeavored to com-
pletely revise the old edition, incorpoarting in the revised edition the
many changes which the tooth of time has wrought and to bring this
treatise in all its important phases up-to-date.
O. F. HUNZIKER.
Chicago, 111., September, 1920.
CONTENTS
PART I
CONDENSED MILK
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Chapter I
Definition
History and DevelopmentInvention of process; development of in-
dustry; annual output in U. S., 1899-1920; annual output in other
countries; list of condenseries by states Pages 17-29
Chapter II
Essentials of Suitable Locations for CondenseriesMilk supply; water
supply; transportation facilities; sewage disposal.
Building and EquipmentMaterial of construction-; floors, walls and
ceilings; ventilation; drainage; general plan of factory; list of
equipment; economic arrangement of machinery; sanitary ar-
rangement of machinery Pages 29-43
Chapter III
Milk SupplyBasis of buying milk; comparative prices paid for milk in
1914 to 1918 in the four large condensing territories in U. S.;
quality; control of quality; inspection at condensery; acid tests
of milk; boiling test; sediment test; fermentation tests.
Factory SanitationEffect on patrons; on wholesomeness of product;
on marketable properties; how to keep factory in sanitary condi-
tion; can washing; care of milk in factory prior to condensing
Pages 43-58
PART II
MANUFACTURE OF SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK
Chapter IV
Definition
HeatingPurpose; temperature; manner; advantages and disadvan-
tages of different methods.
Addition of sugarkinds of sugar; beet sugar; quality and amount of
sugar; mixing the sugar
Pages 59-68
Chapter V
CondensingDescription of vacuum pan; types of coils; arrangement
of coils for maximum rapidity of evaporation.
CondensersSurface condenser; bacometric condenser, wet-vacuum
spray condenser; care of condenser; expansion tank; catch-all.
Vacuum PumpScience and practice of evaporating in vacuo.
Purpose of condensing in vacuo; relation of pressure to boiling point;
relation of altitude to atmospheric pressure; relation of steam
pressure in jacket and coils, water in condenser, temperature in
pan and vacuum, to rapidity of evaporation.
Starting the Pan.
Operating the Pan.
Prevention of accidents
Pages 68-96
Chapter VI
Striking or Finishing the BatchyDefinition; ratio of concentration;
methods; appearance to eye.
Beaume hydrometer; temperature correction of Beaume; specific grav-
ity of sweetened condensed milk at diff"erent degrees Beaume;
sampling the batch; drawing ofi" the condensed milk.
CoolingMethods; equipment; effect on product Pages 96-110
Chapter VII
FillingIn barrels; in cans; filling machines.
SealingKinds of seals; soldering devices; solder; soldering flux; gas
supply
Pages 110-116
PART III
MANUFACTURE OF UNSWEETENED CONDENSED MILK
EVAPORATED MILK
Chapter VIII
Definition
Quality of fresh milk; standardizing milk.
Heating the Milk.
Condensing.
Striking.
Beaume hydrometer; temperature correction of Beaume; calculation
of specific gravity from Beaume reading; standardizing evaporated
milk Pages 117-124
Chapter IX
HomogenizingPurpose; principle of homogenizer; Gaulin homogen-
izer; Progress homogenizer; Viscolizer; operation of homogenizer
Pages 124-129
Chapter X
CoolingHolding tanks.
FillingFilling machines; venthole cans.
SealingSealing machines; can testers Pages 129-136
Chapter XI
SterilizingPurpose; sterilizers; loading the sterilizer; uniform dis-
tribution of heat; cans with tell-tale thermometers; temperature
and time exposure; qualifications of processer; rapid and uniform
cooling; fractional sterilization; standardization of properties that
influence behavior of evaporated milk toward heat of sterilization
;
Mojonnier method of evaporated milk control; Mojonnier equip-
ment; preparation of bicarbohate of sodium solution; preparation
of sample cans for sterilizer; sterilizing sample cans; testing
sample cans for viscosity; Mojonnier viscosimeter; importance of
proper viscosity; factors that influence the viscosity and their
correlation to sterilizing process; the correct viscosity for evapo-
rated milk; adding sodium bicarbonate to batch; adjusting steril-
izing process to different sizes of cans; Should bicarbonate of
soda be used?
ShakingPurpose; methods; speed of shaker.
Incubating
Pages 136-162
Chapter XII
Plain Condensed Bulk MilkDefinition; quality of fresh milk; heat-
ing; condensing; superheating; striking; ratio of concentration;
cooling Pages 162-166
Chapter XIII
Concentrated MilkDefinition; apparatus needed; operation of Camp-
bell process; advantages and disadvantages of process. Pages 166-168
Chapter XIV
Condensing Milk by Continuous ProcessBuflovak rapid circulation
evaporator; description; operation.
The Continuous ConcentratorDescription; operation.
The Ruff Condensing EvaporatorDescription; operation; quality of
product from continuous machines Pages 168-176
Chapter XV
Condensed ButtermilkComposition of buttermilk; manufacture; re-
moval of whey by gravity; concentration by centrifugal separa-
tion; evaporation in vacuo; equipment necessary.
OperationRipening of buttermilk; preheating; condensing; concen-
tration; testing for density; condensing buttermilk by film pro-
cess; packing; storage; composition of condensed buttermilk; mar-
kets; annual output in U. S.
Condensed Whey or Primost
Pages 176-185
PART IV
FROM FACTORY TO CONSUMER
Chapter XVI
PackingStamping and inspecting of cans; labeling; labeling ma-
chines; wrinkles and rust spots on labels; capacity of labeling
machines.
Packing in CasesMarking the cases; casers; packing for ex-
port
Pages 185-191
Chapter XVII
StoragePurpose; effect of storage temperature; advisability of stor-
ing.
Transportation .
Pages 191-194
Chapter XVIII
MarketsConsumption of condensed milk and fluid milk; market
prices; exports and imports Pages 194-200
Chapter XIX
Chemical Composition and Standards of Condensed MilkSweetened
condensed milk; water, solids, fat, proteids, milk sugar, sucrose,
ash, specific gravity.
Evaporated MilkWater, solids, fat, proteids, milk sugar, ash; compo-
sition of milk fats in evaporated milk; soluble and insoluble curd
in evaporated milk.
Plain Condensed Bulk Milk.
Condensed Milk Standards
Pages 200-211
Chapter XX
Sanitary Purity of Condensed Milk.
Digestibility.
Vitamine Properties.
Water-soluble
VitaminesFat-soluble vitamines; anti-scorbutic vita-
mines; effect of heat of process on vitamines Pages 211-217
Chapter XXI
Cost of ManufactureGeneral discussion; cost of sweetened con-
densed milk; cost of evaporated milk Pages 217-222
PART V
CONDENSED MILK DEFECTS, THEIR CAUSES AND PREVENTIONS
Chapter XXII
Classes of Defects.
Defective Sweetened Condensed MilkDetailed discussion of the fol-
lowing defects: Sandy, rough or gritty, settled, thickened and
cheese, lumpy, white and yellow buttons, blown or fermented,
rancid, putrid, brown, metallic Pages 222-252
Chapter XXIII
Defective Evaporated MilkDetailed discussion of the following de-
fects: Curdy, grainy, separated or churned, blown or fermented,
brown, gritty, metallic
Pages 252-270
Chapter XXIV
Adulterations of Condensed MilkSkimming, addition of animal and
vegetable fats; imitation condensed milk; annual output of; addi-
tion of commercial glucose; addition of bicarbonate of soda and
other alkalies, addition of cream of tartar, addition of starch
Pages 270-275
PART VI
MANUFACTURE OF MILK POWDER
Chapter XXV
Definition
Kinds.
History and Development; Annual Production.
Description of Different ProcessesDoug-drying processes; Wimmer
process; Campbell process; Film-drying processes; Just process;
Hatmaker process; Gathmann process; Passburg process; Eken-
berg process; Covers process; Buflovak process; Spray-drying
processes; Percy process; Stauf process; McLachlan process; Mer-
rell-Merrell-Gere process; Rogers process; Gray processes; Dick
process Pages 275-303
Chapter XXVI
Commercial Manufacture of Milk Powder by Spray ProcessPreheat-
ing; precondensing; heating of air; spraying and desiccating;
desiccating chamber; spray nozzles; spray pumps; hot air intake
and discharge; recovery of desiccated milk; bolting, packing
Pages 203^15
Chapter XXVII
Composition and Properties of Milk PowdersChemical composition
of milk powders; factors . affecting composition; solu-
of manufacture; markets; annual output Pages 315-330
Chapter XXVIII
Dried ButtermilkComposition of buttermilk powder; annual output;
manufacture; markets.
Dried Whey.
Malted MilkHistory of malted milk industry ; manufacture of malted
milk; keeping quality; markets; annual output.
Federal Standards for Milk Powders and Malted Milk. . .Pages 330-335
PART VII
STANDARDIZATION, TESTS AND ANALYSES OF MILK, CON-
DENSED MILK AND MILK POWDER
Chapter XXIX
StandardizationPurpose; standardizing fluid milk; standardizing the
finished product; standardizing the sucrose in sweetened con-
densed milk
Pages 335-342
Chapter XXX
Chemical AnalysesMilk; specific gravity; total solids; ash; total
nitrogen; albumin and casein; milk-sugar; butterfat.
Sweetened Condensed MilkSpecific gravity; total solids; ash; pro-
teids; milk-sugar; butterfat; sucrose.
Evaporated MilkSpecific gravity; total solids; solids tables; ash;
proteids; milk-sugar; butterfat.
Milk PowderTotal solids; ash; proteids; milk-sugar; sucrose; butter-
fat .Pages 342-365
Chapter XXXI
Mojonnier Test for Fat and SolidsEquipment; directions; determina-
tion of per cent fat and total solids in milk, skimmilk, buttermilk,
sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, condensed bull' milk,
milk powder and malted milk Pages 365-374
Chapter XXXII
Bacteriological AnalysesSampling; dilutions for numerical counts;
plating; media for total counts, acidifiers, liquefiers and yeast and
molds; incubation; making counts; qualitative determinations.
Legal Standards for Dairy Products by States Pages 374-379
. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author desires to express his appreciation and
gratitude to Borden's Condensed Milk Co.
for
cuts show-
ing portrait
of
Gail Borden and interior and exterior
views
of
milk condensing factories; to the Alpine Evapo-
rated Milk Co. for
cut showing portrait
of
John B. Mey-
enberg; to the Helvetia Milk Condensing Co., and to Hor-
lick's Malted Milk Co.
for
biographic data relating to the
early history
of
the industry; to Mr. Wm. T. Nardin,
Attorney,
for
extensive statistics on milk prices; to Mo-
jonnier Bros. Co.
for
valuable data relating to the manu-
facture
of
evaporated milk; to Mr. C. B. Fenlon, Vice
President
of
the Rico Milk Products Co.,
for
valuable in-
formation relating to cost
of
manufacture and details
of
operation; and to the manufacturers and dealers
of
ma-
chinery and supplies related to the industry,
for
their
many cuts
for
illustration in the text and
for
their
generous contribution
of
advertisements, whose kindly
and active co-operation made possible the issuance
of
this publication.
Complete Milk Condensing Unit
for
Dairy Schools
and Experimental Laboratories
The dairy school is the manufactory
of
dairy
l^nowledge, the clearing house
of
dairy
thought, and the distributory
of
the
dairy gospel
PART I.
CONDENSED MILK
Chapter I.
DEFINITION.
Condensed miik is cow's fresh milk from which a consider-
able portion of the water has been evaporated and to which
sucrose may or may not have been added.
There are chiefly two classes of condensed milk, namely,
sweetened and unsweetened. Both reach the market in hermet-
ically sealed tin cans intended for direct consumption, and in
bulk, intended for bakers, confectioners and ice cream manu-
facturers.
A portion of the condense;d milk on the market is made
from the chief by-products of milk, skim milk and buttermilk.
Condensed' skim milk supplies the same markets as condensed
whole milk sold in bulk. Condensed buttermilk furnishes a
valuable hog and chicken feed. It has, also, been recommended
for medicinal purposes, and of late years it has found extensive
use in bakeries and for the manufacture of diverse prepared foods.
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY.
Invention of Process.Condensed milk is the child of the
nineteenth century. Its origin does not date back far, and its
innovation and rapid development stand in sharp contrast to
those of the manufacture of butter and cheese, industries to
which reference is made in the Old Testament^ and the evolution
of which lias been very gradual. Notwithstanding the newness
of this product, its manufacture has assumed such proportions
that today it occupies a prominent place among the leading-
branches of dairy manufactures.
The condensed milk industrv was introduced at about the
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Book of Genesis, C. 18, V. 8: "And he took butter and milk and the calf
he had dressed and set it before them."
Book of Job, C. 10, V. 10. "Hast thou not poured me out like milk and
curdled me like cheese."
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same time as the factory system of the butter and cheese indus-
try; although, for many years before the invention of a suc-
cessful process of condensing- milk, methods had been sought
to preserve milk.
The American, Gail Borden, the inventor of the manufac-
ture of condensed milk, is said to have experimented some ten
years before he finally decided that a semi-fluid state, produced
Fig*. 2. Gail Borden
by evaporation in vacuo, was the best form of preservation.
He first applied for a patent in 1853, but it was not until three
years later that the Patent Office appreciated the originality
and value of his claim sufficiently to grant him a patent. In
August, 1856, he was awarded a patent on his process, both by
the United States and by England.
In his application Mr. Bordon says
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''I am aware that suear, and various extracts, have been and
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"A Brief Sketch of Gail Borden," by S. L. Goodale, Secretary Maine State
Board of Agriculture, 1872.Courtesy of Borden's Condensed Milk Company.
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are now concentrated in vacuo under a low degree of heat, to
prevent discoloration or burning. 1 do not claim concentrating
milk in a vacuum pan for such a purpose, my object being to
exclude the air from the beginning of the process to tlie
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to prevent incipient decomposition. This is important and I
claim the discovery."
The claim, United States Patent No. 15,553, August 19,
1856, is in the following words:
''Producing concentrated sweet milk by evaporation in vacuo,
substantially as set forth,the same having no sugar or other
foreign matter mixed with it."
Since the introduction of the process of milk condensing, in-
vented and patented by Borden, numerous modifications of the
process, as well as entirely different processes, have been in-
vented in this country and abroad. The most characteristic
among these are: condensation by refrigeration, by centrifugal
force, by boiling under atmospheric pressure, by passing hot air
over or through milk, etc. Most of these new processes have
not proved commercially satisfactory, with the result that the
principle of the process, originally invented by Gail Borden,
and which consists of condensing the milk in vacuo to a semi-
fluid liquid, is still made use of in the manufacture of the great
bulk of condensed milk produced, both in this country and
abroad.
While the claim of the patent granted Gail Borden was
that of ''producing concentrated SAveet milk by evaporation in
vacuo without the admixture of sugar or other foreign mat-
ter," records show that Gail Borden manufactured sweetened
condensed milk, sold under the famous Eagle Brand label as
early as 1856. The first advertisement by Borden of unsweet-
ened condensed milk was recorded in T.eslie's Weekly, May
22, 1858. It reads as follows:
"Borden's Condensed Milk. Prepared in Litchfield County,
Conn., is the only milk ever concentrated without the admix-
ture of sugar or some other substance and remaining easily
soluble in water. It is simply Fresh Country Milk, from which
the water is nearly all evaporated, and nothing added. The
Committee of the Academy of Medicine recommend it as 'an
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article, that, for purity, durability and economy, is hitherto un-
equalled in the annals of the milk trade.'
"One quart, by the addition of water, makes two and a half
quarts,equal of crearri, five quarts rich milk and seven quarts
ôod milk.
"For sale at 173 Canal Street, or delivered at dwellings in
New York or Brooklyn at 25 cents per quart."
Development of Industry.The beginning was small, the
process crude and the product imperfect. Not until the stren-
uous years of the war of Secession did the value and useful-
ness of condensed milk as a com-
modity become fully recognized.
During the Civil War there was
a great demand for this product
and from that time on the indus-
try grew w4th great rapidity.
The first factory was operated
l)y Gail Borden in Wolcottville.
Litchfield county, Connecticut, in
the summer of 1856, but disap-
pointed in not obtaining means,
nothing was accomplished. A sec-
ond attempt was made at Burr-
ville, five miles distant, in 1857, by a company consisting of the
owners of the patent. A small quantity of milk was here suc-
cessfully condensed and its introduction into New York began.
Although admitted by all to be superior to any before made, it
was slow in meeting with sales proportional in magnitude to
the expenses incurred. Yielding to the monetary revulsion of
that year the company suspended operations, leaving Mr. Bor-
den liable for bills drawn, on which he was sued.
It was not until February, 1858, when Mr. Borden (with the
other owners of the patent) associated himself with Jeremiah Mil-
bank, Esq., who advanced money to revive the business, that he
could be said to enjoy adequate means to develop his invention
and at which time the New York Condensed Milk Company was
formed. Abandoning Burrville, the new company established
work on a more extensive scale in A\âssaic, Duchess county,
New York, in 1860. In 1865, extensive works were erected at
Tig. 3.
The first condensed milk factory
In America, Wolcottville, Conn.
History and De:ve:i,opment 21
Elgin, Illinois. Horden's Condensed Milk factories today num-
ber upwards of fifty, extending from Maine to Washington State
as well as into Canada. The New York Condensed Milk Com-
pany was incorporated in New Jersey in 1860 and in NewJôrk
in 1870. This company was succeeded by Borden's Condensed
Milk Company which was incorporated in New Jersey in 1899.
In the sixties of the last century, the Anglo-Swiss Con-
densed Milk Company was organized in Switzerland under the
leadership of Charles A. Page, then United States Consul at
Zurich, Switzerland, and his brother George H. Page, and with
the assistance of Swiss and English capital. The first factory
of that company was built and operated in 1866 at Cham, Lake
Fig>. 4. ractory of Borden's Condensed Millc Co., Bandolpli, TST. T.
Zug, Switzerland, under the direction of George H. Page, who
was its president until 1808, when he died.
This company prospered and grew rapidly in Europe. In
t'he eighties of the last century it invaded the United States,
where it built and operated several large factories in New York,
Wisconsin and Illinois. The American factories were managed
by David Page and William B. Page, brothers of George H.
Page. In 1902 the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company sold
its entire American interests, factories and business, to Borden's
Condensed Milk Company. In 1904 the' Anglo-Swiss Condensed
Milk Company consolidated with Henry Nestle, of Vevey, Lake
Geneva, Switzerland, another successful manufacturer of con-
densed milk. The company wdiich is now known as the Nestle-
Cham Condensed Milk Company, is operating some twenty large
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condensed milk factories in European countries, with headquar-
ters at Cham, Switzerland.
Up to the early eighties of the last century, sweetened con-
densed milk was the only condensed milk that was put on the
market and sold in hermetically sealed cans, while unsweetened
condensed milk was manufactured and sold open, largely direct
to the consumer, in a similar way as market milk. The puritv
Tig. 5. Fan Boom in Factory of Borden's Condensed Milk Co.
and keeping quality of this unsweetened condensed milk, how-
ever, were greatly superior to market milk.
Early in 1885 the Helvetia Milk Condensing Company was
organized at Highland, Illinois. This company confined its
efforts exclusively to the manufacture of evaporated milk (un-
sweetened condensed milk, sterilized by heat and sold in her-
metically sealed cans). While, for se\eral years before the or-
ganization of this company, the possibilities of producing- a
sterile unsweetened condensed milk were essayed in laboratory
History and Deveîôpmknt
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investigations by scientists, and while simultaneously with the
commencement of operations of this company, several other com-
panies experimented on this form of condensed milk, the Helvetia
Milk Condensing- Company was the first organization that siic^
ceeded in producing a marketable unsweetened condensed milk
that was sterile and would keep indefinitely.
The rudiments of the
process of evaporated, steril-
ized milk were introduced by
Mr. John B. Meyenberg, a
native of Switzerland, who
formerly was operator in the
mother plant of the Anglo-
Swiss Condensed Milk Co. at
Cham, Switzerland. Mr. Mey-
enberg, being a man with an
inventive turn of mind, ex-
perimented on the evapora-
tion and sterilization of milk,
during the years 1880 to 1883.
As the result of these experi-
ments he decided that it was
possible to preserve milk,
without the aid of sugar.
Migrating to this country, he
applied for, and was granted
a patent on his idea of pre-
serving milk by sterilization,
by the United States Govern-
ment in 1884 (Patent No.
308,422), and again in 1887
(Patent No. 358,213). Mr.
Meyenberg was also granted patent rights (Patent No. 308,421)
on apparatus for preserving milk.
Attracted to Highland, Illinois, by reason of its large Swiss
population, on the representations of Mr. A.
J.
Pagan, a leading
Highland citizen, who brought Mr. Meyenberg to Highland and
introduced him to the community, Mr. Meyenberg associated
himself with Mr. John Wildi, then a merchant of Highland, who
Fig*. 6. John B. Meyenberg:
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at once took a leading- part in the organization of the Helvetia
Milk Condensing Co., early in the year 1885. Mr. Meyenberg
served as the technical manager for the first year, after which
he severed his connections with his company and became en-
gaged in the promotion of other evaporated milk factories in
the middle west, and on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Meyenberg died
in" 1914.
During the first year of its existence, operations of the Hel-
vetia Milk Condensing Company Avere suspended a number of
times, both on account of difficulties encountered in the technique
of successful manufacture and also for financial reasons. In an
endeavor to place the company on a technically and commer-
cially successful basis, the board of directors took charge of the
work with Mr. Louis Latzer as technical manager, and the first
half of the second year was mostly devoted to experimental
work. During the third year, interruptions in the operations
were only slight and after that the company operated continu-
ously and successfully until the panic of 1893, which, marked
the last suspension of business and which was due to the strained
commercial conditions that prevailed throughout the country.
The first board of directors of this company was composed
of Dr. Knoebel, John Wildi, George Roth, Fred Kaeser and
Louis Latzer, with Dr, Knoebel as president and Mr. Wildi
a,s secretary and treasurer, and business manager. In 1888 Mr.
Latzer became president, which position he is holding to the
present day. In 1907 Mr Wildi severed his connection and
organized the John Wildi Evaporated Milk Co. with headquar-
ters in Columbus, Ohio, Mr. Wildi died in 1910.
The early development and the vicissitudes through which
this pioneer company in the evaporated milk business passed are
most instructively expressed by its president, Mr. Latzer:
''Very little of the product turned out the first two years
would now pass as standard goods. About the third year, after
more knowledge of the physical and chemical properties of milk
and after the introduction of the practice of fractional steriliza-
tion, had solved the keeping properties and had improved the
physical condition of the product, we felt that the industry had
come to stay. After we had gained more knowledge and expe-
rience, and a lower standard of the product was adopted by the
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industry, the practice of fractional sterilization was abandoned
for economic reasons.
"The commercial part of the business also had its trials and
tribulations in introducing a new and comparatively inferior
product of comparatively high cost, and to overcome the prej-
udices of both the trade and the medical profession.
"The problem thus confronting the company was
to im-
prove the product, decrease its cost and improve selling methods
at the least possible cost."
At first this unsweetened condensed milk, of relatively thin
consistency and pregnant with the cooked flavor resulting from
its exposure to high sterilizing temperatures, failed to appeal
to the public, who had become accustomed to the use of the
sweet, thick and semi-fluid sweetened condensed milk. But of late
years the demand for, and the manufacture of this product,
evaporated milk, has increased rapidly, until today, in this
country, its output by far exceeds that of sweetened con-
densed milk.
Originally this unsweetened sterilized condensed milk was
labeled and sold under the name of "Evaporated Cream." The
Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 caused the name "Evapo-
rated Cream" to be changed to "Evaporated Milk."
A further important step in the development of the manu-
facture of condensed milk occurred with the introduction of
the Continuous Concentrator, which machine was developed by
the By-Products Recover}^ Co., of Toledo, Ohio. This company
was organized in 1913 and their machine and process are covered
by numerous United States patents. The principle upon which
the Continuous Concentrator is constructed and operates is as
follows
:
"To rapidly move a film layer formation within a cylinder
having a heated surface, having means for escaping vapors and
means for keeping the surface bright and clean, circumferentially
and from the point of inlet to the point of outlet."
Another type of the film principle of continuous concentra-
tion is represented in the Rufi^ Condensing Evaporator, manu-
factured by the Cream Production Co., Port Huron, Mich.
The Continuous Concentrator in its present improved form
has reached a state of perfection that renders this machine appli-
26 History and DEvEiyOPMENT
cable for the commercial manufacture of the diverse forms of
condensed milk and milk by-products.
The simplicity and economy of the equipment involved, the
simplicity and rapidity of the process and the fact that no water
is required for condensing the escaping vapors, are decided ad-
vantages over the condensation in vacuo. Already the demand
for these concentrators among condenseries and ice cream fac-
tories is very great. This process lends itself admirably to the
establishment and operation of small local condenseries and milk
shipping stations where milk is condensed and then shipped for
packing and sterilization to concentration plants.
Annual Output of Condensed Milk in the United States
1899-1919, Inclusive.
Total Sweetened Unsweetened
Years Condensed Condensed Condensed
Milk Milk Milk
1899
Pounds^ .... 186,921,787
n
(^0
Dollars^ 11,888,792
n
(')
1904
Pounds^ .... 308,485,182 198,355,189 110,129,993
Dollars^ .... 20,149,282 13,478,376 6.670,906
1909
Pounds^ .... 494,796,544 214,518,310 280,278,234
Dollars^ 33,563,129 17,345,278 16.217.851
1914
Pounds^ .... 883,112,901
n n
Dollars^ .... 58,011,677
n n
1917
Pounds^ .... 975,000,000
n n
Dollars* .... 106,000,000
n n
1918
Pounds 1,675,934,234 507,053,451 1,168,880,783
Dollars
1919
Pounds 1,977,454,805 674,184,225 1,303,270,580
Dollars
1
United States Census Report for 1910.
2
United States Dairy Division, by Correspondence.
3
Value estimated at $3.40 per case.
*
Value estimated at $5.50 per case.
'
Not reported separately,
Potts, R. C, U. S. Bureau of Markets, February 17, 1920, and "The
Market Reporter," U. S. Bureau of Markets, Vol. 1, No. 13, March 27, 1920.
History and D:ve:i.opmi:nt 27
In this country, as well as in Canada, Europe, Australia and
New Zealand, the condensed milk industry grew rapidly. Every
succeeding decade marked the organization of new companies
and the erection of new factories until today, there are milk_con-
densing factories in nearly every civilized country within the
dairy belt.
The above figures may serve to emphasize the rapid growth
which the condensed milk industry in the United States has
enjoyed during the last decade. The total output of condensed
milk in 1919, both sweetened and unsweetened, but not includ-
ing ''filled" condensed milk such as condensed goods modified
with vegetable fats, nor condensed buttermilk and uncondensed
sterilized canned milk, was 1,977,454,805 pounds, at an estimated
value of approximately $200,000,000. Calculating the ratio of
concentration at 2.5 to 1, this output represents the utilization
of approximately 4,944,000,000 pounds of fluid milk. In 1917,
when the total output of condensed milk was 975,000,000 pounds,
representing the utilization of about 2.437.000,000 pounds of
fluid milk, the total production of milk in the United States
was estimated at about 84,611,350,000 pounds of which 2.9 per
cent were manufactured into condensed milk. Reliable figures
are not as yet available of the total production of milk in the
United States for the year 1919. It is estimated however, to be
about 90,000,000,000 pounds. On the basis of the above esti-
mate, about 5.4 per cent of the total milk produced in the
United States during the year 1919 was manufactured in to con-
densed milk.
A new and unprecedented impetus was given the condensed
milk industry in America by the advent of the World War. The
concentration of the product, its wholesomeness and high food
value, the serviceableness of its package and its great keeping-
quality rendered it indispensable as a food for the army and navy,
as well as for the civilian population of the warring nations in
its dire need for food. In this great crisis in which the food
supply of the nations of the earth was playing a most important
role, condensed milk has proved its worth and the demand for
this commodity has increased to tremendous proportions. This
demand has been readily responded to by the industry on the
American continent and has resulted in a vast increase of the
28 History and Development
output of condensed milk and -in the erection of many new and
large factories within the short span of the war.
The tremendous increase in the volume of condensed milk
manufactured in this country in 1919 is due in part also to the
rapidly growing consumption of ice cream and soft beverages
of which ice cream is a constituent, as the result of national
prohibition. Conservative estimates place the increase of con-
densed bulk milk supplied to ice cream factories at 15 to 20 per
cent over previous years.
In 1899, there were in operation in this country about fifty
factories manufacturing condensed milk, distributed over four-
teen different states, New York and Illinois leading tlie list by
over 50 per cent. In 1904, the Government estimated the total
number of condenseries in operation at eighty-seven. In 1914,
there were in the United States over two hundred milk condens-
ing factories, distributed over twenty-three different states. And
in 1918 Government statistics place the total number of con-
denseries at 322, distributed over 3>0 different states as shown
on the following table
:
Distribution of Milk Condensing Factories in United States^
in 1920.
Number of Number of
States Factories States Factories
Alabama 1 Missouri 3
Arizona 3 Nebraska 2
California 8 New Hampshire 1
Colorado 5 New Jersey 5
Florida 1 New York 68
Idaho 2 North Dakota 1
Illinois
31 Ohio ., 30
Indiana
11 Oregon 5
Iowa
2
Pennsylvania 37
Kansas
5
Rhode Island 1
Maine
1 Ut-ah 3
Maryland
3
Vermont 5
Massachusetts
2
Virginia 1
Michigan
24
Washington 19
Minnesota
2
Wisconsin 40
Total 30 ^322
1
Potts. R. C, U. S. Bureau of Markets, 1920.
EssENTiAiyS OF Suitable Locations 29
Other countries in which the condensed milk industry has
made rapid progress are : Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
Switzerland, Germany, England, Ireland, Holland, Sweden, Nor-
way, Austria, Japan and India. The annual output of soinejof_
these countries is reported below.
Annual Output of Condensed Milk in Different Countries/
Country Year
Pounds
Condensed Milk
Australia 1916
1918
1902
1911
1918
1914
(1914
11918 (est.)
1919
45,694,897
Canada 79,807,971
France
Taoan
4,691,646
1,200,054
New Zealand
Norway
6,205,400
33,000,000
Switzerland
United States
121,253,000
55,115,000
1,977,454,805
Chapter II.
ESSENTIALS OF SUITABLE LOCATIONS FOR MILK
CONDENSING FACTORIES.
Unlike the establishment of creameries and cheese fac-
tories, the building of condenseries and the installing of the
necessary machinery involve the investment of large capital.
There is need of a substantial building and of expensive machin-
ery. The supplies are numerous and must be purchased in larger
quantities before the returns from the sale of the manufactured
product are available. It is estimated that, it takes from three
to six months before the condensed milk reaches the consumer.
This holds true especially in the case of canned goods. The
fixed expenses also are comparatively heavy, and do not mate-
rially change with a decrease or increase in the milk supply.
All of these facts emphasize the importance of locating the
factory in a territory most suitable for economic manufacture,
iPirtle, T. R., StaUstlcian, U. S. Dairy Division, February 12, 120.
30 Essentials of Suitablk Locations
to guard against hea\
y
loss which would naturally result in local-
ities unfavorable to the industry.
The chief factors to be considered in this connection are:
Milk supply
Water supply
Transportation facilities.
Other conditions.
Milk Supply.A large supply of milk with possibilities for
extending the milk supply territory is the first essential. The
condensery must ha\e milk to do business. The locality in which
it is located must be adapted for the production of large quanti-
ties of milk; it must be a dairy country where reasonably large
herds are kept. Other things being equal, the larger the milk
supply, the lower the cost of manufacture. Where the milk
supply drops beloAv fifteen thousand pounds of milk daily, pro-
fitable manufacture becomes difficult. Territories of gathered
cream creameries are usually not very desirable. The farmers
generally have small herds and are not inclined to haul their
milk daily. They prefer to take their cream to the creamery
once or twice per week, or whenever it is convenient for them to
do so. Again, they appreciate the feeding value of the skim
milk and depend on the skim milk to raise their young-
stock and pigs. When they take their milk to the condensery,
there is no skim milk nor buttermilk left for feeding purposes.
The presence of whole milk creameries and cheese factories
renders a locality most attractive for the establishment of milk
condenseries. The farmers usually have reasonably large herds,
they are accustomed to take reasonable care of their milk and
to haul it to the factory daih', and the condensery prices are
generally high enough above the creamery or cheese factory
prices to induce the "farmers to patronize the condensing factory.
Territories in close proximity of large consuming centers,
though dairying may have reached a high state of development,
are not desirable, owing to the continuous and growing demand
for fresh milk. Competition of this kind means high prices,
which no business tactics are capable of modif3nng.
Water Supply.The value to the milk condensing plant of
a generous and never-failing supply of clean, cool water cannot
Essentials of Suitable: Locations 31
be overestimated. The folly of erecting condenseries without
first ascertaining the water supply has in some instances com-
pelled milk.condensing companies to abandon new plants, merely
because of lack of water.

-^
In addition to the water used in the boilers and for wash-
ing purposes, large amounts of water are necessary for condens-
ing and for cooling the condensed milk. It is estimated that the
condensation of one pound of fresh milk requires about three
gallons of water at ordinary temperature, although this amount
of water may be considerably reduced by the use of condensers
of maximum efficiency.
The water must be pure. In spite of all precautions, it will
come in contact, more or less, with the milk. Though all appara-
tus and utensils holding and conveying milk and condensed milk
may be thoroughly steamed after rinsing with water, there are
untold channels through which the milk may become contami-
nated Avith polluted water. Frequently, while the milk is con-
densing, the vacuum pump accidentally stops. If the processor
fails to immediately shut ofl the water supplying the condenser,
water will pour back from the condenser into the milk in the
vacuum pan. In the case of filthy, polluted wâter, the entire
batch may be ruined. Again, the pan is usually rinsed betwêen
batches and, if the water used is unclean, it will contaminate the
milk of the succeeding bath. Finally, when the heavy 40-quart
cans filled with -condensed milk are set into the cooling tank,
water frequently splashes over into the cans. Here again the
quality of the condensed milk in jeopardized, unless the water
used is pure.
The water must be cold. The colder the water the more
satisfactor}^ is the operation of the vacuum pan and the smaller
the volume of water required to condense a given volume of
milk. If the temperature of the water used in the condenser
rises much above 65 degrees F., the process of condensing may
become difficult, according to the type of pan and condenser used.
Cold water is essential, also, for the prompt and proper cooling
of the condensed milk.
Transportation Facilities.It is essential that the factory
have access to one or more railway lines.
While, for reasons discussed under ''Milk Supply," it is not
32 Essentials of Suitable: Locations
advisable to erect a factory in too close proximity to large con-
suming or railway centers, it is equally undesirable to choose
a condensery site where transportation facilities are poor.
Where access to one railroad only can be had, the factory
is at the mercy of that road. Experience has shown that monop-
oly of transportation usually rneans a low standard of efficiency
of service and high freight rates.^ On the other hand, competi-
tion involves a struggle for the survival of the fittest, and it
offers the public all the inducements that business ingenuity and
enterprise can produce. Where two or more transportation com-
panies are after the business of the same manufacturing concern.
they will generally leave nothing undone in the way of accom-
modations and low rates to please the manufacturer. The result
is that the m.anufacturer enjoys the advantages of efficient serv-
ice, good accommodations and reasonable freight rates.
^
This is a factor which the condensery cannot afford to over-
look, as the freight charges are a very conspicuous item in the
expense account of the milk condensing business. A part of the
fresh milk may have to be shipped to the factory by rail, all the
finished product must leave the factory by rail and the condens-
ery is dependent on the railway for its raw materials and sup-
plies, such as sugar, tinplate, solder, box shooks, barrels, labels,
oil, rosin, gasoline, coal, etc. Prompt and efficient transportation
is essential. Undue delays may cause the condensery serious
inconvenience and loss, and may result in the cancelling of im-
portant orders.
Other Conditions.The removal of the sewage of the fac-
tory is important. It may be possible for the factory to connect
with the town or city sewpr, in which case the problem is easily
solved. Where this is not possible, a site along a creek, river,
pond or lake may offer effective means to take care of the con-
densery sewage. Where no such natural depository is available,
the elevation of the site should be sufficient to carry off the sew-
age far enough from the factory to insure the plant against foul
odors and unsanitary conditions. In the absence of all of these
avenues for the disposal of the sewage, a properly laid-out sys-
1
The matter of freight rates is now largely regulated by the Federal De-
partment of Transportation.
BuiivDiNG AND Equipment 33
tern of septic tanks with efficient filter beds may serve the
purpose.
Where possible, it is advisable to take advantage of hillsides,
affording natural means to arrange and operate the factory -on-
the gravity plan.
BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT.
Material of Construction.Since the establishment of a milk
condensing factory involves the investment of considerable capi-
tal, those willing to invest must have faith in the permanency
of the business. For a permanent business, a building substan-
tially constructed is the most economical. Most of the factories
belonging to the most reputable concerns are built very sub-
stantially. However, there are in this country condensing fac-
tories in the construction of which cheapness was the govern-
ing factor.
It is beyond the realm of this volume to furnish detailed
specifications and plans for the construction of condensed milk
factories. Such information would be of comparatively little
value, as such details must of necessity vary with locality, ca-
pacity of prospective plant, type of equipment, system of opera-
tion and preferences of individual owners. Such details are best
decided on and worked out for each individual factory separately
and when needed. There are a few fundamental principles, how-
ever, which apply to all factories and to which attention may be
briefly called here.
Floors, Walls and Ceilings.Stone, brick, concrete, concrete-
steel, according to availability, are satisfactory materials of which
to construct a condensery. Intersecting walls or partitions are
best constructed of similar material. If constructed of wood,
they should rest on concrete, brick or stone, built up at least
two feet from the floor, or the lower two feet of which parti-
tions should be wainscoated with an approved quality of cement
plaster.
All floors of the main building should be of cement, great
care being taken that the foundation of these floors be of uni-
formly hard material, thoroughly tamped and avoiding soft spots.
The concrete bed should be at least four inches in depth, con-
sisting of one part of cement, two parts of sand and four parts
34 Building and Equipment
of gravel. The sand should be sharp Imilding sand and the gravel
should be washed pebbles, ranging in size from one-half to one
inch. The top dressing should be not less than one inch thick,
consisting of one part of cement and one and one-half parts of
sharp building sand. It should be carried up on the walls and
partitions at least two inches, forming a sanitary cove. After
finishing, the floors should be allowed to harden for at least
two weeks. This will greatly prolong their life. It is advisable
to use cement hardener such as Master Builders' cement, or
Lapidolith, etc., which will help to make tliese floors more nearly
wear-, water-, dust- and crack-proof. It is difficult to keep the
condensery in sanitary condition and to protect the product
against contamination, unless the floors of the factory are and
stay free from cracks and holes.
Ventilation.
Â proper and effective system of ventilation

iiS another very important and too often entirely neglected factor
in the planning of the condensed milk factory. This applies to
all parts of the plant where work is being done, but it is espe-
cially essential in rooms where free steam escapes. The ventilat-
ing system should be adequate to afford ready and quick escape
of steam, to remove foul air and to facilitate the regulation of
temperature. Unless free steam does promptly find an exit from
the factory rooms, it condenses on the walls and ceilings, mak-
ing them sweat profusely, causing corrosion of the walls and
ceiling, deterioration of motors and other similar eciuipment.
and molding of supplies
;
this is especially the case during the
winter months. The removal of foul air and the control of the
temperature of the air are essential for the comfort, health and
efficiency of the employes.
The system of ventilation that will accomplish efficient ven-
tilation will of necessity vary with the type of plant and arrange-
ment of equipment. Gravity ventilation is, under average con-
ditions, inadequate to produce satisfactory results in factories,
like milk condenseries, where there is bound to be much escape
of free steam. The exchange of air is not rapid enough to remove
the steam before it condenses on the walls and ceilings, espe-
cially in cold weather. It is, therefore, advisable to provide for
some form of forced ventilation. Under certain conditions of
construction an air flue connecting with the smoke stack may
Building and Equipme:nt
35
furnish all the ventilation needed/ Under many other condi-
tions, however, it is necessary to hood that equipment from
which free steam escapes in large volume, such as can washers,
and can sterilizers, hot wells, etc., and to draw the steam awfty-
through ducts of adequate size by one or more motor fans
located in the outside wall or ceiling.
Drainage.All floors of the manufacturing rooms should
slope to facilitate rapid drainage. A fall of one-eighth inch
per foot is usually suffi'cient. Large water-sealed floor drains
should be sufficiently numerous and well placed in all rooms to
rapidly carry off water. The surface of these floor drains should
be about one-half inch below that of the adjoining floor, so as
to catch the water readily. In the larger rooms open drain-
ditches in the cement floor, six to eight inches wide and covered
with perforated iron plates, are preferable to bell-traps. They
may be placed along" the walls or elsewhere. They should be
not more than forty feet apart and have a fall of one-eighth
inch to the foot, with the floor sloping toward them. It is gener-
ally most convenient to have all the drain pipes enter into one
large sewer pipe not less than ten inches in diameter, for a con-
densery receiving about fifty thousand pounds of milk daily,
which should dispose of all the factory sewerage. It is advis-
able to place the main sewer pipe outside the building and to
have it terminate in a "clean-out." This will afford more ready
access in case the sewer is stopped up.
General Plan of Factory.Most of the condensing factories
are either one- or two-story buildings. In the case of two-story
buildings the first floor is usually devoted to the boiler and
engine rooms, vat room, well room, filling, sealing and packing
rooms. On the second floor are installed the pan room, store
room for sugar and box shooks, the tin shop and possibly the
offices. A basement is sometimes provided and used for th~e stor-
ing of condensed milk.
Fig. 7 illustrates a floor plan of a milk condensing factory
with a capacity of fifty thousand pounds of milk daily. All
operating rooms are located on one floor. The arrangement of
machinery permits of the handling of the milk on the gravity
1
In this case there should be an Inner and outer stack with an air space
between which connects with the air flue,
36
Buii^DiNG AND Equipment
plan or with pumps, according to the topography of the site
and the elevation of the rooms. The receiving room floor and
the platform which accommodates the vacuum pans, should be
seven to eight feet above the main floor. In order to take care
of storage of water, sugar, tin cans, barrels and box shooks,
there should be a second floor over the well room and the filling,
sealing and sterilizing room. The ceiling of these rooms should
be not less than sixteen feet above the floor.
The rooms are so arranged as to necessitate the minimum
expenditure of machinery, conveyors and labor. All work rooms
open on the railway switch, and the storage room is accessible
by two elevators. The well room, where most of the steam is
needed, is next to the boiler room, so as to minimize condensa-
tion in the steam pipes. If the main steam pipes are, properly
insulated, this arrangement should furnish the vacuum pans with
dry steam. The floor in the boiler room should be two feet
below the main floor, in order to give additional fall for the con-
densation water from jacket and coils of the vacuum pans to the
boiler feed tank.
The partition between the receiving room and testing room
is equipped with a cabinet, opening on both sides so that the
sample bottles can be placed on the shelves in the receiving
room and taken oflf the shelves in the test room.
From the weigh cans on the receiving platform the milk runs
direct into the hot wells, which are sufficient in number to con-
veniently divide the milk into batches and to heat the milk with
the least possible delay. The capacity of the vacuum pumps is
augmented by their close proximity to the vacuum pans and the
hot wells and by the fact that the water supply tanks are over-
head. The space to be evacuated is confined very largely to the
vacuum pan only, the milk has to be lifted by the vacuum pump
but a few feet and the water runs into the condenser by gravity.
From the well room the condensed milk is transferred to the
tanks on the platform over the filling machines. The evaporated
milk is pumped from the cooling coils through the wall and the
sweetened condensed milk is raised to the platform in ten-gallon
cans on the elevator, or is forced by a pressure pump into the
tanks feeding the filling machines. The sealing benches are
equipped with self-heating soldering coppers. In the place of the
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soldering benches and hand coppers, automatic sealing machines
may be installed. The sterilizers and shakers are conveniently
placed to take care of the sealed evaporated milk. ThQ tin cans
for the sealing room and the box shocks for the packing room
are brought down from the storage room overhead on the ele-
vator. The labeling and packing room, equipped with the label-
ing and box nailing machines, provides for considerable storage
of the finished product. Additional storage at a moderate and
uniform temperature might be provided for by a basement under
the packing room. A label stock room furnishes satisfactory
storage for the labels.
In case the factory manufactures its own tin cans, a tinshop,
equipped with the necessary machinery (see list of machinery
and equipment) should be located in as close and convenient
proximity to the filling and sealing room as possible. A suitable
place is directly opposite the filling room with the railway track
separating the latter from the tinshop. The tinshop should have
two outside doors, opening out on the track, and its machinery
should be so arranged that the tin plate can be unloaded from
the car at one door, is moved back through the machinery and
appears again in the form of finished cans at the other door,
directly opposite the filling room and ready for the reception
of the condensed milk. Instead of erecting a separate building
for the tinshop, the latter may also be conveniently installed in
the second story directly over the filling room.
Where natural gas and gas from municipal corporations is
not available, one or more gasoline gas generators should be
installed. These gas generators contain inflammable material
and should, therefore, be located at a reasonable distance from
the main building.
The tendency in factory construction today is to do away
with all partitions between operating rooms, having all manu-
facturing and packing rooms in one large space. In this case
it is customary and economical to place the vacuum pan and
condensed milk storage tanks on an elevated platform and in-
stalling the hotwells, coolers, vacuum pump, milk pumps,
homogenizer, filling and sealing machines, sterilizers, labeling
and packing machines on the main floor, which also provides
Building and Equipment 39
the necessary space for the stock of supplies and of canned
goods.
List of Equipment.The following is a list of the principal
machinery and equipment needed in an up-to-date condensTr)^
with a capacity of fifty thousand pounds of milk daily
:
BOIIiEB ROOM
Boilers with a total capacity of 400 H. P.
1 boiler feed tank.
1 boiler feed pump.
1 boiler water heater.
ENGZNi: BOOM>
1 40 H. P. engine.
2 well pumps, 150 gallons per minute each.
1 80 light dynamo.
Pipe and thread-cutting tools, anvil and forge.
RECEIVING ROOM
2 1000-pound weigh cans, **low down" style.
2 6-beani milk scales, or other weighing arrange-
ment.
1 can-washing machine with steam and water jets
and air blower for drying the cans.
1 milk sample bottle rack.
HEATING AND CONDENSING DEPARTMENT
6 5000-pound capacity jacketed kettles with revolv-
ing agitators and superheating device.
1 6-foot vacuum pan
^
1 7-foot vacuum pan v or continuous concentrators.
2 vacuum pumps
J
2 500-gallon standardizing vats on scales.
1 6-cylinder homogenizer.
1 internal tube cooler, capacity 5000 to 8000 pounds
per hour, for cooling evaporated milk, or
1 submerged coil cooler, or
2 36-can cooling vats wnth cans, cross bars and pad-
dles complete, or
1
In case municipally generated electricity is available, there is no need
of a Dynamo and much of the equipment may be supplied with direct drive
by motors. This would obviate the installation of a steam engine.
40 BUII^DING AND EqUIPME:N1*
2 5000-lbs. circular cooling vats with vertical coils
for cooling sweetened condensed milk, or
1 submerged coil cooler with high pressure pump
and two SOOO-gallon glass enameled holding
tanks with agitators, for both evaporated milk
and sweetened condensed milk.
1 wash tank.
1 elevator.
1 2-beam platform scale.
1 truck.
FIIiI^ZNO, SEAIHNO AXTT} STEBUiZZINa DEFABTMENS
4 2(X)-gallon condensed and evaporated milk vats.^
2 filling machines for sweetened condensed milk.
2 filling machines for evaporated milk.
4 soldering benches, 5x20 feet, with 10 self-heating
soldering coppers each, or
1 or more sealing machines with can-testing baths,
the number depending on type and capacity of
machine used.
2000 wooden trays holding 24 16-ounce cans each.
2 sterilizers, capacity 75 to 100 cases each, com-
plete with iron trays.
1 double shaker.
2 trucks.
IiABEIiINa AND PACKING DEPARTMENT
2 labeling machines with casers
2 nailing machines.
2 trucks.
TESTING BOOM
2 24-bottle Babcock testers, with one gross of stand-
ard milk test bottles and accessories, complete.
Equipment for chemical and bacteriological analyses
of milk, milk products and sugar.
OFFICES
Usual equipment.
TOUÊT BOOMS
Usual equipment.
*
Not needed if well room is equipped with large holding tanks.
BuiivDiNG AND Equipment 41
OVmEbHSAD STOBAQE BOOM
1 50,000-gallon water tank. This tank is preferably
located outside of factory.
1 4-beam platform scale for sugar.
^-
-
ADDITIONAI^ EQUIPMENT
1 gasoline gas generator (complete), needed in ab-
sence of access to natural gas or municipal gas.
1 15-ton ammonia compressor, with ammonia and
brine pipe lines, circulating pump and brine
tank.
TIN SHOP
Needed in case cans are manufactured at the factory.
2 squaring shears.
2 body cutting machines.
2 lock seamers.
6 presses.
2 crimping machines.
2 soldering floats.
1 can tester with vacuum pump.
1 can wiper.
1 lathe with tools.
1 gasoline gas generator, complete.
1 25 H. P. engine or motor.
200 can crates.
Economic Arrangement of Machinery.In the arrangement
and connection of the machinery, economy of manufacture and
sanitation of the product should receive serious consideration.
The machinery should be so arranged as to reduce to the mini-
mum the space, pumps, pipes and conveyors needed. Pumps,
conveyors, pipes and fittings are expensive, and the space saved
by judicious arrangement of the stationary machinery may be
used to advantage for other purposes.
Human muscle is the most expensive form of motive power.
Wherever muscle can be replaced by machinery and where, by
intelligent arrangement of the machinery, unnecessary steps and
handling can be avoided, the cost of manufacture is reduced.
The matter of insulation of ammonia, brine, steam and water
pipes is an important item as related to the economy of fuel.
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Building and Equipment
For proper and economical insulation the following types of pipe
covering are recommended
:
Ammonia and Brine Lines.
1st layer of tarred felt.

2nd layer of V thick hair felt.
3rd layer of tarred felt.
4th layer of V thick hair felt.
5th layer of tarred felt.
6th layer of wove-felt paper.
7th layer of 8-oz. canvas jacket, sewed on.
8th layer of sizing and one coat of lead and oil paint.
Each layer of hair felt must be securely wound with twine.
Each layer of all material should be coated with hot asphalt,
applied while hot, excepting layers, 6, 7 and 8.
Special seals must be made at all flanges and fittings, and
such flanges and fittings must be insulated independently. This
arrangement will prevent damage to adjoining coverings, should
fittings spring leaks.
Before applying pitch or asphalt, the necessary precautions
must be taken to have the pipes thoroughly dry and the asphalt
or pitch must be hot.
Steam Lines.Air cell asbestos covering, or covering of
equal insulating and lasting quality, one inch thick on pipes,
and fittings, to be built up of asbestos cement to a correspond-
ing thickness; smoothly finished and neatly canvassed, with
metal bands at
18"
intervals. Before putting on the metal bands
the covering should receive two coats of asbestos cold water
paint.
Cold Water Lines.CoA-ering of wool felt, tar paper lined,
sectional, one inch thick on pipes ; fittings to be built up to a
corresponding thickness wath one inch hair felt, the entire line
should be neatly finished with a graded mixture of Portland
cement and asbestos cement, and canvas-jacketed and equipped
with metal bands at
18"
intervals. Before putting on the metal
bands, the covering should receive two coats of asbestos cold
water paint.
Sanitary Arrangement of Machinery.Milk pumps, milk
pipes, milk troughs and other milk conveyors are, at best, ene-
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inies of sanitation. They should be avoided wherever possible.
The gravity system of conveying milk should be used in pref-
erence to the pumping system. Milk pipes should be short and
accessible; all vats sould be of sanitary construction; woot4t*ii-
jackets should not be tolerated
;
all seams in the vats and ket-
tles should be well flushed with solder; milk pumps should be
brass lined; all milk pipes should be of black iron pipe made,
smooth on the inside by sandblasting, or of galvanized iron or
copper heavily tinned over on the inside ; long lines of milk
pipes should be ecjuipped with unions at short distances ; crosses
or sanitary couplings should be used in place of elbows, in
order to render all sections of the milk pipes easily accessible
to flue brushes.
CllAPTKR III.
MILK SUPPLY.
Basis of Buying Milk.The prices which the condensery
pays the patrons are not usually governed by any board of trade.
They do not even necessarily follow the quotations of the but-
ter and cheese market, though they naturally bear a more or less
definite relation to them. In normal times condensery prices
average from about twenty to fifty cents higher per hundred
pounds of milk than those paid by creameries and cheese fac-
tories.
The relation between condensery prices on the one hand
and creamery and cheese factory prices on the other, varies prin-
cipally with the market demand for the finished product and,
the season of the year.
The greater the demand and the brisker the market for
condensed milk, the greater usually is the diflference in price
for whole milk. Thus, during the war the export demand for
condensed milk was very great. This resulted in an extreme
rise of prices which condenseries offered for milk over those
paid by creameries and cheese factories, at least in so far as
exportation was not too greatly limited by shortage in shipping
facilities.
It is customary for the condenseries to pay the highest dif-
ferential over and above creamery and cheese factory prices in
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winter, during the time of low supply, and to drop prices very
close to those of creameries and cheese factories in summer,
during the flush of the milk producing season. Nardin^, assem-
bled comparative milk prices paid by condenseries and cream-
eries and cheese factories in the four main condensed milk-pro-
ducing sections of this country, Illinois, New York and Penn-
sylvania, Wisconsin, and the Pacific Coast States, for the years
1914 to 1918 inclusive. These prices have been summarized in
the following table. They show that in some instances condensery
prices exceeded creamery and cheese factory prices by over one
dollar, while there were times in summer when condensery prices
even dropped slightly below creamery and cheese factory prices.
Formerly condensery prices were announced by the respect-
ive concerns from three to six months in advance. Pf late
years this practice has been more and more abandoned and quo-
tations are issued in advance for one month only. The Midwest
Milk Manufacturers, representing the milk dealers, market milk
plants and condenseries in the Chicago milk district and the
middle western states, confer on the price to be paid for milk
for the succeeding month, toward the close of the preceding
month, and announce these prices for the coming month.
Generally speaking, and as Nardin points out, "the price
in Illinois is subject to prices of fresh milk distributed in Chi-
cago and vSt. Louis. Prices in New York and Pennsylvania
have been subject to the influences of the New York Dairymen's
League, and the price of fresh milk for distribution in the City
of New York. The Wisconsin price is most largely influenced
by butter and cheese prices. The Pacific Coast is, on account
of freight rates, somewhat isolated from the rest of the coun-
try, and the production of evaporated milk on the coast has been
larger in proper to the demands for fresh milk for distribu-
tion in coast territory, than perhaps in any other part of the
country."
The milk condenseries, as a whole, have been slow in adopt-
ing the butterfat content of milk as their basis for payment.
Even up to a few years ago most condenseries were paying
for the milk on the one hundred weight basis and some factories
1
Nardin, Wm. T., Memorandum on Federal Trade Investigation of Milk
Manufacturers, 1918.
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Comparison of Whole Milk Prices Paid by Milk Condenseries in
the Four Large Condensing Territories in the United States,
with Whole Milk Values Based on Market Prices of Butter
and Cheese.
Sections of Country
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by Years
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1914
Illinois:
Mean condensery price
.
1.96 1.87 1.72 1.52 1.31 1.22 1.45 1..56 1.60 1.77 1.79 1.82
Value in butter & cheese 1.34 1.27 1.25 1.17 1.14 1.12 1.10 1.19 1.17 1.15 1.21 1.21
New York and
Pennsylvania:
.
1.96 1.76 1.73 1.41 1.24 1.19 1.35 1.50 1.64 1.89 2.01 1.90
Wisconsin:
.
Value in butter & cheese
1.87 1.82 1.79 1.62 1.40 1.28 1.43 1.47 1.50 1.72 1.77 1.80
1.34 1.27 1.25 1.17 1.14 1.12 1.10 1.19 1.17 1.15 1.21 1.21
Pacific Coast:
.
1.73 1.69 1.66 1.58 1.42 1.45 1.51 1.65 1.74 1.69 1.71 1.61
1915
Illinois:
.
1.85 1.83 1.72 1.51 1.27 1.20 1.35 1.47 1.50 1.66 1.77 1.81
New York and
Pennsylvania:
.
1.95 1.75 1.72 1.41 1.19 1.15 1.30 1.52 1.61 1.87 2.00 2.05
Wisconsin:
.
1.82 1.82 1.70 1.45 1.30 1.22 1.40 1.43 1.48 1.65 1.74 1.72
1.25 1.26 1.19 1.21 1.20 1.15 1.10 1.03 1.07 1.13 1.24 1.40
Pacific Coast:
.
1.51 1.51 1.35 1.30 1.22 1.29 1.38 1.39 1.41 1.50 1.54 1.59
1916
Tlllnois:
.
1.82 1.74 1.63 1.64 1.46 1.34 1.52 1.67 1.67 1.98 2.12 2.25
New York and
Pennsylvania:
.
1.94 1.93 1.74 1.50 1.36 1.27 1.43 1.62 1.80 2.42 2.53 2.57
Wisconsin:
.
1.78 1.72 1.69 1.67 1.52 1.42 1.50 1.60 1.67 1.95 2.15 2.35
Pacific Coast:
.
1.65 1.66 1.64 1.53 1.52 1.47 1.52 1.62 1.69 1.80 1.92 1.98
1917
Illinois:
.
2.25 2.12 2.05 2.37 2.13 1.92 2.20 2.38 2.52 3.00 3.18 3.28
New York and
Pennsylvania:
.
2.49 2.44 2.32 2.24 2.21 2.12 2.39 2.83 2.91 3.00 3.77 3.52
Wisconsin:
.
1.76 1.84 1.99 2.04 2.02 1.88 1.93 2.01 2.21 2.19 2.14 2.19
2.36 2.25 2.12 2.29 2.21 1.93 2.27 2.45 2.43 3.19 3.32 3.22
Pacific Coast:
.
1.76 1.84 1.99 2.04 2.02 1.88 1.93 2.01 2.21 2.19 2.14 2.19
2.06 2.01 2.02 2.09 2.14 2.19 2.32 2.27 2.58 2.67 2.67 2.81
1918
Illinois:
.
3.28 3.15 2.95 2.67 2.10 1.90 2.32 2.80 2.98 3.42 3.74 3.83
New York and
Pennsylvania:
.
3.90 3.68 3.40 2.65 2.61 2.00 2.29 2.85 3.16 3.78 3.96 4.17
Value in butter & chees( 2.24 2.40 2.16 2.00 2.01 2.01 2.15 2.19 2.48 2.78 2.77 3.09
Wisconsin:
.
3.28 3.13 2.88 2.59 2.21 2.07 2.32 2.80 2.98 3.40 3.74 3.84
Pacific Coast:
.
2.84 2.81 2.66 2.35 2.27 2.28 2.60 2.81 3.12 3.30 3.41 3.51
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were still clinging to the custom of Inlying milk by the quart,
using the yardstick for remnant cans. Other factories paid a
stated price per hundred weight for all milk testing say 4 per
cent fat and over and made corresponding reductions for milk
containing less than 4 per cent fat. vStill others paid a premium^
for milk testing above 4 per cent fat. A few concerns only
bought milk on the straight butterfat basis.
As far as the condensery is concerned it is entirely feasible
to pay for all milk strictly on the butterfat basis. Milk rich in
fat, and therefore rich in solids, yields more condensed milk than
milk poor in fat. To pay by the hundred weight, regardless of
quality is a practice which discriminates in favor of breeds of
low-testing milk and against breeds of high-testing milk. This
practice has, in fact, had the result that in the milk supply ter-
ritory of these condenseries the breeds and individuals of cows
producing low-testing milk were encouraged and developed until
they largely predominated, at the expense of breeds of cows pro-
ducing high-testing milk. This situation in turn was responsible
for the popular, though erroneous impression, that milk from the
Holstein, Ayrshire and Brown Swiss breeds is better suited for
milk condensing purposes than milk from the Channel Island
breeds.
Within the last half decade, during which the condensed
milk industry has experienced so great a development, the great
majority of American condenseries have abandoned their old
way of paying for milk by volume, or weight only. Man^ con-
densing concerns are now buying their milk on the straight but-
terfat basis and nearly all of the other condenseries pay for their
milk on the basis of a standard fat content, penalizing the farmer
by lower prices for milk that falls below a specified per cent
of fat, and giving him a bonus for milk in which the per cent
of fat is over the standard figure specified. Thus for example
the price quoted may apply to 100 lbs. of 3.5 per cent milk with
an added differential of say 4 cents for each one tenth per cent
fat above 3.5 per cent and a deducted difi''erential of 4 cents for
each tenth per cent fat below 3.5 per cent.
In countries where one breed overwhelmingly predominates
or where the predominating breeds all yield milk of similar rich-
ness and where the freshening of the majority of cows is fairly
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evenly distributed over the twelve months of the year, the milk
generally continues to be bought on the basis of its weight or
volume, and not by test. Under these conditions the objection
of not paying on the butterfat basis is, in part at least, remov-ed_
The great bulk of the milk supply reaches the condensery
by wagon or by motor truck. Usually part of the cost of trans-
portation is borne by the factory and
part by the farmer. Some milk con-
densing concerns operate concentration
points to which the milk is hauled by
the patrons, and from which it is hauled
to the factory in large glass-lined tanks
Pig-. 8.
mounted on motor trucks. Shipments
Glass-lined steel tank on
hv rîl are less common in this country,
truck for transporting
the uncertainty of rail transportation,
fluid milk to con- .... . , ,.
densery
^^'ith its frequent delays, jeopardizes
Courtesy of The Pfaudier Co.
the quality of the milk. Payments for
the milk are generally made monthly.
Quality.The (|uality of the fresh milk is the first and most
important factor to be considered. The milk condensing factory,
ignoring this fact and accepting milk from unsanitary dairies
and careless dairymen, is bound to pay the penalty for such
neglect sooner or later.
Polluted milk and milk that has not been cooled promptly
and to a reasonably low temperature on the farm, may pass
through the process successfully, if it is not too sour. The con-
densed milk made from it, though, is inferior in flavor and keep-
ing quality, and usually shows signs of deterioration and decay
before it reaches the consumer. The risk of handling such milk
is very great; it may result in total loss to the manufacturer.
The trouble may and often does begin before the process is com-
pleted. Unclean, abnormal, or partly fermented milk, when sub-
jected to the process, is prone to curdle and whey ofif ; the con-
densed milk becomes lumpy and shows other defects. This is
especially true where superheating is practiced and where evap-
orated milk is made.
Milk that has received the best of care on the farm may be
detrimental to the interests of the condensery, if it comes from
cows less than thirty days before their parturition, or from fresh
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cows within the first seven days after calving, or from cows
otherwise in abnormal condition. Such milk is often abnormal
in its chemical properties, and, when subjected to high tempera-
tures, undergoes changes that make its manufacture into a mar-
ketable condensed milk difficult.
Control of Quality.
Every well managed milk condensing
factory plays the part of an educator in the production of sani-
tary milk. The condensery usually issues a set of rules, setting
forth specifically the conditions under which the milk coming
to the factory shall, or shall not be produced. Copies of these
rules, which are generally a part of the contract, are placed in
the hands of all patrons. The condensery employs one or more
dairy inspectors whose business it is to see that the rules are
rigidly enforced. These rules cover, in general, the following
principal points:
1. Cows.The milk must come from healthy cows. Milk
from cows that are diseased, or that have a diseased udder, or
that are otherwise in poor physical condition, will be rejected.
2. Feed and Water.Do not feed weeds, roots, or other feed
stuflfs possessing strong and obnoxious odors,* such as onions,
garlic, turnips,, cabbage, wet distillery slops, decayed, musty or
sour silage, or other fermented feed.
3. Lactation Period.Reject all milk from cows less than
thirty days before, and of the first seven days after calving.
4. Milkers and Milking.Milk with clean, dry hands into
clean utensils and remove the milk to the milk room immediately
after drawn.
5. Straining.Strain the milk in the milk room through a
fine wire mesh strainer (80 to 100 meshes to the inch). Do not
use cloth strainers.
6. Cooling.Cool the milk to 60 degrees F. or below and
keep it at that temperature until it reaches the factory. Do not
mix the warm morning's milk with the co].d night's milk; cool
the morning's milk before mixing, or send it to the factory in
separate cans.
7. Care of Utensils.
'Rinse with cold water, wash with

warm water and washing powder, and rinse with boiling water
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all milk utensils thoroughly after use ; keep them in a clean place
between milkings. Do not store the milk on the farm in cans
that have not been washed by the factory.
8. Stables.Whitewash the stable twice every year ancTre^
move manure daily. (Some condenseries furnish spray pumps
for applying whitewash.)
Inspection of Milk at the Condensery.At the condensery
the milk is subjected to rigid inspection by a man who is, or
should be, an expert on milk inspection ; every can is examined.
Warm milk and milk that is tainted, or smells slightly sour
should be rejected.
Inspection of Milk by Sense of Smell and Taste.In most
cases the milk is inspected with reference to odor. The inspector
quickly raises the cover of each can to his nostrils. The odor in
the cover is typical of that in the can. If it is "off," the can is
rejected. An experienced man on the platform can, by the use
of this method, tell with much accuracy, whether the milk should
pass or not.
Inspection of Milk According to its Temperature.The
temperature is also noted. This need not be done with the ther-
mometer in each case. By placing his hand on the body of the
can, or by noting the warmth of the air and odor in the cover
immediately after removing it, or by the. presence or absence of
small particles of butter floating on the surface of the milk, the
inspector can readily tell if the milk has or has not been properly
cooled. A correct thermometer should always be on the plat-
form for guidance.
Inspection of Milk by the Use of Acid Tests.Since the
degree of acidity, or the sweetness of the milk, is one of the
chief factors that determines its fitness for condensing purposes,
tests that rapidly and accurately determine the per cent of lac-
tic acid in the fresh milk, are of great service.
Some concerns have adopted a definite acid standard of milk,
rejecting all milk containing more than the maximum per cent
of acid of their standard, and they test every can of milk received
with an acid test. This method insures sweet milk in the fac-
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tory, provided that the alkaline solutions used are correct. This
work involves considerable expense, however, and unless the
solution is carefully prepared and made up fresh often, its use
may yield misleading results. Again, when the acid test is per-
formed on the milk of each can, the acceptance or rejection of
the milk depends altogether on the per cent of acid it contains.
Although milk may be otherwise unfit for use, it will pass, as
long as it is low in acidity. Experience has shown that, while
it is necessary for the condensery to decide on a maximum acid-
ity of milk above which all milk be rejected, the nose and the
palate of the experienced inspector are better criterions tnan
the acid test alone, as to the fitness of milk for condensing. Acid
tests are valuable in the case of uncertainty and suspicion as
to the quality of any given can of milk. All milk contaiuing .18
per cent lactic acid or more is dangerous for condensing pur-
poses.
Acid Test for Daily Use, Where Each Can of Milk is Tested.
Stock Solution.Weigh out two hundred grams of sodium
hydrate C. P. and add distilled water to make up one liter.
Keep tightly stoppered.
Solution for Daily Use.Mix 4 c.c. of stock solution with
991 c.c. of distilled water, and add 5 c.c. of pheno^phthalein indi-
cator. The indicator is prepared as follows : dissolve one gram
of dry phenolphthalein in 100 c.c. of 50 per cent alcohol. Each
cubic centimeter of the prepared alkaline solution neutralizes
.01 per cent lactic acid, 18 c.c, of the prepared solution, there-
fore, neutralize .18 per cent lactic acid, when a 17.6 c.c. pipette
is used for measuring out the milk.
Making the Test.With the Babcock pipette, measure 17.6
c.c. into a white cup. With a small dipper, holding exactly 18
c.c, pour 18 c.c. of the prepared solution into the cup; stir or
shake. If the mixture remains faintly pink, it contains less than
.18 per cent acid and will pass; if it turns white, it contains more
than .18 per cent acid and should be rejected or subjected to addi-
tional tests.
The stock solution should be standardized by a chemist.
The prepared solution should be made up daily. Both solutions
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should be kept in glass bottles, tightly corked. The bottle con-
taining the stock solution should be glass-stoppered.
The Boiling Test.Inspection by Heating. The heating-to-
the boiling point of samples of suspicious milk furnishes a most
reliable means to determine the fitness of such milk for condens-
ing. In many instances milk may satisfactorily pass the other
tests and yet it may not be in condition to stand the heat to
which it will be subjected in the process. If it curdles, w^hen
boiled, it is obviously unfit for use. This test shows more than
the acid test above. By its use the operator is able tO' detect
milk otherwise abnormal, such as milk containing colostrum, etc.,
or the proteids of which are unstable for other reasons.
Making the Test.The boiling t-est is simple and can be
manipulated rapidly. A sample of the questionable milk is taken
into a small dipper. The dipper is held up against a steam jet
turned down into the milk. Direct steam is turned into the
milk until it comes to a boil. If flakes or specks of curd cling
to the sides of the dipper, the milk is unfit for use.
An alcohol lamp or gas burner on the platform may be used
for heating the sample. In this case a few cubic centimeters
of the milk are discharged with an ordinary pipette into an ordi-
nary test tube, such as are in common use in the chemical labo-
ratory and can be obtained from the drug store. The tube is
held over the flame and the milk comes to a boil in less than
a minute. If the milk is in good condition the sides of the glass
tube remain perfectly clear. If it curdles upon heating, the sides
of the tube show fine specks of the curd. The appearance of
these specks condemns the milk.
In the case of milk intended for evaporated milk, the boiling
test is not sufficiently severe to reveal the fitness of the milk
for the sterilizing process. For the reliable detection of unde-
sirable milk for this purpose, the use of, the pilot sterilizer or test
sterilizer is recommended. vSuspicious samples of milk are filled
into tins, the tins are sealed and placed into the pilot sterilizer
where they are given the same process of sterilization as is
used for the finished product. MJlk that withstands this sterili-
zation can be depended upon to also pass safely through the
process of manufacture. Milk that curdles in this test steriliza-
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tion
obviously shows its unfitness, the cause of which should be
promptly
investigated and remoyed.
Fig. 9.
The
Sediment
Test.This
test shows the relative amount of
dirt present in milk. One-half
pint is passed through a small cir-
cle of absorbent cotton and the
amount of mechanical impurities
present in the milk is indicated by
the color of the cotton after filtra-
tion. In order to hasten the filtra-
tion, the milk is forced through
the filter under slight pressure;
this is accomplished by a rubber
bulb attachment to the apparatus,
as shown in the accompanying
Vi'o- Q
^^'
^
^
^fe-
-'^
The sediment tester
rig*. 10. Cotton Pilters
Glean milk Dirty milTr
If the cotton retains a white or creamy color, the milk is
relatively free from filth. .Milk produced under unsanitary con-
ditions stains the cotton brown or black.
These co+ton filters may be pasted on a sheet of paper similar
to a milk sheet, arranged so that the circles are placed opposite
the respective patron's name or number. When shown to the
patrons who come to the factor}^ they furnish a most effective
object lesson to them. When the milk reaches the factory on
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route wagons or by rail, cards similar to Figure 11 may be
mailed to the patrons. The evidence is so conclusive that even
the most obstinate patron cannot help admitting his guilt and
can usually be induced to ''clean up."

-
MI LK CONDENSING COMPANY
SEDIMENT CARD
Name
/ \
/ \
/ \
v /
\ /
\ /
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^
THIS IS THE AMOUNT OF DIRT IN
ONE PINT OF YOUR MILK
ADDRESS
DATE
NO.
Plfif.
11
Fermentation Tests.
^These tests are of great value in the

rapid determination of the kind of bacteria wîth which the milk
from individual patrons is contaminated. Glass tubes are filled
one-half full of milk from each patron. These tubes are set in
a constant water bath at 100 degrees F. and the changes which
milk undergoes are noted after six, twelve and twenty-four hours.
A solid curd with a clear whey indicates that lactic acid
bacteria are the chief organisms and that the milk has been
produced under cleanly conditions. These organisms are killed
when the milk is heated in the hot wells. Such milk therefore
is safe, unless it contains excessive acid, as shown by acid test.
A curd with gas holes, or that which is torn to pieces in the
tubes, shows the presence of gas-producing germs. These come
largely from manure and other hlth. Among these are Bacillus
coli communis, the natural inhabitant of the colon of the animal,
and butyric acid organisms which are spore bearers. The latter
especially may give rise to serious milk defects, causing "swell
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Factory Sanitation
heads." Patrons scndini4- such milk should be looked after at
once.
If the curd dissolves, or no curd is formed and the milk
changes into a transparent liquid, it usually is contaminated by
germs from the dust of hay and bedding, or polluted water. To
this class of organisms belong Bacillus subtilis. Bacillus fluores-
cens liquifaciens, Plectridium foetidum. Bacillus putrificus, etc.
Some of these are violent gas producers and most of them are
spore-bearers. They are the cause of the most disastrous milk
defects. Dairies from which such milk comes should be vigor-
ously inspected and all milk from them should be rejected, until
the patrons have learned how to furnish sanitary milk.
Milk that remains unchanged for twenty-four hours when
subjected to the fermentation test, suggests that it contains some
preservative. It is possible, however, for milk produced under
ideally sanitary conditions to remain normal and unchanged even
at these high temperatures for several days. Where milk comes
to the factory in bulk as is the case in the condensery, samples
showing abnormal keeping quality should be regarded with sus-
picion, and the respective dairies should receive immediate and
thorough inspection.
Tests for Butterfat and Specific Gravity.In the factories
where the milk is not paid for on the butterfat basis, composite
samples should be taken daily, to be tested for fat and specific
gravity, at regular intervals of from two to four wrecks, in order
to detect possible adulterations by skimming or by the addition
of water. For specific directions for the Babcock test, the use of
the lactometer and tests for preservatives see Chapter XXX
"Chemical Tests and Analyses of Milk and Milk Products."
FACTORY SANITATION.
In the previous paragraphs, special emphasis wâs placed on
the great importance of a good quality of fresh milk. It is equally
essential that the factory be kept in exemplary condition as to
cleanliness and sanitation. This is necessary because of its eflfect
on the patrons and on the wholesomeness and marketable prop-
erty of the finished product.
Effect on Patrons.It does not take the watchful eye of the
intelligent patron, who daily comes to the factory, very long to
Factory Sanitation 55
learn, whether the manufacturer gives his milk as good care as
he gave it on the farm. A good example set by the factory will
mean much toward instilling the patron with ambition to do
likewise on the farm. Shiftlessness is a contagious disease, "to
which the average farmer is very susceptible. It is, therefore,
inconsistent for the factory to issue and enforce rules of sanitation
for the dairy farmer when, within its own walls, all principles
of sanitation are violated.
Effect on Wholesomeness of the Product.Uncleanliness
and filth interfere with the wholesomeness of the product. Con-
densed milk made in a factory ignoring sanitation, may contain
certain products of decay which are poisonous to the human
system. Again, it may contain germs of infectious diseases and
thus become the cause of widespread epidemics of these diseases
and possibly claim many victims. As a matter of common decency
and of duty to the commonwealth, the condensery should pay
close attention to cleanlines.s in all operations.
Effect on the Marketable Property of the Product.Again,
uncleanliness in the factory is bound to bring financially dis-
astrous results. The seriousness of the disaster is greatly aug-
mented by the fact that the consequences of neglect are usually
not apparent until after the goods have reached the market. The
pollution of condensed milk with impurities and filth in the
factory, shortens the life of the product Such condensed milk
is of very poor keeping quality. It may reach the market and the
consumer in condition that causes it to be rejected, resulting in
a complete loss to the manufacturer. The manufacturer allowing
such conditions to exist, is usually the last man to realize and
admit that he is at fault, which renders attempts to locate and
stop such defects exceedingly difficult. Furthermore, instead
of helping to build U]) the trade and to advertise the brand, he
demoralizes it.
How to Keep Factory in Sanitary Condition.Cleanliness
in the factory is absolutely essential. The milk vats should be
rinsed witli plenty of water and scrubbed and steamed thor-
oughly, as soon as possible after use. The copper kettles and
vacuum pans should be rinsed, then scoured with sandpaper or
emery cloth, then rinsed and steamed thoroughly. The milk
pipes should l)e scoured by running flue brushes through, flush-
56
Factory Sanitation
ing them with clean water and steaming them until they are
scalding hot. In the case of milk pipes of excessive length, they
should be well flushed wîth hot alkaline water. Milk pumps
should be taken apart every day and freed thoroughly from all
remnants of milk. The water in the cooling tanks should be
changed as often as is necessary to insure clean water in them
at all times. The homogenizer should receive special attention,
all its valves should be thoroughly cleaned and steamed daily.
The cooling coils should be scalded before use. The filling
machines for evaporated milk should be freed from all milk,
rinsed and steamed thoroughly and no remnants of milk should
be allowed to stick to tht valves. The filling machines for
sweetened condensed milk should be emptied and completely
washed, at least once per week, and protected from dust ^nd flies
by covering them when not in use. The tin cans should be stored
in a clean room and every precaution should be taken to guard
against their defilement from dirt, dust, insects and mice. Where
possible they should be sterilized before use.
All vats, kettles, milk conve3ôrs, vacuum pans, milk pumps,
and all machinery coming in contact with milk, should be flushed
and steamed again in the morning, as soon as the condensery
opens. The sugar chute should be kept clean, care being taken
that no damp or wet sugar remains in it. Special attention should
be given to the washing of the farmers' cans. After washing
with brush and hot water containing some good washing powder,
they should be thoroughly rinsed, then steamed until they are
hot. If possible they should be dried by an air blast.
The floors and walls of the factory should be kept in sanitary
condition. Accumulated rubbish should be removed and sewers
and drains should be disinfected at regular intervals.
Can Washing.Another extremely important, and often
woefully neglected feature, relating to the effective management
of th^p^Biatron from the standpoint of high quality of milk, is the
condition of the milk cans which the factory returns to the patron.
The patron is bound to lose his interest in taking painstaking
care of his milk when the cans returned to him by the factory are
filthy and foul-smelling. Nor need the factory expect the milk,
it receives in such cans, to be either of high quality for condens-
ing or wholesome. And yet an astounding proportion of con-
IÂCTORY Sanitation 57
densery cans reach the farmer in condition, unfit to receive and
ship milk in.
Proper can washing consists of four essential operations^
namely, washing, rinsing, steaming and drying.
The cans should be washed until all remnants of milk are
removed. They should be rinsed with hot water until all
of
the
dirty wash water is flushed out. They should be steamed until
"piping-hot/' and they should be dried until ''bone-dry."
There is now admirable equipment available on the market
for accomplishing these four important purposes, affording ade-
quate facilities to enable the condensery to return to the patron
cans that are clean, sterile and dry.
Care of Milk in the Factory Prior to Manufacture.The
problem of so handling the milk in the factory, from the time it
arrives until it is heated preparatory to evaporation, is an im-
portant one, that has received much careful consideration by the
foremost condensed milk men. Since bacteriological analyses
have shown that, under favorable temperature conditions, the
micro-organisms present in milk are capable of doubling in
number once every twenty minutes, it is essential that the milk
either be heated to high enough temperatures to restroy germ
life, or be cooled to a temperature low enough to stop growth
and multiplication, as soon as possible.
Both practices are feasible, but
to heat the large volumes of milk that
arrive at the factory, all within a few
hours, would tax the equipment of the
factory under average conditions very
heavily. And unless the condensery
were equipped with very large vacu-
um pan capacity, much of this heated
milk would have to lie idle in the
forewarmers for hours, avaiting its
Pigr. 12. turn for condensation. This would
Qiass-iined tank for cooiingr
^g Undesirable and
miorht
prove harm-
ana holding- milk before
^
^
manufacture
ful to the quality of the finished
Courtesy of The Pfaudler Co.
nroduct
Efforts have, therefore, been made, especially within recent
years, to provide a practical and economical method of cooling
58
Factory Sanitation
the milk as soon as it arrives and of holding it at a low tempera-
ture until ready for heating- and condensing. This has led to
diverse practices, such as running the milk over a surface coil
cooler into a jacketed tank, or cooling it by running it into a
large tank equipped with cold air blowers, or cooling the milk in
large vats equipped with revolving coils, etc.
One of the later methods for refrigerating the milk consists
of the use of large, usually circular, glass enameled steel tanks.
These tanks are completely surrounded on their sides and bottom
by a cold water or brine jacket and are equipped with a milk
distributing device that causes the inflowing milk to be sprayed
by gravity against the top of the sides of the tank and to per-
colate in a thin layer down the sides. In this manner the cooling
is instantaneous, the entire sides of the tank being surtounded
by the cooling medium. It is aiiped to cool the milk to about
40 to> 45 degrees F. and to hold it at this temperature until ready
for manufacture.
These glass enameled tanks have many advantages ; they
minimize the initial cost of the necessary equipment, reducing
the number of costly vacuum pans, and forewarmers, required
;
they cut down labor cost, because they reduce the equipment to
fewer pieces to operate and to clean ; they are of such construc-
tion that they are easily and quickly cleaned and readil}^ kept in
proper sanitary condition, the smooth and pore-free enamel yields
more readily to the brush than copper surfaces; they avoid all
possibility of chemical action of the milk on metal and, therefore,
are a reliable safeguard against the development of metallic
flavor in the milk.
The use' of these large holding tanks also facilitates the
standardization of the milk for fat and solids not fat. For detailed
directions on standardizing see Chapter XXIX.
PART II.
MANUFACTURE OF SWEETENED
CONDENSED MILK
Chapter IV.
DEFINITION.
Sweetened condensed milk is cow's milk, condensed at the
ratio of
2I/3
to
2%
parts of fresh milk to 1 part condensed milk.
It contains considerable quantities of sucrose, usually about
40 per cent, to preserve it. It is of semi-fluid consistency and
reaches the market in hermetically sealed tin cans, varying in
size from eight ounces to one gallon, and in barrels similar to
glucose barrels, holding from three hundred to seven hundred
pounds of condensed milk. When made properly, sweetened
condensed milk will keep for many months, but is best when
fresh.
HEATING.
Purpose.The first step in the process is-tO' heat the milk to
near the boiling point. There are three chief reasons for which
the milk is heated, namely, to destroy most of the bacteria, yeast,
molds and other organized and unorganized ferments, to facilitate
the solution of the sucrose, and to prevent the milk from burning
on to the heating surface in the vacuum pan.
Destruction of Ferments.When the fresh milk arrives at
the factory it contains micro-organisms in varying numbers and
of different species. In some cases disease-producing bacteria
may be present, rendering the milk dangerous to the health and
life of the consumer, were it not heated to temperatures high
enough to destroy these germs. Again, milk may contain bac-
teria, yeast, molds and enzymes that cause it to undergo un-
desirable fermentations which, if allowed to pass into the con-
densed milk, may tend to shorten the life and impair the whole-
someness and marketable properties of the latter.
60 SwKe:te:nEd Condensed MilkHeating
Solution of Sucrose.It is very essential that all the cane
sugar which is added to the milk be completely dissolved, jn
order to lessen the tendency of the sugar to form large crystals
in the finished product. Undissolved sugar crystals in condensed
milk act in a physical way much as bacteria in fluid milk do in a
bacteriological way. They multiply rapidly, and such condensed
milk usually precipitates its sugar before the product reaches
the market. The presence of excessively large sugar crystals
makes the product gritty and causes the formation of a sediment
in the bottom of the cans; this is objectionable to the consumers.
When the milk is heated to the proper temperature before con-
densing, the solution of the cane sugar is facilitated and the
tendency toward grittiness is minimized.
Prevention of Burning Milk on Heating Surface.If cold
milk comes in contact with a steam-heated surface and is not agi-
tated vigorously, it bakes or burns onto this heating surface. The
milk in the vacuum pan is heated or kept hot by means of the
steam jacket and coils. These radiators are charged with steam
under pressure and consequently give ofif a high degree of heat.
If cold milk is drawn into the vacuum pan, the milk remains
calm for a considerable length of time. During this time it is
bound to bake or burn on the heating surface, giving the product
a burnt flavor, causing it to contain brown specks and retarding
the process of evaporation. If the milk is hot when it enters the
pan, the reduced pressure in the pan causes it to boil violently at
once, avoiding all danger of sticking to and burning on the heat-
ing surface and making possible maximum rapidity of evapora-
tion.
Temperature.In most factories the milk is heated to from
180 degrees F. to 200 degrees F. This temperature is sufficient
to accomplish the three purposes. Heating the milk to the
boiling point tends to give it a rather pronounced cooked flavor,
which is objectionable. However, in the case of danger of con-
tamination of the milk with resistant types of undesirable bac-
teria, it may become necessary to practice boiling the milk.
Manner of Heating.Thorough, efficient and rapid heating
of large volumes of milk to temperatures near the boiling point
is a problem that requires careful consideration. The tendency
Sweetened Condensed MiIvK
Heating 61
of the milk to stick to the heating surface is a permanent obstacle
and efforts to overcome this frequently result in sacrificing thor-
oughness of heating.
A variety of methods and numerous different types of ma-
chines are used for this purpose in the different milk condensing
factories. Some use large copper kettles in which the milk is
heated by turning steam direct into the milk. Others use jacketed
copper kettles equipped with a revolving agitator. The milk is
heated by turning steam under
pressure into the jacket and the
burning of the milk is prevented by
keeping the milk in constant motion.
In this case the milk is usually
heated to about 170 degrees F. by
the jacket and from there on the
temperature is raised to that desired,
by turning steam direct into the hot
milk. Still others are heating the
milk by means of large continuous
pasteurizers in which case hot water
or steam serves as the heating medi-
um. The milk passes in a thin layer
between two water-heated surfaces,
one of which is revolving. In some
factories the milk is forced through a series of pipes inclosed in
a hot water or steam jacket.
Finally, in some condenseries a combination of the cou-
tinuous pasteurizer and the plain or jacketed kettle is used. The
milk is heated to nearly the desired temperature in the pasteur-
izer. From there it flows into the kettle, where the heating is
completed. This method insures efficient heating and, at the
same time, if operated i)roperly. it prevents scorching of the
milk on the heating surface.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Methods of
Heating.In most factories in this country the first named
method is used. Steam is turned direct into the milk until it
boils up. This is the oldest and most primitive method. While
very simple in operation, this method has some objections. At
Tig. 13.
The hot well or forewanuer
Courtesy of Arthur Harris & Co.
62
Sweh:te:ned Condensed Mii.k
Heating
best, much of the steam used condenses in the milk, increasing
th(^ amount of water that has to be evaporated. It, therefore,
prolongs the process of condensing and increases the cost of
manufacture. This is especially true where the boilers are
located at some distance from the hot wells and the steam pipes
are not well insulated, causing the steam to be "wet," and when
the milk to be heated is cold. It is estimated that the amount
of extraneous water thus added to the milk increases the bulk
.of the milk by about one-sixth of its original volume. The steam
is often associated with impurities, such as cylinder oil from
the engine, boiler compounds used in the boilers, scales from the
inside of the pipes, etc. These various impurities cannot possbily
improve, but may seriously injure the quality of the milk. It is
generally conceded by those who have given this matter careful

Pig". 14. Steam rosette for heating- milk
thought, that the turning of steam direct into the milk shortens
the life of the product and causes it to develop a stale flavor,
which may degenerate into an oily flavor. The same defect is
noted also when cream is heated by turning steam into it. The
prolonged exposure of the milk to the condensing process, as the
result of the addition to the milk of considerable quantities of
condensed steam, is an additional objection.
From the above discussion it is obvious that the heating of
the milk by bringing it in direct contact with free steam has
some objections.
Just to what extent this practice jeopardizes
the quality has not been very conclusively demonstrated. But
it is recommended that the heating with direct steam, if it must
be practised, b^ confined to the last stages of the heating process,
Sweetened Condensed Mii.k
Addition of Sugar 63
that is, that the milk be heated to pasteurizing temperature,
170 degrees F. or thereabout, by the use of a continuous pas-
teurizer, or a jacketed kettle, or other similar means, and that
from there on only to the desired temperature, direct steam bem-
used.
ADDITION OF SUGAR.
Considerable quantities of sucrose are added to the con-
densed milk for the purpose of preserving it.
Kinds of Sugar.In order to convey to the milk preservative
properties, that kind of sugar must be used which does not readily
undergo fermentation and which has the power of inhibiting bac-
terial activity when dissolved in a concentrated solution. Glucose
could be purchased at a very low cost, but it is not suitable for
this purpose, since it is, in itself, very unstable and fermentable.
It has no preservative qualities, even in concentrated solutions.
Sucrose, saccharose, or cane sugar, CioIIogOn,
properly refined,
ferments with difficulty in concentrated solutions, and has the
power of retarding the growth of bacteria and other ferments
ordinarily present in sweetened condensed milk. It is, therefore,
very satisfactory and useful in this connection.
Beet sugar, which is chemically indentical with cane sugar,
is used in European countries very largely in the place of cane
sugar. On the continent the beet sugar industry is an important
factor. With the climate adapted to the growing of sugar beets
and the labor relatively cheap, beet sugar can be secured by the
European condenseries at lov/er cost than cane sugar. In America,
where the annual sugar cane crop is large and where the high
cost of labor renders the expense of growing sugar beets relative^*
ly high, there is practically no difference between the price of
cane sugar and beet sugar. When American beet sugar was
used in the condenseries during the infancy of the beet sugar
industry, this sugar was found undesirable, often giving rise to
fermented condensed milk. It was then supposed by the con-
densed milk men that beet sugar contained very resistant spore-
bearing bacteria, which followed the beets from the soil into the
refined sugar. This conclusion is highly improbable, as the
temperatures and chemicals employed in the process of beet
sugar making are prohibitive of the passage of living bacteria
64 Swee:tenkd Condensed MiIvK
Addition of Sugar
from the soil to the finished sugâr. It is possible, however, that
the standard of refinement of American beet sugar, during the
earlier days of its manufacture, was Ioav and that some of the
beet sugar on the market may have contained small amounts of
acid, invert sugar and other impurities, ingredients of such
a
nature as to render the sugar prone to give rise to fermentation
and, therefore, condemn its use in the milk condensery.
Wliile the beet sugar on the market today appears to have
reached a very high state of refinement and is, according to the
best authorities, equal in purity to cane sugar, it is still shunned
by the American condenseries, which insist that nothing but
cane sugar will do. However, whenever a shortage occurs of the
sugar cane crop in the West Indies, raw European beet sugar is
imported into the United States and it all emerges from* our sea-
board refineries as "pure cane sugar." It is not improbable, there-
fore, that the sugar supply of many American condenseries today
consists at times largely of beet sugar, though it is purchased
under the name of cane sugar.
There is no good reason why the best refined beet sugar,
manufactured today in this country and elsewhere, should not
give fully as good results for condensing purposes as the same
quality of cane sugar. Tests made at the California Agricultural
Experiment vStation^ led to the conclusion that the two kinds
of sugar, cane sugar and beet sugar, were equally valuable for
canning and identical in their behavior when of the same fineness
of crystallization.
Beet Sugar Cannot be Detected from Cane Sugar.
While
the raw sugar from the two diflferent sources, the sugar cane
and the sugar beet, takes on the character of the impurities from
which it has not yet been freed (the raw product of the sugar
cane is pleasant in flavor, the raw product from the sugar beet
is acrid and disagreeable in flavor), the sucrose or so-called pure
cane sugar, can be and is crystallized out, and in every case the
sugar is identical in chemical composition, appearance and prop-
erties. "By no chemical test can the pure crystallized sugar
from these two diflferent sources be distinguished.
"-
1913
1
California Agricultural Experiment Station, Circular No. 33.
2
United States Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin No. 535,
SwEiKTENED CONDEI^SKD MlLKADDITION OF SuGAR 65
Quality of the Sugar.Since the sugar, sucrose, is added for
the purpose of preserving the condensed milk, it is obvious that
none but the best quality of refined sucrose is admissible. Low
grade sucrose is a product dangerous to the condensed mi4k
business. It is apt to contain sufficient quantities of acid and
invert sugar, to givê bacteria and yeast an opportunity to start
fermentation. When once started, the destruction of the product
is almost inevitable. In years of failure of the cane sugar crop,
when the prices of sucrose soar high, condenseries yield frequent-
ly to the temptation of buying lower grades of sugar. The result
invariably is an abnormally large output of condensed milk that
"goes wrong."
It is very important that the sugar in the lactory be stored
where it will keep dry. Sucrose has hygroscopic properties.
When exposed to an atmosphere saturated with moisture it ab-
sorbs water. In damp storage it is prone to become lumpy,
moldy and frequently sour. W^hen these precautions are neglected
there is danger of defective condensed milk, causing the cans on
the market to swell, due to gaseous fermentation.
Adulteration of sugar with foreign admixtures, such as white
sand, white clay, starch, or lime dust is rare, and occurs usually
only in pulverized sugar. For the detection of these adulterants,
add a spoonful of the suspicious sugar to a glass of hot water
and stir. Pure sugar will dissolve completely, while most of the
common impurities are insoluble and will settle to the bottom.
The purchase of coarsely granulated sugar is an effective
safeguard, insuring freedom from these adulterants. Powdered
sugar should not be used in the condensery.
Amount of Sugar.The amount of sucrose used varies in
different countries, with dift'erent manufacturing concerns, in
different factories of the same company and at different seasons
of the year. The normal variations range between twelve and
eighteen pounds of sucrose per one hundred pounds of fresh
milk. Most factories use about 16 per cent.
It is not advisable to overstep the limits above indicated.
Condensed milk serves as a substitute for fresh milk. The more
sucrose it contains, the greater is the difference in composition
and properties between the condensed milk and th-e fresh milk.
(y6 SweetenKi) Condensed Miek
Addition of Sugar
Sucrose is not as readily digested as the other ingredients of
milk; therefore, the presence of excessive amounts of cane sugar
in condensed milk tends to reduce its digestibilit}- and its whole-
someness as a food. Again, while normal milk .is a well-balanced
food in itself, the presence of large amounts of cane sugar in
it causes this equilibrium to be disturbed, the condensed milk
being excessively rich in carbohydrates and relatively poor in
proteids. These facts are specially significant where coudensed
milk is used for infant feeding and by persons with weak
digestion.
On the other hand, sweetened condensed milk depends for its
preservation on the sucrose. This class of condensed milk is not
sterile and is prevented from rapipd deterioration by the pre-
servative action of the sucrose only. Therefore, the snjaller the
amount of sncrose it contains, the greater the danger from the
activity of ferments and the lower its. keeping quality.
The relative prices of cane sugar and of fresh milk also
govern the amount of cane sugar u!êd in many factories. In
summer, milk prices are low and sugar prices are high, while in
winter the relative prices are reversed. Hence there is a tendency
on the part of the manufacturer to use less sugar in summer than
in winter.
Again, the amount of cane sugar used varies according to
the kind of market for which the condensed milk is intended.
Milk put on the market in hermetically sealed cans is generally
exposed to more unfavorable conditions and is older by the time
it reaches the consumer than milk sold in barrels. It is customary
to use about sixteen pounds of cane sugar for every one hundred
pounds of fresh milk for canned goods, and about twelve to four-
teen pounds of cane sugar for barrel goods.
Finally, there is a strong tendency in some localities for
sweetened condensed milk made in May and June, to thicken
rapidly and become cheesy with age. This can easily be prevented
by the use of more cane sugar in the milk manufactured during
these months. (See Chapter XXII on ''Condensed Milk
Defects.")
A more accurate method of determining the amount of sugar
that should be added to the original milk in order to secure a
SwKKTENED Condensed Mii^k
Addition oj? Sugar 67

definite desired percenta^sê of cane sugar in the finished product,
is to accurately test and standardize the original fluid milk for
fat and solids not fat and then calculate the pounds of sugar to be
added on the basis of the ôtal pounds of fat or of solids present.
For detailed directions see Chapter XXIX on ''Standardization."
Mixing the Sugar.The sugar is added to the hot milk be-
fore the latter enters the vacuum pan. In some factories a
separate tank is provided for this purpose. Small portions of
the hot milk are allowed to flow into this tank. To these the
sugar is added. This tank is called the sugar well. It is usually
equipped with a m,echanical reversible stirrer, moving to and fro
on an eccentric, to facilitate the solution of the sugar. The milk
from the heater and from the sugar well runs into a tank sunk
into the floor of the well room, the ground well, from which the
mixed sweetened milk is drawn into the vacuum pan. In other
factories the sugar well and ground well are one and the same
tank, into which the milk runs direct from the heater. In this
case it is advisable to set a wîre mesh strainer (sixty to eighty
meshes to the inch) over the sugar wêll. The sugar is placed
into this strainer, a little at a time: the hot milk from the heater
passing into and through the strainer dissolves the sugar. A
paddle or stick should be used to stir the sugar in the strainer.
For greater convenience and economy of labor, the sugar barrels
and scales are placed on the floor over the well room. The
sugar is transferred to the strainer below through a sugar chute
which may be equipped at the lower end with an adjustable cut-
off to regulate the sugar coming down. Or 'the kettles, hot
wells or sugar wêlls in which the sugar is added to the milk,
are sunk into the floor sufficiently to facilitate the emptying of
the sugar barrels direct from the floor into the milk. In- this
case no sugar chute. is needed. Other factories dissolve their
sugar in boiling water in a separate tank, and draw this syrup
into the vacuum pan together with the hot milk. This is a very
commendable practice, as it minimizes the danger of undissolved
sugar crystals escaping into the pan. Moreover, this watery
syrup can be boiled without danger of giving the milk a cooked
flavor.
68 Sweetened Condensed Mii.k
Condensing
Chapter V.
CONDENSING.
From the ground well in the well room the sweetened milk
is drawn into the vacuum pan, where it is condensed under
reduced pressure. The vacuum pan is usually located on the
second floor over the well room, or in the well itself, in which
case it is elevated above the floor six to eight feet. The vacuum
pan is connected with the vacuum pump, which should be in-
stalled near the pan.
Description of the Vacuum Pan.
The vacuum pan is a retort in
which the milk is heated and evapo-
rated in partial vacuum. The origin
of the term "pan" has not been
satisfactorily explained. In the early
and experimental days of the manu-
facture of condensed milk, the milk
was evaporated in open kettles,
called pans. It is probable that the
name of this primitive apparatus
was passed on to the more perfected
machinery now in use.
The vacuum pans are construct-
ed of copper, iron, steel or bronze
Practically all of the vacuum pans
used for condensing milk are made
of copper throughout ; they are of
various styles and sizes. The pre-
dominating size used in milk con-
denseries is the ''six-foot pan." By the term six-foot is meant a
retort measuring six feet in diameter.
There are two general types of vacuum pans on the market
;
pans that are relatively wide in diameter and shallow in depth,
and pans of relatively narrow diameter and w^hich have a deep
body. Both types are claimed, by their respective manufacturers,
to have special advantages, such as ease of operation, uniformity
of action, economy of fuel and of water, and rapidity of evapora-
PifiT. 15.
7acuTim pan and condenser
Courtesy of Groen Mfg. Co.
Swe:ktkne:d ,Conde:nse:d Mii.k
Condensing 69
tion
;
the opinions of tlie users of these pans are also at variance
concerning their relative merits.
The advocates of the wide, shallow pan claim that this type
Fig-. 16
Vacuum pan and condenser
Courtesy of
Arthur Harris & Co.
Fig*. 16-A. Coveringr and instaation for
vacuum pans
70 Swe;e:tb:ned Conde;nsed Milk-j-Condensing
of pan makes possible such an arrangement of the heating sur-
face as to take care of the maximum amount of milk with the
minimum depth of milk o\êr the heating surface and that this
arrangement is most desirable. They hold that because the wide
and shallow pan offers a larger area of evaporating surface, it
therefore makes possible more rapid evaporation than the narrow,
deep pan. They further emphasize that in the wide, shallow
pan, the milk boils more quietly, is under better control and is
less apt to be carried. over into the condenser and lost, than in
the narrow, deep pan.
The advocates of the
narrow, deep pan claim that
their type of pan increases
the rapidity of eva^poration
because it causes the milk
to pass over the heating sur-
face more rapidly. When
the pan is in operation, the
boiling milk travels from the
center of the bottom toward
the periphery where it rises,
rolls over the coils, and re-
turns to the center. It is
claimed that a pan with a
shallow jacket, such as the
narrow, deep pans have,
causes the milk to roll over
higher, especially if the coils
are close to the periphery
and leave plenty of vacant
space in the center of the
pan. This, in turn, means
more rapid circulation of the
milk, causing it to pass over the heating surface at greater speed,
and oftener, which naturally enables the,milk to utilize more heat
and, therefore, to evaporate more quickly, because in such pans
the milk rolls over higher, they require a deeper body.
Experience has demonstrated that for maximum rapidity of
evaporation, other factors being the same, maximum rapidity of
Fig". 17. Vacutuu pan and condensez
Courtesy of Mojonnier Bros. Co.
Swe;e:te:ne;d Condrnskd MiivK
Conde:nsing 71
circulation of the milk over the heating surface is indispensable.
It is further obvious that the rapidity of evaporation is in direct
relation to the area of the heating- surface.
Rapidity of circulation of the milk demands that thefei:?^-
no hindering counter currents and that the milk be permitted
to circulate with maximum freedom in one direction.. This can
best be accomplished by leaving a large open space in the center
for the milk to return to the bottom after it has boiled up and
over the coils from the periphery.
In order to have the coils so ar-
ranged as to permit this maximum and
unhindered circulation of the milk, the
pan must have a certain height or
depth, so as to admit the necessary
heating surface.
With the growing recognition of
these principles, vacuum pan manufac-
turers are therefore more and more
tending toward the style of pan with a
tall body in proportion to its diameter.
The vacuum pan consists of four
main parts, namely, the jacket or bot-
tom, the body or vapor belt, the dome
and the condenser.
The Jacket forms the bottom of
the pan. The inside wall is copper, the
outside cast iron. It generally is con-
cave, the curve varying in different
types of pans from a depth of a few-
inches to two and one-half feet. The
steam space in the jacket between
inner ,and outer walls is about two
inches w'jde. It is equipped wath two
steam inlets and one or two steam
outlets. In some pans some or all of
the steam outlets of the coils also ex-
haust through the jacket.
In the center of the bottom there is an opening, from two
to three inches in diameter, for the discharge of the condensed
Pig". 18
Vacuam pan and condenser
Courtesy of C. E. Rogers
72 SwEKTENEjD Conde:nse;d Milk
Condensing
milk, fitted with a valve. In the case of pans that have no
special "striking" or sampling cup, this discharge is equipped
with two valves and a short nipple between valves, to make
possible the sampling of the condensed milk while the pan is in
operation.
The Body or Vapor Belt represents the main part of the
pan. It is cylindrical, of varying height and is equipped with
copper coils w^hich have their outlets either through the jacket
or the walls of the body. Their upper ends connect, through
the body of the pan, with the main steam line. Most pans are
equipped with two to three or more coils located at diflferent
elevations. Since steam should be turned into the coils only when
they are covered with the milk, it is desirable to have several
short independent coils rather than but one large on^. This
will give a larger range of the quantity of milk that can be con-
densed and increases the speed of evaporation. The coils vary
in diameter from about three to six inches. The upper and outer
coils are the larger ones. The diameter and length of the coils
necessarily vary with and are limited by the capacity of the pan.
The shorter each individual coil, and the greater the number of
independent coil sections and the greater the total heating sur-
face, consistent with maximum rapidity of circulation of the
milk and with easy access to all parts of the jacket and coils,
the better. Other things being equal, the more square feet of
heating surface, the less steam pressure, by the gauge, is required
to furnish the necessary heat for maximum evaporation. This
is important because high steam pressure in the jacket and coils
means exposure of the milk to high temperature, which is un-
desirable. The heating surface should be sufficient to make
possible the complete condensation of the steam in the jacket
and coils. If the heating surface is inadequate, more steam has
to be turned into the jacket and coils, in order to secure the
necessary heat for rapid evaporation, than will condense ; free
steam will blow through and out of the coils, resulting in un-
economic and wasteful use of fuel, and jeopardizing the quality
of the product. The presence of numerous but short coils also
increases the intensity of heat-transmission, as practically all
of the steam is condensed in the uppermost convolution of each coil.
There is a considerable variation in the area of the heating sur-
Condensing 73
Pig. 19. Steam coils in Harris pan
face in different makes of pans, ranging from about 120 to 205
square feet, in the case of six foot pans.
In the latest improvement
in coils each independent coil
makes only one turn in the pan
and the inner and outer coils
have the same inlet and dis-
charge and are placed on the
same level. This permits of
the installation of a larger
number of independent coils,
each placed at a different level.
In this manner the coils can be
utilized to better advantage.
This is especially significant
when the volume of milk in the
pan is very small, making pos-
sible the operation of the lower coils independent of the upper
coils and thereby avoiding the danger of burning the milk, which
inevitably occurs when the lieated coils are not completely sub-
merged. This arrangement increases the heating efficiency of
the pan, heat can be turned on the lowest coil almost immediately
after starting operation, and toward the end of the batch, when
the milk again boils low, some of the coils are still covered and
can be used. The shorter length of these coils from inlet to
exhaust also makes possible the simultaneous utilization of a
greater volume of steam. These combined features materially
increase the rapidity of evaporation and augment the capacity
of the pan. These improved coils have the further advantage
that their exhausts do not have to be carried through the jacket,
but pass through the body of the pan.
Jacket and coils are connected independently with the direct
steam main from the boiler. Each connection at the pan should
carry a valve and a steam gauge on the pan-side of the valve.
The main steam line and connections leading to pan should be
properly insulated by proper pipe coverings, in order to supply
the pan with as dry steam as possible.
Tbe drips or discharge ends of the jacket and coils are con-
nected with the boiler feed water tank. If the pan has sufficient
74 Sweetened Cond^nskd Mii.k
Condknsinc
heating surface and is operated properly, the drip
jacket and coils should discharge warm water only,
steam. The jacket and coils should be free at the
charge ends so that all condensation water may be
continuously removed. This is necessary in order
most economical use of the steam and to secure hi
of evaporation. In order to guard against back
drips may be equipped with suitable check valves.
ends of the
and not free
drip or dis-
quickly and
to make the
gh efficiency
pressure the
Fig'. 20. Steam coils in Bogrers pan
'
Through the walls of the body of the pan also enters the
milk draw pipe. This pipe connects with the hot well and through
it the milk rushes into the pan. Immediately outside of the
pan the milk pipe should be equipped with a valve to regulate
the inflow. The size of the milk draw pipe and valve is governed
by the capacity oi the pan ; usually two to three inches in di-
ameter. Inside of the pan the milk pipe should be turned down.
If this provision is not made, the milk shoots straight across the
Swe:e:te:ne:d Condensed Milk
Condensing 75
pan atomizing- into a dense spray, which is partly drawn over
into the condenser^ cansing loss of milk.
The l)ody of the pan also usually carries, near its lawr_
portion, a sampling cup, or striking cup, which facilitates the
sampling and testing for density, of the contents of the pan
while the pan is in operation.
A suitable, permanent covering should be provided for the
body of the pan for insulation against heat radiation. This will
not only economize fuel and speed evaporation, but it will also
assist in keeping the pan room
reasonably cool.
The Dome rests on top of
the body of the pan. It is equip-
ped with a manhole, manhole
cover, thermometer, vacuum
gauge, sight glasses, lights,
blow-down valve or
vacuum breaker. The
manhole measures
about fourteen to
eighteen inches in di-
ameter. It is closed
by a solid brass cover
with a well-fitting, ground surface flange. The cover
carries a five-inch spy-glass or sight-glass through
which the operator watches the boiling milk in the
pan. The stem of the thermometer is enclosed in a
brass casing and reaches to near the bottom of the
pan. Some processors prefer a short thermometer
which registers the temperature of the vapors instead
of that of the milk. As both, the milk and the vapors
are subjected to the same pressure, their respective
temperatures are the same. The vacuum gauge con-
nects with the interior of the pan, and indicates the
number of inches of vacuum. A mercury column may
be used in the place of the vacuum gauge. In the
rear of the dome there are two sight glasses. Through
these the interior of the pan is illuminated by means
c.^Ê^^Roge^s
Tig. 21. Vacuum graugre
pigr. 22
Mercury
Column
76 SwERTKNKD Condensed Miek
Condensing
Figr. 22
Thenuometer
for vacuum pan
Courtesy of
Arthur Harris
&Co.
of lamps, gas or electric lights. The "blow-down" valve, or
vacuum breaker, serves to admit air into the pan in order to
"break" the vacuum. This is necessary for readily
drawing off the finished condensed milk. It is
further needed to prevent the contents of the vacu-
um pan from being drawn over into the condenser,
whenever the milk rises above a safe level.
A further accessory of the dome may be an
automaotic milk sampler. The sampler tube is
carried through the wall of the dome and extends
to near the bottom inside of the pan. Where this
1 il e projects through the dome it is equipped with
motor, piston pump, striking cup and hydrometer.
The striking cup at its upper end terminates in a
. small chamber equipped with a sight-glass through
which the operator notes the position of the hydro-
meter.
The Condenser.
The condenser is
that portion of the condensing ap-
paratus in which the vapors, rising
from the boiling milk in the pan, are
condensed to water. The condenser
is attached to the dome of the pan.
There are three types of condensers
in use, the surface condenser, the
barometric condenser and the wet-
\acuum spray condenser.
The Surface Condenser consists
of a tube cylinder filled with brass
tubes, mounted on a receiver. The
water used for cooling circulates out-
side of the tubes and the vapors pass
Pig.. 24.
through the tubes, where they are
Vacunm breaker or blow-down
chilled and condensed. This con-
Courtesy Arth^rHarris & Co.
^^^"-ê^ ^1^^ tîe advantage of enabling
the operator to note the amount of
condensation and to measure the amount of water actually con-
densed. The receiver at the bottom of the condenser should be
SwEe:tene:d Condense:d Milk
Condensing 11
so arranged that it can be drained at will and without interfering
with or retarding the operation of the pan.
The Barometric Condenser consists of a vertical cylinder of
iron or brass, equipped with a spray jet, through which the cooT
Fig*. 25. Vacuum pan with dry vacuum "barometric condenser
ing water enters the condenser. The vapors being drawn over
from the violently boiling milk in the pan, are condensed by
passing through this spray of cold water. This condenser dis-
charges its water into a tight cistern in the ground. The con-
denser is placed so that its bottom flange is about thirty-five
78 Sweetened Condensed MiIvK
Condensing
feet above the water level of the cistern in which the discharge
pipe from the condenser terminates. The height of the condenser
depends on the barometric pressure of the location where it is
installed. The lower the altitude and, therefore, the higher the
atmospheric pressure, the higher must the condenser be above
the cistern. At the sea level, the atmospheric pressure sustains
a water column about thirty-four feet higli. This water column
in the discharge pipe seals the vacuum and at the same time
permits the water from the spray and the condensation water
to escape automatically. The cistern in which the water column
terminates should be of sufficient size to hold about one-third
more water than the capacity of the entire length of the discharge
pipe calls for and should have a large overflow into the sewer.
Wheti the pan is in operation and a uniform vacuum is main-
tained, the level of the water column remains constant and the
excess water from the condenser overflows from the cistern into
the sewer.
The Wet-Vacuum Spray
Condenser consists of a huge
hollow cylinder of brass or iron,
usually, but not necessarily,
horizontal.
The horizontal spray con-
densers are usually equipped
^'S-
26. Wet-Vacuum Horizontal
^
^ ^ spray condenser
With a perforated, spray pipe,
courtesy of Arthur Harris & Co.
placed lengthwise in the cyl-
inder. This spray pipe should run close to the top side of the
cylinder, so as to give the spray that escapes from the holes on
the upper side of the spray pipe a chance to strike the top of the
horizontal cylinder with force and to become atomized. The
spray pipe connects at the end nearest the pan with the pipe
supplying the cooling wâter. When the pan is in operation,
a shower of cold water issues forth from the perforations of the
spray pipe as the result of the reduced pressure in pan and con-
denser. The force with which the water escapes these perfora-
tions is further augmented by the fact that in most cases the
water supply tank is located higher than the condenser. The
hot vapors arising from the boiling milk in the pan are drawn
over into the condenser, where thev come in contact with the
Swe:kte;ned Conde:nse:d Milk
Conde:nsing 79
cold water spray and are condensed. The 1)Ottom of the con-
denser cylinder, at the end farthest from the pan is connected
with the suction end of the vacuum pump through which the
water and the condensed vapors in the condenser escape. Man-
holes with covers should be provided at the top and end of the
condenser cylinder to facilitate the cleaning' out of the condenser.
In the vertical spray condenser the condenser cylinder is
upright, located either on top of the pan or at some distance, as
is the case, for instance, where a catch-all is installed between
Tig. 27. Diagonal spray condenser
pan and condenser. The interior arrangement of the vertical
condenser varies somewhat with the different makes. One type
of vertical condenser widely used in American condenseries con-
sists of a double insulated vapor tube resting on top of the pan.
This insulated tube is surrounded by and connects with a spray
chamber, which terminates at its top in a perforated metal plate,
and which ha^ an opening in the side near the bottom that con-
nects with the vacuum jnmip supplying the suction and that
permits the escape of the condensed vapors and cooling water.
The cooling water enters at the top of the condenser. Immediately
underneath the water inlet it strikes a metal cone or umbrella
which prevents the water from running into the vapor tube, and
80
SwejetenEd
Conde:nse;d Milk
Conde;nsing
distributes it evenly over the perforated spray plate. The vapor
rises into the vapor tube of the condenser and is drawn over
into the spray chamber surrounding it, where the vapor is con-
densed by the spray of water issuing from the perforated spray
plate which tops the spray chamber and which contains a large
number of very small holes. As the water falls through these
openings by gravity, the spray is uniform and constant and does
Tig. 28. Vertical spray condenser
not depend on the amount of water used, nor does it require
water pressure on the condenser. A complete sheet of spray al-
ways is formed, through which the vapors must pass, regardless
of the amount of water used, a fact which assists in the efficient
use of the water and in rapid and complete condensation of the
vapors. Manholes with covers are located at the top to facili-
tate the cleaning of the spray plate.
SwKETENKD Condensed Milk
Condensing 81
In another type of vertical spray condenser the insulated
vapor tube in the center is surrounded by a spray chamber of
much greater width, and the wâter spray starts near the bottom
of the chamber from perforations in a circular coil. The per=
forations are so located that the spray slants upward and out-
ward. As it strikes the periphery of the condenser, it is deflected
downward and toward the center. It is claimed that in this
case two sheets of spray are formed, through which the vapors
must pass. Baffle plates extend downward and outward from the
top of the vapor tube preventing any of the spray from entering
the vapor tube. Manholes with covers are provided at the sides
to make possible easy cleaning of the condenser.
Instead of the condenser being attached direct to the dome
of the vacuum pan, the condenser may form a part of the vacuum
pump. This arrangement is feasible both in the case of the wet-
vacuum spray condenser and in the case of the surface condenser.
The chief difference between the wet-vacuum condenser and
the barometric condenser is that in the wet-vacuum condenser
the water from the condenser passes through the vacuum pump,
while in the barometric condenser the water does not pass
through the vacuum pump, but goes direct into the sewer and the
vacuum is sealed by the barometric water column. So far as
practical experience has shown, there is no material difference,
in the efficiency between these two types of condensers. The
water column of the barometric condenser helps somewhat to
maintain a uniform vacuum. It necessitates, however, the in-
stallation of the pan inconveniently high and requires somewhat
more expensive machinery than is the case with the wet-vacuum
condenser. The chief difference between both of these systems
and the surface condenser is that, in the wet-vacuum and baro-
metric condensers the condensed vapors mix with the coolmg
water, while in the surface condenser the condensed vapors are
collected and carried off separately and without mixing with
the cooling water. In the case of condensing liquids, the vapors
of which are of commercial value, the surface condenser must be
used. The surface condenser, however, is of relatively small
capacity and the cooling water cannot be utilized as economically
as in the case of the other systems. Where large quantities of
vapors are to be handled and the vapors have no commercial
82 Sweetened Condensed Milk
Condensing
value, as is the case in condensing- milk, the barometric and wet-
vacuum condensers are best suited; if properly constructed, their
operation utilizes the cooling* water most economically.
Care of the Condenser.In the operation of the spray and
jet condenser, special attention should be paid to the condition
of the spray pipe, or spray plate. Especially, when the water
used contains much organic matter, as 'is the case with water
from a creek, pond or lake, there is a tendency of the spray equip-
ment becoming filled and coated with slimy organic matter,
causing the perforations to clog. This renders the distribution
of the spray irregular and the control of the pan difficult. Tt
causes great waste of water because much of the water is dis-
charged from the condenser and lost without coming into direct
contact with the vapors. The water is, therefore, not* utilized
economically and the diflference between the temperature of the
vapors and the discharge of the condenser is excessive. In order
to avoid this the condenser should be cleaned out thoroughly at
least once a week, or oftener if necessary, to keep the pores of
the spray pipe or plate free from obstructions. It is advisable to
install condensers- equipped with a manhole, properly located.
otherwise access to the spraying arrangement is not sufficiently
convenient to insure frequent inspection and thorough cleaning
by the average operator.
The Expansion Tank, Catch-All, or Milk Trap.This is a
tank frequently installed between
the dome of the pan and the con-
denser. Its purpose is to collect and
reclaim any milk that may be carried
over from the pan and to prevent
its escape and loss through the con-
denser.
If the pipe through which the
milk enters the pan is turned down
and its end is carried to near the
bottom of the pan, so as to avoid
the formation of excessive milk
spray, if the pan is operated care-
fullv and if the milk is kept at a
^^s.
29. vacuum pan witii miik
^
trap
reasonably low level, there is very
Sweetened Condensed Milk
Condensing 83
little danger of milk being carried over into the condenser in
quantities sufficient to be of any consequence. Under these
conditions the installation of a special milk trap between the
pan and the condenser for the purpose of collecting the escaping
milk spray and carrying it back to the pan is, therefore, an
unnecessary expense.
If the pan is small in comparison to the amount of milk to
be condensed, and if it is forced beyond its intended capacity so
that the milk boils up high, there usually is considerable loss of
milk, as indicated by the foaminess and milky color of the ex-
haust of the vacuum pump. In such cases the mechanical loss'
of an average size batch may amount to several hundred pounds
of milk. In order to not lose this milk, a milk trap or catch-all
may be installed between the pan and the condenser. The vapors
laden with the milk spray enter the trap near the top. The
spray drops to the bottom of the trap, while the vapors are drawn
over into the condenser, where they are condensed as usual.
This trap may be constructed of sufficient size so as to serve
as a reservoir to collect all the milk that is carried over, and at
the conclusion of the process the contents of the trap are drawn
from the bottom and are condensed with the next batch ; or the
bottom of the trap may be connected with the pan so that the
milk thus carried over flows back into the pan automatically.
In this case a small trap only is necessary.
It should be understood that the milk trap is only a remedy
and not a preventive. Where the capacity of the pan is in pro-
portion to the amount of milk to be condensed, as it should be,
and where the p,an is operated properly, the trap is unnecessary.
The trap is an additional piece of apparatus to be kept clean.
Unless it is so constructed that access can be had to all parts
of its interior and unless it
really is kept clean at all times,
f
it may become a serious source
of contamination.
The Vacuum Pump.The
vacuum pump is, strictly speak-
ing, not a part of the vacuum V
pan, but its intimate connec-
.
Pig". 30. Wet-vacuum pump
tion with the pan makes it
84
SwKETENKD Condensed Mii.k
Condensing
necessary to briefly consider it at this point. The suction end
of the vacuum pump is connected with the condenser. The
vacuum pump exhausts the pan, forming a partial vacuum.
There are principally two types of vacuum pumps used in
the milk condensery, the dry-vacuum pump and the wet-
vacuum pump. The dry-vacuum pump is used in the factories
with the dry-vacuum system, i. e., where the cooling water
and the condensation water escape to the sewer direct
and without passing through the vacuum pump, as is the case
with the surface condenser and the barometric condenser. The
wet-vacuum pumps are used with the wet-vacuum system, where
the cooling water and the condensation water pass through the
cylinder of the pump. The dry-vacuum pj.mips have the advan-
tage of permitting the operation of the machine at a* higher
piston speed than the wet-vacuum pumps in which the water
must be displaced at the end of each stroke. The cylinders of
the dry-vacuum pump are cooled by water jackets. The initial
cost of the dry-vacuum pumps, however, is greater than that
of the wet-vacuum pumps.
The efficiency of the vacuum apparatus depends very largely
on the vacuum pump. Rapid evaporation at a relatively low-
temperature necessitates the maintenance of a high vacuum. The
type, material, construction, workmanship, installation and oper-
ation of the vacuum pump should be such as to insure the maxi-
mum efficiency.
The pump should be placed on a good foundation and as
near the vacuum pan as practicable in order that the full benefit
of the vacuum may be realized. The suction pipe and all con-
nections must be tight. The suction pipe must be of the size
directed by the manufacturer, as short as possible and with few
and easy bends. The grade of the suction pipe should be uni-
form in order to avoid air pockets.
The water should be turned into the condenser before the
vacuum pump is started. The pump should not run at a higher
speed than is necessary to secure the required vacuum. Exces-
sive speed means high stecftn consumption and heavy wear and
tear on the pump. The amount of water supplied to the con-
denser should be regulated to suit the requirements. Ordinarily,
and with a vacuum of twenty-five to twenty-six inches, the
Swee:ti<:ne:d Condensed MiIvK
Condensing

85
temperature of the condenser discharge should be about 110 de-
grees F. A lower temperature would cause excessive and un-
economic use of water unless the available water has a temper-
ature lower than is the case in the average American condensery"
(50 to
60
F.). The basin on the vacuum cylinder should be
kept filled with water to prevent admission of air to the cylinder
through the stuffing box, and the spray pipe, jet, or spray plate in
the condenser should be inspected often to make sure that the
perforations are not clogged. The stuffing box of the cylinder
should be well packed with a good quality of packing and the
steam cylinder well oiled. Start the pump slowly. Belt-driven
Fig*. 31. Wet-vacuTUU pttiup
Courtesy of Union Steam Pump Co.
pumps, especially those equipped with a fly-wheel, insure greater
uniformity of speed than direct-acting, steam-driven
pumps.
Steam-driven pumps should be furnished with a high grade gov-
ernor. The vacuum pump should have a capacity
proportionate
to the size of the vacuum pan, amount of heating surface, steam
pressure and temperature of condensing water.
Science and Practice of Evaporating in Vacuo.
Purpose of Condensing in Vacuo.The important advan-
tages gained by evaporating milk under reduced pressure, or in
vacuo, are :
economy of evaporation, rapidity of evaporation, low
temperature and large capacity of apparatus. All of these features
are essential in the successful condensing of milk.
86 SwEi^TENED Condensed Milk
Condensing
Rapid evaporation cannot take place until the milk is brought
to the boiling point and is kept there until evaporation is Com-
pleted. Under atmospheric pressure and at the sea level, the
boiling point of water is 212 degrees F., the boiling point of milk
is very slightly higher, about 214 degrees P. Evaporation of milk
under atmospheric pressure in an open kettle, however, is a
relatively slow process, requiring a long time and large appara-
tus. Furthermore, exposure of the milk to 212 to 214 degrees
F. long enough to complete evaporation would render the prod-
uct unsuitable for market. The properties of some of its ingre-
dients are altered, the product would assume a dark color and
a marked cooked flavor as the result of the effect of heat. All
of these objections are minimized and partly avoided by lower-
ing the boiling point of milk. These objections, howfever, do
not apply to evaporation under atmospheric pressure by film
treatment, as is the case with the Continuous Concentrator de-
scribed in Chapter XIV.
Relation of Pressure to Boiling Point.The temperature at
which milk boils depends on the pressure to which it is exposed.
Swe:et^ne:d Conde;nse:d Milk
Condensing 87
The table below shows the boiling- point of water at pres-
sures ranging from atmospheric pressure at the sea level (14.72
pounds per square inch) to a complete vacuum.
Boiling Points of Water at Different Vacua.'
Absolute pres- Vacuuminches Vacuum milli- Temperatures Temperatures
sure per of mercury meters of boiling of boiling
square inch column of mercury point of point of
column water, P. water, C.
14.720 0.00 00 212.00 100.00
14.010 1.42 Z6 209.55 98.5
13.015 3.45 88 205.87 96.8
12.015 5.49 139 201.96 94.3
11.020 7.52 191 197.75 91.9
10.020 9.56 243 193.22 89.5
0.020 11.60 295 188.27 86.75
8.024 13.63 346 182.86 83.7
7.024 15.67 398

176.85 80.5
6.024 17.70 450 170.06 76.8
5.029 19.74 502 162.28 72.5
4.029 21.78 553 153.01 67.2
3.034 23.81 605 141.52 60.8
2.034 25.85 657 126.15 52.3
1.040 27.88 708 101.83 38.7
.980 28.00 712 100.00 37.8
.735 28.50 724 90.00 32.2
.544 28.89 734 80.00 267
.402 29.18 741 70.00 21.1
.294 ^9.40 747 60.00 15.6
.216 29.56 751 50.00 10.0
.162 29.67 754 40.00 4.4
.127 29.74 756 32.00
By courtesy of the Buffalo Foundry & Machine Company.
Condensing
The pressure or, correctly speaking, the vacuum,, is expres-
sed in terms of inches of mercury which the atmospheric pressure
sustains. The mercury column is not a direct measure of the
pressure, but it shows the difference between the atmospheric
pressure and the absolute pressure in the vacuum chamber. The
atmospheric pressure at the sea level is 14.7 pounds per square
inch. It sustains a mercury column in an absolute vacuum of
30 inches at 62 degrees F., and of 29.922 inches at 32 degrees F.
The absolute vacuum may be calculated by multiplying the
atmospheric pressure by the factor 2.04. In case there is only
a partial vacuum the mercury column sustained is lowered to the
extent of the absolute pressure in the vacuum pan. The absolute
pressure may be calculated as follows :
Example : The actual vacuum in the pan is 25 incKes at the
sea level. What is the absolute pressure?
14.7
X
(30-2.S)
.,,,,, 1
,
:r^

2.45 pounds of absolute pressure per sq. mch.
Relation of Altitude to Atmospheric Pressure.At altitudes
higher than the sea level, the atmospheric pressure is reduced
and the mercury column is lowered, though the absolute pres-
sure in the vacuum pan may be the same. Therefore, in factories
located at high altitudes the mercury column will show fewer
inches of vacuum at a given temperature and with a given
absolute pressure.
The following table shows the barometric reading in inches
of mercury column and the atmospheric pressure in pounds per
square inch at different altitudes
:
SwEETKNKD CoNDENSKD MiLKCoNDKNSlNG 89

Barometric Reading Corresponding with Different Altitudes.^
Barometric
reading- in
inches of
mercury
Atmospheric
pressure in
pounds per
square inch
Altitude
above sea
level in feet
Barometric
reading in
inches of
mercury
Atmospheric
pressure in
pounds per
square inch
Altitude
above sea
level
in feet
30.0 14.72 23.5 11.54 6412
29.7 14.60 264 23.0 11.30 6977
29.5 14.47 441 22.5 ir.05 7554
29.2 14.35 710 22.0 10.80 8144
29.0 14.23 890 21.5 10.56 8747
28.7 14.11 1163 21.0 10.31 , 9366
28.5 13.98 1347 20.0 9.81 10648
28.2 13.86 1625 19.0 9.32 11994
28.0 13.74 1812
18.0 8.82
13413
27.5 13.50 2285 17.0 8.33
14914
27.0 13.26 2767 16.0 7.84
16506
26.5 13.02 3257 15.0 7.35
18201
26.0 12.77 3758 14.0 6.86
19996
25.5 12.53 4268 13.0 6.37
21891
25.0 12.27 4787 12.0
5.88
23886
24.5 12.03 5318 11.0 5.39
25981
24.0 11.78 5859
By courtesy of the Buffalo Foundry & Machine Company.
90 Swee;tened Condenskd Milk
Condknsinc
In the following- table may be found the
cities in the I'nited States:
Ititudes of various
Altitude in Feet of Various Cities in the United States.
By Courtesy of United States Department of Agriculture.
Akron, Ohio 940
Albany, N. Y 22
Atlanta, Ga 1032
Baltimore, Md 92
Birmingham, Ala 600
Boston, Mass. . . . 16
Buffalo, N. Y. 583
Burlington, Vt 112
Butte, Mont 5555
Charleston, S. C 12
Chattanooga, Tenn 672
Chester, Pa 22
Chicago, 111. . 590
Cincinnati, Ohio 490
Cleveland, Ohio 582
Dayton, Ohio 740
Denver, Colo 5183
Dallas, Tex 430
Des Moines, lowâ ....... 805
Detroit, Mich 588
Duluth, Minn 609
Houston, Tex. .
'.
. 46
Indianapolis, Ind. . 708
Ithaca, N. Y
411
Kansas City, Mo
750
Knoxville, Tenn
890
Lexington, Ky
955
Little Rock, Ark 264
Los Angeles. Cal 267
Louisville, Tenn. . 453
Memphis, Tenn 256
Milvvâukee, Wis. 593
Minneapolis, Minn. ...... 812
New Haven, Conn 10
New Orleans, La 6
New York City
*
54
Oklahoma City, Okla 1197
Omaha, Neb. ^ 1016
Philadelphia, Pa 42
Phoenix, Ariz 1082
Pittsburgh, Pa. 743
Providence, R. 1 11
Richmond, Va 51
Rochester, N. Y 510
St. Louis, Mo 455
Salt Lake City, Utah . . . .4238
San Francisco, Cal 15
Santa Fe, N. M 6952
Seattle, Wash . . . 10
South Bend, Ind 717
Spokane, Wash 1908
Tampa, Fla 15
Washington, D. C 25
Wichita, Kan 1294
Aîcksburg, Miss 196
Swe:e:tkne:d Condensed Milk
Conde:nsing 91
According: to Kent^ the relation of altitude to atmospheric
pressure per square inch is as follows:
Pounds Pressure
Altitude Per Square Inch"
At sea level 14.7
J
mile above sea level 14.02
J
J
1 mile above sea level 12.02
1^ miles above sea level 1 1 .42
IJ
miles above sea level . 10.88
2 miles above sea level
.'
9.80
''For a rough approximation we may assume that the pres-
sure decreases one-half pound per scpiare inch for every 1,000
feet of ascent."
The absolute pressure in the pan of a factory located at
Omaha; Neb., with an altitude of 1,016 feet above sea level, and
condensing in an actual vacuum of twenty-five inches, would
then be as follows
:
Atmospheric pressure = 14.7
.5 = 14.2 pounds per square

inch.
Absolute vacuum =
14.2X2.04
= 28.97 inches.
14 2
X
(28.97 25)
Absolute pressure
=

"Z^
'^ ^-^
=
1.95 pounds
per square inch.
Relation of Steam Pressure in Jacket and Coils, Water in
Condenser, Temperature in Pan and Vacuum, to Rapidity of
Evaporation.The terhperature of the vapors in the vacuum pan
depends directly
ui)on the pressure or vacuum under which they
are generated. The more nearly complete the vacuum and, there-
fore, the lower the pressure, the lower is the temperature, and,
other conditions being the same, the more rapid the evaporation.
The pressure in turn is governed by the capacity of the vacuum
pump, the tightness of the joints, the steam pressure in jacket
and coils and the amount and temperature of the water in the
condenser.
Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-Book, p. 581.
92
SWEKTKNED CONDKNSOD MlLK CoNDIi:NSING
With a low capacity vacuum pump, or a pump running
irreg-ularly, or too slow, or too fast, and with leaky joints, the
vacuum will always be low, and the pressure and temperature
relatively high*. Under these conditions the pan is difficult to
operate and evaporation is slow.
With the above conditions under control and properly adjus-
ted and with a given area of heating surface and arrangements of
it for proper circulation of the milk, the temperature and the
rapidity of evaporation depend on the steam pressure in the
jacket and coils and on the amount and temperature of the water
used in the condenser.
Twenty-five pounds of steam pressure in the jacket and coils
has been found to be about the maximum that can safely be used.
With this steam pressure the milk coming in direct contact with
the heating surface is exposed to about 267 degrees F. and there
is a tendency for some of it to bake or burn on, which is unde-
sirable. The walls of the jacket and coils are also subjected to
considerable strain, since they are surrounded by an almost com-
plete vacuum. Then again, if the pan has the proper amount
of heating surface the capacity of the condenser and the water
supply are in most cases insufficient to take care of and condense
the vapors arising from the boiling milk in the pan, when the
steam pressure in jacket and coils approaches or exceeds twenty-
five pounds. Most tondenseries operate their pans with five to
fifteen pounds of steam pressure in jacket and coils. In the oper-
ation of some pans not more than about five pounds steam pres-
sure can be used economically in jacket and coils, because the use
of more steam causes the steam to blow through and out of the
coils.
Aside from the principle of construction the capacity of the
condenser used in milk condenseries is very largely dependent on
the water supply. Whenever the condenser is forced beyond its
capacity, by using excessive steam in jacket and coils, the vacuum
drops, the temperature rises and the process of evaporation is
retarded.
The higher the vacuum the more rapid the evaporation. A
rise in the steam pressure in the jacket and coils increases the
Swe:^t^ned Conde;nse:d Mii.k
Condensing 93
rapidity of evaporation only as long as enough water passes
through the condenser to maintain a high vacuum. As soon as
the steam pressure in the jacket and coils reaches the point w^here
the water in the condenser fails to promptly reduce the vapors^
the vacuum drops, the temperature in the pan rises and evapora-
tion is checked.
The condensing of milk requires immense quantities of water
;
experience has shown that it takes from one to three gallons of
water to condense one pound of fresh milk, the exact amount
depending on the construction of the condenser and the tempera-
ture of the water. The water supply is one of the weakest links
in most condenseries, so that economy of water is one
of the important factors to be considered. The steam pressure
in the jacket and coils should, therefore, be so regulated as to
make it possible to maintain the maximum vacuum consistent
with reasonably economic use of water. With a vacuum of
twenty-five inches the temperature in the pan is about 135 de-
grees F., the temperature varying somewhat with the altitude
of the factory. In some condenseries the temperature of the pan
is kept at 150 degrees F. This practice may economize the water
a trifle better, but the rapidity of evaporation is considerably
lower.
Condensing at temperatures lower than 130 degrees F., with-
out reducing the steam pressure in the jacket and coils, increases
the rapidity of evaporation, but taxes the water supply beyond
the reach of most condenseries. So much water has to be used
in the condenser that it is not used economically, as is shown by
the relatively low temperature of the water discharging from the
condenser. The temperature of the condenser discharge bears
a direct relation to the temperature of the vapors in the pan.
Observations made in various factories and under different con-
ditions by Hunziker and others showed that the condenser dis-
charge was anywhere from 5 to 25 degrees F. lower in tempera-
ture than the vapors in the pan. the difference averaging about
15 degrees F.
The smaller the difference in temperature between the con-
denser discharge and the vapors in the pan, the more economic
is the use of the water and vice versa. It is not advisable under
. 94 Swee:tene;d Condensed Miek
Condensing
average conditions to so operate the pan that the temperature
t of the condenser discharge drops below 1 10 degrees F., because
of the wasteful use of water under such conditions.
The condensing of one pound of milk requires about one
pound of steam and ten to twenty-five pounds of water. The
number of heat units used for condensing in vacuum is practically
the same as that required by evaporating in open pans. In order
to use the steam economically the pan should be so operated as
to make possible its complete condensation by the time it leaves
the jacket and coils. Whenever so much steam is used that it
blows through and out of the jacket and coils without being con-
densed, there is great waste of fuel. For further details on this
point see "Description of the Vacuum Pan."
Starting the Pan.
^Before drawing the milk into the pan, the

pan should be thoroughly rinsed with water, then steamed until
the temperature rises to about 180 degrees F. or above. Then
the manhole cover is put in place, all the air valves are closed,
water is turned into the condenser and the vacuum pump is
started. When the vacuum gauge shows over twenty inches of
vacuum, the pan is ready for the milk.
Operating the Pan.The valve of the milk pipe leading to
the pan is now partly opened. The milk enters the pan auto-
matically as the result of the reduced pressure in the pan. When
the milk covers the jacket, steam fs gradually turned into the
jacket. As each coil becomes submerged in milk, the coils are
charged with steam.
At no time should steam be turned on the
jacket and coils when they are not completely covered with milk,
as such action would cause the milk to stick to and burn on the
heating surface, the milk would assume a burnt flavor, it would
become permeated with black specks and the evaporation would
. be retarded. On the start, but a fev/ pounds of steam pressure
should be used in the jacket and coils, to avoid burning, owing
to the presence in the milk of considerable air. As the milk
becomes more concentrated and settles down to uniform boiling,
the steam pressure may be gradually increased until it reaches
the maximum. The maximum pressure permissible must be gov-
erned by the amount of heating surface, the capacity of the vacu-
um pump and the temperature and amount of water available for
SwEETENKD Condensed Milk
Condensing 9S
use in the condenser. Under average conditions about fifteen
pounds of steam pressure may be safely used.
During the early stages of the process, when the milk is of
low density, the evaporative duty is high, probably about twenty
five to thirty-five pounds per square foot of heating surface with

ten Dounds of steam pressure. This gradually decreases and is
lowest toward the end of the process.
When enough milk is in the pan to completely cover the
jacket and coils, the milk intake should be reduced and regulated
in accordance with the rate of evaporation. The milk is drawn
into the pan continuously, but only as fast as it evaporates. It
should be kept as much as possible at a constant level, and this
level is preferably as low as is consistent v/ith complete covering
of the upper most coil
In order to secure maximAim rapidity of evaporation, the
vacuum pump should run at the proper speed and its operation
should be uniform, a uniform vacuum and temperature should
be maintained and the milk should be prevented from rising to
an abnormally high level in the pan.
Prevention of Accidents.The operator should pay strict
attention to the pan in order to avoid loss of milk due to acci-
dents. He should watch the water supply and govern its use
accordingly. If the water supply becomes exhausted, air is liable
to be drawn into the pan through the condenser. This will cause
the milk to drop suddenly and then rise in a body, threatening
to escape through the condenser. Whenever air in considerable
quantities is allowed to enter the pan while in operation* be it
as the result of lack of water, or through any other cause, or
when the vacuum pump is allowed to stop and live steam is
turned into the milk in the pan. as is the case when the milk
is superheated, the escape of milk may be avoided by immediately
shutting the steam inlet to the jacket and coils, by closing the
milk intake and by slightly opening the blow-down valve when-
ever the milk rises dangerously high. By skillful manipulation
of the blow-down valve until the milk again settles down to
uniform boiling, loss can be avoided and the process can be con-
tinued in the normal way.
96 SwEETE^NKD Condknse:d MiIvK
Striking
By the time all the milk is in the pan, condensation is nearly
completed, and from ten to twenty minutes further boiling usu-
ally gives the milk the desired density. Toward the end of the
process the steam pressure in jacket and coils should be reduced
to about fiAê pounds or less. When the milk approaches the
desired density, it is comparatively heavy and viscous and boils
less vigorously. It therefore is more directly exposed to the
heating surface. In the case of excessive steam pressure, its
quality is jeopardized. If the batch is small so that the level
of the milk drops below some of the coils, steam to the exposed
coils should be turned off entirelv.
Chapte;r VI.
STRIKING OR FINISHING THE BATCH.
Definition.When the boiling milk in the vacuum pan ap-
proaches the desired degree of concentration, the batch is
"struck." The term ''striking" is applied to the operation of
sampling the condensed milk and testing the sample for density.
This term very probably referred, originalh^, to the meaning of
"striking the batch right," that is, stopping the process at the
proper time, or when the milk is neither too thick nor too thin.
It then expressed the result of the operation, while now it is
used to mean the operation itself.
Ratio of Concentration.Sweetened condensed milk intended
for canned goods has a specific gravity of 1.28 to 1.30. This
density is reached usually when the ratio of concentration is
about 2.5:1, i. e., 2.5 parts of fresh milk are condensed to one
part of condensed milk, assuming that about sixteen pounds of
sucrose have been added to every one hundred pounds of fresh
milk.
Occasionally the ratio of concentration is based on the pro-
portion of water evaporated, in which case it is obviously much
higher than when based on the amount of milk required to make
one pound of condensed milk, because the added cane sugar
takes the place of its own weight of water, and thereby acts a^
a diluent of the condensed milk. Thus let us assume that 16
Sweetened Condensed Mii,k
Striking 97
pounds of cane sugar are added to every 100 pounds of fresh
milk and that it t^kes 250 pounds of fresh milk to make 100
pounds of sweetened condensed milk, 100 pounds of sweetened
condensed, milk, therefore, contain 16
X
2.5 = 40 pounds of cane_
sugar. Using the sugar-free finished product as the basis for
calculation, then, the ratio of concentration would be
:
250
4.17 to 1.
(100
40)
Instead of giving the ratio of concentration, this basis of
calculation determines the ratio of evaporation only. The results
are, therefore, erroneous and misleading. It does not materially
matter whether the diluent in the condensed milk is water or
cane sugar, or both ; the really important factor is the per cent
milk solids in the condensed milk as compared with the per cent
solids in the original fresh milk, and this relation is solely deter-
mined by the amount of fluid milk required to make one pound
of condensed milk, or by the true and actual ratio of concentra-
tion. If it takes
2^
pounds of fresh milk for every pound of con-
densed milk, then the ratio of concentration is obviously 2.5 to
1 and not 4.17 to 1.
Methods.To know just when the proper degree of concen-
tration has been reached is difficult and requires experience. It
is here where the processor can easily make or lose his wages.
There are various indications reminding the observant processor
that the milk in the retort is nearly ''done," viz., time consumed
for condensing, time elapsed since all the milk has been "drawn
up," amount of condensed milk left in the pan and, most of all,
the appearance and behavior of the boiling milk itself. Milk
that has been sufficiently condensed assumes a glossy, glistening
lustre, it boils over from the periphery towards the center, form-
ing a small nucleus or puddle of foam in the center of the pan.
An experienced and observant operator knows within a few min-
utes when the milk is condensed enough. This does not mean,
however, that he should wait until the last minute before he
''strikes" the batch, for even the most skillful and experienced
98
Striking
processors are easily deceived by the mere appearance of the con-
densed milk through the sight glass.
The degree of concentration may be more accurately deter-
mined by taking a sample from the pan and testing it by various
methods, such as by weighing a definite quantity of condensed
milk on a sensitive scale, by the use of a resistance apparatus,
or viscosimeter, or by the use of a specially constructed hydrom-
eter. Of these the Beaume hydrometer has been found the
most suitable to use under average factory conditions.
Mechanical devices and instruments, such as above enumer-
ated can be depended upon, w^hen all conditions influencing the
specific gravity of the product, such as chemical composition
and temperature, are under control. Their successful use ren-
ders careful and accurate standardization of the milk for butter-
fat, solids not fat, and sucrose indispensable. Without standardi-
zation of the component ingredients of milk the result of the
use of these devices may prove erroneous and misleading.
The operation of these devices must also be simple and rapid,
for when the boiling and rapidly evaporating milk in the pan
approaches the proper densit}^ quick action is essential. One
minute over or under condensing may cause the milk to be
either too thick or too thin for the market, and may necessitate
the ''rerunning" of the entire batch.
In the absence of a satisfactory instrument for rapid deter-
mination of the concentration, and particularly in the absence of
a carefully standardized product, the experienced eye and the
good judgment of the processor are all essential. The following
factory methods have been found applicable and reasonably
reliable.
Determination by Appearance to the Eye.Draw a sample
from the pan into a tin dipper, lower the dipper into a pail of
ice water or snow. Stir the condensed milk with a metal-back
thermometer until the condensed milk is cooled to 70 degrees F.
Note the thickness of it. Or, finish the batch at a constant tem-
perature, say 120 degrees F. Draw a sample into a tin cup and
note the thickness by examining the milk when pouring frorn
Striking 99
Pig-. 32.
Beaum6 liy-
drometer for
sweetened
condensed
milk
Courtesy
C. J. Tagliabue
Mf
ff.
Co.
a teaspoon. The transparency of the milk when thus
held against the light and the manner in which the
milk piles up in the cup furnish a practical index to
its density. The last method is preferable because--
of its greater rapidity. For best results the use of
a Beaume hydrometer, especially constructed for
sweetened condensed milk, graduated to from 30
to 37 degrees B. and with subdivisions of one-tenth
degrees is recommended.
Use of Beaume Hydrometer.Beginners and
inexperienced operators do well to take numerous
samples from the batch in the operating pan and to
start sampling early, so as to avoid over-condens-
ing. No definite figure at which the Beaume hydrom-
eter should be read can be stated that would show
the proper density under all conditions. The Beaume
reading of sweetened condensed milk of the proper
concentration varies with such factors as per cent
of fat, per cent of sucrose and per cent solids, ratio
of concentration and temperature of the condensed
milk when the reading is taken. However, for gen-
eral guidance, it may be stated that condensed milk
of a concentration of 2.5 : 1, made from fresh milk
of average richness and containing sucrose at the
ratio of sixteen pounds of sugar per one hundred
pounds of fresh milk, will show a Beaume reading
of about 33.S degrees B. at 60 degrees F., or about
32 degrees B. at 120 degrees F. Sweetened con-
densed skim milk containing approximately 40 per
cent sucrose will show a Beaume reading at 60 de-
grees F. of about 37 degrees B., or about 35.5 de-
grees B. at 120 degrees F. If it is intended to use
more sugar
(44%)
and to limit the per cent milk
solids to 28 per cent, whole milk is condensed until
the Beaume hydrometer at 130 degrees F. shows
3H degrees B. Skimmed sweetened condensed milk
containing 28 per cent milk solids and 42 per cent
sucrose tests about 34} degrees B. at 130 degrees F.
100 SwEKTENED Condknse:d M11.K
Striking
Correction of Hydrometer Reading for Temperature.The
Beaume hydrometers used in American condenseries are grad-
uated to give correct readings at 60 degrees F. If the readings
are to be correct, or if it is desirable to convert them into spe-
cific gravity, the condensed milk should have a temperature of
60 degrees F. Where this is not convenient, the observation may
be made at any temperature convenient and the reading corrected
as follows
:
When the temperature is above 60 degrees F. multiply the
difference between the observed temperature and 60 degrees F.
by the factor .025 and add the product to the observed reading of
the Beaume hydrometer. When the temperature of the observed
reading is below 60 degrees F. the corresponding product is
deducted.
*
Examjple: Beaume reading at 120 degrees F. is 31.2. Cor-
rected reading is 31.2
-f
[.025
X
(120
60)]
= 32.7.
The specific gravity may be calculated when the Beaume
reading is known, by using the following formula
:
144 3
Specific gravity
TITT"
p~' ^-
~
Beaume reading.
Example: Beaume reading, at 60 degrees F. is 33.1.
144 3
Specific grvity ==
-j44yzr33T~~
^^^'^^
In the following table are assembled figures showing the spe-
cific gravity of sweetened condensed milk of different Beaume
degrees, varying from 28 degrees B. to 37.8 degrees B.
Striking 101
Specific Gravity of Sweetened Condensed Milk of Different
Beaume Degrees.
Beaum6 at
60 degrees F.
Specific
Gravity
Beaum6 at
60 degrees F.
Specific
Gravity
28.0 1.2407 33.0 1.2965
.2 1.2428 .2 1.2988
.4
'
1.2449 .4 1.3011
.6 1.2471 .6 1.3034
.8 1.2493 .8 1.3058
29.0 1.2515 34.0 1.3082
.2 1.2536 .2 1.3106
.4 1.2558 .4 1.3130
^
.6 1.2580 .6 1.3154
.8 1.2602 .8 1.3178

30.0 1.2624 35.0 1.3202
.2 1.2646 .2 1.3226
.4 1.2668 .4 1.3250
.6 1.2690 .6 . 1.3274
.8 1.2713 .8 1.3299
31.0 1.2736 36.0 -
1.3324
.2 1.2758 2 1.3348
A 1.2780 .4 1.3372
.6 1.2803 .6 1.3397
.8 1.2826

.8 1.3422
32.0 1.2849 37.0 1.3447
.2 1.2872 2 1.3472
.4 1.2895 A 1.3497
.6 1.2918 .6 1.3522
.8 1.2941 .8
. i:
1.3548
102 SwEiETKN^D Condensed Milk
Striking
Sampling of Batch.The samples can be drawn from the
pan by operating the two valves at the bottom explained under
"Description of Vacuum Pan." While the milk is condensing,
the partial vacuum in the pan makes impossible the drawing off
of the sample by simply opening the outlet. Instead of causing
the milk to come out, air would rush in with violent force and
would cause the milk in the pan to be thrown over into the con-
Fig-. 33. A con-
venient device
for Bampling*
the condensed
milk in tlie pan
Courtesy of
Arthur Harris
& Co.
Fig*. 34. A convenient device for sampling-
condensed milk in tlie ]gan
denser, besides dangerously jolting tlie machinery. For this rea-
son the outlet is equipped v/ith two valves, both of which are
closed during the condensing process. For taking samples, open
the upper valve. This allows the condensed milk to run into
the nipple between the two valves. Now close the upper valve
and open the lower one. The milk will run out freely. The -first
sample should be rejected, as it may contain water caught in
the nipple.
for greater convenience and increased rapidity of sampling,
especially constructed sample cups or striking cups, attached to
the side of the body of the pan may be used. These striking cups
SWE^^TENED CoNDE:NSE:D M1I.KCOOUNG 103
are now made of such size that the h3^drometer can be operated
in them, rendering the use of a separate hydrometer cylinder
unnecessary. The latest invention for facilitating the sampling
and striking is the automatic milk striker designed by Mojonnier.
Bros. Co., Chicago. This ingenious contrivance consists of a
motor-driven piston pump. The suction tube carrying the piston
extends from the dome of the pan into the boiling milk. This
tube projects at its upper end through the wall of the dome and
overflows into a hydrometer cylinder. This cylinder carries at
its upper end a chamber permitting unhindered motion of the
hydrometer and the end of this chamber which faces the operator
is equipped with a sight glass and a light. In the cylinder
reposes a Beaume hydrometer. Whenever the operator desires
to know the density of the condensed milk in the pan, he starts
the motor. The pump immediately fills the cylinder and the
hydrometer shows the density or Beaume reading.
Drawing off the Condensed Milk,As soon as the evapora-
tion is completed, the steam is shut off from the jacket and coils,
the water valve is closed, the vacuum pump stopped and the
vacuum broken by opening the ''blow-down" valve. The man-
hole cover is then removed and the vacuum pump started again
in order tO' remove the hot air over the milk. The milk is drawn
into 40-quart cans or into tanks or cooling vats. The condensed
milk should be drawn from the pan as rapidly as possible to
prevent its superheating while in the pan. In some factories a
wire mesh or cloth strainer is attached to the outlet of the. pan,
so that the condensed milk is strained before it runs into the
cans This practice is unnecessary and objectionable, as it tends
to retard the remôval of the milk from the pan.
COOLING.
The sweetened condensed milk, as it comes from the vacuum
pan, has a temperature of about
115" F. to
130
F. If it were
allowed to cool naturally, or on its own accord, i. e., if no effort
were made to cool it promptly, it would superheat and this would
cause it to become thick and cheesy in a short time. It is, there-
fore, essentia] that it be cooled at once. Formerly this was done
by drawing the milk from the pan into 40 quart cans, setting
these filled cans in tanks with ice water and stirring the con-
densed milk with a stick.
104
Swe:etenEd
Condense:d Milk
Cooung
This was a very crude method, it involved much hard work
and time, and the quality of the product was poor. It was soon
found that the imperfect hand stirring caused excessive sugar
crystallization, which made the mfilk sandy. The sudden chilling
and irregular stirring of a saturated sugar solution like sweet-
ened condensed milk are favorable to the formation of sugar
crystals. AVhere the stirring is imperfect and irregular, all the
milk is not kept in sufficient motion to insure uniform and gradual
coaling. The milk next to the side of the cans is chilled too
abruptly, favoring the formation of crystals. Vigorous stirring
in itself is conducive of sugar crystallization.
Later the hand stirring was completely superseded by
mechanical stirring, paddles closely scraping the sides of the
cans being used. Instead of setting the paddles in motion, they
are stationary and the cans revolve. The principle is similar
to that of the vertical ice cream freezer. Heavy iron tanks, with
a capacity of twelve to forty-eight 40-quart cans, are used for
this purpose. The bottoms of these tanks are equipped with a
system of cog wheels, set in motion by means of a gear at one
end of the tank. The wheels have a diameter large enough to
carry one can each. The cans are set on these wheels, the paddles
are inserted and fastened to cross-bars and the power started.
The cans should be heavily constructed to stand rough usage,
without suffering indentations. Cans with irregular, depressed,
or bulged sides cause the paddles to do poor work. Such cans
should be slipped over a wooden horn, or other contrivance, and
the indentations hammered out with a mallet. The paddles are
held stationary by cross-bars and are forced against the periphery
of the cans by springs. Attention should also be paid to the
pivots on which the cog wheels rest. If they are warped, the
wheels do not run true, so that it is not possible for the paddles
to scrape the sides of the cans properly.
The sweetened condensed milk should be cooled gradually.
Sudden chilling should be avoided. This is best accomplished
by warming the water in the cooling tank to about 90 degrees F.,
before the cans are set in. The cans are then allowed to revolve
for fifteen to twenty minutes before any cold water is turned
into the tank. After that, cold water is turned in slowly until
the temperature of the milk has fallen to about 70 degrees F, The
Swe:etened Condensed Mii.k
Coowng 105
entire time of cooling should last about
two hours. The cans should revolve
slowly, rapid stirring enhances ^th^
precipitation of sugar crystals. In order
to scrape the sides of the cans efficient-
ly, when the cans revolve slowly,
(about five revolutions per minute) it
is advisable to use two paddles in each
can, scraping the cans at opposite sides.
When the milk is sufficiently cooled
the cans are stopped, the paddles lifted
out, scraped and removed, and the
cans taken out of the tank. This me-
thod of cooling sweetened condensed
milk is still in vogue in the majority of
condenseries. It is obviously crude, laborious and time-con-
Pig-. 35. Cooling- tank for
sweetened condensed milk
Courtesy Arthur Harris & Co.
In some factories the condensed milk is transferred from
the pan direct into
large tanks and is sub-,
sequently cooled by
pumping it with a high
pressure pump through
a series of coils sub-
merged in cold water.
This method is labor
and time-saving and
the objectionable fea-
tures of agitation are
avoided. On the other
hand, there is danger
of too rapid chilling,
which tends toward ex-
cessive sugar crystalli-
zation and the produc-
.tion of rough, sandy
and settled milk.
Within recent years
the imf^ nf rirrnlar tank;
^^ ^^^' ^^- Vertical coll cooler
tne use Ol circular taUKS
courtesy of Jensen Creamery Machinery Co.
106 SwKE^TENED Condensed Milk
Cooung
with jacket and vertically suspended, revolving coil, has been
adopted in numerous factories with most satisfactory results,
and this method of cooling this viscous product promises to
assist in solving the cooling problem. Rectangular vats with
horizontal coils, which also have been tried for this purpose,
however, are less desirable, as they tend to cause the condensed
milk to foam excessively. This foaming is caused by the fact
that the horizontal coil revolves into the milk, beating air into
it. In the case of the circular tank, the vertical suspended coil
when revolving moves upward, out of the milk, thus avoiding
incorporation of air and excessive foaming. The circular vat
with the suspended vertical coil has the further advantage that
the condensed milk does not come in contact with bearings and
glands, these parts being entirely detached from the vat.
A still more recent method of cooling sweetened condensed
milk consists of a combination of the use of the submerged coil
and subsequent slow agitation. The equipment for this method
consists of a vertical or horizontal tank, equipped wîth a sub-
merged coil. This coil should have a diameter of about H
inches and a length of from 600 to 700- feet, the length needed
depending on the temperature to which it is desired to cool the
condensed milk and the temperature of the cooling water. The
coil is usually of regular, so-called sanitary pipe (copper pipe
tinned on inside) or it may be black iron pipe preferably sand-
blasted on inside.
The submerged coil connects at its intake with a high pres-
sure pump and at its outlet wîth one or more large enameled
steel holding tanks (capacity usually 5,000 gallons). Each of
these holding tanks is equipped with a powerful motor-driven,
vertically slanting agitator, also enameled. The agitator re-
volves at a speed of about 12 R. P. M.
In the operation of this method of cooling, the hot sweet-
ened condensed milk is drawn from the vacuum pan, preferably
by gravity, into a standardizing vat mounted on scales. When
all the condensed milk of one and the same batch has been trans-
ferred to this tank it is accurately weighed. The weight of the
original fluid milk is then divided by the weight of the con-
densed milk. This yields the exact ratio of concentration. If
SwEiETENED C0NDE:nSH:d MiLKCoOUNG 107
Pig". 37.
Hig-h pressure pump for sweetened condensed
nulk
the concentration is in excess of that desired, the product is
standardized by the addition of the accurately calculated nec-
essary amount of distilled water.
From this stand-
ardizing tank the hot
condensed milk is
forced by means of the
high pressure pump
through the submerged
coil in the cooling tank.
The water supply to
this tank is automati-
cally regulated by a
thermostat, so as to
cool the condensed milk
to the desired tempera-
ture (usually 65 to 75 degrees F.)-
The condensed milk remains in the submerged coil about
six minutes, i. e., six minutes elapse from the time it enters
the coil till it reaches the exit. From here the now cool con-
densed milk flows to the holding tank where it is slowly agitated
for several hours.
Experience has demonstrated that this method of cooling
and agitating sweetened condensed milk is very effective in
preventing the production of sandy and settled milk. It appears
that the great viscc^sity of the sweetened condensed milk causes
the milk, in its passage through the coil, to be subjected to the
least damaging agitation. The center of the column oi the
milk moves forward slightly faster than the portion nearest the
walls of the coil. This results in a rolling or curling motion,
producing sufficient and yet not excessive agitation.
The subseqent slow agitation of the cooled condensed milk
in the holding tanks^ for a considerable period of time, further
assists in the preservation of a smooth product. It enhances
the formation of very small crystals at the expense of larger
crystals, thereby minimizing the tendency toward coarseness and
insuring a uniformly smooth product that is not prone to yield
a sugar sediment.
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The pressure required to pump the sweetened condensed
milk through the cooling coil and up into the holding tanks
varies from about 800 to 1200 pounds, and the pump used for
this purpose must be strong enough to develop a pressure of
at least 2,000 pounds, which may be required to start the flow
through the coil after the milk has stood idle for some time and
has become chilled.
This method, in addition to its labor-saving feature, and
to its efficiency in avoiding sandy and settled condensed milk,
has the further important advantage, that the product is pro-
tected against contamination with bacteria, mold, and other im-
purities from the air. etc., the product being under seal until
it reaches the filling machine, or until it is packed into barrels
in the case of bulk goods. This method, therefore, should be
particularly adapted for efforts to produce an article that does
not develop ''buttons'' with age. See also Chapter on ''Defects
of Sweetened Condensed Milk."
The chief criticism that may be raised against this method
lies in the question of cleaning the cooling coil. From the
standpoint of bacterial contamination it may safely be said,
however, that the danger of such contamination is remote. After
the product of one day's make has passed through the coil, the
coil is sealed by valves and there is no reason to doubt that
the condensed milk remaining in the coil till next day's opera-
tion, is not just as well protected against all contaminating
influences, as if it were sealed in tin cans. It is advisable, how-
ever, to completely empty and rinse and steam the submerged
coil at regular intervals of say once per week. This is especially
desirable in the case of a copper coil, in order to guard against
an excessive accumulation of copper salts which would tend
to lend the product a metallic flavor and to jeopardize its whole-
someness. In the case of a black iron coil, sand-blasted on inside,
the effect of the action of the acid and sugar of the milk is
negligible. However, when not filled with condensed milk the
iron coil should be kept filled with clean water to prevent exces-
sive rusting.
no Swee:tened Conde:nsed Milk
Filung
Chapter VII.
FILLING.
The sweetened condensed milk is put on the market in
barrels and in hermetically sealed tin cans.
In Barrels.Barrels, similar to glucose barrels, are generally
used. They hold from three hundred to seven hundred pounds
of condensed milk. New barrels should be used for this purpose.
Barrels paraffined, or coated with sodium silicate, on the inside
are most satisfactory, as they are more apt to be free from mold
spores. Old glucose barrels are dangerous to use, as they often
contain decaying remnants of glucose, which cause the condensed
milk to ferment. The new barrels are steamed out and drained
thoroughly. The filling is facilitated by the use of a large gal-
vanized iron funnel with a discharge one and one-half inches
in diameter, or an ordinary milk pail with a nipple one and one-
half inches in diameter in the bottom of the pail. When filled^,
a double layer of cheese cloth is placed over the bunghole, and
the bung is driven in level with the staves. The barrel goods
are sold to bakeries and candy factories.
In Cans.
The
canned goods are in-
tended for the retail
market. The cans
used hold from eight
ounces to one gallon
of condensed milk.
Most makes of tin
cans for sweetened
condensed milk have
a small opening,
three-eighths to three-
fourths inch in diam-
eter through which
they are filled. The
cans known and sold
under the trade name
, ^
,, .
,,
rig". 39.
Sanitarv cjiti pfp
"^ Filling xnacliine for sweetened condensed milk
filled before the top
courtesy of Schaefer Mfg. Co.
Swe;^tkned Condensed Milk
Filiîng 111
is crimped on. Sweetened condensed milk is of a semi-fluid,
viscous and sticky consistency. The successful and rapid filling
of the cans without spilling the milk over the top of the
can is, therefore, somewhat difficult. If done by hand the"
work is very slow. For this reason many ingenious ma-
chines have been devised which are more or less efficient
in ''cutting off" the milk without ''slobbering." The filling
machines now in use vary from the primitive hand filler, in
which the condensed milk is "ground out" by the turning of
Fig-. 40. Tlie solder seal Tig. 41. Tlie Sanitary can
Figf. 42. Tlie Gebee seal Fig-. 43. The McDonald seal
a crank by hand, to the most perfect forms of automatic filling
machines. In these filling machines, all parts coming in con-
tact with the condensed milk are constructed of brass. They
usually are equipped with a reservoir, receiving tank, or hopper,
which has an automatic feed, usually a floating device attached
to a valve, which regulates the inflow according to the discharge.
The discharge is adjustable to fill any size can with a remarkable
degree of accuracy, except gallons which are usually filled by
112 SwDETEjNED Condense:d Milk
Seaung
hand. Machines of this type will fill from twenty-five thousand
to thirty thousand cans per day (ten hours).
These machines are of complex construction and must re-
ceive proper care. It is best to clean them thoroughly after each
day's work. But, since their inlet and discharge are closed her-
metically, the complete washing may be done once per week
only, without seriously disturbing their efficiency or impairing
the product. For thorough cleaning, the filler should be dis-
sected, removing all detachable parts, such as valves, pistons,
tubes, etc. When freed from all remnants of condensed milk,
the parts should be scalded, dried and replaced in the machine.
In order to guard against all possible contamination by remnants
of wash water, it is advisable to reject the first few cans of milk
of the next filling. When not in use, the filling machine should
be covered with clean cloth, or oil cloth, to protect it from dust
and flies, etc.
As soon as the cans are filled, they should be "capped." If
allowed to stand open, dust, dirt and flies, or other insects are
prone to reach their interior, and the prolonged exposure of the
condensed milk to the air and light causes the surface to crust
over and to develop a tallowy flavor.
SEALING.
Kinds of Seals.The seal must be air-tight and firm enough
to prevent its breaking during the rough treatment to which the
cans are exposed in transportation. There are several methods
of sealing the cans, depending largely on the construction of the
can. Most of the cans used are sealed with solder. There is a
groove, around the opening, the periphery of the cap fits into this
groove and the latter is filled with solder. In the case of cans
which are sealed without solder, the cap or the entire end of the
can is crimped onto the can so as to make a hermetical seal. The
McDonald seal Avith the friction cap, the Gebee seal with the burr
cap, and the Sanitary can seal with the top of the can crimped on
after filling, are the chief types of solderless seals. In the case of
the McDonald seal, a tightly fitting cap with a wide flange is
pressed into the opening. The ''capped" can passes under a
series of steel rollers pressing the flange firmly against the top of
Seaung
113
the can. This seal is very simple, but is not very strong and
not hermetically tight. In the case of the Gebee seal, a rim pro-
jects around the opening of the can. After the cap is inserted,
it is crimped over this rim by means of a series of revolving dies?
This seal is reasonably strong but not hermetically tight. The
Sanitary can is entirely open at one end when filled. The cover
or end is crimped around the periphery of the body of the can
by means of revolving dies. This seal is reasonably strong
and usually hermetically tight. The chief advantages of the
seals vîthout solder lie in the saving of labor and the reduction
of the cost due to the omission of solder.
Soldering Devices and Machinery.
The sealing of all solderless seals is
done by specially constructed sealing
machines.
Fig". 44. Soldering* stove
For seals with solder there are sev-
eral machines on the market but much
of this work is as yet done by hand.
For this, different types of soldering
coppers are in use and the copper tips
are heated in soldering stoves or pots.
Some soldering coppers have hollow
circular tips with a diameter equal to
that of the cap used. The hollow tip
is telescoped by a rod which holds thg
cap in place and the periphery of the tip fits into the 'groove
of the opening of the can, where it melts the solder. A rapid,
neat and leakless seal can be made with this instrument.
Ordinary soldering coppers with a blunt point, such as are in
Tig. 45. A convenient de-
vice for soldering- by hand
114 Sweetened Condensed MiIvK
Seaung
general use by the tin smith, are not very satisfactory. Unless
they are drawn out and filed down into a fine point, their use is
not conducive of neat work, progress is comparatively slow and
leakers are often numerous. When gas is available the automatic
soldering copper may be used to advantage. In this tool the
copper tip,- which is long and slender is automatically heated by
a current of gas passing through the handle and burning at the
copper tip. The handle of the device is connected with the gas
and air pipes by means of flexible rubber tubing. No time is
lost waiting, for the copper to heat and the flame can be so
regulated that tlie temperature of the copper tip is right and
uniform. This is important, because perfect work is impossible
unless the coppers have the proper temperature.
Machine-soldering is now rapidly replacing hand-soldering.
The principle of the older types of soldering machines consisted
of revolving discs on which the tin cans were placed. The cap
was held in place by a vertical rod pressing on it. The solder
was applied by hand, the hot soldering copper was held over
the groove in the can while the cans revolved. This method had
no particular advantage over the hand soldering. There was
little, if any, saving of time and the quality of the work was not
much, if any, better.
There are now on the market newer types of soldering ma-
chines, most ingeniously constructed and their operation in fac-
tories with large outputs economizes labor and time.
Solder.The solder used for sealing should be of standard
composition. In this country, canning establishments are prone
to use a very poor quality of solder. It contains from 45 to 55
per cent tiead. Lead is a poisonous metal; its use in the canning
industry should, therefore, be regulated by law. In Germany,
the law requires that solder used in tin cans for food products
must not contain over 10 per cent of lead.
Where the sealing is done by hand the solder is most con-
veniently used in the form of thin bars or wire. The wire is
usually bought already cut up in segments, each segment furnish-
ing solder enough to seal one can. In the newer types of sol-
dering mtachines the solder wire is automatically fed from spools.
'Swe:etkne:d Conde:nse:d Mii,k
Se:aung 115
The smaller the opening of the can, the less solder is necessary
to complete the seal. An opening smaller than three-eighths of
an inch in diameter, however, cannot conveniently be used, owing
to the difficulty of filling the can with this viscous product. The-
essential points of satisfactory sealing are: no "leakers," neat
work, rapid work, small amount of solder. Aside from the size
of the opening of the can, the amount of solder used depends
on the experience of the sealer. Beginners usually miake an un-
even seal, waste much solder, and have many "leakers." This
is largely due to their ignorance of the proper soldering tempera-
ture of the copper. An experienced sealer will use from two
to three pounds of solder per thousand tin cans with moderate-
sized openings. He will seal from fifteen hundred to twenty-five
hundred cans per day.
Soldering Flux.The use of solder requires the application
of soldering flux, to prepare the surface of the tin for the solder.
The flux always precedes the solder. When the hot solder is
applied, some of the flux is bound to sweat through, between cap
and can, gaining access to the interior of the can. The common
practice of using zinc chloride or other similar acid fluxes, which
are highly poisonous, therefore, cannot be too strongly con-
demned. Their presence in the can may jeopardize the health
and life of the consumer, as well as the marketable properties of
the product. There are other fluxes which are absolutely harm-
less, and which, if properly used, give satisfactory results. Dry,
powdered resin, or resin dissolved in alcohol or gasoline, are of
this class. Ammonium chlori-de, while used in most tin shops,
is not as well suited for this purpose.
Gas Supply.--A plentiful and steady supply of gas is very
essential. Where natural gas or gas from a municipal corpora-
tion is not available, the factory must rely on its own generator.
For the needs of the condensery a gasoline gas plant seems
suitable. Gasoline gas is produced by forcing atmospheric air
over or through a body of gasoline. The mixture of air and
gasoline vapors forms the gasoline gas. The gas generators in
use consist chiefly of carburetor, air pump or blower, and regu-
lator. The carburetor usually has a series of cells, connected
with one another by means of a system of syphon tubes. The
116 Sw^KT^NKD Condensed Milk
Seaung
interior of each cell is partitioned off with heavy cotton wicking
This wicking absorbs the gasoline by capillary attraction. The
air, passing through the fine meshes of wicking, comes in contact
with a large surface of gasoline.
The following are some of the essential points to be observed
in the installation and operation of gas generators of this type:
Sink the carburetor low enough (three to five feet below the
surface of the ground if necessary) to permit the gas pipe to slant
from the factory to the carburetor. If the gas pipe is horizontal,
or inclined toward the factory, condensation water may collect
in the pipe, obstructing the free passage of gas. This causes the
gas either not to be available at all, or to reach the stoves in
irregular gusts, which is equally unsatisfactory. Where the gas
pipe slants toward the carburetor, the condensation wâ^ter flows
back into the carburetor, causing no obstruction. Use gasoline
of the best quality only. Cheap grades form a residue and clog
the generator. The gasoline is best bought in iron barrels ; this
prevents unnecessary loss by evaporation, which occurs in
wôoden barrels, especially in summer. The cells should not be
filled more than two-thirds full ; too much gasoline reduces the
gas-generating capacity of the carburetor. If, during extremely
cold weather, the carburetor refuses to generate gas, the injection
of a pint of wood alcohol through the blow^ pipe into the cells,
usually remedies the trouble. The gas plant and gasoline storage
should be located in a separate building and at a reasonable
distance from the main building, in order to minimize danger
from fire.
PART III
MANUFACTURE OF UNSWEETENED CONT^
DENSED MILK
EVAPORATED MILK
Chapti:r VIII.
DEFINITION.
There are three kinds of unsweetened condensed milk on
the market, namely, evaporated milk, formerly called evaporated
cream, plain condensed bulk milk and concentrated milk.
Evaporated' milk is cow's milk condensed in vacuo at the
ratio of about two to two and one-half parts of fresh milk to one
part of condensed milk. It is of the consistency of thin cream
and reaches the market in hermetically sealed cans varying in
size from eight ounces to one gallon. Evaporated milk is pre-
served by sterilization in steam under pressure. When properly
made, it will keep indefinitely, but is best when fresh.
QUALITY OF FRESH MILK.
In the manufacture of evaporated milk the physiological
normality and the chemical purity and sweetness of the fresh
milk are factors even more important than in the case of sweet-
ened condensed milk. A uniformly satisfactory and marketable
product cannot be manufactured, unless the milk is normal and
pure in every respect. The reason for this largely lies in the
fact, that defects the fresh milk may have, are greatly magnified
and intensified by the high sterilizing temperature to which the
evaporated milk is subjected. While, from the biological point
of view, contaminations of this milk are largely rendered harm-
less by sterilization, defective fresh milk cannot be made into
a marketable product, because such milk usually does not survive
the process.
It should be understood that any condition or factor that,
in the slightest degree, increases the tendency or ability of the
118 Evaporate:d Milk
He;ating
casein to curdle, tends toward the formation of a hard, unshak-
able coaguhim during sterilization, and makes the manufacture
of a marketable product difficult. Abnormal milk of this type
may come from cows approaching parturition, or too soon after
calving, or milk from cows suffering from disease, generalized
or local, or from cows in poor and abnormal physical condition,
which may be brought about by poor care, over-feeding, feeding
the wrong kinds of feed, or feed in poor condition, exposure to
abnormally hot weather and flies, or any other condition which
disturbs the physiological functions of the animal and thereby
aflfects the physical, chemical, and physiological properties of
the milk; or it may be due to improper care of the milk, causing
it to be excessively contaminated with germ life, or to be rel-
atively high in acid. All such milk renders the quality of the
finished product uncertain and may result in heavy loss.
In view of these facts it is obvious that the greatest care
should be exercised on the receiving platform, inspecting every
can of milk, using the most reliable means, as recommended in
Chapter III on ''Control of Quality," to detect suspicious milk,
and rejecting all m'ilk that fails to reach the sanitary standard
adopted by the factory.
Standardizing.
În order to insure in the finished product

the percentage relation of fat to solids not fat that meets with
the Federal Standard or with any other standard desired, the
fluid milk should be accurately standardized. For this purpose
each batch of fluid milk must be correctly tested for per cent fat
and per cent solids not fat. On the basis of these tests, the
amount of cream or skim milk which it is necessary to remove
or to add, as the case may be, can then be readily calculated.
For detailed directions on standardizing the milk to any desired
standard see Chapter XXIX on ''Standardization."
HEATING THE MILK.
The equipment for heating the milk should be such as to
enable the factory to heat the milk with the least possible delay
so as to avoid the development of acid, or to make possible the
prompt cooling of the milk upon its arrival to a temperature at
which bacterial development is checked. In the manufacture of
evaporated milk, the batches of condensed milk in the vacuum
Evaporated Milk
Condensing 119
pan must be relatively small. This milk foams more in the pan
than the heavier sweetened condensed milk. This factor reduces
therefore, the capacity of the pan. If the milk is not cooled upon
arrival, but is transferred immediately to the hot wêlls, it is~
advisable to use numerous small wells, rather than but one or
a few large ones. These small wells fill rapidly and the miilk
can be heated without delay. This system makes it possible to
render the bacteria inactive and harmless practically as soon
as the milk arrives, minimizing the danger of acid formation.^
Steam may be saved if the milk is forewarmed by running
it through coils inclosed in a chamber of exhaust steam, but the
coils increase the labor and difficulty of cleaning. It is best to
heat the milk to as near the boiling point as possible and hold
it there for five to ten minutes, provided that the capacity of the
factory warrants this delay. In this heating the casein ot the
milk is somiewhat changed. There occurs partial, though invis-
ible, precipitation, and the higher the temperature to which the
milk is heated, tlie more pronounced is this change. This change
is desirable, because the casein thereby surrenders, to a limited
extent, its power and tendency to form a firm curd in the ster-
ilizer. See also Chapter XI on ''Sterilizing."
CONDENSING.
The same apparatus, the vacuum pan and pump, is used
for condensing the milk, and the process of condensing is prin-
cipally the same, as in the case of sweetened condensed milk.
The fresh milk is condensed at the ratio of two to two and one-
half parts of fresh milk to one part of condensed milk. In some
factories it is customary to superheat the milk in the pan before
it is drawn off, i. e., the steam to the jacket and coils is shut off,
the water valve is closed, the vacuum pump is stopped and
''live" steam is passed into the condensed milk. When the
vacuum has dropped to about six to eight inches, and the tem-
perature has risen to 180 to 200 degrees F. the superheating is
stppped, the steam is turned off, the vacuum pump is started
again, and the condensing is completed. The superheating is fre-
quently also done after the evaporated milk has been drawn
1
See also Cooling Milk and Standardization.
120 Evaporated Milk
Striking
from the pan. In this case, the process of evaporation is usually
carried slightly beyond the desired density of the finished prod-
uct, the evaporated milk is drawn from the pan into an open vat
or kettle where steam is turned direct into the milk until the
superheating is com-pleted, which is indicated by its greater con-
sistency and the slightly flaky condition of the curd. Then water
is added to the superheated evaporated milk to bring the product
back to the desired density.
The chief purpose of superheating is to partly precipitate
the curd. This minimizes the danger of the formation of too
hard a curd in subsequent sterilization. It also lends the body
of the milk the appearance of greater consistency, gives it a
more creamy character and assists in the prevention of sub-
sequent fat separation. The superheating of evaporated milk is
not essential for the production of quality and marketable prop-
erties, but it is looked upon by many manufacturers as a safe-
guard against such defects as curdiness and fat separation. It
is not improbable that its advantages are much overestimated,
and in most factories the superheating process in entirely omitted.
The condensing of milk for the purpose of manufacturing
evaporated milk may be done also in the absence of the vacuum
pan, by the use of the "Continuous Concentrator," the construc-
tion and operation of which are described in Chapter XIV on
** Condensing by Continuous Process."
STRIKING.
The striking, or sampling and testing for density, of evapor-
ated milk, is more easily accomplished than that of the sweetened
condensed milk. When this product has nearly reached the
proper density, it is not viscous and syrupy, containing no cane
sugar. It resembles in consistency rich milk or thin cream and
has a specific gravity of 1.05 to 1.075 at 15.5 degrees C. or 60
degrees F.
Samples are drawn from the vacuum pan as described under
sweetened condensed milk and the density can be readily deter-
mined by means of a hydrometer. Beaume hydrometers, register-
ing from' 5 to 15 degrees B., are generally used. As it is im-
portant that the determinations be accurate, the hydrometer
Evaporated Mii.k
Striking 121
should be sensitive and its scale should be subdivided into tenth
degrees. The batch should be '' struck" at a uniform tempera-
ture, say 120 degrees F., so as to avoid misleading readings of
the hydrometer, A difference of a few tenths degrees Beaume
affects the behavior of the evaporated milk in the sterilizer very
appreciably. If the density is too great the product may badly
curdle during sterilization. If the density is too low the evapor-
ated milk may be below the legal standard. It is advisable for
the operator to use a pail of water of the proper temperature,
when he strikes the batch, so that he can adjust the temperature
of the milk in the hydrometer jar readily and quickly, and need
not depend entirely on the temperature of the milk in the pan
which may change several degrees while he is engaged in the
operation of striking. The hydrometer jar containing the sample
of evaporated milk is set into the pail of hot water of the desired
temperature, the hydrometer is inserted in the jar and the read-
ing is taken.
A\^hile tlie Beaume hydrometers should be used at the tem-
perature for wdiich they are graduated, which is 60 degrees F.,
they answer all practical purposes at any other temperature:
at 120 degrees F. for instance. The chief essential is to take the
reading at some uniform and definite temperature and read the
Beaume at that same temperature in the case of every batch. In
that way the results are comparable. The operator soon learn^
that at a given temperature the evaporated milk of proper den-
sity shows a certain Beaume reading. When the reading is
higher or lower, the milk has either been condensed too much or
not enough. The use of the automatic ''striker" described under
"Striking Sweetened Condensed Milk," practically solves the
control of the temperature of the sample taken.
The same formula, however, cannot be used under all con-
ditions. No rule-of-thumb method of determining the density
can therefore be established. Aside from the degree of conden-
sation, the specific gravity of the milk varies with locality, season
of year, quality of milk, etc. This means that what is the proper
Beaume reading in one locality, or at one season in the same
locality, may be entirely wrong in another locality, or at other
seasons in the same locality. If uniformity in the density and
behavior of the batches of evaporated milk is to be secured
122
I
i:
FifiT. 46.
Beanin6 hydro-
meter for
evaporated
mlllc
Courtesy of
C. J. TagUabue
Mfgr. Co.
Evaporated Mii^^k
Striking
throughout the year, the operator must watch the
behavior of his milk from day to day and from
season to season and he must modify the Beaume
reading in accordance with the changing conditions.
This is one of the all important stages of manufac-
ture, where relentless and careful study and watch-
fulness are indispensable.
In order to make absolutedy sure that the den-
sity of the evaporated milk is right, it is advisable
to get it just as near right as possible in the pan
and then draw the milk from the pan into a stand-
ardizing vat, large enough to accommodate the
entire batch or several batches. The operator then
tests the milk again and this second estimation he
can perform more carefully, because he is then
relieved of the responsibility of attending to the
operation of the vacuum pan. If the evaporated
milk happens to be a trifle too heavy he can dilute
it with distilled water until the Beaume reading
is just right. See also ''Standardization," Chapter
XXIX. For maximum uniformity and accuracy
of results of determination with the Beaume hydro-
meter, or by other means, it is essential that the per-
centage relation of fat to solids be uniform from
batch to batch. This uniformity requires standardi-
zation of each batch.
Correction of Beaume Reading at Temperatures
Other than 60 Degrees F.At a temperature of 120
degrees F. the Beaume reading of the finished batch
of standard evaporated milk may vary between
about 6 and 8 degrees B., according to season of
year and locality. At 60 degrees F. the Beaume
reading is approximately 1.88 degrees B. higher.
If it is desired to record the Beaume reading
at the correct temperature, i. e., 60 degrees F., and
it is not convenient to cool the evaporated milk to
that temperature, the reading at any temperature
may be corrected as follows : when the tempera-
ture at which the Beaume reading is taken is above
Evaporate:d Milk
Striking 123
60 degrees F., multiply the difference between the temperature
of the observed reading and 60 by the factor .0313 and add the
product to the observed reading.
Example: Beaume at 120 degrees F. is 6.8; what is the
reading at 60 degrees F. ?
Answer: 6.8
+
(60
X
.0313) = 8.68 degrees B.
The corrected Beaume reading is 8.68 degrees B. When the
temperature at which the reading is made is below 60 degrees
F., multiply the difference between the temperature of the ob-
served reading and 60 by the factor .0313 and subtract the prod-
uct from the observed reading.
Calculation of Specific Gravity from Beaume Reading.In
order to record the density of the evaporated milk in terms of
specific gravity, instead of Beaume degrees, the following for-
mula may be used
:
145
^
Specific gravity =
r
>
^ Beaume reading at 60
degrees F.
Example: Beaume reading at 60 degrees F. is 8 degrees B.
What is the specific gravity?
145 5
Specific gravitv
-^
=: 1.0582
'
14.^.5
8
Standardizing Evaporated Milk.As previously suggested it
is advisable to carry the condensing process slightly beyond the
concentration desired, so as to enable the operator to readily
standardize it to the exact point desired by the addition of a
small amount of distilled water.
As soon as condensation is completed the contents of the
pan are drawn into a standardizing vat resting on scales. The
evaporated milk is accurately weighed ; the degree of concentra-
tion is calculated by dividing the weight of the original fluid
milk by the weight of the evaporated milk, and the amount of
water necessary to bring the solids and fat to the exact stand-
ard desired is calculated, and added to the evaporated milk. If
it is desired to further check these results, or instead of weigh-
ing the evaporated milk, it may be tested for fat and solids, and
the degree of concentration may be calculated by dividing the
per cent of fat or of solids in the evaporated milk by the per
cent of fat or of solids, respectively, in the fluid milk. For de-
124 Evaporated Milk
Homogenizing
tailed directions on calculations of concentration and on exact
method for standardizing, the reader is referred to Chapter
XXIX on ''Standardization."
Chapter IX.
HOMOGENIZING.
Purpose.The object of homogenizing is to avoid the separa-
tion of the butterfat in the evaporated milk after manufacture.
The butter fat is present in milk in the form', of minute
globules. These fat globules are lighter than the rest of the
ingredients of the milk. They, therefore, show a strong ten-
dency to rise to the surface and to form a layer of thick cream
in the cans. When these cans are subsequently subjected to
agitation, as is the case in transportation, this cream churns,
forming lumps of butter. This tendenc}^ of evaporated milk to
separate in storage and churn in transportation is especially
noticeable with milk rich in fat and in which the large fat glob-
ules predominate. In Jersey and Guernsey localities, it is more
difficult, therefore, to manufacture evaporated milk that does not
separate, than in Holstein and Ayrshire localities. While sepa-
rated and churned evaporated milk is perfectly sound and in
every way as valuable as a food, as it would be without this
separation, it does not sell in this condition. It is rejected on
the market.
This tendency toward fat separation can be minimized and
frequently entirely prevented by increasing the viscosity of the
evaporated miilk. This can be accomplished by superheating the
milk in the pan or after it leaves the pan, and by prolonging
the sterilizing process, raising the heat very slowly or stopping
the reel of the sterilizer at certain stages of the process. How*-
ever, there are conditions when even these precautions do not
permanently avoid separation of the fat. In such cases, the
proper use of the homogenizer furnishes a reliable means to
guard against this difficulty.
Principle of the Homogenizer.The principle of the homo-
genizer is to force the milk under high pressure through exceed-
ingly small, microscopic openings. By so doing the fat globules
are broken up so finely that they fail to respond to the gravity
I
Evaporated Milk
HomogenizinC 125
force, they cannot rise to the surface and therefore remain in
homogeneous emulsion. The value of the homogenizer lies in
remOAnng the fundamental cause of this separation. It reduces
the fat globules to such small size that their buoyancy, or grav~
ity force, is not great enough to overcome the resistance of the
surrounding liquid.
The earlier theories concerning the action of the homogen-
izer were that the milk had to pass through openings so mi-
nute, that the fat globules, in order to be able to pass through,
were crushed, torn and divided into much smaller units, hence
their fine state of division in the homogenized milk.
Later study of the principles of homogenization has revealed
facts and probabilities which do not bear out the earlier assump-
tions. Men who have subjected the construction and operation
of homogenizers to intensive study claim, that the openings or
orifices through which the milk passes in the machines in com-
mercial use when operating at capacity, range in size from about
.003 inch to .01 inch. If these findings are correct, then it is ob-
vious that the fat globules and even clusters of fat globules can
pass through the homogenizer as entire units and without being
broken up, for the average fat globule measures about .0001 inch
in diameter.
It is not improbable that the homogenizing action is very
similar in its atomizing cause and eflfect, as that which takes
place' in the spray-dr3nng process, only the homogenizing action
is more intensive because of the smaller size of the openings
through which the milk must pass. The atomized spray in
the spray-drying process is formed, not in the spray nozzle, but
as soon as the pressure is released, or- as soon as the mill^
escapes from the nozzle.
In the case of the spray-drying process, the atomized spray
is discharged into a medium of heated air, while in the homogen-
izing process, the atomized spray is discharged into a liquid
medium, milk.
The degree of fineness of the atoms in either case depends
on the speed with which the liquid passes through the orifice
;
the higher the speed the finer and more minute the atoms. And
the speed of passage in turn depends on the degree of pressure
and the size of the orifice. The greater the pressure' and the
126 Evaporated Milk
Homogenizing
finer the opening, the faster the milk travels through the orifice
i
and in the case of the homogenizer, the finer the division of the
fat globules in the homogenized milk
The tendency of fat globules to separate out in homogenized
evaporated milk is further reduced by the fact that the homogen-
izer also alters the physical condition of the casein, making it
more viscous and thereby increasing the resistance w^hich the
fat globules must overcome in their upward passage.
The exact changes which the casein undergoes are not well
understood, but it is not improbable that either the high pressure
or the vibration, or both, to which the milk is subjected in the
homogenizer, bring about a molecular rearrangement of the
casein. Possibly these factors cause the lactic acid which is
increased due to the concentration of the evaporated* milk, to
remove calcium from the casein, leaving a part of the casein
as free casein w^hich is a solid, and a part of the casein as casein
lactate which is in a colloidal state and which is readily hy-
drolized.
The fact remains that, when the homogenizing is done un-
der relatively high pressure, or when done in a homogenizer
carrying a spring-loaded valve which tends to vibrate or pound
the constituents of the milk, the resulting homogenized milk
increases in thickness, is more susceptible to the curdling act-
ing of the heat in the sterilizer and is, more prone to "feather"
or curdle when poured
into hot coffee.
The essential fea-
tures of an efiFicient and
reliable homogenizer
are : A high class, high
pressure, sanitary milk
pump, a resistance
valve or similar homo-
genizing arrangement
made from material
which will not wear nor
rust, and a means for
a c c u r ately adjusting
^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ h^f,ir
this valve.
courtesy of Creamery Package Mfg. Co.
Evaporated Mii.k
Homogenizing 127
Kinds of Homogenizers.There are at this time three makes
of homogenizers in use in this country, namely, the "Gaulin"
homogenizer, the '* Progress" homogenizer and the "Viscolizer."
In the Gaulin homogenizer, the milk is forced, by means of
single-acting pumps, against an agate valve which presses against
a ground valve seat. The milk has to pass between the ground
surfaces of this valve and valve seat.
In the Progress homogenizer the homogenizing principle
consists of forcing the milk, by means of single acting pumps,
between a series of discs with ground surfaces. The discs lie
Pig-. 48. The Progress homogenizer
Courtesy of Davis-Watkins Dairymen's Mfg. Co.
O.Krl6S725
Pig. 49.
Homogenizing discs
and screw
mechanism
flat one upon the other, they are enclosed in a cylinder and are
held in place by a rod running through their center. The discs
are pressed against each other by a heavy spiral screw, wliich
regulates the pressure to which the milk is subjected. The milk
passes from the center to the periphery of the discs. The discs
used in this machine are of two types. One type has very fine
irregular grooves. The milk shoots through these grooves
against hard shoulders. The other type of discs has smooth
surfaces but their area of contact is narrow. The milk passes
through these smooth surfaces,
128 Evaporate:d M11.K
Homoge:nizing
Figr. 50. The Viscolizer
Courtesy of John W. Ladd Co.
The Viscolizer.This homogenizer is equipped with a cone-
shaped resistance valve of "ViscoHte" metal, through which the
milk is forced. The
conical valve has an
accurately fitted
guide in the valve
seat, for the purpose
of lifting squarely
j
from the seat and
providing an open-
ing of equal dimen-
sions for the entire
circumference. This
valve is regulated by
a differential screw
mechanism in which
the travel or advance
of this screw is reduced 28 times from its normal pitch, making
possible a very fine adjustment. One complete turn of the
handwheel opens or closes the valve approximately to .001 of
an inch. The milk is forc-
ed through this valve by
a triple pressure pump.
Operation of the Ho-
mogenizer.In order to
aA'oid fat separation it is
necessary to subject the
milk to enough pressure
to reduce the fat globules
to at least one-third their
original size. If enough
pressure is applied to di-
vide the fat globules into
much smaller units there
is a tendency to also
change the properties of
the casein to such an ex-
courtesy of union steam Pump Co.
tent as to cause it to give rise to copious precipitation, w^hen the
evaporated milk is sterilized, and making the finished product
Fig-. 51. Atomizing' valve and differential
screw mechanism of viscolizer
Evaporated MiIvK
CooIvING 129
curdy and unmarketable. In this case the cure would be more
disastrous than the original defect. Great care must, therefqre,_
be exercised, guarding against the use of excessive pressure that
would injure the casein. Experiments have shown that a
pressure of between one thousand and fifteen hundred pounds
per square inch is sufficient to prevent fat separation and is
practically harmless as far as its objectionable eflfect on the
casein in the evaporated milk is concerned.
The evaporated milk is run through the homogenizer hot,
just as it comes from the vacuum pan or standardizing tank. If
the evaporated milk were homogenized cold, the fat globules,
instead of being subdivided would unite into butter granules, the
milk would churn. The first pailful of milk passing through the
machine should be returned to the supply tank, as on the start,
the pressure is not uniform and homogenization is incomplete.
The pistons, cylinders, valves and pipes of the homogenizer
should be kept in sanitary condition. They are difficult to clean.
After homogenizing, the machine should be kept in operation,
running water through it, until most of the remnants of evapo-
rated milk are rinsed out ; then hot water containing some
active alkali should be pumped through
;
this should be followed
by clean hot water and steam. Unless this machine is kept
scrupulously clean, it may become a dangerous source of con-
tamination, infecting the evaporated milk with spore forms
that are exceedingly resistant and which are liable to pass into
the finished product alive, in spite of the sterilizing process,
causing the goods to be a complete loss, due to subsequent
fermentation.
ChaptKr X.
COOLING.
In the cooling of the evapf)rated milk, no attention need be
paid to sugar crystallization. In this class of goods there is
plenty of water to keep the milk sugar in ready solution. The
evaporated milk can, therefore, be cooled as rapidly as facilities
permit. The cooling may be accomplished in similar ways as
are
used for cooling fresh milk. From the homogenizer the
evaporated milk is run over a surface cooler, or cooling coil. It
130
Evaporate:d Milk
Cooung
is advisable to cover the coils with a jacket of galvanized iron,
tin or copper, so as to avoid undue contamination of the milk
from dust, flies, and other undesirable agents. In so**"? con-
denseries the hot evap-
orated milk is forced
through double pipes,
cold water passing be-
tween the inner and
outer pipes, or the coils
through which the milk
passes are submerged
in a tank of cold water.
The only objection to
this system is that the
pipes are more difficult
to clean than in the
case of an open surface
cooler. Where this sys-
tem is used, the pipes
should be equipped
with sanitary fittings
so that they can be readily swabbed out from both ends. In
other factories, the evaporated milk is cooled in revolving cans
with stationary paddles, similar as described and used for
sweetened condensed milk, with the exception that cold water
i$ run into the cooling tank at once. In still other factories the
cooling is done in vats or tanks by means of revolving coils
which carry the cooling medium. If the evaporated milk is not
homogenized, it should be cooled as soon as it leaves the vacu-
um pan.
Holding Tanks.The cooling and holding of evaporated
milk may be accomplished in the same series of equipment as
described and illustrated under cooling of sweetened condensed
milk, Fig. 38. The tanks for holding this product are preferably
jacketed, so as to make possible the circulation of cold water
or brine, in case the evaporated milk must be held for a consider-
able number of hours in the holding tank. Some of these tanks
are equipped with propellers eccentrically located, facilitating
Pig-. 52. Surface cooler for evaporated milk
Courtesy of Davis-Watkins Dairymen's Mfg. Co.
Evaporated Milk
Cooling 131
the agitation of the contents and bringing all parts of the milk
in direct contact with the cooling surface.
In factories where these large glass-lined tanks are installed,
each successive batch of evaporated milk is transferred, at the
conclusion of the process of evaporation and homogenization, to
this large holding and cooling tank, where all the batches of the
same day's make are cooled, mixed and held until the last batch
I
Fig* 53. Holding* tank for evaporated milk
Courtesy of The Pfaudler Co.
is in the tank. The standardization of the evaporated milk may
be deferred, until all the batches of one and the same day's make
have reached the holding tank and the entire mixture is then
standardized to the desired composition by the addition of
distilled water, skim milk, or cream, according to needs. The
evaporated milk in this tank is usually cooled to and held at 40
to 45 degrees F. until next morning, when the filling into tins
commences.
See also ''Standardization," Chapter XXIX.
132 Evaporated Milk
Fueling
It should be understood that, at this stage of the process,
the evaporated milk is not sterile, nor does it contain cane sugar
to preserve it, neither is it sufficiently concentrated to be pre-
served because of the absence of moisture. If exposed to heat,
such as summerheat, or even
room temperature, its acidity
will increase rapidly, thereby
rendering the subsequent
sterilizing process difficult.
Therefore, unless it is
canned and sterilized im-
mediately after it leaves the
vacuum pan, or the hOmo-
genizer in case it is homo-
genized, it should be cooled
promptly to a temperature
low enough to check bac-
terial development, 40 to 45
degrees F., or below. In the
absence of holding tanks or
vats with refrigerating facilities as described above, the cooled
evaporated milk may be drawn into 40 quart milk cans, and set
in the cold room, or these cans may be submerged in a tank of
ice w'ater.
Fig*. 54. Hand fillingr macMne for evap-
orated milk
FILLING.
The cooled evaporated milk is filled into tin cans ranging
in size from eight ounces to one gallon. The gallon cans are
usually filled by hand. The filling of the smaller cans is done
by automatic filling machines.
Of late years much progress has been made in the con-
struction of dififerent types of filling machines for evaporated
milk. The openings in the cans through which the cans are
filled range from the Sanitary can, which is filled with the top
of the can entirely removed, to the venthole can with an opening
of not more than one-eighth inch in diameter. The filling ma-
chines are constructed to fill by gravity, under pressure, or in
vacuo.
Evaporath:d M11.K-Filung 133
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These filling ma-
chines should be. thor-
oughly washed and
freed from all remnants
of evaporated milk ad-
hering to the valves
and other parts after
each use. Remnants of
milk left in any part of
the filling machine de-
compose readily and
impair the wholesome-
ness and marketable
properties of the prod-
uct. This is an impor-
tant point and one too
often neglected. Much
of the spoiled evap-
orated milk may be the
result of the use of un-
sanitary and unclean
filling machines. The
fact, that the evaporated milk is sterilized after it leaves the
filling machine, is no excuse for unclean filling machines. The
operator should bear in mind that the
milk running through an unclean filling
machine becomes contaminated with
millions of bacteria. The more bacteria
it contains, the more difficult it is to
render it perfectly sterile. Furthermore,
sporeforms are prone to develop in
the decaying remnants of milk ; these
spores are very resistant and require
excessively high sterilizing tempera-
tures to be destroyed.
In the filling of the venthole cans
the foaming of the evaporated milk
Pig-. 56. Venthole can
frequently causes serious annoyance.
P. G. Srcl'ers7n Company
^^^'"^ ân be avoided by having the milk
Fig-. 55. Venthole fiUlnflT machine
Courtesy of F. G. Dickerson Company
134 Evaporated Mii,k
Sealing
at the proper temperature at the time of filling. Experience has
shown that warm milk, or milk with a temperature above about
60 degrees F. causes more trouble in this respect than cold
milk.
With the rapid and general adoption and use among con-
denseries of a cold storage system, the evaporated milk usually
has a temperature between 40 and 50 degrees F., when it reaches
the filler, and at these temperatures the tendency to foam is
reduced to such an extent that the filling can be done without
interference or interruption due to foam.
In order to economize both space and time, it has been
found advisable to connect the pipe feeding the filler direct with
the holding tank. The extent of elevation of the hoMing tank
over the filler obviously controls the gravity pressure under
which the evaporated milk enters the filling machine. If the
holding tank is located at a high elevation, therefore, the speed
of filling can be materially increased.
SEALING.
The filled cans should be capped and sealed at once. The
seal must be hermetical and strong enough to withstand the
strain of the subsequent sterilizing process. With the exception
of the ''Sanitary can," seals without solder have so far proven
unsatisfactory In the canning of evaporated milk. They are
prone to weaken in the sterilizer and cause ''leakers." Most of
the cans on the market containing evaporated milk are, therefore,
sealed with solder. Sealing evaporated milk cans with solder
is by far the safest method. For details of methods of sealing
see Chapter VII.
For the sealing or tipping of the venthole cans an automatic
tipper is usually attached to the filling machine, so that when
the cans leave the filling machine, they have also been sealed.
It is exceedingly important that the sealing be done per-
fectly, because even minute leaks cause the evaporated milk in
the cans to become contaminated causing spoilage. In order to
detect cans with imperfect seals all the cans, as they come from
the filling and sealing machine, are carefully inspected for leaks.
This may be done by the use of a test bath consisting of a narrow
Evaporate:d M11.K
Seaung 135
oblong trough, filled with hot water and through which the cans
pass on an endless chain. In the case of leaky cans, the he^tt of
the hot water bath expands the air in the cans and causes it to
escape through the leak in the seal and percolate upward in the
water in the form of air bubbles. The operator standing over
the test trough picks the cans which expel air bubbles out so
that the defective seals can be mended.
Most condenseries manufacturing evaporated milk are now
using a hot water
bath for testing the
sealed cans. But ex-
perience has shown
that the hot water
baths built on the
continuous chain
principle often fail
to give the desired
efficiency. This is not
the fault of the ma-
chine, but it is due
to the fact that it
becomes very tiresome for the inspector to watch the moving
line, of cans in the water bath and he soon becomes careless and
his work inefficient. It has been found that baths constructed
and operated on the principle of submerging a whole tray full
of cans, (usually 24 cans) at a time, give more satisfactory re-
sults, relieving the monotony and preserving more successfully
the keenness of observation of the inspector.
The venthole filler is simple in construction, economical in
operation and easily cleaned and kept in sanitary condition. The
milk, from the time it comes within the range of the filler, is no
longer exposed to contaminating influences, such as the hands
of employes, insects, etc. The cans are uniformly filled to within
one gram of the guaranteed weight and the vents or pin holes
are automatically sealed with the minimum amount of solder.
While the quantity of solder must necessarily vary with oper-
ating conditions, it is possible to limit the average amount of
solder, under proper conditions, to 5 ounces per 1000 cans. The
Figf. 57. Chapman automatic can tester
Courtesy of Schaefer Mfg. Co.
136 Evaporate:d Mii.k
Sterilizing
fact that the vent hole or pin hole filler operates by gravity, as
to both, the empty cans and the inflowing evaporated milk, re-
duces the human and mechanical error to the minimum, once the
machine is set for operation.
The acknowledged advantages of the venthole filler have
made its general adoption and use rapid and it is estimated that
today over 90 per cent of the American evaporated milk is
being canned by this type of filling machine.
Chaptfir XI.
STERILIZING.
The sealed cans are now ready for the sterilizer. If they
cannot be sterilized Avithin an hour or two they should be sub-
merged in ice water or placed in a refrigerating room until the
sterilizer is ready for them.- This precaution is especially ad-
visable in summer.
Purpose of Sterilization.The chief purpose of subjecting
the evaporated milk to the sterilizing process is to kill all germ
life and, therefore preserve the product permanently. When
the hermetically sealed cans come from the sealing room, their
contents are not sterile. The only means to preserve this milk
is to subject it to temperatures high enough to kill all forms
of ferments, organized and unorganized, vegetative cells and
spores. The success of the manufacture of this product depends
to a large extent on the process of sterilization.
Aside from this, the manufacturer aims to gain another com-
mercially important condition, namely, to prevent the separation
of the butter fat. Before sterilization, there is nothing to prevent
the fat from separating out in the evaporated miilk and from
churning in transportation, unless the evaporated milk was
homogenized. The sterilizing process helps to so change
the physical properties of the milk, that this tendency of the
fat to separate is greatly minimized. The sterilizing tem-
peratures used, further lend to the evaporated milk a creamy
consistency and yellowish color, giving the product a semblance
of richness,
Evaporated MiIvK
St^riuzing 137
Tig. 58.
Sterilizer for evaporated milk
Courtesy of Arthur iHarris & Co.
Sterilizers.The predomi-
nating apparatus used for ster-
ilizing is a huge, boiler-like,
hollow, iron cylinder or box.
It opens either at one end
or on the side. Its interior
is equipped with a revolving
framework, steam inlet with a
perforated steam distributing
pipe in the bottom of the steril-
izer and extending over the entire length of the sterilizer, a water
exhaust, a water inlet with a water distributing pipe in the-
top of the sterilizer and running the entire length of
the sterilizer and a water exhaust. The sterilizer carries on its
exterior a steam gauge, a vacuum gauge, a water gauge, a blow-
off valve and a high-temperature thermometer (registering to
about 280 degrees F.). In some makes of sterilizers the interior
frame-work does not revolve on its axis, but moves back and
forth by means
of a direct-act-
ing, steam-
driven piston,
attached to the
back end of the
sterilizer. The
purpose of
keeping the
cans in motion
while heat is
applied, is to
heat the con-
tents rapidly
and uniformly,
and to prevent
the evaporated
milk from bak-
ing onto the
sides of the Fig-. 59. sterilizer for evaporated milk
cans A still
Courtesy of The Engineering Company
138 Evaporated Mii.k
Sterilizing
other form of sterilizer is the continuous sterilizer in which the
unsterilized cans pass into and the sterilized cans escape from
the heating chamber in continuous procession.
Loading the Batch-Sterilizer.The sealed tin cans are
placed in heavy iron trays, usually holding twenty-four 16-ounce
cans or six 1-gallon cans. The loaded trays are slid and locked
into the framework in the interior of the sterilizer. The sterili-
zer is closed with hea\y iron doors and the framework is put
in motion. In some makes of sterilizers the interior consists of
a large perforated iron box revolving on its axis. In this case
the cans are simply piled into this box, no trays being used.
Uniform Distribution of Heat.Where no water is used in
the sterilizer during the sterilizing process, it is important that
there be a free air space between every two layers of cans,* so
as to allow the steam to circulate freely and to come in direct
contact with every can. \Anien the cans are piled into the ster-
ilizer six to twelve layers deep without any free air space be-
tween layers, the cans in the center do not receive as much heat
as those at the sides, ends, top and bottom. This causes irreg-
ular heating and imperfect sterilization.
A satisfactory means of insuring even distribution of heat
is to fill the sterilizer about one-thirdful of water, so that, when
the sterilizer is in operation the cans pass through this water,
with each revolution of the frame work. Water distributes the
heat imiformly, rapidly and there is no danger of the formation
of air pockets between the cans. Since the heat is applied by
stCcim under pressure, the temperature of the water is equal to
that of the steam in the sterilizer. This precaution is especially
necessary in the case of baby-size cans (eight ounces) which are
usually piled in stacks more than two deep. When sterilizing
in the absence of water there is danger of lack of uniformity of
the amount of heat they receive. The uniform distribution of
the steam by the perforated steam distributing pipe in the bot-
tom of the sterilizer is essential for uniform heating of all the
cans. If the perforations in this pipe become enlarged due to
wear, or in case of an iron pipe due to rusting, or if the cap at
the end of the pipe happens to come oflf, the heat distribution-
is bound to lack uniformity.
Evaporated Mii.k
Sterilizing 139
It is advisable and important to establish the efficiency of
heat distribution in the sterilizer by accurate test. For_Jthis
purpose the use of cans equipped Avith automatic thermometers,
similar to medical thermometers, but registering sterilizing tem-
peratures, may be found practical. Such cans are placed in
different parts in the cages of the sterilizer at the time the ster-
ilizer is loaded, and at the conclusion of the process these
Can fitted with Closed Top
and Tell-Tale Thermometer
for Open Bath and Retort
Procen
Pigr. 60.
Evaporated milk can
with tell-tale ther-
mometer, complete
Figr. 62.
Wrench for sealing* and
opening* can
Pig. 61.
Tell-tale thermometer
Courtesy of Taylor Instrument Co.
I
thermometers indicate the maximum temperature to which the
contents of the respective cans were heated. Unfortunately
these thermometers are not always accurate and often they do not
function properly. Then again the jars to which they are sub-
jected in the revolving cage and again when the trays contain-
ing these cans are removed from the sterilizer, frequently change
the position of the mercury column, rendering its readings un-
reliable and misleading.
Another and very simple and reliable method of testing
140 Evaporate:d Mii,k
Ste:riuzing
the sterilizer for heat distribution is to test numerous cans
from different parts of the sterilizer, after sterilization, for vis-
cosity by means of the Mojonnier viscosimeter or similar device,
as described under ''Testing Sample Cans for Viscosity," see
this chapter, succeeding paragraphs.
Temperature and Time of Exposure.When the sterilizer
is filled with the cans and closed, the frame work is set in motion
and steam is turned into the sterilizer. In order to hasten the
heating and expel all the air, the exhaust and safety should be
left open until the temperature has risen to 212 degrees F. This
temperature is usually reached in about ten to fifteen minutes.
The exhaust and safety are then closed.
From this point on, the process must depend on locality,
season of year and condition, properties and concentration of the
milk. No formula can be laid down which can be depended on
to give uniformly satisfactory results under all conditions. Nor
does the proper sterilization depend on one particular formiula.
There are numerous ratios of temperature, time of exposure and
extent of agitation, which when adjusted to local conditions may
give satisfactory results. The temperature should be high enough
and the duration of exposure long enough to insure absolute
sterility of the product and to give the milk sufficient body to
prevent the separation of the butter fat in subsequent storage.
The temperature should not be so high nor the duration of ex-
posure so long, as to cause the formation of a hard, unshakable
curd and dark color.
Some processers use a very short process with high tem-
peratures, others raise the heat gradually and not to quite so high
a degree. The more gradual heating is preferable, as it gives
the product a better body and more viscosity, which is neces-
sary to keep the fat from separating in storage. The author's
judgment in this matter is, that it is not safe to raise the tem-
perature to less than 230 degrees F. and it is advisable to heat
the milk to 234 to 236 degrees F.. provided that the milk is in
condition to stand this heat without formation of too firm a
curd. Where the maximum temperature to which the milk is
raised in the sterlizer is 230 degrees F. or thereabout, the raise
of the last ten degrees should occupy from thirty-five to forty-
Evaporated Mii.k
Steriuzing 141
five minutes, and this time should be about evenly distributed
over the last ten degrees.
Of recent years, the practice of stopping the reel of tlie~
sterilizer, either at intervals or w^hen the maximum temperature
has been reached, has been adopted by some of the manufactur-
ers. In this case, the temperature usually is rapidly raised to
about 240 degrees F., and after keeping the reel running at this
temperature for a few minutes (about two minutes) the reel is
stopped and this tem^perature is maintained for from 15 to 20
minutes, with the cans lying still. When the "hold" is com-
pleted, the cooling proceeds in the usual way. Some condens-
eries stop the reel for several minutes once or twice when the
temperature has been lowered and, before it has dropped to below
212 degrees F.
When the stop process of sterilizing is used it is advisable
also to superheat the evaporated milk to about 210 degrees F.
in the vacuum pan; then cool it to about 140 degrees F. and
draw it into the standardizing vat where it is standardized to
the desired point, then it is homogenized, filled and sterilized.
The superheating can also be done in the standardizing vat
instead in the pan, by simply blowing steam direct into the
evaporated milk.
Mojonnier Bros. Co. recommend that, where the stop proc-
ess is used, the temperature be raised 3 degrees F. higher (or
to 243 degrees F.), than when the reel is kept revolving during
the entire process. They further recommend that the tempera-
ture be maintained at 243 degrees F. for 15 minutes, during
the last seven minutes of which the reel be stopped. This
refers to a ''coming-up time" (from 190 degrees F. to 240 degrees
F.) of 10 minutes.
This method of sterilizing, by stopping the reel, has the
advantage of developing in the cans a soft, custard-like coagu-
lum, giving the product a very heavy consistency and making it
appear rich and creamy. It represents a form of superheating.,
however, which if not done with great care, may prove disas-
trous, causing the evaporated milk to spontaneously thicken and
become cheesy in consistency upon storage. Most batches of the
stop-reel process require shaking.
In his efforts to insure complete sterility the operator should
142 Evaporated Mii^k
Steriiîzing
understand that the size of the cans may influence the steriHzing
efficiency. It takes more time and agitation to sterilize gallon
cans than small cans. At a time of the year when the milk con-
tains micro-organisms of relatively high resistance to heat, as
is often the case especially in fall and winter, the per cent loss
of gallon cans due to ''swell heads" may become disastrously
large, unless the manufacturer makes a special effort to adjust
his process for gallon cans. Gallon size cans require about one
degree F. more heat on a 15 minute run of holding than tall-size
cans, and tall-size cans require about one degree F. more than
family- and baby-size cans.
The installation and efficient use of automatic temperature
controllers and recorders is of- material assistance for securing
uniform results of sterilization. These accessories are made use
of in numerous factories, and have proven to be of valuable
help to the manufacturer. Aside from the fact that they actu-
ally do facilitate the temperature control, they automatically
Plgr. 63. Bnll) for automatic temperature control
Courtesy of Taylor Instrument Co.
make for increased efficiency of the operator. The knowledge
of the operator that his work is permanently recorded and
checked up exerts a beneficial effect on his performance.
The operation of an experimental or pilot sterilizer also has
proven a great help in the accurate determination of the amount
oi heat which the evaporated milk of any batch requires, to
produce the desired viscosity, body and color and that it will
stand without becoming hopelessly curdy. These machines are
of small size, accommodating only a few cans.
A few sample cans of each batch are placed in the pilot
sterilizer and run through the process. Thus the proper process
to be used for the entire batch in the large sterilizer may be
adjusted according to the behavior of the contents of the sample
cans in the pilot sterilizer.
Qualifications of the Processer.The operator, or the person
Evaporated Milk
Ste:riuzing 143
directing the sterilizing process, should thoroughly appreciate
the complexity of the product, understand the cause and effect
of the many influencing factors, study the ever-changing condP
tions and modify the process in accordance with prevailing con-
ditions. He should know that during the exceedingly hot sum-
mer days, when the cows suffer from heat and are pestered with
flies, the milk will not stand as much heat without badly cur-
dling in the sterilizer as under more favorable conditions. He
should know that toward and during the fall months the orgân-
Figr. 64. Pilot sterilizer
Courtesy of The Engineering- Company
isms normally present in milk are more resistant and require
higher heat to be destroyed, than earlier in the season.
Rapid and Uniform Cooling.
Âs soon as the required heat

has been given the milk in the sterilizer, the steam should be
turned off and the exhaust and draiu should be opened. When
the temperature has dropped to about 220 degrees F., cold water
should be turned into the sterilizer while the cans are constantly
in motion, until the cans are cool enough to handle. There
should be enough cold water available to reduce the tempera-
144 Evaporated Mii^k
Steriuzing
ture to 70 or 80 degrees F. in twenty minutes for gallons and in
ten to fifteen minutes for small size cans. The water pipe should
be so arranged as to distribute the water uniformly over the
entire length of the sterilizer.
If the process is to be successful, the ppocesser must have
as nearly perfect control of the heat as possible. This means
especially, that there must be plenty of water available to insure
rapid cooling and the water must be distributed over the cans
uniformly. Insufficient water supply and uneven distribution
of the water in the sterilizer, means that some of the cans are
exposed to the sterilizing heat longer than others, causing lack
of uniformity in the smoothness and color of the milk of different
cans of the same batch. Delayed cooling, owing to iVisufficient
water supply, has the further disadvantage of causing the cans
to bulge badly, owing to the difference in pressure between the
interior and exterior of the cans. This is especially noticeable
in gallon-size cans, the ends of which may become badly dis-
torted, present an unsightly appearance and their seams and
seals may be weakened to the extent of producing ''leakers."
Excessive bulging and injury to the cans can be avoided by
admitting to the sterilizer a sufficient quantity of compressed
air at the conclusion of the sterilizing process, to take the place
of the steam pressure and thereby equalizing the pressure be-
tween the outside and inside of the cans during the cooling
process.
Fractional Sterilization.In the early days of the manu-
facture of evaporated milk the product was sterilized by frac-
tional sterilization. This method has now been largely aban-
donedj but is occasionally used when the milk happens to be
in very abnormal condition. The milk is heated in the sterilizer
to considerably lower temperatures than those stated above, and
this heating is repeated on two or three successive days. The
principle of this process is to kill all vegetative forms of bac-
teria during the first heatiwg. This gives the spores a chance
to develop into vegetative forms by the second and third days,
which forms are then destroyed during subsequent heating. This
system of sterilization is not practical for general use. It is too
great a tax on the capacity of the average factory and increases
Evaporated Mii.k
Steriuzing 145
the cost of manufacture. It should, therefore, be made use of
only in exceptional cases, when it is known that a certain batch
of milk could not be put through the higher sterilizing tempeTa--
tures without causing the product to become permanently curdy.
Standardization of Properties that Influence Behavior of
Evaporated Milk toward Heat of Sterilization.In the foregoing
discussion of the sterilizing process no mention was made of
methods to standardize the behavior of evaporated milk toward
the sterilizing heat. It was clearly pointed out that, in the
absence of such methods, it is impossible to lay down any one
formula for sterilization that would give uniformly satisfactory
results under diverse conditions of the product to be sterilized.
The chemical, physical and physiological properties of milk are
ever changing, and even slight changes in these properties often
cause wide variations in the amount of heat the product will
stand in the sterilizer. This in turn necessitates constant changes
and modifications of the process, if a marketable product is to
be the result. Too much must be left to the judgment and
power of observation of the processer and this situation ob-
viously results in excessive numbers of defective batches and
in costly losses and wastes.
The standardization of evaporated milk for percentage of
fat and solids alone materially assists in narrowing down the
range of variations in the behavior of the milk in the sterilizer,
but it fails to adequately control those properties which have
the greatest influence on the sensitiveness of this product toward
sterilizing heat. This problem has confronted the manufacturer
of evaporated milk from the very beginning of the industry.
Much experimental work has been done in an effort toward its
permianent solution, but the results have largely been of local
and temporary success and usefulness only.
Within recent years the Mojonnier Bros. Co. of Chicago
have developed and have furnished the industry with a simple,
practical and systematic method and suitable equipment, for
controlling the properties of this complex product with such
a degree of accuracy that the adoption of a standard sterilizing
formula has become feasible and practicable.
146 Evaporated MiIvK
Mojonnier ControIvIÊr
THE MOJONNIER METHOD OF EVAPORATED MILK
CONTROL.
Principle of Method.This method briefly consists of the
following outstanding features
:
1. The adoption of a standardized process of sterilization
designed and adapted for evaporated milk of superior quality
Pig-. 65. Mojonnier evaporated milk controUer
for processing. This process provides a very narrow range of
variation of temperature and of time of exposure, in order to
limit the personal factor with its inevitable uncertainties to the
minimum.
EvAPORATE:d MiIvK MOJONNIER C0NTR0I.I,ER 147
2. A standard method of determining, by means of a pilot
sterilizer, a viscosimeter and a color test, the proper visco&ity^
and color that the evaporated milk should have when it comes
from the sterilizer; and
3. A standard method of determining the amount of bicar-
bonate of soda that must be added to any given batch to evap-
orated milk in case its properties are such, that it is unsafe to
subject it, without such treatment, to the temperature condi-
tions that fall within the range of the standardized process of
sterilization.
Equipment for Mojonnier Method.The equipment designed
for this method of evaporated milk control, is illustrated in
Fig. 65, and consists of the following apparatus
:
1. One pilot sterilizer with motor, complete
2. 2 viscosimeters
3. 1 venthole sample can filler
4. Glassware for making up and measuring sodium bicarbon-
ate solution
'
5. 1 torsion balance
6. Open-top cups and venthole tin cans.
Preparation of 10% Sodium Bicarbonate Solution.The -bi-
carbonate of soda is used in this test in the form of a 10 per
cent solution. This solution is prepared as follows
:
1. Weigh empty bottle to .01 ounce
2. Add 3 ounces bicarbonate to bottle
3. Add 27 ounces warm water to bottle.
Shake thoroughly until the bicarbonate is all dissolved.
Draw out as needed into dispensing bottle, filling the same not
over half full. Keep remainder tightly corked in the stock bottle
until needed. Should the bicarbonate crystallize out, prepare
a new lot. The above solution contains exactly 10 per cent
sodium bicarbonate.
Adding the Sodium Bicarbonate Solution to Sample Cans.
Arrange in a row five open-top cups, marked

X-1-2-3-4
respect-
ively. These cups are furnished with the Controller. Cup
marked X is blank, to which no bicarbonate is added. To cup
marked No, 1 add one charge of sodium bicarbonate from the
148 EVAPORATE^D MlIvKMojONNlER CoNTROLI<E:r
dispensing burette. This is the amount contained between the
upper two graduations on the burette. To cup marked No. 2
add two charges, to cup No. 3 add three charges, to cup No. 4
add four charges. Dispensing burette furnished with the con-
troller indicates how the above quantities are to be added ; the
burette is graduated into four separate charges. The unit with
one single charge contains the equivalent of one ounce of sodium
bicarbonate, to one thousand pounds of evaporated milk. Each
successive charge is a multiple of this unit. In dispensing the
bicarbonate solution, it is best not to fill the bottle more than
half full. When filling the burette, the solution should be
allowed to flow into it slowly in order not to trap in the air. If
air is trapped into the burette, it is difficult to remve it, and
in such a case it is best to run out whatever solution may be in
the burette and to put in a new supply.
Whenever the quality of the milk is very abnormal, it may
be necessary to add more than above indicated number of
charges of bicarbonate solution to the sample cans. In such
cases any njultiples of the above number of charges may be
added. The ratio of ounces of bicarbonate to one thousand
pounds of milk wîll remain the same, being increased simply by
the number of charges added to each sample can.
Preparation of the Five Sample Cans for the Sterilizer.
After the five open-top cups have been treated with bicarbonate
as indicated in the preceding section, they are transferred to the
Torsion Balance and exactly six ounces of milk is weighed into
each cup. This can be done by taring the entire set of empty
cups, and then weighing six ounces of evaporated milk into each
separate cup.
One set of five empty cans is now marked in the same man-
ner as the cups to which the bicarbonate solution was added,
namely as follows : X

can containing no bicarbonate ; 1 = can
containing equivalent of one ounce bicarbonate per thousand
pounds of evaporated milk ; 2 = can containing equivalent of
two ounces per one thousand pounds of evaporated milk ; 3
=
can containing equivalent of three ounces per one thousand
pounds of evaporated milk, and 4 = can containing equivalent of
four ounces per one thousand pounds of evaporated milk.
Next the contents of the five open-top cups are transferred
Evaporated Milk
MojonniEr Controller 149

to the five tin cans in the order above indicated This is done
by placing the cans in pairs, under the two-can venthole filler,
furnished with the Controller, and the cups with the milk and
bicarbonate marked corresponding to the empty cans, are now
emptied into the filler. Care must be taken to keep the cans
in the proper order.
After filling, the cans are tipped, using preferably rosin
solder. Should none of this solder be available, then great care
must be exercised not to let any of the flux from the zinc chloride
solder enter the cans. Zinc chloride flux has a very bad eflfect
upon the milk, and will completely change the results.
Sterilizing the Five Sample Cans.The five samf)le cans,
prepared as above directed, are now ready for the sterilizer.
Place these in the cage and fasten the lid securely, and also turn
down the screws in order to hold all of the cans securely into
place. Adjust the cage in the sterilizer by means of the thumb
screw on the right hand, side, in order to keep them from having
end play. Close the sterilizer door securely so that no steam
escapes during the sterilizing process.
Re sure to provide circulation of the steam through the
vent on the pipe surrounding the thermometer. This little vent
should be kept open during the entire sterilization operation.
Fill the small pilot sterilizer with water to a point half way
upon the gauge glass. Be sure to turn on the switch to start
the motor in operation. Open the ''steam, start valve" and take
five minutes to let the heat reach 190 degrees F. or 3 on the ster-
ilizer scale. Then let the heat come up gradually from 190 de-
grees to 240 degrees F. or from 3 to 8 on the thermometer, taking
one minute for each 5 degrees as indicated in the following table
:
Actual Temperature
. in
Fahrenheit Degrees
Actual Reading
upon
Thermometer Scale
Point at which Mercury-
should be at any given
time coming up
240
230
220
210
200
190
8 points
7 points
6 points
5 points
4 points
3 points
20 minutes
18 minutes
16 minutes
14 minutes
12 minutes
10 minutes
150 Evaporated Milk
MojonnieJr Controller
Where sterilizing is done with steam only, without using
superheated water, it is recommended to take twenty minutes
for coming up. The above table is arranged upon this basis.
The table, however, can be readily adapted to a system requir-
ing fifteen minutes for coming up, by taking five minutes to
come up to the point marked 10 upon the table, or to 190 de-
grees F.
It is also recommended that in the pilot sterilizer, the sam-
ples be cooked to 243 degrees F. and that the ''jump" from 230
degrees to 243 degrees be made in two minutes. It is very
important to know the exact second when the mercury column
reaches 243 degrees. The milk should be held at this tempera-
ture for fifteen minutes to the exact second.
Cooling the Five Sample Cans.The instant the clock shows
that the samples have been sterilized as indicated above, both,
discharge valve and cold water valve should be opened simul-
taneously. It is best to cool the five samples to about 75 de-
grees F. This should take not to exceed five minutes, depending
upon the temperature of the water available. This is something
each operator must judge for himself.
Testing the Sample Cans for Viscosity.As soon as the
sample cans are cooled in the sterilizer, as indicated above,
the cans are dried on the outside and are then opened and
each can is placed in the proper position in the viscosimeter
rack. It will be noticed that the same scheme of marking the
spaces upon the viscosimeter rack has been observed as in the
case of marking the cans. It is very desirable to cool the sam-
ples to as nearly 75 degrees as possible. If this is not done,
the viscosity should be corrected for temperature, using the
scale of corrections that is furnished with the viscosimeters.
Make the viscosity test as follows
:
(a) Different sizes of balls are furnished, corresponding to
the product that it may be desired to test for viscosity. A special
viscosity ball is furnished in the case of evaporated milk, and
this is not interchangeable with any other ball for this purpose.
Therefore, see that the proper ball is being used.
(b) Fasten one end of the wire in the knurled nut upon the
Evaporated Mii.k
Mojonnikr Controi.i,Er 151

top of the bent support, and the other end in the dial. Adjust
the vertical position of
the dial by raising or
lowering, until the
small lug on the bottom
of the dial is in the
proper position to
engage the trip upon
the right-hand side of
the stand.
(c) Adjust the hor-
izontal position of the
dial until zero degrees
is in a line with the
pointer upon the front
of the frame when the
dial is balanced in the
air. Center the dial in
the open circle by
means of the adjusting
screws on the under
side of the frame. Make
a test for viscosity di-
rectly in the baby-size
cans. Properly center
the can by means of the
automatic arrangement
provided for that pur-
pose. As already in-
dicated, be sure to
watch the temperature
factor very closely.
(d) Lower the ball into the can of milk ; turn the dial clock-
wise one revolution ; stopping when zero degrees upon the dial
is in line with the pointer upon the front of the frame. Hold
the dial in place by means of the lug and trip. When ready,
sharply,
release the trip, note the degree w^here the dial stops,
just before it starts upon the return round. This will occur
Fisr. 66. Mojonnler vlscoslmeter
152 Evaporated Milk
Mojonnier ControliÊr
TO S>tT, TVfRN l
THIS DlRtCTlQT*
^.^ _ _1NG CANBeXAKLN
WHE.N (JtUtAStD, I
D,RE.CT AT POINTER. MAGNlFYirvi
Dial RE.VOLVE.5 IN I
CLASS OVE.R PQlNTtR /NSSWeW
This DiRtCTiocN accuracy.
Pig. 67.
Mojonnier-Doolittle viscosimeter dial,
graduated to
360
after the dial has made one
complete, and part of the
second revolution. The de-
gree at which the dial stops
will represent the viscosity
of the sample. The greater
the viscosity, the larger the
degree reading will be.
Record the viscosity of
each of the sample cans
tested, as indicated above.
Further instructions will fol-
low as to the method of ap-
plying the information thus
obtained.
Table for Correcting Viscosity of
Evaporated Milk to 75
o
pi
STERILIZING ROOM
PACKING ROOM
Take Add Add
Take Add Add
Temp, off
Deg. Deg.
Temp.
Deg.
on
Deg.
Temp.
Deg.
on
Deg.
Temp
Deg.
off
Deg.
Temp.
Deg.
on
Deg.
Temp.
Deg.
on
Deg.
F. R.2 P. R. F. R. F. R. F. R. F. R.
65 2S 76 2 89 24
60 15 75 88 10.0
66 22 77 4 90 25 61 14 76 1 89 10.5
67 19 78 6 91 26 62 13 77 2 90 11.0
68 16 79 8 92 27 63 12 78 3 91 11.5
69 13 80 10 93 28
64 11 79 4 92 12.0
70 10 81 12 94 29 65 10 80 5 93 12.5
71 8 82 14 95 30 66 9 81 6 94 13.0
72 6 83 16 96 31 67 8 82 7 95 13.3
73 4 84 18 97 32 68 7 83
7.5'
96 13.6
74 2 85 20 98 33 69 6 84 8.0 97 13.9
75 86 21 99 34 70 5 85 8.5 98 14.2
87 22 100 35 71 4 86 9.0 99 14.5
88 23
72
73
74
3
2
1
87 9.5 100 14.8
Importance of Proper Viscosity.The viscosity of evapo-
rated milk determines the body and permanency of the emulsion
of the fat and other solid and liquid constituents of the product
and it further determines the extent to which the evaporated
^
**
R means degree retardation or viscosity.
Evaporated Milk
Mojonnikr Controller 153

milk may be expected to withstand the sterilizing heat without
danger of curdling in a manner that would render the product
unmarketable.
The purpose of the A^scosity test, of sample cans having
passed through the pilot sterlizer or controller is, to determine
whether the evaporated milk of the entire batch, without treat-
ment will safely pass through the adopted, standard sterilizing
process, or to what extent this process must be modified, or to
what extent the product, before sterilization must be treated
with bicarbonate of soda to secure a good body, and at the same
time insure freedom from the formation of a permanent curd
when applying the standard sterilizing process.
A certain degree of viscosity in evaporated milk is desirable
and necessary in order to give the product a good body and to
prevent the separation of the butter fat.
But, as the viscosity increases a point is reached beyond
which it is not safe to go, because of the danger of the formation
of a permanent curd that renders the product unmarketable.
The increasing viscosity is due to a change in the physical
properties of the protein constituents of evaporated milk result-
ing from the action of heat. The earlier stages of these changes
are desirable, because they result in a product of good body and
of increased' stability of emulsion. An excessive continuation
of these changes precipitates the proteins in the form of visible
particles of curd which, if permanent, spoil the product for the
market.
Factors which Influence the Viscosity and their Correlation
to the Sterilizing Process.The extent to which heat increases
the viscosity of evaporated milk is dependent on many and vary-
ing conditions, such as acid of milk, natural stability of proteins
in milk as related to their behavior toward heat, degree of con-
centration of evaporated milk, degree of heat applied in fore-
warmer, amount of extraneous water in evaporated milk, degree
of heat in the sterilizer, duration of exposure to sterilizing heat.
The resistance of the proteins to heat, as affected by these sev-
eral conditions and factors, can be modified and largely con-
trolled if necessary, by the treatment of milk that has an ab-
normally low resistance to heat, with definite, small quantities
of bicarbonate of soda,
154 Evaporated MiIvK
Mojonnier ControlIvEr
The viscosity test therefore furnishes a measure of the
resistance of any given batch of evaporated milk toward steril-
izing heat. But in order to enable the operator tO' correctly
interpret the results of this test and to correctly govern his
method of handling the evaporated milk according to these
findings, he should have a clear understanding of the correlatiou
of the several factors that influence this resistance to heat and
that affect the viscosity.
With reference to the direction (increase or decrease of
viscosity) in v/hich these several factors influence the viscosity
and the tendency to curdle the evaporated milk, the following
general facts should be known
:
Factors that
f
1. high per cent acid in milk
2. low stability of proteins
3. high concentration of evaporated milk
4. high sterilizing temperature
5. long exposure to sterilizing temperature
^
6. high pressure in homogenizer
^1.
low acidity in milk
2. great stability of proteins
3. low concentration of evaporated milk
4. low sterilizing temperature-
.
5. short exposure to sterilizing heat
6. high temperature in forewarmer
7. extraneous water in evaporated milk
8. low pressure in homogenizer
^9.
addition of bicarbonate of soda
The exact quantitative relation of most of these factors to
one another and to the viscosity of the evaporated milk has been
experimentally determined by Mojonnier Bros. Co. for evapo-
rated milk standardized to 7.8 per cent fat and 25.5 per cent
total solids as follows
:
A 40 degree retardation or viscosity as determined by the
Mojonnier viscosimeter corresponds to:
1. One degree P. in sterilizing temperature at the holding
point of 240 degrees F.. when held for 15 minutes and with the
same ''coming-up" time as given under "Sterilizing the Five
Sample Cans." This means that each degree F. above 240 de-
increase the vis-
cosity and the
tendency to curdle^
the milk
Factors that
decrease the vis-
cosity and the
-
tendencv to curdle
Evaporate:d Milk
Mojonnier Controllkr 155

grees F. under above conditions of holding increases the retarda-
tion or viscosity 40 degrees.
2. One minute of time at holding temperature of 240 de-
grees F. This means that each minute of holding* at 240 degrees
F. longer than 15 minutes increases the retardation or viscosity
40 degrees and each minute of holding at 240 degrees F. less
than 15 minutes decreases the retardation or viscosity 40 degrees.
3. Two degrees F. on temperature to which milk is heated
in hot well under 212 degrees F. This means that for every
two degrees F. below 212 degrees F. in the hot well the retar-
dation or viscosity is increased 40 degrees.
4. 20 pounds of extraneous water per 1000 pounds of evap-
orated milk. This means that the addition to or presence in
evaporated milk of 20 pounds of extraneous water per 1000 pounds
of evaporated milk reduces the retardation or viscosity 40
degrees.
5. One ounce of solid sodium bicarbonate per 1000 pounds
of evaporated milk. This means that the addition to the unster-
ilized evaporated milk of one ounce of bicarbonate of soda
per 1000 pounds of evaporated milk reduces the retardation or
viscosity 40 degrees.
6. When using the above correlation of factors as a guide,
it should be borne in mind that, with evaporated milk of a
higher degree of concentration the influence of these several
factors on the retardation or viscosity is altered and intensified.
The Correct Viscosity for Evaporated Milk.The experi-
mental study of the viscosity of evaporated milk by Mojonnier
Bros. Co. has further demonstrated that a considerable portion
of the viscosity, as determined immediateh^ after the evaporated
milk comes from the sterilizer, is lost during the handling to
which the product is subjected from the time it leaves the ster-
ilizer and until it is ready to leave the shipping department,
and again in transport until it reaches the consumer. Also the
extent of this loss of viscosity is governed somewhat by the tem-
perature of the milk while it is so handled ; the higher the tem-
perature the greater the sacrifice in viscosity.
Accordingly it has been found that for dom'estic trade a
retardation or viscosity of 150 degrees is the correct viscosity
for
evaporated milk just as it comes from the sterilizer. For
156 Evaporated Milk
Mojonnier Controller
export purposes the viscosity should be higher, around 200
degrees.
A 150 degrees viscosity of evaporated milk immediately
after sterilization is equivalent to a viscosity of from about
80 degrees to 100 degrees by the time the milk is ready to leave
the shipping department, and this represents about the correct
viscosity for the summer months. For the winter months the
viscosity should not exceed about 80 degrees retardation. Ex-
cessive viscosity invites the "feathering" or curdling of the evap-
orated milk when used in hot coflFee or when diluted with hot
water.
Adding Sodium Bicarbonate to Batch of Evaporated Milk.
As soon as the controller and viscosimeter tests arQ completed,

the batch of evaporated milk is ready to be filled into the tin
cans. In case it is necessary to add sodium bicarbonate, the
following procedure is recommended
:
For convenience sake we will assume that can No. 2 in
the test showed the correct viscosity, as represented by a retar-
dation of 150 degrees. To this can had been added sodium
bicarbonate on the basis of two ounces per 1,000 pounds of milk.
The entire batch of milk containing 24,000 pounds evaporated
24,000X2
milk, hence
TTvy^
^
^^ ounces of solid sodium bicarbonate
are carefully weighed out. This amount of bicarbonate is con-
veniently placed into a 10-gallon milk can, a small amount of
water is added and preferably also a small amount of evapo-
rated milk. This mixture is then heated to a vigorous boil,
which can easily be done by means of the steam hose. The
boiling should be continued until the greater part of the gas
generated has been expelled.
The hot mixture is now added to the entire batch of evapo-
rated milk in the holding tank. It should be added slowly and
the evaporated milk should be kept thoroughly agitated, not
only while the bicarbonate is added but for from 10 to 20 min-
utes after its addition.
Adjusting Sterilizing Process to Different Sizes of Cans.
As stated elsewhere in this chapter, different sizes of cans

require different sterilizing formulas to insure complete steriliza-
tion, and a similar effect has been found also with reference to
Evaporated Milk
Mojonnier Controller 157

viscosity. Thus, tall size cans require one degree more heat
on a 15 minute run of holding than the baby size cans. Hence
if the record for a baby size batch of evaporated milk calls for'
15 minutes at 240 degrees F., for tall size cans, the same batch
would have to be held for 15 minutes at 241 degrees F.
Irregularities
in the Reaction and Results of Sodium Bi-
carbonate.Generally speaking the Mojonnier formula above
given for the use of Bicarbonate of Soda yields reliable results
There are occasionally conditions, however, when the evaporated
milk fails to react normally with this ingredient and may yield
results exactly opposite those anticipated. Instead of reducing
the viscosity of the milk, it increases the viscosity. Abnormal
cases of this type suggest that the physical and possibly the
chemical make-up of the casein may have undergone material,
though not as yet well understood changes.
Such abnormal conditions may be the result of improper
forewarming of the milk, the use of excessive pressure in the
homogenizer, excessive heat in the sterilizer, mixture of brine
with the evaporated milk due to leaky coils in the cooler, or
unbalanced relation of the protein and ash constituents of the
original milk. See also Chapter XXIII, "Defective Eyaporated
Milk" under ''Lumps of Curd in Evaporated Milk."
Should Bicarbonate of Soda or any other Chemical be Used
at all?The foregoing directions for the use of the Mojonnier
Controller and Viscosimeter should not be interpreted to mean,
that this volume advocates the use of bicarbonate of soda in
the manufacture of evaporated milk. In fact the availability
of this equipment and of these tests materially facilitates the
manufacture of evaporated milk without the use of sodium
bicarbonate.
-
It is important to realize, however, that the use of sodium
bicarbonate for the purpose of facilitating the process of ster-
ilization has been pretty general for many years prior to the
introduction of Mojonnier equipment and methods. It has be-
come a fairly well established practice, accepted by the industry.
Its abuse cannot be too strongly condemned and its promis-
cuous use in the absence of a systematic, scientifically
controlled,
correct
method, is prone to invite its abuse.
158 Evaporate:d Milk
Mojonnier Controller
While, in principle, the use of bicarbonate of soda in a
product such as evaporated milk cannot be unconditionally
recommended, its proper and correct use, where necessary, has
proven a decided benefit to the industry, reducing the occurrence
of unmarketable thoug-h otherwise perfectly good batches of
evaporated milk to the minimum, and thereby^ avoiding unnec-
essary economic loss. It is a matter of choosing the lesser of
two evils.
Irregularities in the behavior of evaporated milk toward
the sterilizing process, that render the product unmarketable are
largely due to changes and diflferences in the chemical compo-
sition and physical and physiological properties of the milk.
Some of these changes are under the control of th^ milk pro-
ducer on the farm, others are under the control of the manufac-
turer and still others are uncontrollable.
The conditions which can and should be controlled by the
producer refer largely to sanitation in the production and care
of milk, prompt and proper cooling, frequency of delivery, pro-
tection against heat in transit, health of cows and rejection of
colostrum milk. The condensery must insist on cleanly pro-
duction, on proper cooling of the milk on the farm, on daily
delivery at the factory (some condenseries. especially those in
Europe receive their patrons' milk twice daily), on the proper
temperature of the milk upon arrival at the factory, on the proper
disposition of milk from sick cows and of milk too close before
parturition, and too ^ôon after calving. Much of this can be
accomplished by a rigid system of milk inspection on the plat-
form and frequent visits by the inspector to the patrons' farms.
In the case of rail shipments the milk often is in transit too
long to arrive at the factory in the best condition.
The factors under control of the factory, which influence
the behavior of the e^'aporated milk toward sterilizing heat, refer
to sanitation in all departments where milk is handled in the
plant and to uses or abuses of the milk in manufacture. All
equipment with which milk comes in contact must be kept in a
perfect state of cleanliness as outlined earlier in this volume
under ''Factory Sanitation." The handling of two days' milk
must be discontinued, the evaporated milk must not be held
excessively long in the storage tanks, and if held at all, it must
Evaporated Mii.k Shaking 159
be cooled to a low temperature. All abuses of milk along these
and similar lines are bound to cause trouble in the sterilizer,
which is avoidable and unnecessary.
Finally there are factors which are not under control but
which also exert a very marked influence on the behavior of
the product toward sterilizing heat at times. These are invari-
ably associated with changes in the period of lactation, changes
in feed and climatic conditions and their efifect on the amount and
proportion of the protein and ash constituents of milk, as ex-
plained in Chapter XXIII, ''Defective Evaporated Milk, Lumps
of Curd." These conditions are not only not controllable, but
their effect on the milk is not determinable by any now known
practical method of analyses.
Proper attention to the controllable conditions will go far
in making unnecessary the use of bicarbonate in evaporated
milk and will at least confine its use, when necessary, to very
small amounts. When these conditions have been conscientiously
taken care of and, in spite of these precautions, certain batches of
milk, because of the above named eflfect of uncontrollable fac-
tors, require the use of bicarbonate in order to insure safe ster-
ilization and to avoid loss, then the emergency justifies and
sound judgment and business efficiency demand recourse to
methods that the helping hand of science has made available,
so long as these methods do not impair the wholesomeness and
food value of the product, although their ethics, in principle at
least, cannot be approved for general practice. See also ''Effect
of Relation of Mineral Constituents of Milk," Chapter XXIII,
"Defective Evaporated Milk."
SHAKING.
Purpose.The purpose of shaking the evaporated milk is
to mechanically break down the curd that may have been formed
in the process of sterilization and to give the contents of the cans
a smooth and homogeneous body.
The high temperatures to which the evaporated milk is sub-
jected in the sterilizer have a tendency to coagulate the casein.
In the case of normal, fresh milk the casein coagulates at a tem-
perature of 269 degrees F. In the evaporated milk, made from
perfectly
. normal and sweet, fresh milk, the casein curdles at
much lower temperatures, and the higher the ratio of concentra-
160
Evaporated Mii.k
Shaking
Fig. 68. Evaporated milk shaker
tion, the lower the temperature required to precipitate the
casein. It seems that the concentration of the milk intensifies
the properties of milk to coagulate when subjected to heat. This
factor is probably in part at least due to the increase of the per
cent of lactic acid in the evaporated milk, due to the concentra-
tion. If the fresh milk contains .17 per cent lactic acid, a con-
centration of two and one-fourth parts of fresh milk to one part
of evaporated milk causes the evaporated milk to contain .17
X
2.25 = .38 per cent lactic acid. With this amount of acid
acting on the casein, it is not difficult to understand why a coag-
ulum is often formed in the
sterilizer. While the formation
of this coagulum may be partly
avoided, under certain condi-
tions it appears in every fac-
tory and there are more batch-
es, especially in summer, that
come from the sterilizer coag-
ulated than otherwise.
In this condition the product is not marketable. Some means
must be provided, therefore, to break up this curd and reduce
the contents of the cans to a smooth, homogeneous and creamy
body. For this purpose a mechanical shaker is used.
Method of Shaking.The shaker consists of one or more
heavy iron boxes, or iron crates made of black iron pipes. These
boxes are at-
tached to an
eccentric. The
trays filled
with evaporat-
ed milk cans
are firmly
wedged into
these boxes.
When the
shaker is in
operation, the
cans are shaken back and forth violently, causing the curd in
the cans to be broken up.
Fig*. 69. Evaporated milk shaker
Courtesy of The Engineering Co.
Evaporated Mii.k
Shaking 161
Speed of the Shaker.If the shaker is to perform its work
properly, it must have long enough a stroke and run fast enough
to cause most vigorous agitation. The stroke should be not less
than about two and one-half inches and the eccentric should
revolve not less than three hundred to four hundred times per
minute. In order to accomplish this without wrecking the ma-
chine, the shaker must be fastened securely to a solid foundation.
From one-fourth to two minutes' shaking is usually suffi-
cient to completely break down a soft curd. When shaking for
five minutes does not produce a smooth milk, the product is
usually hopelessly curdy and no amount of additional shaking
will remedy the defect.
In some cases it
"^
has been possible, how-
ever, to improve the
curdy product by shak-
ing again after a day
or two. Under certain
conditions, age seems
to have a slight mel-
lowing effect on the
curd.
Fig-. 70. Evaporated milk balanced shaker
Formation of Curd not Desirable nor Necessary.It should
be understood that the processor should aim to get only a very
Tig. 71. Atomatic shaker
162 Plain Condensed Bulk Milk
slight and soft curd in his product, that can be shaken out in
the shaker in one-fourth to one-half minute. When the curd
produced is firm, even prolonged shaking will not prevent the
appearance in the finished product of specks and small lumps
of curd. Such milk is rejected on the market.
The formation of curd during the sterilizing process is not
desirable and is not necessary as far as the marketable properties
of the evaporated milk is concerned. It is unavoidable, however,
under many conditions and as long as it can be confined to a soft
curd that readily shakes out, no harm is done.
INCUBATING.
From the shaker, the cans are transferred to the incubating
room. This is a room with a temperature of 70 degrees to 90
degrees F. The evaporated milk remains there ten to thirty days.
The purpose of incubation is to detect defective milk and de-
fective cans before they leave the factory. If the contents of
any of the cans have not been completely sterilized, or if any
cans have the minutest leak, the evaporated milk therein will
spoil within the time of incubation. Such milk either sours,
curdles or becomes solid, or it undergoes gaseous fermentation,
causing the appearance of "swell heads." The more nearly per-
fect the process of sterilization and the ])etter the construction
and seal of the cans, the fewer are the spoiled cans. This incu-
bation process rs strictly a preventative measure. It is omitted
in many factories where the cans are labeled, packed and ship-
ped to their destination at once, or put in ordinary storage in
the factory.
Chapter XII.
PLAIN CONDENSED BULK MILK.
Definition.This is an unsweetened condensed milk made
from whole milk, or partly, or wholly skimmed milk, condensed
in vacuo at the ratio of about three or four parts of fluid milk to
one part of condensed milk. It is usually superheated to swell
Plain Condensed Bulk MitK 163
and thicken it, and it has the consistency of rich cream. It is
sold in 10-gallon milk cans to ice cream factories and in^
niilk_
bottles to the direct consumer. Plain condensed bulk milk is
not sterile, nor is it preserved by sucrose. Its keeping quality
is similar to that of a
hif2:h quality of pasteurized milk.
Quality of Fresh Milk.
^The sweeter and purer the fresh

milk or skim milk, the better will be the quality of this product.
Old milk, or skim milk in which the acid development has made
considerable headway, tends to form a lumpy plain condensed
bulk milk. However, since this milk is not subjected to steriliz-
ing temperatures and is used up quickly after manufacture, the
quality' of the fresh milk from which it is made, is not of such
magnitude as in the case of evaporated milk.
Heating.In the manufacture of plain condensed bulk milk
the heating is accomplished much in the same manner as in the
case of sweetened condensed milk and evaporated milk. The
milk is usually heated by turning steam direct into it; though
many of the more efficient types of milk and cream pasteurizers
could be used to excellent advantage for this purpose.
It is advisable, however, to heat this mJlk only to about 150
to 160 degrees F. in order to secure a nice "liver" (coagulum),
when it is superheated in the pan. If the milk is heated to the
boiling point in the forewarmers, it does not respond to the
superheating in the pan as satisfactorily.
Condensing.The condensing of plain condensed bulk milk
is done in the vacuum in a similar manner as described under
evaporated milk, except that the evaporation is carried farther.
See also "Campbell Process" and "Condensing Milk by Continu-
ous Process."
Superheating.
^\\'hen the condensation is nearly completed

the milk in the pan is superheated. This is accomplished by
shutting oft the steam to the jacket and coils, closing the valve
that regulates the water supply of the condenser, stopping the
vacuum pump and blowing steam direct into the milk in the pan,
for
the purpose of swelling and thickening it. During this proc-
164 PivAIN CONDKNSKD BuLK MiLK
ess the temperature rises to
between 180 and 200 de-
crees F. When the milk-
lias become sufficiently
thick or, in the language
of the processor, has pro-
duced the "proper liver"
(coagulum) "the steam is
shut off, water is again
turned into the condenser
and the vacuum pump is
started up. As soon as the
vacuum has ri^sen to from
twenty-five to "twenty-six
inches and the temperature
has dropped to about 130
degrees F. the process is
complete, the vacuum is
released and the condensed
milk is drawn off. The
superheating- usually oc-
cupies about twenty-five
to thirty minutes.
The completion of the superheating, or the point when the
superheating should cease, may also readily be detected by the
examination of a sample of the product. As soon as the con-
densed milk begins to show a flaky condition of the curd, the
purpose of superheating has been accomplished. The amount of
superheating necessary and that the milk Avill stand, will largely
depend, aside from the sweetness of the original milk, on the
extent of the concentration. The higher the ratio of concentra-
tion, the less superheating is required to secure the desired
results.
Striking.The striking, or sampling and testing for gravity
is done with a Beaume hydrometer, the same, or a similar one,
as is used for evaporated milk. The scale should extend to 18
degrees Beaume. The batch should be struck before and after
superheating.
Factories which standardize their product to a certain estab-
Figr- 72. Superheater
Plain Condensed Bulk Milk 165
lished density, usually condense the milk to a point slig^htly
beyond that desired. Then, after superheating, they determine
the amount of water ref|un-ed to reduce the finished product, and
then add the requ.ired amount of water before the condensed milk
is cooled. It is advisable to use destilled water for this purpose.
Ratio of Concentration.
The ratio of concentration varies

largely with the fat content of the milk, although the locality
and season of year are also influencing factors. Whole milk is
condensed at the ratio of about tiiree parts of milk to one part
of condensed milk, while the ratio of concentration for skim
milk is about 4 to 1. The proper density varies somewhat with
locality and season of year. Roughly speaking, whole milk has
reached the proper density when the Beaume reading at 120 de-
grees F. is about 10 degrees ]>. and skim milk has reached about
the proper density when the Beaume reading at 120 degrees F.
is about 14 degrees P). ^\4ên the ratio of concentration exceeds
4 to 1. there is danger of gritty condensed milk due to the pre-
cipitation, in this concentrated product, of crystals of milk sugar
Cooling.The plain condensed bulk milk is usually drawn
into 40 quart milk cans, placed in cooling tanks containing re-
volving cogwheels, as described in Chapter VI, under '* Cooling
Sweetened Condensed Milk," and is cooled to as near the freez-
ing point as facilities permit.
Recently this crude and laborious method of cooling has
Ijeen superseded in many of the larger condenseries by more
modern ways. While the plain condensed bulk milk becomes
too thick and sluggish during the process of cooling to make
possible the use of surface coolers, and internal-tube coolers, it
can be readily cooled in vats equipped with revolving discs, or
in horizontal coil vats especially constructed for this purpose
and in which the lower part of the vat is constricted and the coil
sets very low in this constricted part, so as to agitate the milk
vigorously and at the same time prevent the incorporation of air.
by being completely submerged, or in circular vats equipped
with a vertically suspended coil. The vertical coil vat has the
further advantage in that it eliminates from the milk, all bear-
ings and glands and it expels, rather than incorporates, air,
from the condensed milk.
\\ lien cooled the condensed milk is readv for the market.
166 Concentrated Milk
If held in the factory, it shor.ld l)e placed in a cold ro(^ni or
should be otherwise protected against temperatures sufficiently
high to cause it to sour. \Vhen kept at -iO degrees F. or below
the danger from souring is largely eliminated. If transported
long distances during warm weather, it should be shipped in
refrigerator cars.
Ctiaptkr XTII.
CONCENTRATED MILK.
Definition.Concentrated milk is cow's milk, either whole
milk, or partly or wholly skimmed milk, condensed at the ratio
of,
three to four parts of fresh milk to one part of co*ncentrated
milk. It is not condensed in vacuo, but in open vats by passing
currents of hot air thjough the milk. It is sold largely in pint
and quart bottles for direct consumption. It is not sterile and
therefore keeps for a limited time only. Its keeping quality is
similar to that of a high grade of properly pasteurized milk. The
process by which the concentrated milk is manufactured is
known as the "Campbell Process." This process was invented
bv
J.
H. Campbell of New York City, in 19C0 and patented in
1901.
Apparatus Needed.The principal parts are: the evapo-
rating vat with hot water jacket and coils, and air blast regis-
ters or nozzles near the bottom of tlie vat; an air blower which
furnishes the air blast; an air heater through which the air
blast passes and from which the heated air is conducted into the
milk; a water pump circulating hot water through the jacket
and coils; an auxiliary evaporating tank for completing the
evaporation ; and a spray pump which throws the spray of milk
drawn from the bottom of the main e\'aporating vat into the
auxiliary tank and for transferring the partly condensed milk
from tank 1 to tank 2.
Operation of Campbell Process.The milk is heated to about
ICO degrees F. and allowed to ^l(jw into evaporating tank 1.
Water at temperatures ranging from 100 to 125 degrees F. is
forced through the coils and jacket. Hot air is then passed into
the milk. The temperature of the air is regulated so as to keep
the temperature of the evaporating milk down to 120 degrees F.
Continuous Process Evaporators 167
on the start, and to finish the evaporation between 90 and 100
degrees F, The air blast is so introduced as to keep the milk
along- the heating surface of ' the jacket and coils in circulaTioTi
and, therefore, prevent largely the baking of the milk on the
heating surface. After the milk has been evaporated to a certain
degree of concentration, say 2:1. it is transferred to the auxiliary
evaporating tank where the condensation is completed. This
transfer is not necessary, but is resorted to solely as a conve-
nience, in order to continue treatment of the reduced bulk of
material in a smaller tank and leave the larger tank free for
treating a fresh batch of milk, and further, because there are
no obstructing coils in the auxiliary tank, interfering with the
drawing off of the finished and thick condensed milk. In this proc-
ess, as now used, -the milk is usually first separated and the
skim milk only is condensed. The cream is subsequently added
to the condensed skim milk.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Camobell Process.The
initial cost of installing the necessary machinery is much less
than where \'acuum evaporation is practiced. The low heat
applied makes it possible for the finished product to retain the
properties of raw milk, leaving the albumenoids and lime salts
in their original and easily digestible form and preserving the
antiscorbutic vitamines in active form.
This process is a])plica]>le only in tlie manufacture of un-
sweetened condensed milk. Unless subse(|uently sterilized, the
product will keep inv a short time only. This process has at the
present time only very limited use. It can hardly be considered
as an important branch, of the ccmdenscd milk industry.
ClT.\I>TKR XIV.
CONDENSING MILK BY CONTINUOUS PROCESS.
The processes of condensing milk described in preceding
chapters, are exclusively confined to the intermittent or batcli-
])rinciple of cva])oration. That is in the case of the vacuum pair,
the fresh. milk runs into the pan until the capacity of the pan is
reached and no condensed milk leaves the pan until the con-
densation of the entire ])atch is completed. Then the pan must
be emptied before more milk can be drawn in. In a similar man-
ner, in 'the Campbell process, evaporation of the entire batch
168 Continuous Process Evaporators
must be completed ])efore any of the finished product leaves the
evaporating- vat or tank. The operation in either case is inter-
mittent and not continuous.
Of more recent years, equipment and processes have been
developed that make possible continuous operation. That is, the
fresh milk enters the machine and the condensed milk leaves it
smiultaneously and continuously. So far three types of continu-
ous machines have been perfected sufficiently to make them com-
mercially practical and usable, namely the Buflovak Rapid Cir-
culation Evaporator, invented and manufactured by the Buffalo
Foundry and Machine Co.. Buffalo, N. Y., the Continuous Con-
centrator, invented by the By-Products Recovery Co., Toledo,
Ohio, and manufactured by the Creamery Package Manufactur-
ing Co., Chicago, and the Ruff Condensing. Evaporator, manu-
factured by The Cream Production Co.. Port Huron, Mich.
BUFLOVAK RAPID CIRCULATION EVAPORATOR.
This type of
Evaporator has been
developed from the
standard return-flue
tubular boiler and
adopted for the spe-
cial purpose of han-
dling foamy and del-
icate liquors.
Construction.
The Buflovak Rapid
Circulation Evapora-
tor consists of a
horizontal cylindric-
al vapor body. To
this is bolted an in-
c 1 i n e d cylindrical
steam-chest.
The vapor body
is equipped with a
baffle plate which ex-
tends across its cyl-
pig., 73. The BuHovak rapid circulation evaporator
indrical
part and
courtesy of Buffalo Foundry & Machine Co,
leaves openings at both ends of the vapor body for the vapors to
escape, the ends or heads of the vapor body being dished out~
ward. The vapor body also carries the milk inlet, vapor outlet
and spy glasses.
The steam chest which is attached to the lower part of the
vapor body, is diîded by a solid partition into two compart-
ments. The upper and larger compartment is filled with tubes
which are expanded in the flue-sheets, closing both ends. The
tubes themselves are open at both ends. They are two inches
in diameter and from six to eight feet long. The lower and small
compartment, called the downtake, is entirely open at l)oth ends.
The steam chest is equipped with a steam inlet, a" liquor outlet
and a condensation outlet or drip. The steam is around the
tubes and the milk is inside the tubes.
Operation.Tliis machine is operated under vacuum of from
26 to 28 inches mercury column, the vapor outlet being connected
with a condenser and vacuum pump.
The fluid milk enters the vapor body and flows down into
the bottom of the downtake of the steam chest, from where it
rises in the tubes and finds its level. The level of the milk in
the tubes is kept low, the coefficient of the heat transmission
being highest wdien the milk level in the tubes is about one-
third of the tube length above the lower flue-plate, and it is
regulated by automatic float controls in the larger machines.
The steam that is turned into the steam chest, causes the
milk in the tubes to boil. The vapor thus arising from the
milk, together with a portion of the milk, rises and passes
through the upper part of the tubes at a very high speed,
and is thrown with great force against the ribs of the baftle
plate which extends across the whole cylindrical length of the
vapor body.
The liquid or condensed milk returns through the down-
take to the lower part of the steam chest where it escapes from
the machine. The vapor passes at both ends of the baflle plate
into the vapor space above and from there through the entrain-
ment separator for reclaiming escaping milk, and then to the
condenser attached to the outlet of the vapor body.
The upper part of the tubes becomes covered with a climb-
ing film of milk. This together with the high speed of the
milk in the tubes (100 feet per second or more) increases the
capacity of the heating- surface, and the small amount of milk
in circulation, together with the low level of the milk in the
tubes, reduces the })ossi1)ility of foaming, confining the foam to
and breaking it up in the up])er part of the lubes where film
evaporation takes place.
The escape of the condensed milk is continuous and the
LiquoK IMLCT
CONMKSATIOH OVTIC*
?%SS-'
CoMoenAAnoH ovTvff
Pigr. 74. Cross section of Buflovak rapid circulation evaporator
Courtesy of Buffalo Foundry and Machine Co.
degree of concentration is controlled by a valve regulating the
outlet. The condensed milk runs by gravity from^ the steam
chest into a reservoir located under the evaporator. In this case
the reservoir must be under the same vacuum as the evaporator.
In some cases it is recommended to have an intermediate storage
tank removing- the condensed milk from the evaporator by a spe-
cially constructed steam pump.
THE CONTINUOUS CONCENTRATOR.
The inflow of the fluid milk and the outflow of the-xon-
densed milk are contimious. The milk is condensed under atmos-
pheric pressure at 212 de,j^rees F. A rapidly revolving agitator
throws the milk in a thin film against the steam-heated and con-
tinuously polished periphery of a jacketed copper drum. By
keeping the heating surface clean and bright, and the milk
rapidly moving, the power of the milk to absorb and utilize heat
is greatly augmented and the rapidity of evaporation increased.
Description of Continuous Concentrator.The continuous
concentrator consists of a hollow copper drum. The copper shell
is surrounded by a steam jacket which is insulated. The space
Pig-. 75. The continuous concentrator with preheater and cooler
Courtesy of Creamery Package Mfg. Co.
1)etween inner shell and jacket is about one inch.
This drum carries in its interior, a revolving dasher with
f.ûr or more blades, according to the size of the machine, and
similar to an ice cream freezer or a flash pasteurizer. The edge
of these blades comes in direct contact with the inner surface
(Tf
the shell which is the heating surface, so that when revolving,
each blade constantly removes from the heating surface any
milk that adheres to it.
The blades are pressed against the heating surface by the
centrifugal force that is generated when the machine is in mo-
tion.
The arms to which the blades are attached are equipped
witli stops that control their pressure against the heating sur-
face so as to insure continuous and uniform pressure. The shaft
which carries the dasher passes through the front and rear heads
of the concentrator and carries a pnlkv back of the rear head,
to which the power is transmitted.
The rear of the concentrator terminates in the exhaust
chamber of the condei>sed milk vapors, which escape through a
galvanized iron flue to the outside. The va])ors are not con-
densed by water, but escape into the atmosphere. The rear wall
is equipped with the intake of the fluid milk. In order to permit
the milk to feed the concentrator by gravity, without necessitat-
ing inconveniently high elevation of the forewarmer, the intake
is located at the bottom.
In the front head, in close proximity to the periphery of the
concentrator is located the outlet of the condensed milk. Its
distance from the inside wall of the concentrator detei-mines the
thickness of the film of condensed milk that is allowed to form
on the heating surface, and the amount of milk that is retained
in the concentrator. According to the amount of superheating
intended, this film may vary from
^ to
^
inch in thickness and
the amount of milk retained in the machine may vary from 6
to 12 quarts.
The front head is equipped with a cover which is fastened
to the rim with screw bolts and which carries a spy glass through
which the operator may watch the process. At the conclusion
of the operation this cover is removed and the dasher and blades
are taken out, so that both the shell and the dasher can be
readily washed. Over the top of the concentrator extends the
steam line, a 3 inch pipe, with hV inch laterals, supplying the
steam jacket, and insuring uniform distribution of heat. The
steam line is also equipped with regulator and steam gauge. At
the bottom of the concentrator is located the exhaust and regu-
lating crip valve.
The continuous concentrator is constructed of diverse sizes
and capacities, the most common of these sizes are the following:
Diameter Length
Capacity per Hour
when Concen-
trating at the
Ratio of 3:1
Boiler Capacity
Required
H. P.
3 feet
3 feel
3 feet
4 feet
3 feet
2 feet
7000 lbs.
5000 lbs.
2000 lbs.
100 H. P.
80 PT. P.
40 IT. P.
Continuous Prockss Evaporators 173
Speed of Agitator.The proper speed of the continuous
concentrator is expressed in terms of rim speed, that is -the.
distance which the blades travel per minute. It has been found
that the rim speed which is sufficient to move the film of milk
in the machine properly, is about 2500 feet per minute. In order
to insure a rim speed of 2500 feet per minute, the blades in a 3
2500
^^-
.
foot diameter machme must revolve .
^, ,
= 265 times per

3x3.14
^
minute. In a six foot diameter wheel, the same rim speed would
require
"^
rrt
133 revolutions per minute of the spider.
6x3.14
Again, it has been found that the blades should be not more
than about 2^ feet apart. A three foot diameter concentrator,
therefore, requires four blades while concentrators with larger
diameter require a larger number of blades in order to keep the
distance between blades within the limit of two and one-half
feet.
Operation of Continuous Concentrator.The operation ol
the continuous concentrator is simple and the ratio of concen-
tration of the product can be regulated as desired.
Heating of Milk.Similar as in case of evaporation in
vacuo, it is desirable, if not necessary, to heat the milk before
it enters the concentrator. This not only increases the capacity
of the machine, but it also prepares the casein in the milk for
the superheating to which the milk is subjected in *^ the concen-
trator. Any method of forewarming or preheating may be used
for this purpose, but since the milk flows to and through the
concentrator, in a continuous stream, it is preferable to also use
a forewarmer of the continuous ty])e. The milk should be heated
to about 185 to 200 degrees F. and the forewarming should be
so arranged that the milk is exposed to this temperature for 5
to 10 minutes before it enters the concentrator.
Condensing.The concentrator is steamed, the parts of the
agitator are assembled and installed in their proper place, the
cover is securely bolted over the opening in the front head and
the machine is ready for operation. Before starting the agitator
a small amount of milk is permitted to flow into the concentrator
so as to prevent the blades from running over the dry heating sur-
face, cutting the copper. Simultaneously with the starting of the
aig"itator the steam is turned into the jacket and then the milk
intake valve is opened.
The steam pressure on the jacket is kept uniform, preferably
at 40 to 50 lbs. of steam. This machine evaporates the milk at
atmospheric pressure. The temperature of the milk in the con-
centrator therefore, is practically the same as that of boiling
water
^212 degrees F.at the sea level and varies only with the
altitude of the location. The ratio of concentration is regulated
by the rate of the mjilk inflow. As the milk inflow is increased,
the ratio of concentration is reduced, because the amount of
evaporation being constant, a smaller proportion of the water is
taken out of the milk.
The density is determined by the use of the Beaume hydro-
meter. If the density is greater than desired, more milk is
allowed to flow into the machine. If the density is lower than
desired the inflow of milk is reduced.
Cooling of Condensed Milk.From the discharge spout the
condensed milk is run over a continuous cooler from which it
escapes ready for packing in whatever form it is intended for.
The disc continuous cooler has proven very suitable for this
purpose.
No subseo.ucnt superheating of the concentrated milk is
necessary. This product can be made of any consistency desired,
regardless of concentration, according to the thickness of the
film that is allowed to form in the concentrator, and this in turn
depends on the distance of the discharge from the periphery of
the machine.
THE RUFF CONDENSING EVAPORATOR.
Principle of Machine and Process.In the "Ruff Condensing
Evaporator," similar as in the "Continuous Concentrator," the
condensing is accomplished by the film principle, but in the Ruff
machine the heating surface consists of one or more steam-heated,
revolving drums, and atmospheric air is blown through the milk.
This machine is applicable both, for continuous evaporation
and for condensing: in batches.
Construction.The Ruff Condensinj
the follow-
Evaporator consists
of
in<^. three main
parts
:
1. A vat or
tank holding
the milk to be
condensed, and
equipped with
cover. The
body of this
tank is of steel
sheathing, lin-
ed on the inside
with tinned
copper. The
cover or top is
fitted with
doors.
2. O n e o r
more steam-
heated hollow
cylinders which revolve in the tank horizontally. These cylin-
ders are constructed of special steel, highly polished. They are
equipped with tinned bronze scrapers which remove the film of
milk from the heating surface. The cylinders are fitted with
a device for the automatic removal of the condensed steam, facil-
itating the continuous heating with dry steam and therby in-
hancing the rapidity of evaporation and augmenting the capacity
of the machine.
3. An arrangement for blowing atmospheric air into the
lower part of the tank, causing it to rise up through the milk
and to escape from the tank.
4. Accessories.The entire unit further comprises such
accessories as a dial thermometer, high pressure blower with
pipe connections from fan to evaporator and .automatic return
boiler feed pump, complete.
Operation.The milk is preheated to 145 degrees F. The
hot milk runs into the tank by gravity, or is pumped in. In the
Flgr. 76. The Buff condenBiug' evaporator
Courtesy of The Cream Production Co.
176 Condensed Buttermilk
case of continuous evaporation the milk is kept at a constant
level, the lower part of the revolving cylinders dipping into it
and picking up a film which is automatically scraped of with
every revolution of -the cylinders.
At the same time air is blown through the hot milk, further
assisting in the evaporation and also removing gases and other
volatile substances from the milk.
During operation the revolving cylinders are charged with
40 pounds of steam and the temperature of the milk is held at
about 145 degrees F.
The process of condensing can be carried to almost any de-
gree of concentration and the desired degree of density is deter-
mined in a similar manner as in the case of evapo4-ated milk
and plain condensed bulk milk.
Capacity.This machine is constructed in several sizes,
with capacities ranging from 900 pounds to 8000 pounds of
raw^ milk per hour, based on a ratio of concentration of two
to one, as shown in the following specifications:
Model No.
1920
Number of
Steam
Cylinders
2 2
4 2
6 2
7 4
8 6
Approximate
Floor Space
3'x5'
3'xlO'
4'xl4'
5'xl4'
7^x14'
Gallons
Tank
Capacity
175
300
500
600
1000
Pounds Capacity
Condensing
Raw Mnk
2 to 1 per Hour
900
1800
2700
5400
8000
Additional H. P.
Required for
Blower and
Evaporator Cyl-
inders
4
7
10
20
30
Required
Boiler
Capacity
H. P.
15
30
40
80
120
Quality of Products from Continuous Concentrators and
Evaporators.When properly operated and when using a good
quality of raw material these continuous concentrators and film
evaporators yield a product of excellent flavor and good quality,
especially suitable for the manufacture of ice cream, but also
applicable for the manufacture of sterilized CAâporated milk,
condensed buttermilk and condensed whey.
Chapter XV.
CONDENSED BUTTERMILK.
The value of buttermilk as a part of the feed ration for
chickens, laying hens, pigs and hogs has long been recognized
Condensed Buttermilk 177
and its use for feeding purposes is rapidly growing'. Buttermilk
not only contains protein and carbohydrates of high quality aiid
great digestibility, but it has biolog-ical properties that stimulate
growth and gain in weight, and it exerts a physiological action
that makes for a healthy condition of the intestines, because
of its lactic acid content.
Chicken feeders have found it invaluable in their efforts to
accomplish maximum growth and gain in weight of the growing
chicks, and because of the superior quality of the meat of butter-
milk-fed fowl. And extensive experiments with laying hens
have, conclusively demonstrated that buttermilk makes for in-
creased egg production.
For similar reasons buttermilk, when properly balanced with
other feed, is a most valuable hog feed. In fact it is the founda-
tion of a good hog and is becoming a more and more indis-
pensable part of the ration for growing pigs and fattening hogs.
Composition of Buttermilk/
From Klpened Cream From Sweet Cream
In
Buttermilk
Van
Slyke
%
Storch Snyder
%
Vloth
%
Fleisch-
mann
%
Storch
Rich-
mond
%
Water
Fat
90.6
.1
2.8
.8
4.4
.6
.7
90.93
.31
1
3.37
4.58
.81
90.5
2
3.3
5.3
.7
90.39
.50
3.60
4.06
.75
.80
91.30
.50
3.50
J
4.00
.70
89.74
1.21
3.28
4.98
.79
90.98
35
Casein
Albumin ....
Milk Sugar. ..
Lactic Acid. .
Ash
3.51
/
AA?
\ .01
.73
Specific gravity of sweet-cream buttermilk 1.0331.
Specific gravity of sour-cream buttermilk 1.0314.
Caloric value 165.
Since the great bulk of butter is manufactured during the
summer season, the main supply of buttermilk is confined to the
summer months. In summer the output of buttermilk far exceeds
the demand for this product and m'uch of it goes to waste for
lack of a suitable market for it. In winter, on the other hand,
the output of buttermilk is small and insufficient to supply the
demand.
Hunziker, The Butter Industry, 1920,
178 Condensed Buttermilk
In order to stop this waste of buttermilk in summer, to utilize
it economically and profitably and to equalize the supply
throughout the year, some of the large creameries of the coun-
try have found it practicable and profitable to condense the sur-
plus buttermilk. Information from chicken feeders and hog
feeders shows that, when re-diluted to the consistency of the
original butterm.ilk. this condensed buttermilk gives equally as
satisfactory results as the fresh buttermilk.
Prior to the great war the market value of buttermilk and
of condensed buttermilk was considered too limited to justify the
relatively high manufacturing expense, incident to the concen-
tration of buttermilk by evaporating from it a large portion of
its water. But the food and feed shortage, together with the
high prices brought about by the war and since the war, neces-
sitated the more general use of byproducts and raised the valua-
tion of buttermilk to figures that render its manufacture into
condensed buttermilk highly profitable.
Manufacture.There are several methods whereby butter-
milk can be and is being commercially reduced in volume. The
most common of these are : Removal of water by gravity, re-
moval of water by centrifugal separation, removal of water by
evaporation, either in vacuo or under atmospheric pressure.
Removal of Whey by Gravity.Much of the so-called con-
densed buttermilk that reaches the market is not the result of
evaporation of a portion of the water contained in the butter-
milk, but is produced by permitting the curd to settle by gravity
and then drawing oflf and rejecting the whey.
In this case the fluid buttermilk is pumped into a wooden
tank, either a horizontal vat or a vertical stave tank. The tank
usually contains several outlets with gates, located at dififerent
heights, to facilitate the remaval of the whey. The tank may
or may not be equipped with steam pipes for heating. The but-
termilk is heated to boiling point in these tanks either by blow-
ing live steam into it, or by running steam through the pipes
installed in the lank. This heat is maintained for several hours.
This causes the casein to contract and settle to the bottom in the
form of fine particles of curd, leaving on top a clear whey. This
whey is drawn ofif through the gates located above the stratum
of curd. The residue, consisting- larg-ely of casein, water and
some lactic acid and milk sug"ar, represents the condensed butter-^
milk. The concentration, or more correctly si)eakin^, the reduc-
tion in volume thus offered, is at the ratio of about 4 to 5 parts
of fluid buttermilk to one part of condensed buttermilk. It is
obvious that in this form of concentration all of the valuable food
elements of the buttermilk are not reclaimed. Most of the milk
suiâr and much of the lactic acid escape with the whey and are
lost. However, the equipment required for this process is^very
simple and inexpensive and the process requires no special
knowledge on the part of the creamery personnel.
Concentration by Centrifugal Separation.For many years,
efforts have been made to remove the water from the buttermilk
by centrifugal separation. Machines are now^ on the market and
in use, in which the curd of the buttermilk collects on the walls
of a revolving- basket while the whey is centrifuged out. These
machines are similar in principle to the well-known laundry
centrifuge. They have been successfully used by creameries
that are engaged in tlie manufacture of buttermilk cheese. Their
operation, however, is intermittent only. \Mien the basket fill's
up with the curd, the machine must be stopped and the curd
removed.
For the purpose of handling large volumes of buttermilk
daily, these centrifuges are obviously not well adapted. They
are too limited in capacity, in speed and in volume of per-
formance. Efforts to devise a centrifuge for continuous opera-
tion, similar to the cream separator, have so far failed. The spe-
cific gravity of the curd in the buttermilk is so nearly like that
of the whey, that the centrifugal separator refuses to discharge
a liquid rich in curd and one of practically clear whey. Exper-
iments by the author have demonstrated that, no matter how
the outlets of the discharges are adjusted, both liquids have prac-
tically the same com])osition.
Evaporation in Vacuo.
^This metliod for condensing butter-

milk is rapidly gaining in fa\'or and today vast vdlumes of but-
termilk are concentrated in this manner. The equipment used
and the method of operation arc principally the same as those
used in the manufacture of condensed milk and evaporated
milk. The buttermilk is condensed in the vacuum pan.
180
Condensed Buttermilk
Equipment Necessai
y
to Condense from 5000 to 6000 Pounds
of Buttermilk per Hour:
2 wooden buttermilk storage tanks, capacity 10,000 pounds
each, for ripening the buttermilk;
1 6-foot vacuum pan with condenser
;
1 vacuum pump, vacuum cylinder 18 inches diameter and
20 inches long; if steam driven, steam cylinder, 12 inches diam-
eter and 12 inches stroke;
2 hot wêlls, 5 feet diameter and 5 feet deep, with 3 inch out-
let in bottom, and equipped with brass heater arrangement.
Boiler capacity, 150 H. P.
A\âter rec|nirements, 125 gallons per minute. *
OPERATION.
Ripening of Buttermilk.The buttermilk should be sour,
the sourer the better, liecause
:
1. The acidity facilitates the process of manufacture. The
curd in sweet or only slightly sour buttermilk is viscous and
sticky. It adheres to the coils and sides c^f the pan and its action
during the condensing process is sluggish, retarding evaporation,
reducing the capacity of the pan and increasing the cost of
man'ufacture.
If the buttermilk is sour, these handicaps are greatly mini-
mized. Upon subsequent heating the curd in the sour buttermilk
contracts, loses much of its viscosity and stickiness, and adheres
less readily to coils and sides of the pan. The sour buttermilk
is more fluid, boils more vigorously and therefore condenses
more rapidly.
2. High acid content is necessary in order to give the con-
densed buttermilk satisfactory keeping quality. The finished
product is not sterile, nor is the temperature at which it is held
in storage sufficiently low to inhibit bacterial action and prevent
decomposition. The acidity is essential to preserve this product.
3. High acid is adxantageous for feeding purposes. The
acid in the buttermilk keeps the fowls, pigs and hogs in healthy
condition, and makes them thirsty. They drink more water,
which is a valuable asset for best results.
Condensed Ruttkrmilk 181
If the buttermilk comes from sweet cream butter or from
neutralized cream cluirniugs, it is usually not sufficiently sour
for ready handling- and rapid evaporation. It therefore should
be allowed to ripen before it is used. For this purpose it is held
in wooden storage tanks for one or more days, where it auto-
matically develops acidity due to the lactic acid bacteria with
which it is usually teeming". For most satisfactory operation the
buttermilk should have an acidity of approximately .6 per cent.
In some cases it may be necessary to inoculate it with lactic
acid starter in order to insure the desired acid development.
Heating the Buttermilk.From the ripening tanks the but-
termilk is drawn (m* pumped into the hot wells, where steam is
turned direct into it until the temperature is raised to the boiling
point. This method of heating also keeps it agitated and pre-
vents the copious settling of the curd.
Condensing.Frc^m the hot wells the boiling-hot buttermilk
is drawn into the vacuum pan. The Inittermilk is preferably
drnwn fr( m the lottom of the hot wells, so as to continuously
rcmoAc a ])ortion of the settling curd. The buttermilk will
drop some of its curd in the hot wells. The operation of the vacu-
um pan for buttermilk is the same as for milk. For general
directions the reader is referred to Chapter V on "Condensing."
The hrst pans used for condensing buttermilk were tin
coated on the inside and had tinned copper coils, so as to mini-
mize the action of the acid on the copper. The tin coating was
of verv short duration, however, especially that on the coils, so
that it was found impractical and too costly to use tinned vac-
uum pans. The pans now in use are not tinned.
In the condensing of a thick and sluggish liquid, such as
buttermilk, it is of the greatest importance that the coil arrange-
ment in the vacuum pan be such as to insure maximum circula-
tion of the milk, otherwise the buttermilk is incapable to absorb
the heat fast enough and to expose enough surface to evapora-
tion, to make possible rapid concentration, the buttermilk fails
to freely boil up. it sluggishly bubbles in the bottom of the pan,
evaporation is slow, the capacity of the pan is greatly reduced,
and the cost of manufacture is increased. For detailed descrip-
tion of the proper coil arrangement see Chapter V on ''Descrip-
tion of
Aâcuum Pan."
182 CoNDENSKD Buttermilk
During the early stages of the condensing process the ])nt-
termilk boils and behaves in the pan in a similar manner as
milk. As the process continues and, the buttermilk increases
in density, it becomes more sluggish and does not circulate as
rapidly, nor boil as vigorously.
Concentration.The buttermilk shcmld be condensed until
it has a concentration of at least 4:1. Buttermilk of a lower con-
centration fails to have the necessary keeping quality to with-
stand the trials of storage for several months at ordinary tem-
perature. It undergoes decomposition, usually of the putrefac-
tive type, that renders it unfit for feeding purposes.
Testing for Density.No accurate mechanical method of
determining the exact density of the condensed btittermilk has
as yet been worked out. When a concentration of about 4:1
or more has been reached, the buttermilk is very thick, even
while hot. It is too thick and viscous to permit of testing it
with the Beaume hydrometer. The density could be determined
however by weighing a definitely measured volume or by the
adaption of a resistance tester such as the Mojonnier viscosi-
meter. Ordinarily, however, the determination of the proper
degree of concentration is left to the experienced eye and judg-
ment of the pan operator. If he condenses batches of uniform
size, the height of the surface of the condensed buttermilk in
the pan furnishes an approximate guide. The behavior of the
boiling condensed buttermilk, when the proper degree of concen-
tration has been reached, is also noted. And samples taken
from the. pan and examined for thickness, standing-up properties
and transparency or opaqueness, as described under ''Methods of
Striking-" for sweetened condensed milk, Chapter Vl, enable the
operator to approach a fairly uniform density of the finished
product from batch to batch.
When condensed at the ratio of 4:1 the buttermilk at the
temperature of the pan, or about 120 degrees F., is thick enough
so that w^hen a sample is taken into a cup and a portion of it
is picked up with a spoon or stick and is allowed to drop back
into the cup from a height of about six inches, it does not readily
diffuse, but ''piles up" on the surfaee of the sample in the cup.
Condensing Buttermilk by Film Process.The condensing
of buttermilk can be and is accomplished also l:)y film evapora-
tion as represented by the ''Continuous Concentrator" and the
"Rirff Condensing Evaporator." These methods have provî,
a commercially practical proposition. Experiments have demon-
strated that a condensed buttermilk of very good quality and of
the desired degree of concentration can be made by the use of
these continuous machines. In fact some of the condensed but-
termilk on the market is their product and it is probable that
the future will see many of these machines installed and in opera-
tion in creameries for the purpose of condensing buttermilk.
See also "Condensing Milk by the Continuous Process," Chap-
ter XIV.
Packing.The condensed buttermilk is filled into barrels,
holding about 600 pounds of the finished product. Second hand
glucose barrels or copra barrels are generally used for this pur-
pose. Buttermilk intended for bakeries, confectioners and
other channels of human consumption, should be filled into new
barrels. The barrels should be thoroughly rinsed and steamed out
before use and it is advisal^le to treat them on the inside with
sodium silicate.
The barrels are hlled with the condensed buttermilk while
hot and direct from the pan or other condenser. If allowed to
cool, the condensed buttermilk would be too thick to ''run."
Storage.The barrels filled with the condensed buttermilk
are stored at ordinary ware house temperature. If made from
properly soured buttermilk, condensed at the ratio of not less
than 4:1, and if the barrels are filled completely full and sealed
tightly, the product will keep in good condition, without mold-
ing and without appreciable deterioration for many months
without artificial refrigeration.
In remnant barrels or In barrels which are subsequently
opened and from which a portion of the contents has been
removed, the l)uttermilk molds rapidly on the surface and spoils,
because of exposure to air. This can be largely prevented by
"slapping" a piece of heavy paper (wrapping paper), large
enough to cover the entire exposed surface, on the top of the
remaining contents. The condensed buttermilk being of a pasty
consistency forms a tight seal Avith the paper, shutting out the
air. and retarding molding and decomposition.
The above statements concerning the keeping quality of
184
.
Condensed Buttermilk
condensed buttermilk refer only to the product resulting from
evaporation of a portion of the water, such as condensing in the
vacuum pan, or by the continuous concentrators and evapora-
tors. AMiere the reduction in volume is accomplished by re-
moving a portion of the whey, either by gravity or by centrifue:al
separation, the finished product lacks in keeping quality, it will
spoil in a few wrecks after manufacture, if held at ordinary tem-
peratures. The reason for this lies in the fact that with the
removal of the whey, the finished product is also deprived of
much of the lactic acid. There is not high enough a percentage of
acid left in it to preserve it.
Composition of Commercial Condensed Buttermilk.
Total Solids 36 per cent to 40 per cent
Water 60
"
"64
Fat 1
"
"
2
Protein .....12
"
"15
Milk Sugar . . .
.
16
'*
"
20
Acid 2
"
"
3
Ash 2r?
"
"
3.5
"
Caloric Value 600 to 700
Markets.The great bulk of condensed buttermilk manu-
factured in the United States is sold to chicken feeders and for
hog feeding. The price obviously fluctuates with season, local-
ity and supply and demand. During the first six months of 1920
it averaged about 4.5 cents per pound.
Considerable quantities of condensed buttermilk are also
absorbed by bakeries and manufacturers of diverse prepared
food products. The price received during the first six months
of 1920, for condensed buttermilk -sold to bakeries, etc., aver-
aged about 8.5 cents per pound.
Annual Output of Condensed Buttermilk in United States.
As previously stated the manufacture of condensed buttermilk
is rapidly growing. In 1918 the total output amounted to
6,534,023 pounds ; in 1919 it was 22,535,580 pounds.
CONDENSED WHEY, MYSEOST, OR PRIMOST.
The condensing of whey is a practice which originated in
Scandinavia. The original process consisted of straining the
CoNDi^NSED Butte;rmilk 185
whey into a kettle or large open pan over a tire. "The albumi-
nous material that precipitates and rises to the suriace is skim-
med off."^ The whey is evaporated as rapidly as possible vvTth"
constant and thorough stirring. When it has reached about one-
fourth of its original volume the albumin previously skimmed
off is returned and stirred thoroughly to break up all possible
lumps. A\'hen the whey has attained the consistency of thick-
ened milk it is poured quickly into a wooden trough and stirred
with a paddle until cool, to prevent the formation of large sugar
crystals. It can then be molded into the desired form for
market.
A more rapid method of making primost is to evaporate the
whey in the vacuum pan. When the syrup has reached the
desired density it is drawn off, allowed to cool and pressed into
bricks. The product has a yellowish-brow'n color, gritty texture
and sweetish taste. The evaporation of whey in vacuo is as yet
a rare practice and the demand for the finished product is very
limited.
Experiments with the ''Continuous Concentrator'' have
demonstrated that condensed whey of good quality can readily
be prepared with this machine. The concentration can be car-
ried as far as 15 to 1
;
whey so condensed escapes from the con-
centrator still in liquid form, but changes to a solid upon cool-
ing, the miik sugar in this supersaturated solution crystallizing
com])letely. If made of sour whey, the product thus obtained
has a splendid clean and sharp acid flav(^r. This product prom-
ises to have excellent dietetic pro])erties, and also to lend itself
admirably for cooking pur])r)ses.
'
United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry,
Bulletin No. 105.
PART IV.
FROM FACTORY TO CONSUMER
Chapte:r XVI
.
Stamping.
Every well regulated condensing factory, selling
condensed milk in hermetically* sealed tin cans, employs some
system of marking the cans. This is important for future
reference.
When defective condensed milk is returned to the factory,
the marks on the cans tell the manufacturer the date of manu-
facture, and his own record on file in the factory shows the con-
ditions under which the defective milk was niade.^ In this wây
defects can usually be traced to their causes and the recurrence
of similar trouble can be avoided.
In some factories the batches of condensed milk are num-
bered from one up, and the cans are stamped with the respective
batch number. This method is simple but may prove undesira])le,
since it informs the competitors also of the date of manufacture
of competing brands. In most factories a code of letters and
figures is used, designating the factory, the date, and the number
of the batch of each day.
The cans are
usually stamp-
ed on the hot-
t(nu, that is, on
tlie end which
carries the cap.
Tlie stamping
is done by the
sealer. Small
interchangeable
rubber letters
and figures are
used. The
stamping ink
rig-. 78. Mojonnier evaporated milk can polisher
ahr^,i}A ^rM^foin
Courtesy Mojonnier ^ros. Co.
snouiCl COntaui
Labeung Cans 187
a drier and be waterproof. In small factories the stamping is done
by hand. It can be done very rapidly. In large factories an aut(>
matic stamping outfit is attached to the filling, sealing or labeling
machine and the cans are stamped automatically while they are
being filled, sealed or labeled.
Inspecting.The sealed and stamped cans are placed, witli
caps down, in wooden trays holding twenty-four medium-sized
cans. All trays of one batch are stacked together. A card in-
dicating number and date of batch and number of cans in the
])atch is attached to the stack and a copy of the same is filed in
the office. The cans are ])laced with their caps dowm in order to
detect "leakers" (cans with defective seals). Before labeling,
the trays should be taken dowai, the cans turned over and exam-
ined for leaky seals. Unless the factory is behind in filling orders
the cans \\\\] have l^cen in stock at least twenty-four hours or
usually liMic^cr. in the case of sweetened condensed milk, if any
seals are defective, a little condensed milk will have oozed out
by that time. Inexperienced sealers are prone to cause a high
percentage of leaky cans. A careful sealer may reduce the num-
ber of leakers to .1 per cent.
In the case of evaporated milk (unsweetened, sterilized) all
cans coming from the incubating room should be individually
shaken by hand. All cans showing no signs of bulging, and the
contents of which shake wath the characteristic sound and be-
havior of a liquid, pass inspection. If the ends of the cans are
bulging or the contents do not respond tO' the shaking with the
characteristic sound of normal milk, they are rejected, as the
evaporated milk in them has either undergone gaseous or cur-
dling fermentation, and is spoiled.
LABELING.
Labeling Machines.In the early days of the milk condens-
ing industry, the la1)eling of the cans was done by hand, involv-
ing
nnich time and considerable expense. Today, especially con-
structed labeling machines are almost exclusively used for this
purpose. The efficiency and quality of work of these machines
are such, that they have become a permanent fixture in practi-
cally
every condensery selling canned goods. The labeling ma-
188 Labkung Cans
chines are adjiista1:)le to various sizes of cans ar.d can l)e oper-
ated by hand, motor, or hch power.
Principle of Labeling Machines.
^Phe cans are placed into

a chute from which they roll into the machine by i^ravity. They
are caught by two endless belts which draw them through the
machine They first pass over revolving metal discs that touch
each can with a trace of "pick-up" cement. From here the can
rolls over the label table which is loaded with a stack of labels,
face-down. The touch of *'pick-up" cement on the cans causes
each can to pick up one label, which is automatically wrapped
Tig. 79. Burt labeling* macliine
Courtesy of Burt Machine Co.
around the can as it rolls on. An endless belt passing through
a paste box applies a small strip of paste to the lap of the label
and a curling rod stretches the label taut and gives its lap an
inward curl, making it to conform to the shape of the can and
ensuring a perfect seal.
The label table is equipped with an automatic feeding ar-
rangement which pushes the stack of labels up as fast as the
labels are being used.
Wrinkles and Rust Spots on Labels.In the latest models
of labeling machines no paste touches the cans proper. The
"pick-up" cement used on the cans, is moisture-proof and is
applied hot. This is a great advantage from the standpoint of
ensuring freedom from rust spots on labels. The cement, being
applied hot, dries instantly and having no corrosive action on the
Packing in CasEvS 189
can, is a relia'ble safeguard against wrinkles and rust spots, which
are so prone to appear where paste is used exclusively, and whi^h
mar the attractiveness and neatness of the package. The labeled
cans which now leave the machine over a chute slanting from it,
can be cased immediately without risk. The use of tables and
fans to dry the labels, often found necessary in the case of
mechanically applied paste, js made superfluous, and time, labor
and space are saved.
Capacity of Labeling Machines.In the latest improved
types of labeling machines the capacity has been greatly in-
creased over that of the older models. One properly operated
hand-driven machine will now label on an average from 40,000
to 50,000 cans and a power-driven machine will average from
60,000 to 70,000 cans per ten-hour day.
PACKING.
The labeled cans are packed in cases holding from six to
ninety-six cans, according to the size of the cans. (One case
holds six 1-gallon cans; forty-eight 14-, 15-, 16-, and 20-ounce
cans ; or seventy-two to ninety-six 8-ounce cans.)
The sides, bottom and top of the cases should be of material
about three-eighths of an inch to one-half inch thick, the ends
three-fourths of an inch to seven-eighths of an inch thick. The
cases are usually bought in the "knock-down" shape and are
made up in the factory. Sixpenny cement-coated wire nails are
most suitable for this purpose. The cases are most economically
nailed by the use of nailing machines, which nail one entire side
or one side and one end simultaneously. The cans are usually
placed into the cases direct from the labeling machine. In some
factories, packing machines, which pack twenty-four medium-
size cans in one operation, are used. Formerly condensed milk
cans were packed exclusively in wooden cases. Within the last
few years the use of paste-board and fibre boxes has been adopted
in many condenseries. These boxes are proving very serviceable
for
domestic trade, and prior to the price advance on paper ma-
terial caused by the world war, they made possible a considerable
saving in the cost of the package.
Mechanical can casers, operating with the labeling machine,
are now available and are used to advantage in manv condens-
1^)0
Packing in Case:s
eries. The can caser receives tlie labeled cans from the lalêlin.^-
machine, stacks them into layers, places the layers of cans into
the case and automatically pushes off' the filled case, while a
new layer of cans is pushed forward. It is obvious that the
mechanical can caser makes the work of packing- the cans easier
and accelerates its speed.
Marking the Cases.One end of each case is stenciled with
the number of the batch
;
over the other end is pasted a case
label, representing, enlarged, the brand of the label on the cans
within. Jn the place of the case label, the respective brand may
be printed on or burnt into the wood. The burnt stenciling is
Fig-. 80. Burt caser
Courtesy of Burt Machine Co.
usually done by the manufacturer of the shooks. One side of
each case is usually marked "Condensed Milk" or ''Evaporated
Milk," as the case may be; the other "Keep in cool, dry place."
If sweetened condensed milk is exposed to excessive heat for a
consideraljle length of time, as is ofteji the case in storehouses
or in the hold of steamers, Avhere the cases may l)e stowed against
the boiler room, it becomes brown, thickens rapidly and develops
a stale flavor. E'yaporated milk also darkens when exposed to
heat and depreciates in flavor. It should, therefore, be kept in
a cool place. The humidity of the storage room has no effect on
the condensed milk proper, the cans being hermetically sealed.
Storage 191
Prolonged exposure to dampness, however, will dampen and
wrinkle the labels, rnst the cans and invite the appearance of
rust and mold spots.
Packing Condensed Milk for Export.In the case of con-
densed milk bought by the United States Government, the cans
are dipped in a solution of shellac before they are labeled, or the
tin plate or empty cans are bought by the manufacturer already
lacquered. Cans for export trade and in many instances for the
home market, are wrapped into heavy, soft paper, bearing on the
outside a copy of the respective brand. This wrapping paper
takes up the space beetween the cans and prevents the cans
from being damaged on their long journey and by rough usage.
This wrapping is usually done by hand. Some makes of label-
ing machines, however, have an attachment for wrapping the
cans so that when the cans leave the machine they are wrapped
as well as labeled. The cases are reinforced with a band of strap
iron around eacli end. A\'here the cases ha^'e to be loaded and
unloaded numerous times, as is the case with export shipments,
they are in danger of being torn" to jîeces, unless such special
precautions are taken.
Chai'tkr XVTI.
STORAGE.
Purpose of Storing.The purpose of storing condensed milk
is largely the same as that of storing butter and other produce,
namely, to keep the product from the time of large supply and
low prices, to the time of small sui)ply and high prices. In sum-
mer time, the market is usually fiooded with condensed milk
throughout the country, the demand for it is at ebb tide and the
prices are low. In winter, there is usually a great shortage of
condensed milk, the demand far exceeds the supply and prices
soar high. The storing of summer milk may be necessary, also,
in order to enable the manufacturer to till his contracts and sup-
ply his trade in winter. This is especially true where the fac-
tories of a concern are located in new territories where the pa-
trons produce an excessively small amount of winter milk.
Plain condensed milk and concentrated milk which are not
sterile and contain no cane sugar to preserve them, keep but a
192 Storage
few days at ordinary temperatures and should, therefore, be sold
and used as soon as possible after manufacture. Tf their storage
is unavoidable, they should be held as near the freezing point
as possible. For prolonged storage it might be advantageous to
freeze them. However, reliable data on this phase of the indus-
try are lacking.
Evaporated milk, sold in hermetically sealed cans, is sup-
posed to be entirely sterile, and. if made properly, will keep in-
definitely. There is a constant tendency, however, for the fat
to separate out. which naturally is augmented by prolonged
storage. Again, the lactic acid in the evaporated milk gradually
acts on the can, causing the tinplate to become dull and the
contents to acquire a disagreeable metallic flavor. *When stored
for an excessively long time this chemical action may be suffi-
cient to cause the evolution of considerable quantities of hydro-
gen gas. swelling the cans.
Sweetened condensed milk which is preserved by about 40
per cent of sucrose, will keep apparentl}^ unchanged for a con-
siderable length of time. It is best, however, when fresh. Bac-
teriological examinations have shown that, while moderate age
does not change the outward appearance of this condensed milk,
the bacteria in it gradually increase and the milk gradually de-
velops a stale flavor. White and yellow ''buttons.
'
lumps, or
nodules of a cheesy texture and flavor, due to fungus growth,
are also prone to appear in the condensed milk. Age. also, causes
it to become darker in color. These defects are especially ap-
parent in old milk which has not been kept at a low temperature.
Again, sweetened condensed milk made in May and June
has a
strong tendency to thicken with age and to become entirely solid.
In some cases a part of the sweetened condensed milk made
during the summer months is stored in large cylindrical wooden
or iron tanks sunk into the ground, or installed in the basement
of the factory, where the condensed milk remains at an even tem-
perature. As the demand for the product increases and the
supply of fresh milk decreases, condensed milk is drawn from
these tanks to fill the increasing orders.
Effect of Storage Temperature.Most, if not all the changes
which condensed milk is prone to undergo in storage are retarded,
if not entirely prevented, when stored at the ])roper temperature.
Storagk 193
Temperatures of 60 degrees F. or above are too high for satis-
factory storage for a prolonged period of time and the higher
the temperature the greater the resulting defect.
Temperatures below the freezing point of water are also
undesirable. The evaporated milk freezes and while so doing it
expands sufficiently to swell the cans. Although this swelling
disappears when the contents of the cans dissolve again, yet
the swelling action tends to weaken the cans and may give rise
to subsequent leakers. Again, the melted evaporated milk is
prone to be grainy as the result of freezing. This is due to the
fact that when freezing, the watery portion separates from the
curd and the latter contracts. When the milk thaws up the curd
remains contracted and fails to form a smooth emulsion with
the remainder of the milk.
The sweetened condensed milk does not freeze, because it
contains so concentrated a sugar solution that its freezing point
is usually far below the refrigerating temperature. If it is packed
in solder-sealed cans there is usually no bad effect from cold
storage. However, when packed in cans sealed with the friction
cap or the burr cap, difficulties may arise. These seals are not
air-tight. Excessively low storage temperatures cause the con-
tents to shrink appreciably. Suction is formed and air is drawn
in through the seal. When these cans again warm up, the vis-
cous milk in the cans seals the microscopic openings, the air and
the liquid expand but the air finds no exit. This causes the cans
to swell. While the quality of the milk in these cans is not im-
paired in the least, the swelled cans suggest gaseous fermenta-
tion, which means spoiled milk and which is invariably rejected
on the market.
The temperatures at which condensed milk can be stored
with least objectionable results, range between 32 arid 50 de-
grees F.
Advisability of Storing.A heavy stock of condensed milk
is a severe drain on the working capital of the condensery, in-
volving the cost of the fresh milk, cane sugar, tinplate, boxes,
solder, labels, coal and labor.
Unless the manufacturer has successfully overcome and
mastered all of the principal condensed milk defects, and, unless
his experience justifies him in believing that his goods will stand
194 Markets
the trials of storage, he will find it advisable not to manufacture
more than he can promptly dispose of. Even at best, the con-
densed milk will be from three to six months old before it is all
consumied, and, if it is at all subject to deterioration, the sooner
it is consumed the better.
TRANSPORTATION.
The plain condensed bulk milk and concentrated milk are
highly perishable products. If shipped considerable distances
they should be placed in refrigerator cars.
The evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk in her-
metically sealed cans, and the latter also in barrels, can safely
be shipped in ordinary box cars. The cases weigh from fifty
to six-five pounds, and the barrels from three hundred to seven
hundred pounds. Care should be taken that the cars used for
this purpose are clean and did not previously carry goods with
strong and obnoxious odors, such as fertilizers, as these odors
are prone to follow the condensed milk to its destination. Strong
box cars, in good repair only, should be used. Even at best,
the cases and cans suflfer more or less damage in transportation.
Cars w'ith leaky roofs should be condemned, as transportation in
them may cause the package to suffer in appearance. If shipped
on steamboats, it should be specified to stow the cases away from
the boiler room, as prolonged exposure to high temperatures
causes the condensed milk to deteriorate.
Chapter XVIII.
MARKETS.
A large proportion of the canned condensed milk, both
sweetened and unsweetened, supplies localities, territories and
countries where the dairy industry is yet in its infancy, or
where geographic and climatic conditions bar the profitable
husbandry of the dairy cow. Thus, we find some of the best
condensed milk markets in the tropics, in the arctic regions, in
the army and navy, on ocean liners and in mining and lumber
camps. In these markets condensed milk has, in many cases,
become as great a necessity as fresh milk is to the inhabitants
wfithin the temperate zone. The wastage and the decreased
Marke:ts 195
production of diverse food products caused by the war has
opened vast nevv^ markets for, and has caused the demand and
consumption of condensed milk to grow by leaps and bounds.
The consumption of canned condensed milk in our home markets
has, also, been increasing rapidly wîthin recent years, and is
today assuming astonishing proportions. This increase has oc-
curred, in part at least, at the expense of the consumption of
fluid milk. While conclusive statistics on this subject are not
available, the trend toward larger domestic consumption of con-
densed milk accompanied by decreased consumption of fluid milk
is suggested in the following tables, in which Prof.
J.
O. Jordan,^
President of the International Association of Dairy and Milk
Inspectors, shows the situation in the city of Boston, Mass.
:
Consumption of Condensed Milk in Boston, Mass.
Cases of Condensed Milk by Tears
Source of Statistics
1916
Cases
1917
Cases
1918
Cases
1919
Cases
Business of a firm
operating chain
stores
30,500
762,446
52,700
880,072
76,500
1,237,647
77,000
1,647,264
Receipts according
to records of Board
of Trade
Daily Consumption of Fluid Milk in Boston, Mass.
Year
Quarts of Milk
actually c o n
-
sumed daily
Quarts of Milk
which should
have been con-
sumed daily,
based on esti-
mated population
and quarts used
in 1916 by esti-
mated popula-
tion
Estimated
Population
1916 .
347,735
342,244
342,451
333,506
353,209
358,617
364,157
760,400
772,370
784,340
796,310
1917
1918
1919*
^
Jordan, Address, Eighth Annual Convention International Association
Dairy and Milk Inspectors, 1919.
1919 figures are for ten months only.

196 Markets
The rapid growth of the ice cream industry has further
developed a splendid and ever-increasing market for plain con-
densed bulk milk. Additional impetus has been lent this devel-
opment since the advent of national prohibition, which caused
a vast increase in the consumption of ice cream and of soft
drinks of which ice cream constitutes an integral part. Manu-
facturers of condensed milk estimate that this has resulted in
an increase of their production of plain condensed bulk milk
amounting to from 15 to 20 per cent.
Market Prices of Condensed Milk.The price of condensed
milk is not controlled by the general market of dairy products,
nor by any board of trade; there is no consistent uniformity of
price throughout the country as is the case of butter*and cheese.
The price of condensed milk does not necessarily follow the
rise and fall of the butter and cheese markets, but in the long
run it is usually affected by abrupt fluctuations of prices of these
other dairy products, largely on account of the influence of such
fluctuations on the supply to the condensery of fresh milk. It
is chiefly governed by local conditions of supply and demand,
conposition of product and reputation of the individual brand.
Condensed milk is sold under hundreds of different brands or
labels. While one and the same concern may sell scores of
different brands, the brand itself has very little, if anything, to
do with the quality or composition of the contents of the can.
Each brand usually sells at its own special price, although the
various brands put on the market by the same concern often
contain the same quality of milk and may be filled with con-
densed milk from one and the same batch. It is customary in
most factories to fill the cans before they are labeled and the
orders for different brands of condensed milk are filled from
the same general stock. The brands serve largely as an in-
strument to increase the sales and ''dodge" competitors.
Sweetened condensed milk, packed in hermetically sealed
cans, sells from about $3.25 to $5
per case of 48 sixteen-ounce
cans and the cans retail at from 5 to 20 cents each, according
to the size of the cans and market conditions.
Evaporated milk, unsweetened condensed milk in hermetic-
ally sealed cans, sells from $2.25 to $4.00 per case, according tc)
the size of the cans and market conditions.
Markets 197
Bulk milk, both sweetened and unsweetened, goes direct
from the manufacturer to the purchaser who buys it at prices
agreed upon by the contracting parties. The sweetened con-
densed milk is sold in barrels holding from three hundred to
seven hundred pounds (usually about six hundred pounds) to
candy and caramel factories, bakeries and confectioners. The
price varies from four to ten cents per pound according to the
per cent of fat, demand and supply. When there is a general
''epidemic" of bad canned condensed milk, this spoiled con-
densed milk is usually turned into candy shops and bakeries,
where it is sold for "a. song." This condition has always a
depressing influence on the price of sweetened condensed bulk
milk, which, during such seasons, may have to be sold at a loss.
Some milk condensing concerns operate their own candy shops
which take care of the condensed milk that is rejected on the
market.
Plain or unsweetened condensed milk is sold in 1-gallon to
10-gallon* cans to ice cream factories, the price varying from
twenty-five to ninety cents per gallon, according to fat content,
concentration and market conditions. The market for this class
of goods is not very constant, but the profits are generally high.
It reaches ebbtide in winter when the demand for ice cream is
small. Limited quantij:ies of plain condensed bulk milk are also
sold in milk and cream bottles for direct consumption. The
concentrated milk finds the same markets as the plain con-
densed bulk milk.
The above range of prices of the several types of condensed
milk refers to the market conditions which prevailed while the
industry was protected against competition with goods from
abroad by an import tariff of 2c per pound or $1.00 per case of
condensed milk, and to conditions prior to the advent of the
Eurppean war in 1914.
In 1913, the United States, by Act of Congress, removed
the import tariff*, placing condensed milk on the free list. This
Act became effective in the fall of the same year. Its immediate
effect was a rapid increase in the importation of European con-
densed milk, which was offered for sale at relatively low prices,
19
MarkKT^
decreased the sale of domestic goods and caused the holdings of
condensed milk to accumulate in large quantities. Condensed
milk prices depreciated rapidly throughout 1914 and reached
the bottom in the fall of that year when financial limitations
compelled many concerns to move their goods at any price. At
that time the bottom prices of condensed milk were approxi-
mately as follows
:
Sweetened condensed milk per case $2.50
Evaporated milk per case 1.90
The losses suffered by this slump in the condensed milk
market, caused by the influx of cheap foreign gQods in the
absence of a protective tariff, were enormous and caused bank-
ruptcy of numerous of the financially limited concerns. The
outlook for the future of the industry looked very uninviting
at best, but the situation was saved and market conditions
reversed by the urgent food requirements of the Allied nations
in the European war, and after the entrance of the United States
into the war, by large orders for the American army and navy.
The extraordinary and very urgent demand for condensed
milk by the U. S. Government and by its allies during the war
and the enormous demland for exports to Europe after the
ai'mistice, boosted the prices of this product to a level not
attained since the Civil War. While Government regulations
tended to hold price advances within reasonable bounds and
while lack of shipping facilities and other factors caused tem-
porary fluctuations downward, the price advance in general con-
tinued Until the spring of 1919, and reached the following maxi-
mum figures per case f
Sweetened condensed milk per case $9.25
Evaporated milk, per case 6.50
Exports and Imports.Canned condensed milk only need
be considered here.
The United States Bureau of Statistics reports the following
imports and exports of condensed mjilk for the years 1911 to
1919, inclusive:
Exports and Imports 199
Exports and Imports of Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk
for the Years 1911 to 1919, inclusive.' - -
Exports Imports
Years Pounds Dollars Pounds Dollars
1911 12,180,445 936,105 630,308 46.088
1912 20,642,738 1,651.879 698.176 61,671
1913 16,525,918
1,432,848*
1,778,044 135,724
1914 16,209,082 1,341,140 14,599,339 1.089,440
1915 37,235,627

3,066,642 33,624,189 2,556,787
1916 159,577,620 12,712,952 18,174,505 1,515,354
1917 259,102,213 25,129,983 18,375,698 1,746,446
1918 553,439,554

29,926,931

1919 852,275,264

16,509,239

Prior to 1914 the United States exported condensed milk
chiefly to North America, Oceanica and Asia, small quantities
were also exported to South America, Africa and Europe. About
60 per cent of all the export condensed milk went to countries
of the North American Continent, Canada and Panama being
the leading markets. During the last few years, immediately
preceding the world war, our exports to Canada had fallen off
very rapidly. In 1911 the exports to Canada amounted to only
about 15 per cent of the total exports of condensed milk to the
same country in 1908. The rapid development of the milk con-
densing industry in Canada, within the last decade was largely
responsible for this situation. From 1907 to 1911 there wâs an
annual decrease in the total exports of the United States. In
1907 they amounted to $2,191,000.00 as against $936,105.00 in
1911.
Prior to 1913, the imports of condensed milk into the United
States were likewise very limited. This was largely due to the
protective tariff on imported goods, which was an effective agent
to exclude foreign brands from American markets.
In the fall of 1913, Condensed Milk was placed on the ''free
list." This resulted in an immediate and rapidly growing in-
flux of condensed milk from European countries, such as Switzer-
land, Denmark, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Germany and Eng-
*
United states Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Statistics
for 1911 to 1919.
200
Che:mical Composition
land. At first the bulk of the influx consisted of sweetened con-
densed milk, but later evaporated milk also arrived in increas-
ingly large quantities, causing havoc in our domestic markets,
and an almost unprecedented depression in the industry in the
Fall of 1914. At the same time, the exports further decreased
and ceased almost entirely.
In 1915 the food shortage in the allied countries and their
need of condensed milk for their armies and navies began to
counteract the effect of the removal of the protective tariff.
Imports decreased while large and repeated contracts for exports
to the Allies brought about an unprecedented growth of our
export trade of condensed milk at attractive prices. Our exports
wêre further increased by the fact that the war deprived non-
combatant countries in South America, Asia and Africa of their
usual imports of this commodity from the then warring coun-
tries, opening up the world markets to the United States.
The ejcports continued to increase after the armistice wa.^
declared, the volume exported being limited largely only by the
shortage of transatlantic transportation facilities. After the first
six months of 1919 the increasingly unfavorable rate of exchange
of foreign moneys commenced to make itself felt and since then
there has been a steady decline in exports. Early in 1920 iso-
lated shipments of condensed milk began to arrive in this coun-
try, foreign manufacturers being attracted by and taking advan-
tage of the high exchange value of the American dollar, our high
domestic prices and the absence of tariff on condensed milk
imported into the United States.
Chaptkr XIX.
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND STANDARDS OF
CONDENSED MILK.
Sweetened Condensed Milk.Sweetened condensed milk
contains all the constituents of fresh milk and considerable but
varying quantities of sucrose. Its composition, therefore, de-
pends on such factors as : composition of the fresh milk from
which it is made; the degree of condensation and per cent, of
cane sugar added. As all of these factors vary in milk from
Hifferent localities, and in milk of the same factory at different
Chemical Composition
,
201
seasons of the year, no hard and fast rule can be g-iven. The
following figures merely show the average composition of sweet-
ened condensed milk as obtained from the results of analyses of
a large number of different brands.
Average Composition of Sweetened Condensed Milk.
Water 26.5 per cent.
r fat 9.0 per cent.
^
TVT-11 1-j J
proteids 8.5 per cent.
1
ô ^ ^^ 4.
Milk solids <
*
/=
*^--^
P^^
cent.
I
milk sugar 13.3 per cent.
[
L
ash 1.8 per cent.
J
Cane sugar 40.9 per cent.
. Total 100.0 per cent.
Water.The water content is largely governed by the de-
gree of condensation and the per cent, of cane sugar. American
brands average from 24 per cent, to 28 per cent, water. In ex-
ceptional cases milk has been found to contain as low as 21 per
cent, and as high as 34 per cent, water.
Milk Solids.The per cent, of milk solids is largely gov-
erned by the per cent, of milk solids in fresh milk and the degree
of condensation. In the majority of brands the solids fluctuate
between 28 and 34 per cent. ; in extreme cases analyses have
shown less than
'28
per cent, and as high as 40 per cent, milk
solids. The relative proportion in which the various solid con-
stituents are present is the same as that in the fresh milk from
which the condensed milk is made, provided that the fresh milk
was not skimmed previous to condensing.
The fact that the U. S. standard requires not less than 28
per cent, milk solids and the introduction of perfected methods of
standardizing have an unmistakable tendency toward keeping
the percentage of milk solids down to 28 per cent.
Butter Fat.The butter fat in sweetened condensed whole
milk fluctuates from about 8 to 12 per cent., according to locality,
season of year and degree of condensation. Sweetened con-
densed milk sold in barrels is usually partly or wholly skimmed
and is, therefore, low in fat. It has been suggested that a small
portion of the milk fat is lost during the process of condensation,
202 Chemicai. Composition
and this theory is frequently resorted to by condensed milk men
to explain why their milk is low in fat. It has been claimed by
some that the volatile fats (volatile fatty acids) are lost during
the process of condensation. This claim is not well founded,
since repeated experiments^ have conclusively demonstrated that
condensed milk contains the normal amount of volatile fatty
acids. It has further been experimentally proven that the con-
densed milk, when made properly and from whole milk, contains
fat equal in amount to that found in the fresh milk used. A
reasonable allowance should be made, however, for loss of milk
due to spilling and wasting in pipes and retainers. Experience
has shown that this loss amounts to about fifty to one hundred
pounds of milk per average batch under normal conditions.
Proteids.The per cent, of proteids in the condensed milk
varies with the per cent, of proteids in the original milk and
the degree of concentration. It fluctuates usually between 7.5
and 9 per cent. The heating previous to condensing coagu-
lates a portion of the milk albumin and alters the casein to the
extent that it is not precipitated in the normal way, when rennet
is added to the diluted condensed milk.
While, in most analyses of sweetened condensed milk, the
per cent, of proteids nearly equals that found in the fresh milk
multiplied by the degree of concentration, there is a tendency
toward a slight loss of this constituent due to precipitation in
the forewarmers.
Milk Sugar.Sweetened condensed milk contains from
about 12.5 to 15 per cent, of milk sugar, the amount varying
according to the degree of concentration and per cent, of milk
sugar in the fresh milk. The milk sugar is not known to undergo
any material changes as the result of the condensing process. If
condensed milk is recondensed, it assumes a darker color which
is largely due to the caramelizing of a part of the milk sugar,
caused by the action of prolonged exposure to heat. The milk
sugar in condensed milk crystallizes very readily and causes the
condensed milk to become sandy and settled. Chemical anal-
yses of this sugar sediment show that it consists principally
of milk sugar. The primary cause of this property lies in the
*. Hunziker and Spitzer, Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin
No. 134. 1909.
Chemicai, Composition 203
fact that sweetened condensed milk contains so little water
(about 26.5 per cent.) that the milk sugar is present in the form
of a supersaturated solution ; therefore, any condition which
favors sugar crystallization will tend to produce this defect:*
Milk sugar requires from five to six times its weight of water
at ordinary temperatures for complete solution. In sweetened
condensed milk the milk sugar has access to only about twice
its weight of water (12.5 to 15 per cent, lactose to 25 to 27 per
cent, water).
Ash.The per cent, of ash is largely dependent on the
degree of condensation. It usually varies from 1.5 to 2 per cent.
It is quite constant in fresh milk, (normal fresh milk contains
uniformly about .7 per cent. ash). The per cent, of ash in
sweetened condensed milk miay serve, therefore, as a reason-
ably reliable factor in determining the degree of condensation.
The heating of milk, before condensing, precipitates and renders
insoluble a portion of the mineral solids, principally the lime
salts.
Sucrose.The purpose of the presence of sucrose in this
product is to preserve it. Most of the sweetened condensed
milk on the market contains from 37 to 44 per cent, sucrose, or
cane sugar. Wider variations, however, are not infrequent. In
some cases analyses showed as low as 30 per cent, anci in others
as high as 48 per cent, cane sugar. Cane sugar dissolves in one
half its weight of water, so that under normal conditions there
is sufficient water in the,condensed milk to keep the sucrose in
solution. The amount of sucrose in milk does not appreciably
aflFect the power of the milk to dissolve milk sugar, nor does
the per cent, of lactose present materially affect the power of the
milk to dissolve sucrose.
When the sweetened condensed milk has a concentration
of about 2.5:1, the manufacturer usually aims to have it contain
about 40 per cent, sucrose. When it is condensed sufficiently
only to contain 28 per cent, milk solids it is necessary to add
sufficient sucrose to bring the percentage of sucrose up to about
44, in order to insure the necessary keeping quality.
*
For further details on causes of settled sweetened condensed mUk see
Chapter XXII.
204 ChicmicaIv Composition
Specific Gravity.The specific gravity of sweetened con-
densed milk falli? within the limits of 1.24 to 1.35. Foreign
brands average apmcrwhat higher in specific gravity than Amer-
ican brands. The specific gravity of sweetened condensed milk is
controlled by the degfiCC of condensation, the per cent, of fat and
the per cent, of cane sugar. Milk condensed at the ratio of about
2,5 parts of fresh milk to 1 quart of condensed milk and contain-
ing about 9 per cent, fat and. 40 per cent, cane sugar, has a speci-
fic gravity of about from 1.28 to 1.29. The specific gravity of
sweetened condensed skim milk may go as high as 1.35, and, if it
contains an excess of cane sugar, it may be still higher.
Chemical Analyses of Sweetened Condensed Milk of Eighteen
Different Brands.
Brand
Milk
solids
per
cent.
Water
per
cent.
"Silver Bpoon"
Hires' Condensed Milk Oo _
' "Eagle"
Borden's Condensed Milk .Co
a
"Reiijdeer''
Truro Condensefd Milk Co
"Tip Top"
Bardens* Condensed Milk Co;
8
"Challenge"
Borden's Condensed Milk Co
3
"Sweet Clover"
Mobawk Condensed Milk Co
8
"Afrow"
Wisconsin Condensed Milk Co..-
"Blue Bell"
American Condensed Milk Co\_
8
"Red Cross"
Mohawk Condensed Milk Co
8
"Rose"
"Magnolia"
"Rustic"
Michigan Condensed Milk Co
a"j|ilkMaid"
Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co.
e
"Jubilee"
The Manitoba Dairy Co
"Export"
Baldwin Condensed Milk Co...^
a
"Owr'
CaiDlda Milk Condensing Co.....
"Nestle"
Htoy IffcBtle ... û ...
3
"Upper T6n"
U. 8. Condensed Milk Co
31.90
31.08
31.23
36.57
31.74
32.84
31.15
35.56
34,78
30.82
31.98
30.00
35.69
29.40
32.^
31.61
32.91
25.99
27.33
21.67
24.84
24.07
26,83
26.50
27.14
24.76
26.32
27.63
25.65
32.15
26.69
30.84
28.04
27.88
Fat
per
cent.
Pro-
teids
per
cent.
Lac-
tose
per.
cent.
Ash
per
cent.
Sucrose
per
cent.
8.40
8.72
9.56
10.07
8.23
9.31
8.00
^.81
U.07
8.88
8.64
8.60
9.65
9.62
11.50
10.61
8.06
8.80
9.12
8.15
8.57
8.^1
8.49
9.50
7.92
8.06
7.84
7.07
8.78
8.61
8.50
8.47
7.68
8.34
12.56
12.35
13.42
15.00
13. C2
12.95
12.87
14.80
14.03
12.07
13.50
12.00
16.17
11.30
12.35
12.40
15.28
14.66
1.91
1.83
1.80
2.15
1.02
1.87
1.79
1.95
1.76.
1.81
2.00
1.73
2.09
1.85
1.80
1.81
1.94
1.85
40.38
42.93
4J..44
41.76
48.42
43.09
42.02
37.M
38.M
42 97
42 00
41.00
38.66
a3.45
41.07
37.55
89.05
38 47
1
Spitzer, Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, 1910.
McGill, Inland Rev. Dept., Ottawa, Bulletin No. 144, 1908.
Cochran, Special Report of Analysis of Condensed Milks and Infants'

Foods, Pennsylvania Dept, of Agriculture, 1905.
Evaporated Milk.The same factors which control the
chemical composition of sweetened condensed milk, also govern
that of the unsw'eetened product, with the exception that tlie^
cane sugar is absent.
The following figures represent, in round numbers, the
average composition of evaporated milk as obtained from anal-
yses of a large number of American brands.
Average Composition of Evaporated Milk
Water
r fat
Tv/r-ii VA J
Proteids
Milk sohds
^
1^^^^^^
ash
73 per cent.
8.3 per cent.""
7.5 per cent. 1
_^
f.^
. > 27 per cent.
9.7 per cent.
[
^
1.5 per cent.
^
100 per cent.
The chemical and physical properties of the various ingre-
dients in u;isweetened condensed milk are affected to a greater
extent than in the case of sweetened condensed milk. This is
largely due to exposure of the evaporated milk to high tempera-
tures in the sterilizer.
Water and Solids are governed by the degree of concentra-
tion and the relative per cent, of the same constituents in the
fresh milk. The per cent, of solids admissible in evaporated milk
is largely dependent on the chemical and physical properties of
the milk and the sterilizing temperatures employed. Excess
in solids in this product jeopardizes its marketable properties,
owing to the tendency of the proteids to form hard lumps of
curd during the sterilizing process. Evaporated milk very low
in solids tends toward the separation of its butter fat in storage..
Analyses show a range of from 23 to 31 per cent, solids, .^îiê
the per cent, of solids necessary and possible to be contained in
marketable evaporated milk, largely depends on the properties
of milk, and, since these properties again are principally con-
trolled by locality, season of year, crop, feed and weather con-
ditions and the quality of the fresh milk, the solids in milk from
any given season of the year may vary very considerably. In
some localities and at certain times of the year the best results
may be obtained with evaporated milk containing 28 per cent
206 Ch^micaIv Composition
solids. In other localities it may be difficult at certain seasons
of the year, to incorporate more than 24 per cent, solids without
injuring or destroying the marketable properties of the product.^
Butter Fat.
^The fat varies with the per cent, of fat in the

fresh milk and with the degree of concentration. No fat is lost
during the process of condensing and sterilizing.^ It has been
claimed by some that in the process of manufacture, the volatile
fatty acids escape and that the evaporated milk therefore con-
tains less fat than the fresh milk from which it is made, times
the degree of concentration. If this wêre true the loss of fat in
the evaporated milk would not exceed .25 of 1 per cent. But
analyses show that the fat in the evaporated milk is entirely
normal in composition and contains the same prof)ortion of
volatile fatty acids as the fat in the fresh milk.
The Composition of Milk Fats in Evaporated Milk.^
Date of
Manufacture
Reichert
Meissl
Number
Iodine
Number
MelUng Point of
Mixed Fats
Melting Point of
Insoluble Fatty
Acids
Auerust 1908 28.48
29.52
33.64
33.60 .
33.3 degrees C.
33.4 degrees C.
41.0 degrees C.
November, 1908 41.2 degrees C.
In the evaporated milk there is a strong tendency for the
fat to separate out during storage and to churn in transportation.
This is largely avoided by the proper adjustment of the steriliz-
ing process and by use of the homogenizer.
Proteids.
'The proteids vary with the per cent, of total

proteids in the fresh milk and the degree of concentration.
Similar to the case of sweetened condensed milk, there is a ten-
dency of a slight loss of proteids in evaporated milk due to
mechanical adhesion of a part of the precipitated curd to the
heating surfaces in the forewarmers and in the vacuum pan.
Most of the coagulable milk albumin is precipitated. Fresh
milk contains about .16 per cent, of albumin that is not coagu-
lable by heat.^ The relation of soluble and insoluble curd is
*
Hunzlker, Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Twenty-first An-
nual Report, 1908, pages 67-68.
Hunzlker and Spitzer, Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin

No. 134.
Hunziker, Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 143.

Chemical Composition 207
shown in the following table which represents analyses of dif-
ferent brands of evaporated milk:
Soluble and Insoluble Curd in Evaporated Milk.^
Brand
Gold Milk . .
.
Columbine , .
.
Every Day . .
Gold Milk . .
.
Star
Morning Glory
Carnation . . .
.
Beauty
Van Camp's .
Monarch
Diadem
Reindeer
Wilson's
Dundee
Average ...
Insoluble Soluble Total
Curd Albumin Proteids
Per Cent. Per Cent. Per Cent.
8.44 .46 8.90
7.41 .49 7.90
7.54 .46 8.0
7.37 .33 7.70
7.86 .30 8.16
8.28 .34 8.62
6.49 .52 6.91
8.39 .39 8.78
7.52 .42 7.94
6.77 .52 7.29
7.06 .42 7.48
6.88 .52 7.40
6.89 .49 7.38
7.21 .44 7.65
7.436 .429 7.865
The above figures show that, in the evaporated milk, prac-
tically all of the coagulable albumin is changed to insoluble curd.
The brands analysed contained evaporated milk condensed at
the ratio of 2 to 2.4 parts of fresh milk to 1 part of evaporated
milk. The soluble albumin found corresponds with the albumin
not coagulable by heat, normally found in fresh milk, times the
ratio of concentration.
The casein is largely precipitated by the sterilizing heat,
but is present in the form of very finely divided particles. This
is due to the mechanical shaking to which the evaporated milk
is subjected in the sterilizer and in the shaker. In many batches
of evaporated milk the precipitation of the casein during sterili-
zation is so fine that the product is perfectly smooth without
shaking. The casein in evaporated milk does not respond to the
action of rennet as does the casein in fresh milk.
*
Hunziker, Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletins Nos. 134
and 143.
208 Chemical Composition
Milk Sugar.The milk- sugar is present in per cent, corre-
sponding with that of the original milk, times the degree of con-
centration. A portion of it has undergone oxidation (carameli-
zation) due to the high sterilizing temperatures. It gives to the
evaporated milk a yellow to light browni color. The higher the
sterilizing temperature and the longer the exposure of the evapo-
rated milk to this heat, the darker is its color.
Ash.The mineral constituents also are present in nearly
the same proportion to the other solids, as in fresh milk. They
are largely rendered insoluble by the sterilizing process. The
lime constituents frequently are found in the bottom of the cans
in the form of hard, whitish, insoluble granules. For discussion
of relation of ash constituents to stability of casein, ste Chapter
XXIII on "Lumpy and Curdy Evaporated Milk."
Since the ash in normal fresh milk is practically constant,
averaging about .70 per cent., the per cent, of ash in the evapo-
rated milk is frequently used as a factor in determining the
degree of concentration. The results may, however, be very
misleading, since, when the ash is precipitated in the form of
granules, it is practically impossible to mix it back into the milk
in order to obtain a representative sample for analysis.
The Specific Gravity ranges from 1.05 to 1.08, according to
the degree of concentration and the specific gravity of the origi-
nal milk. It averages about 1.065.
Plain Condensed Bulk Milk is of very varying composition,
depending largely on the degree of concentration and the per
cent, of fat present. It is usually made from partly or wholly
skimmed milk and is condensed at the ratio of 3 to 4 parts of
fresh milk to 1 part of condensed milk. The same fact applies
to the composition of concentrated milk.
Chemical Analyses of Twenty-four Different Brands of
Evaporated Milk/
Brand Solids
Gold Milk
Columbine . . . .
Every Day ....
Gold Milk
Star
Morning Glory
Carnation . . . .
Beauty
Van Camp's . .
.
Wilson's
Monarch
Diadem
Reindeer
Dundee
Sundry samples
1
29.25
24.63
26.20
27.18
29.04
31.08
23.81
28.38
27.89
25.23
26.70
24.96
26.66
27.04
28.02
31.99
26.01
27.33
29.37
21.12
23.25
25.48
26.62
Water Fat Curd Lac-
tose
70.75 9.42 8.44 9.75
75.37 7.45 7.41 8.56
73.80 8.07 7.54 9.10
72.82 9.07 7.39 9.23
70.90 8.35 7.86 10.37
68.92 10.48 8.26 10.47
76.19 8.05 6.49 7.55
71.62 8.47 8.39 9.94
72.11 8.69 7.52 9,66
74.77 8.70 6.53 8.68
73.30 8.09 6.17 10.35
75.04 8.16 7.06 7.92
73.34 8.08 6.88 10.21
72.96 8.73 7.21 9.36
71.98 8.93 7.68 9.86
68.01 9.68 8.49 11.88
73.99 8.18 6.11 .9.24
72.67 9.04 6.93 9.42
70.63 9.71 7.34 10.52
78.88 7.30 5.78 6.78
76.75 7.98 6.19 7.96
74.52 8.68 6.34 8.67
73.38 9.20 7.00 9.18
Ash
1.54
1.36
1.47
1.49
1.62
1.67
1.24
1.56
1.54
1.37
1.44
1.33
1.45
1.48
1.61
1.69
1.46
1.51
1.56
1.12
1.25
1.35
1.37
Total
99.90
99.98
100.15
100.00
99.16
99.82
99.49
99.98
99.52
100.05
99.95
99.51
99.96
99.74
100.06
99.75
99.64
99.57
99.76
99.86
100.13
99.56
100.13
^
Hunziker and Spitzer, Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin
No. 134, 1909.
210 CheimicaIv Composition
Condensed Milk Standards.Federal condensed milk stand-
ards were first assembled in connection with the Federal Food
and Drugs Act, passed June, 1906, and which went in force
Janu-
ary
1,
1907.^ These standards provided that both, sweetened
condensed milk and unsweetened condensed milk shall contain
not less than 28 (twenty-eight) per cent milk solids, of which
not less than 27.5 (twenty-seven and five-tenths) per cent, shall
be milk fat.
These standards have been modified repeatedly since their
introduction.^, -,
^
The standards which have superseded them
and their earlier modifications, and which are now in force are
as follows
:
"Sweetened condensed milk, sweetened evaporated milk,
Sweetened concentrated milk, is the product resulting from the
evaporation of a considerable portion of the water from the
whole, fresh, clean, lacteal secretion obtained by the complete
milking of one or more healthy cows, properly fed and kept,
excluding that obtained within fifteen days before and ten days
after calving, to which sugar (sucrose) has been added. It con-
tains, all tolerances being allowed for, not less than twenty-eight
per cent.
(28%)
of total milk solids, and not less than eight per
cent.
(8%)
of milk fat.^
**
Unsweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, concen-
trated milk, is the product resulting from the evaporation of a
considerable portion of the water from the whole, fresh, clean,
lacteal secretion obtained by the complete milking of one or more
healthy cows, properly fed and kept, excluding that obtained
within fifteen days before and ten days after calving, and con-
tains, all tolerances being allowed for, not less than twenty-five
and five-tenths per cent.
(25.5%)
of total solids and not less than
seven and eight-tenths per cent.
(7.8%)
of milk fat.^
"Sweetened condensed skimmed milk, sv/eetened evaporated
skimmed milk, sweetened concentrated skimmed milk, is the
product resulting from the evaporation of a considerable portion
of the water from skimmed milk to which sugar (sucrose) has
^
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Circular No. 19: also Hunziker, Purdue
Bulletin No. 143, 1910.
2
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Food Inspection Decisions Nos. 131,
1911; 158, 1915;

170, 1917.
'
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Food Inspection Decision No. 158,
April 2, 1915.
Sanitary Purity 211
been added. It contains, all tolerances being allowed for, not
less than twenty-eight per cent.
(28%)
of milk solids.^
"Unsweetened condensed skimmed milk, evaporated skim-
med milk, concentrated skimmed milk, is the product resulting
from the evaporation of a considerable portion of the water from
skimmed milk, and contains, all tolerances being allowed for,
not less than twenty per cent.
(20%;)
of milk solids."
^
Requirements of Condensed Milk for Export to the Allied
Nations.Condensed milk shall contain not less than 9.2 per
cent, butter fat.
In order to meet the high butter fat requirement in con-
densed milk furnished to the Allies, American condenseries which
receive largely low-testing milk are compelled to reinforce their
product with butter fat. This is done either by removing a por-
tion of the skim milk, or by the addition to the milk of butter
fat in the form of cream or unsalted butter.
ChaptKr XX.
SANITARY PURITY, DIGESTIBILITY AND VITAMINE
PROPERTIES OF CONDENSED MILK.
Sanitary Purity.From the point of view of freedom from
pathogenic and other harmful micro-organisms, most forms of
condensed milk are superior to the average market milk. In the
first place, the manufacture of a marketable condensed milk
makes essential eternal vigilance in the control of the quality of
the fresh milk. It is safe to state that in no milk plants does
the quality of the fresh milk accepted, receive more careful atten-
tion and average higher than in the milk condensery. The foun-
dation of the condensed product, the fresh milk, therefore, is of
a relatively high standard of purity.
Again, the temperature to which the milk is subjected is suf-
ficiently high to destroy the germs of practically all milk-borne
diseases; sO' that, unless the condensed milk becomes infected
with pathogenic germs after condensing and before the tin cans
are hermetically sealed, practically all danger from disease germs
is eliminated. In the case of evaporated milk the marketable
^ U. S. Department of Agriculture, Food Inspection Decision No. 170,
March 31, 1917.
212 DiGESTlBIUTY
product is free from all forms of germ life. The only exception
to this rule would apply to concentrated milk, in the manufacture
of which the milk is not heated to temperatures detrimental to
the life of bacteria.
Digestibility.In this discussion of the digestibility of con-
densed milk it is assumed, that the condensed milk, unless used
in admixture with other foods, is diluted to approximately the
consistency of normal milk. If consumed as a drink, similar to
milk but without proper dilution, its concentration, and con-
sequent excessive richness, would obviously seriously interfere
with digestion. While there are no experimental data available
concerning the digestibility of condensed milk, the results of
feeding experiments with heated, pasteurized or sterilized milk
vs. raw milk, may furnish a logical guide as to the dietetic effect
of condensed milk. Milk pasteurized at high temperatures, or
sterilized, may be considered comparable, as far as the effect of
heat is concerned, to condensed milk.
Doane and Price^ report the following experimental results
:
"Raw milk is more easily digested Avhen fed to calves than either
pasteurized, or cooked milk. Contrary to theory, cooked milk,
when fed to the calves used in these experiments, caused violent
scouring in the majority of trials. A majority of physicians in
charge of children's hospitals corresponded with, favored the use
of raw milk for infants when the milk is known to be in perfect
condition, but favored pasteurized milk under ordinary condi-
tions. With one exception all the physicians corresponded with,
discouraged the use of cooked, or sterilized milk for infant
feeding."
Rosenau* states that ''Comparative observations upon in-
fants under the same conditions show that they flourish quite as
well upon heated milk as upon raw milk. Laboratory experi-
ments as wêll as clinical observations coincide with the view,
that heated milk is quite as digestible as raw milk. In fact it is
now claimed to be more so. Metabolism experiments indicate
that the utilization of calcium and iron in the body is more com-
plete in children fed upon boiled cow's milk, than in those fed
upon raw cow's milk.
1
Doane and Price, Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin
No. 77. 1901.
Rosenau, United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal

Industry, Circular No. 153, 1910.
DiGKSTlBIUTY 213
Stutzer^ who conducted experiments of artificial digestion
reports in favor of boiled milk, while similar investigations made
by Ellenberger and Hofmeister'- showed no difference in the
digestibility between raw and cooked milk.
Rodet^ who experimented with dogs noticed a slight dif-
ference in favor of boiled milk. Bruning* fed dogs, pigs, rabbits,
and guinea pigs with raw and sterilized milk and reports that
all results were in favor of the sterilized milk. Bruckler's'^ ex-
periments with dogs showed that the animals gained more in
weight on sterilized milk than on raw milk, but that their general
health, vigor and vitality was better when fed raw milk. Variot^
observed no difference in the effect on infants between raw and
boiled milk.
The foregoing citations suggest that our knowledge of the
digestibility of heated or boiled milk is exceedingly limited and
that the results obtained and conclusions drawn by the various
investigators are at variance. In experiments with the living
organism, and confined to so few-specimens as seems to have been
tlie case in the work reported, the factors of individuality and
environment are a constant stumbling block, magnifying the
limit of experimental error and weakening the conclusiveness of
the results. On the basis of our present knowledge it seems
reasonable to conclude that, as far as the digestibility of its
inherent ingredients is concerned, condensed milk, when con-
sumed in properly diluted form, varies but little, if any, from
raw milk. The absence in condensed milk of ferments, such as
enzymes, which are destroyed in the process and which may
assist digestion, may be considered the most important defect
of condensed rriilk from the point of view of digestibility.
In the case of sweetened condensed milk, however, the nutri-
tive ratio of the normal milk is decisively disturbed by the pres-
ence of. large quantities of sucrose. Even when diluted to far
beyond the composition of normal and original fluid milk, the
^
Stutzer, Landw. Versuchs-Statlonen,
40, p. 307.
2
Ellenber&er & Hofmeister, Bericht ueber das Veterinarwesen Koenig-
relch Sachsen, 1890.
3
Rodet, Compt. rend. soc. blol., 48, p. 555.
*
Bruning, Muenchner Mediz., Wochenschrift, No. 8, 1905.
*
Bruning, Zeitschrift fuer Tiermed, 10, p. 110, 1906.
Bruckler, Jahrbuch fuer Kinderheilk, 66, p. 343, 1907.
Varlot, Comp. rend., 139, p. 1002, 1904.

214 DiGESTlBIUTY
per cent of cane sugar is still high, causing the nutritive ratio
of such milk to be abnormally wide and unbalanced. The carbo-
hydrates are present far in excess of the protein, fat and ash.
If fed to infants exclusively and for a prolonged period of time,
the growing organism is bound to suffer from malnutrition and
at the expense of muscular development.
Furthermore, it is conceded by the medical profession that
sucrose is not a suitable form of carbohydrates for infants. It
is not as digestible as lactose, it changes the bacterial flora of the
intestines, enhancing the development of butyric acid and other
gas-forming and putrefactive germs at the expense of Bacillus
bifidus, which is the natural inhabitant of the intestine in normal,
milk-fed babies.
Sweetened condensed milk is generally highly advertised by
the manufacturer as a suitable food for babies ; it is frequently
recommended by physicians and in some instances, it is claimed
to have agreed with babies who were unable to take care of milk
in any other form. It is not improbable that in these extremely
isolated cases of baby feeding, when all other feeds failed, the
true virtue attributed to the sweetened condensed milk, lay in
the fact that the mothers carefully followed the directions on
the label for dilution. The directions specify that the condensed
milk be diluted with ten to sixteen parts of water. The majority
of cases of digestive disorders in bottle-fed babies are undoubt-
edly the result of the natural tendency of the mother to feed
her child too much milk or too rich milk. When we consider
that the ratio of concentration in sweetened condensed milk is
only about 2.5 to 1, it is obvious that a dilution of 10 or 16 to
1 is a great relief to the over-taxed digestive organs of infants,
previously fed on milk too rich for normal digestion. The im-
mediate change of the health and disposition of these babies for
the better, as the result of turning from a prolonged siege of
too rich food to the very dilute condensed milk, is therefore not
surprising.
The manufacturer of sweetened condensed milk in this coun-
try is inclined to load his product excessively with sucrose. He
does this largely in an effort to increase the keeping quality and
to guard against development of fermentations in the finished
article that ruin the
goods for the market. While a certain
ViTAMiNE Properties 215
amount of sucrose is necessary to preserve this milk, yet, if the
product is manufactured from a good quality of fresh milk, as
it should be, and when the proper sanitary conditions are main-
tained in all departments of the factory, sixteen pounds of cane
sugar per one hundred pounds of fresh milk is entirely sufficient.
He should bear in mind that sweetened condensed milk is
used and accepted by the consumer as a substitute for market
milk, and it is the manufacturer's moral duty to retain in this
substitute the normal properties and composition of the product
which it is supposed to replace, as nearly as is consistent with
the production of a wolesome and marketable product.
Vitamine Properties.
^Recent discoveries by nutrition ex-

perts^,
^
have revealed and conclusively demonstrated the pres-
ence of vitamines, or chemically unknown substances of food
origin, that are essential for the normal performance of the
function of animal life. Extensive feeding experiments have
shown, that before complete growth can occur in a young animal,
or for prolonged maintenance, or for the prevention of certain
diseases, the diet, besides being adequate as regards its content
of proteins, carbohydrates, fats and mineral salts, must contain
certain, at present unidentified accessory substances, popularly
called vitamines.
Hart and his co-workers enumerate three of these vitamine
substances, namely, water-soluble vitamines or antineuritic
vitamines ; fat soluble vitamines or antixerophthalmic vitamines
;
and antiscorbutic vitamines. The absence in the diet of each,
or all of these vitamine substances causes stunting of growth
and the development of certain characteristic diseases.
Watcr-Soluble Vitamine.The absence of this vitamine in
the diet retards and stunts growth and leads to such diseases
as polyneuritis and beriberi (paralysis). The water-soluble vi-
tamine is present in a variety of foods and constitutes an inherent
part of the non-fatty portion of milk.
Fat-Soluble Vitamine.
^The absence of this substance in

the diet retards and stunts growth and leads to the disease of
xerophthalmia (an eye disease culminating in blindness). The
1
McCoUum, The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition, 1918.
' Hart, Steenbock and Smith, Studies of Experimental Scurvy. Journal
Biolofrical Chemical Chemistry, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2, 1919.
216 ViTAMiNE Properties
fat-soluble vitamine is present abundantly in a very limited list
of foods, namely, in butter fat, egg fat, cod liver oil, the fats of
the vital organs and in the leaves of plants. It is not contained
in ordinary animal fats such as lard, nor in any of the vegetable
fats.
Antiscorbutic Vitamine.The absence of this vitamine sub-
stance in the diet causes the development of scurvy and similar
scorbutic diseases and skin diseases. The antiscorbutic vitamine
appears to be present ' in many foods, similar to the water-
soluble vitamine, and it is abundantly present in raw milk.
Effect of Heat Employed in the Manufacture of Condensed
Milk on These Vitamines.The heat to which condensed milk
is subjected in the process of manufacture does not rob the con-
densed milk of the water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamines, so
far as our knowledge, based on data now available, is concerned.
This applies to all kinds of condensed and evaporated milk made
from whole milk. From the standpoint of these two growth-
prompting and curative vitamines, all forms of condensed whole
milk are, therefore, equally desirable for infant feeding, for
children and for the adult, as is whole milk.
On the other hand, skim condensed milk is not a satisfactory
food for the growing young. It lacks the indispensable fat-
soluble accessory and unless supplemented by egg yolk, cod
liver oil or butter, its consumption by the young in the place of
whole milk, or in the place of condensed milk made from whole
milk, will prove disastrous to the growth and well-being of those
who are restricted to such a diet.
Nor does imitation condensed milk, such as the "Hebe"
product, in which the butter fat has been replaced by a vegetable
fat, supplement the lacking fat-soluble vitamine substance. The
public shoitld clearly understand that in milk or condensed milk,
there is no substitute for butter fat and when the butter fat is
removed the product no longer can take the place of milk. See
also "Addition of Artificial Fats," Chapter XXIV.
The antiscorbutic vitamine, on the other hand appears
to be destroyed in the process of manufacture of evaporated
milk, as shown by Hart in experiments with guinea pigs. Hart
found that cornmercial unsweetened condensed rriilk (meaning
Cost oi^ Manufacture 217
evaporated milk), had lost its antiscorbutic properties when
used in quantities equivalent to an amount of raw milk w)hich
would prevent scurvy in guinea pigs on a diet of rolled oats
and dried hay.
Hart's results agree with those of many other investiga-
tors in the fact that the exposure of milk to sterilizing tempera-
ture, deprives the product of its antiscorbutic properties. On
the basis of these facts evaporated milk cannot be recommended*
as an exclusive milk diet for babies and children. If evapo-
rated milk must be used for infant feeding, some antiscorbutic
supplementary food, such as orange juice, should be fed in con-
junction with the exclusive use of evaporated milk or similar
heated milk product.
To what extent the antiscorbutic properties of milk are
preserved or destroyed in the manufacture of sweetened con-
densed milk, has not as yet been experimentally demonstrated.
This product is not exposed to sterilizing temperatures and yet
it is heated at least to the boiling point. The safer course to
follow here, too, if sweetened condensed milk must take the
place of normal raw or pasteurized milk, is to feed it in con-
junction with a known antiscorbutic supplementary food, such
as orange juice.
ChaptKr XXI.
COST OF MANUFACTURE.
General Discussion.The cost of manufacture varies, in a
general way, with the organization and size of the factory,
capacity of machinery and the amount of the output. These
variations are further modified by the cost of available labor,
the price of milk, cane sugar, tin cans, box shooks, coal ancf
other supplies, etc.
In a properly organized plant the cost of manufacture per
case of finished product decreases with the increase of the out-
put, provided that the capacity of the machinery is sufficient to
take care of such increase. When the plant is forced beyond
its capacity, the factory operates at a disadvantage, and the
extra labor and possible waste and losses tend to increase the
cost per case. When the output drops below 100 to 150 cases
218 Cost of Manufacture
per day, profitable manufacture becomes difficult, the overhead
expense is out of proportion with the business, the factory can-
not take advantage of rebates in the purchase of supplies, the
factory labor is relatively high, because skilled men have to
do manual labor, and occasional losses due to spoiled goods
devour the profits of a comparatively large portion of the entire
output.
The price of milk fluctuates with season and proximity and
strength of competing markets. The pre-war fluctuations em-
braced a range of from $1.00 to $2.00 per one hundred pounds of
fluid milk, or twenty-five to fifty cents per pound of butter fat.
Maximum war prices and post-war prices up to and including
January 1, 1920, reached the figure of $4.17 per lOO pounds of
milk.
Cane sugar varies in price largely with the season and with
the success or failure of the sugar cane crop. Sugar prices
usually reach their climax in fall and their minimum price in
late winter or early spring. Pre-war variations usually fell
within the limits of $4.00 and $6.50 per one hundred pounds of
sugar. Since the war and up to January 1, 1920, the price of
sugar has risen to 17 cents per pound.
Tin cans vary in price with style of can and whether made
in the condensery or bought from a can-making concern. Some
factories are paying more or less heavy royalties for the priv-
ilege of using certain patents of cans. Cans intended to be
sealed without the use of solder, but which are guaranteed to
make a hermetical seal, are generally higher in price than those
in the sealing of which solder is used. This difference in price,
however, is offset, in part at least, by the cost of the solder
and gasoline. Cans purchased from can-making concerns usually
are more expensive than cans manufactured in the condensery.
This holds true only where the tin-shop of the condensery is
properly equipped and efficiently manned. In normal times
the cost of cans bought from can-making concerns is about 45
cents per case of 14 ounce cans and 55 cents per case of taW
size cans, varying somewhat with size and style of can ; when
made in the condensery the price may be lowered from 10 to
20 per cent. January 1, 1920, prices for cans were about 88 cents
Cost oi^ Manuiâctur^ 219
per case of 48 14-ounce cans and about 99 cents per case of 48
cans for tall-size cans.
The cost of coal varies with quality and locality. Under
average conditions, the condensing and packing of one pound
of fluid milk requires about three-tenths of a pound of coal or
thirty to forty pounds per case. A good quality of ''mine run"
can be laid down at the factory in states near the coal region,
like Indiana and Illinois for about $2.50 per ton, or in northern
states, like Wisconsin, for about $3.30 per ton. The cost of coal
per case, therefore, may vary from about three and eight-tenths
to six and a half cents per case. Where natural gas or refuse
from lumber mills is available, the cost of fuel may be reduced
materially by the use of these substitutes for coal. Maximum
war price raised the cost of coal to about 9 cents per case.
Solder and gasoline for sealing the* cans average about three
and a half cents per case. The price of solder is about twenty-
seven cents per pound and the solder used per case of forty-
eight cans, amounts to about one-tenth of a pound. Maximum
war price raised it to about 7c per case.
For venthole cans the amount of solder needed is from .3
to .5 of one ounce per case, making the cost in normal times
about seven-tenths of one cent for tall size cans.
In the case of the sanitary can and other cans with solder-
less seals this item drops out entirely.
The labels vary in price according to quality of paper, and
elaborateness of printing. The average cost of labels is about
four cents per case. Maximum war price about 8 cents per case.
The box shooks and nails per case cost about eight to ten
cents. January 1, 1920, the price of box shooks per case for 14
ounce cans was about 23 cents and per case for tall size can.
about 26 cents. In the case of fibre boxes the cost per case is
about 18 cents.
The factory labor for pre-war conditions was about 12 to
l.S cents per case and the administration expense about 5 to
10 cents per case, varying widely, of course, with the type
of organization and volume of business. January 1, 1920, the
factory labor was about 20 to 25 cents per case and the adminis-
tration expense about 10 cents per case.
220

Cost of Manufacture
Under pre-war conditions the freight and other transporta-
tion ranged from about 10 to 25 cents per case averaging about
12 to 15 cents. January 1, 1920, the freight and other transpor-
tation charges would averag"e 35 cents per case.
Before the war the investment in factory, equipment and
operating expense for a plant with a capacity of about 500 cases
per day amounted to about $75,000, placing the interest and
insurance at about 3 cents per case. January 1, 1920, a factory
of similar capacity would involve an investment in building,
equipment and operating expense of about $175,000, placing the
interest and insurance at about 7 cents per case.
The selling expense varies widely ranging frojn less than
10 cents to 20 cents per case.
The following- tabulated summary may serve to bring out
the approximate relative expense per case of sweetened con-
densed milk and evaporated milk more clearly:
Sweetened Condensed Milk.
Cost per case of forty-eight cans. These cans weigh 14 ounces
net per can or 42 pounds net per case. They are known in the
trade as 14 ounce cans.
1913. 1920.
105 lbs. milk (concentration
Jan.
1.
2.5:1)
@ $1.50 $1.57
@
$
3.60 $3.78
16.81bs.sugar (161bs. perlOO)@ 5.00 .84
@
15.75 2.64
Tin cans (sanitary) 45 .88
Boxes (wooden) 075 .23
Labels 040 .05
Coal
045 .09
Factory labor 15 .23
Administration expense 07 .10
Freight 14 .35
Selling expense 10 .12
Interest and insurance on investment
and on operating capital 03 .07
Total cost per case. $3.51 $8.54
Cost of Manufacture 221
Evaporated Milk.
Cost per case of forty-eight tall size cans, weighing forty-eighT
pounds net.
1913. 1920.
Jan.
1.
106 lbs. milk
@
$1.50 $1.59
@
$3.60 $3,816
Cans (vent hole) 55 .988
Boxes (^\nood) 075 .262
Labels .04 .053
Solder and gasoline (vent hole cans) . . . .007 .014
Coal 045 .09
Factory labor 15 .23
Administration expense 07 .10
Freight 14 .35
Selling expense 10 .12
Interest and insurance on investment
and on operating capital .03 .07
Total cost per case $2,797 $6,093
PART V.
CONDENSED MILK DEFECTS, THEIR CAUSES
AND PREVENTIONS
Chapthr XXII.
CLASSIFICATION OF DEFECTS.
Many are the defects which cause condensed milk to be
rejected on the market and numerous are the aventies that may
lead to the manufacture of defective milk. The milk faults may
be of mechanical, physical, chemical, or bacteriological origin, or
they may be due to a combination of two or more of these forces.
In some instances the defects can be detected in milk during; or
immediately after the process, in w^hich case they may be rem-
edied, or their recurrence prevented. But more often, several
weeks may pass before abnormalities develop and before the
manufacturer realizes that something is wrong with the milk.
In the meantime, the conditions which originally produced the
milk defect may have so changed, that it is exceedingly difficult
to locate the seat of the original trouble. .
DEFECTIVE SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK.
The following are the chief and most common defects of
sweetened condensed milk:
1. vSandy, rough or gritty
2. Settled
>..
3. Thickened and cheesy Ca"^
4. IvUmpy, white or yellow buttons
*
5. Elow^n or fermented
e->t?
^^""^^
6. Rancid
8. Brown "^f^^^"^
9. Metallic.
'
Swe:e:tkne:d Condensed Milk Defects
'
223
Sandy, Rough or Gritty Sweetened Condensed Milk.
General Description.
^This is condensed milk in whicli a por=-

tion of the milk sugar has been precipitated in the form < f large
crystals, the size of the crystals depending on the conditions
causing crystallization. First-class sweetened condensed milk
is smooth and velvety. Such miilk is not entirely free from sugar
crystals, but they are so minute in size that they do not rob the
condensed milk of its natural smoothness. In sandy or gritty
condensed milk the crystals are very numerous and large enough
to grind betv/een the teeth, similar to salt crystals in gritty
butter. The presence of these crystals is also noticeable to the
naked eye; the milk looks candied.
Causes and Prevention.The sugar crystals which render
the condensed milk rough and sandy consist largely of milk
sugar. The solubility of milk sugar is relatively low. Milk
sugar requires about six times its weight of water at ordinary
temperature for complete solution. Condensed milk contains
from 12.5 to 15 per cent milk sugar and only about 26.5 per cent
water. The ratio of milk sugar to water in sweetened con-
densed milk, therefore,, is 1 :2, while for complete solution it
should be 1 :6. The milk sugar in this product is present in a
supersaturated solution and any condition which favors sugar
crystallization strongly tends to precipitate this milk sugar,
because there is more of it present in the milk than the available
water is capable of readily keeping in solution. The chief factor
that prevents the milk sugar frorii precipitating very badly is
the great viscosity of the condensed milk. This is largely due
to the caseous matter and the cane sugar.
Cane Sugar Content.It has been argued that the large
amount of sucrose which sweetened condensed milk contains,
is the principal cause of sandy milk and of sugar sediment in
the bottom of the tin cans, and that a reduction in the amount
of sucrose lessens the tendency of the sugar to crystallize and
the milk to become sandy. This line of reasoning is erroneous.
The presence, in water, of sucrose in solution does not materially
lessen the power of the water to dissolve milk sugar, provided
that the sucrose solution is not a saturated one. Sweetened
condensed milk, contains about 35 to 45 per cent sucrose and
224 SwEKTEN^D Conde:nsi$d MiIvK Defects
24 to 28 per cent water. Sucrose dissolves in one half its weight
of water. The sweetened condensed milk does not, therefore,
contain a saturated solution of sucrose.
Incomplete Solution of Sucrose.If the finished product is
to be smooth and free from sandiness, it is essential that the
sucrose which is added to the hot, fresh milk be thoroughly dis-
solved before the mixture reaches the vacuum pan. Undissolved
sugar crystals in a medium as highly concentrated as sweetened
condensed milk have much the same effect in a physical way, as
have bacteria in fresh milk in a biological way ; they multiply
rapidly. Therefore, if all the sugar added to the fluid milk is
not completely dissolved, the undissolved sugar crystals give
rise to wholesale precipitation of the milk sugar in*this product
after manufacture, and since the crystals of undissolved cane sugar
are relatively large, their presence also gives rise to the formation
of milk sugar crystals of large size. Hence the sandy condition of
the condensed milk. Complete solution of the cane sugar can
beat be accomplished by heating the liquid, milk or water, in
which the sugar is to be dissolved, to the boiling point and by
boiling the mixture for several minutes ; or by placing the sugar
on a large wire mesh strainer (about eighty meshes to the inch)
which stretches across the sugar well and allowing hot milk to
run over this sugar into the well below. In this way the sugar
crystals must dissolve before they can reach the sugar well.
One of the safest methods of insuring complete solution of
the cane sugar is to dissolve it in a separate kettle in a sufficient
quantity of boiling water (preferably distilled water) and boil-
ing the syrup for five to fifteen minutes. If the syrup thus made
is given a few minutes rest it should become perfectly clear;
by. its clearness, the purity of the sugar can also be observed.
If a scum forms at the top it should be removed ; then the hot
sugar syrup is drawn into the pan. Care should be taken that
the milk already condensing in the pan has not become too con-
centrated, otherwise sugar crystallization may set in. It is ad-
visable to inject the sugar syrup gradually, rather than to wâit
until nearly all the milk is in the pan.
Excessive Chilling in the Pan.The cause of grittiness of
condensed milk may lie in the pan itself. .Where the water used
for condensing is very cold, and where one end of the spray
Sw^^te:n^d Condense:d Mii.k De;ê:cts 225
pipe in the condenser is very close to the goose neck of the pan,
as is the case with most of the vacuum pans in use, w^hich are
equipped with horizontal spray condenser, the chilling of th^
vapors and of the spray of milk rising from the pan is so
sudden, that sugar crystals are prone to form in the spray and
along the walls of the pan. These crystals either stick to the
side of the pan, or fall back into the milk where they later mul-
tiply and cause the milk to become sugary. Trouble from this
source can be avoided by either raising the temperature of the
water that goes to the condenser which is, however, not practical
under most conditions, or by closing the holes in that portion of
the spray pipe which is nearest the pan. This can easily be done
by wrapping a piece of galvanized iron or tinplate around the
portion of the spray pipe to be closed, or by filling the holes
with solder, or by replacing the old spray pipe by a new and
shorter one, properly constructed.
Superheating at End of Batch.Sometimes the manufac-
turer is persistently troubled with the apprearance of crystals in
the condensed milk of monstrous size, as large as rice kernels
;
this condition arrives usually very gradually. During the first
few days after manufacture, only a few of these large crystals
may appear in some of the cans. In the course of a few weeks,
all of the cans may contain specimen of these "rice crystals"
which increase in number until the entire contents of the cans
are one mass of ''rice crystals," rendering the milk unsalable.
The direct causes of this particular kind of sugar crystallization
are excessive concentration of the condensed milk, the use of
too much steam pressure in the coils and jacket when condensa-
tion is near completion, delay in the drawing ofif of the condensed
milk from the pan, and leaky steam valves in the pipes leading
to jacket and coils.
Toward the end of the condensing process the milk becomes
heavy, thick and syrupy, and boils with much less violence. If,
at this stage of the process, excessive steam pressure is used in
the jacket and coils, the milk is superheated, often causing the
precipitation of ''rice crystals.'' Again, where the finished con-
densed milk is drawn from the pan very slowly, either owing to
too small an outlet in the bottom of the pan, or because the milk
'
is forced to run through a strainer attached to the outlet, or
226 Sweetened Condensed Mii.k Defects
because the finished condensed milk is retained in the pan- as
the result of an accident, in all of these cases there is danger
of superheating, and therefore, of the production of these large
crystals. This danger is especially great, where the valves of
the steam pipes leading to the jacket and coils are leaking, as
is often the case. The avoidance of excessive concentration and
the removal of any conditions that tend to expose the finished
or the nearly finished condensed milk to excessive heat will
usually prevent further trouble of this sort.

Experimental results by C. S. Hudson,^ on the solubility
and crystallization of milk sugar also show that milk sugar
crystals of large size were obtained by evaporation of a solution
of milk sugar at 95 degrees C. (203 degrees F.).
Excessive Concentration.
(In as much as the initial cause

of the precipitation of a portion of the milk sugar which leads to
the production of sandy condensed milk lies in the fact that the
milk sugar is present in this product in the form of a super-
saturated solution, it is obvious that the danger of sugar crystal-
lization and sandiness in this product increases with the increase
in concentration. This is fully borne out by practical experience.
The higher the ratio of concentration the more difficult it be-
conres to manufacture a smooth condensed milk. The danger
here is further augmented by the fact that in the very highly
concentrated product the tendency of superheating is augmented.
And the superheating gives rise to very large crystals wthich
render the product exceedingly coarse. The superheating is
due to the increased sluggishness of the very thick condensed
milk in the pan, it ceases to boil vigorously enough and is there-
fore excessively exposed to the hot coils. It is further due to
the slowness with which this product leaves the hot pan.
Improper Cooling.The method used for cooling the sweet-
ened condensed milk after it leaves the vacuum pan is another
important factor determining the smoothness or grittiness of the
finished product. The chief principles involved here are the
rapidity and extent of cooling and the amount of agitation to
which the condensed milk is subjected.
In order to fully appreciate the importance of strict atten-
*
Hudson, The Hydration of MUk Sugar In Solution, Jour. Am, Chem.
Soc, Vol. XXVI, No. 9. 1904.
Sweetened Condensed Milk Deeects 227
tion to details in the cooling process of sweetened condensed
milk, it should be understood, that the formation of large sugar
crystals in concentrated solutions is enhanced by sudden chilling
and by excessive agitation of these solutions. In the case oi
cooling in 10 gallon cans as described under ''Cooling of Sweet-
ened Condensed Milk," Chapter VI., the sudden and irregular
chilling of a part or all of the sweetened condensed milk in
the cooling cans is the result of the use of badly dented cans,
poorly fitting paddles, a warped condition of the pivots on which
the cog wheels in the bottom of the cooling vat revolve, too cold
water, and the application of too much cold water.
The paddles must scrape all parts of the sides of the cans,
from top to bottom. This is possible only when the cans are
intact and their sides are smooth and free from indentations.
The paddles must be adjusted properly so that their edges fit
snugly against the sides of the cans, they must be firmly fastened
to the cross bars and forced against the sides of the cans by
springs. In order that the cans ma}^ rvm true they must properly
fit into the rim of the cog wheels in the bottom of the cooling
vat and the pivots on which the cog wlheels revolve must be per-
pendicular. If the pivots are warped, the cog wheels cannot
run true and the cans wobble ; this causes uneven and incom-
plete scraping of the sides of cans by the paddles.
The water in the cooling vat should not be cold, but have
a temperature of about 90 degrees F. when the cans, filled with
the hot condensed milk, are set into the vat. The cold water
should flow into the vat slowly and be evenly distributed
throughout the vat. This is best accomplished by the installa-
tion of a perforated pipe running the entire length of the vat.
The cooling must be gradual. See also ''Excessive Stirring."
Excessive Stirring.The cans should revolve slowly. Rapid
revolution causes excessive agitation of the condensed milk,
which stimulates the formation of crystals. About five revolu-
tions per minute is satisfactory. In order to make more effective
the proper scraping of the cans by the paddles when the cans
revolve slowly, it is advisable to install two paddles in each can,
touching the periphery of the can on opposite sides.
When the milk has been cooled to between 60 and 70 de-
228 Swe:etene:d Conde:nskd Mii.k Defects
grees F., the water should be drawn from the cooling vat, or
the cans should be removed at once.
In the newer method of cooling, in which the hot condensed
milk is forced under pressure through a IJ to
IJ
inch coil sub-
merged in a tank of cold water, there appears to be a happy
relation of rapidity of cooling and type of agitation, that assists
in avoiding the formation of crystals sufficiently large to cause
sandiness. While the cooling here takes place with relatively
great rapidity, the agitation appears to be such as to prevent, in
a large measure, the production of excessively large crystals.
If this cooled condensed milk, leaving the cooling coil, is sub-
sequently further subjected to slow agitation for several hours,
the formation of small crystals is encouraged and*the preven-
tion of a sandy condition of the product is facilitated. For de-
tailed description of this mjethod of cooling see ''Cooling Sweet-
ened Condensed Milk," Chapter VI.
Warming Up of Too Cold Condensed Milk.Finally, if the
condensed milk is cooled to too low a temperature, either by
mistake, or as the result of the cans of cooled milk standing in
a very cold room over night, so that the condensed milk is too
thick to run through the filling machine, it is best to warm
it up by simply allowing it to stand in a warm room. The prac-
tice of setting the cans back into the cooling tank and revolving
them in warm water is objectionable, since this stirring of the
milk, while it is warming, seems invariably to produce .whole-
sale sugar crystallization, and therefore, causes the condensed
milk to become very gritty. (See also Settled Condensed Milk.)
Settled Sweetened Condensed Milk.
By
the term ''settled milk" the con-
densed milk man refers to condensed milk which has precipi-
tated and thrown down a portion of its sugar, forming a deposit
of sugar crystals in the bottom of the can or barrel. This de-
posit may vary in amount from a very thin layer to a layer an
inch deep or more, according to the character and age of the
milk. The nature of this sediment also differs in different cases
of settled milk. It m.ay be soft, and upon stirring may mix in
and dissolve readily, or it may be very dry and hard, in which
case it sticks to the bottom of the can with great tenacity, and-
I
Swe:etenkd Condensed MiIvK Defects 229
can be removed and mixed into the milk with difficulty only.
Like gritty milk, settled milk is a very common condensed milk
defect. Though it does not render the product less v^holesome,
it is an undesirable characteristic. Such m.ilk is usually rejected
on the market and results in a partial loss to the manufacturer.
Causes and Prevention.It is obvious, for reasons above
referred to, that the conditions leading up to the production of
settled milk, are closely related to those that cause milk to
become gritty. Condensed milk cannot drop its milk sugar,
unless the latter is present in the form of crystals. The absence
of crystals then, means that condensed milk will not settle but
experience has show'n that it is a practical impossibility to manu-
facture sweetened condensed milk which contains no sugar crys-
tals. Sugar crystals are always present in it, and the fact that
the milk is not sandy or gritty, does not necessarily mean that
it will not settle. Nevertheless, the removal of conditions con-
ducive of sandy or gritty milk, diminishes the tendency of the
formation of sugar sedimicnt. The successful and uniform pro-
duction of condensed milk that does not settle, however, involves
additional conditions that are not controlled by the factors
causing gritty milk.
Effect of Density on Sugar Sediment.One of the chief of
these conditions is the density of the condensed milk. The thin-
ner the condensed milk, the greater the difference between the
specific gravity of the liquid portion and that of the sugar crys-
tals; therefore, the more readily will the crystals sink to the
bottom. The viscosity of thin condensed milk, also, is less than
that of thick milk, offering less resistance to the force of gravity
of the crystals. In the manufacture of sweetened condensed
milk that has the proper density, about 2.5 parts of fresh
milk are condensed into one part of condensed milk. If the
evaporation is stopped sooner, so that the ratioi is much less than
2.5 to 1, the condensed milk is usually too thin to hold its sugar
crystals in suspension unless its specific gravity and viscosity
are increased by the addition of more sucrose.
Effect of Fat Content on Sugar Sediment.The per cent of
fat in milk, also, influences the specific gravity of the condensed
m^lk, and therefore, has some effect on the settling of the sugar
230 vSwEivTENitD Condensed Milk Defects
crystals, although to a relatively slight degree. Nevertheless,
sweetened condensed skimmed milk will settle less readily than
svveetened condensed whole milk.
Effect of Cane Sugar Content on Sugar Sediment.The per
cent of cane sugar materially irifluences the specific gravity and
viscosity of the condensed milk. Milk with a high per cent of
sucrose is heavier, more viscous and drops its sugar crystals
less readily than milk with a low per cent of sucrose.
Turning the Cans to Prevent Sugar Sediment.Concerns
who have been continually troubled with settled milk often resort
to the practice of turning their cases daily, or at other regular
intervals. This keeps the precipitated crystals in motion, but
it does not prevent the settling entirely. Moreover, milk des-
tined to settle, as the result of defects in the process, cannot
be prevented from dropping its crystals after it leaves the fac-
tory. Some concerns have stooped to printing on their labels
statements similar to the following: "A sediment in the bottom
of this can indicates that this condensed milk is absolutely pure
and free from harmful ingredients.'' Advice of the above de-
nomination is obviously ridiculous as well as untrue.
Adding Powdered Milk Sugar.It has been explained that
after the condensed milk is cooled it contains sugar crystals. If
those crystals are large, their cubic content is relatively g'reat
in proportion to their surface. Their buoyancy is, therefore,
sufficient to overcome the resistance of the surrounding liquid
and they will drop to the bottom, forming a sediment. If these
crystals are very small and fine they are not objectionable and
they usually do not cause settled milk, because their gravity
force is insufficient to overcome the resistance of the viscous
syrup. It has been further shown that the size of the sugar
crystals is largely determined by the size of the first crystals
present. Experience has demonstrated that the addition to
the condensed milk before cooling, of very fine sugar crystals,
such as powdered miilk sugar contains, encourages the formation
of very small crystals and tends to guard against the develop-
ment of large and coarse crystals during subsequent cooling.
Hence sugar sediment may be greatly minimized, if not entirely
prevented, by adding to the hot sweetened condensed milk, a
small amount of powdered milk sugar, at the rate of a tea-
Swe:ete:ne;d Condensed Milk Defects 231
spoon full of milk sugar per one hundred pounds of condensed
milk. The milk sugar must be added as soon as the condensed
milk comes from the pan, if the milk is allowed to cool before
the milk sugar is added, its efifectiviness is largely lost.
In order to insure the full desired action of the added pow-
dered milk sugar, this powder must be transferred to the con-
densed milk in such a manner as to prevent its formation into
lumps. It must be evenly and finely distributed over and in the
condensed milk. The use of a flour sifter has bfen found most
suitable for this purpose.
Thickened and Cheesy Sweetened Condensed Milk.
General Description.The term "thickened and cheesy" con-
densed milk applies to condensed milk that has become thick
and in some cases solid. This is a very common trouble with
milk manufactured in late spring and early sumjner. The milk
thickens soon after its manufacture and continues thickening
until it assumes the consistency of soft cheese, without the de-
velopment of acid. In this condition it usually has a peculiar
stale and cheesy flavor, di.sagreeable to the palate. Such milk is
invariably rejected on the market.
Causes and Prevention : Effect of Colostrum on Thickening.
It has been suggested that this spontaneous thickening is due
to the presence in the fresh milk of colostrum milk, because this
defect appears at a time when the majority of the cows supply-
ing the condensery freshen. This explanation can hardly be
considered correct and there is no experimental evidence avail-
able substantiating it. If the presence of colostrum milk wêre
the cause of it, the thickening would take place during the
process, as the result of the action of heat on the albuminoids.
This is not the case. This thickening begins some days and
often some weeks after manufacture and increases as the milk
grows older.
Effect of Cow's Feed on Thickening.Again, the cause of
this defect has been attributed to the change in feed, the cows
being turned from dry to succulent feed at the time when this
tendency of the condensed milk to thicken occurs. There is
no reliable evidence, however, of how the succulent pasture
232 Swke:te:nkd Conde:nse:d Mii.k Defects
grasses on which the cows feed can bring about this thickening
action in the condensed milk.
Effect of Bacteria on Thickening.A third and far more rea-
sonable explanation is that this thickening is the result of a
fermentation process. It is quite probable that the thickening
of SAveetened condensed milk is closely related to the sweet-
curdling fermentation in fresh milk. The sweet-curdling of
fresh milk is a fermentation characteristic of, and frequent dur-
ing late spring .and summer. It is caused by certain species of
bacteria which are capable of producing a rennet-like enzyme,
which has the power to curdle milk in the sweet state. These
bacteria are known to be closely associated with dirt and filth,
especially from the feces, and gain access to the milk usually
on the farms where the production and handling of milk is not
accomplished under most sanitary conditions.
It is further known, as the result of analyses that, in spite
of the large per cent of cane sugar which sweetened condensed
milk contains, the bacteria in it increase with the age of the
milk. The thickening of the sweetened condensed milk in early
summer, therefore, very probably is the result of a slow curdling
of its casein, caused by enzymes which are produced by bacteria.
It has further been demonstrated that condensed skimi milk
thickens more readily than condensed whole milk, which may be
explained b}^ the fact that condensed milk without butter fat
represents a more favorable medium for bacterial growth. Fur-
thermore, it has been conclusively demonstrated by the writer
and others that the addition of cane sugar to condensed milk,
in excess of that present in normal condensed milk, greatly
retards thickening. This fact suggests that the higher per cent
of sucrose has an inhibiting effect on the enzyme-producing bac-
teria, and perhaps, on the action of the enzyme itself. This
condensed milk defect can be prevented entirely by using, during
the summer months, eighteen pounds of sucrose per one hundred
pounds of fresh milk, so that the condensed milk contains about
45 per cent sucrose.
Effect of Finishing in Pan With High Steam Pressure on
Thickening.Abnormally thick condensed milk is also the result
of overheating the condensed milk in the vacuum pan towârd
the close of the process. The batch should be finished with low
Swe:etene:d Condensed MiIvK Defects 233
steam pressure in the jacket and coils, not to exceed five pounds
of pressure, and the milk should be drawn from the pan at oiice_
after condensation is completed. The superheating to which
the condensed milk is subjected in the pan, when finishing with
a high steam pressure in jacket and coils, or when the milk is
not drawn from the pan promptly when the vacuum pump is
stopped, or when an effort is made to condense to a very high
degree of concentration, is almost sure to cause the finished
product to spontaneously thicken with age and this tendency
is especially pronounced in the spring and early summer.
EjRfect of Age on Thickening.P'inally, all sweetened con-
densed milk has a tendency to thicken with age. Exposure to
high storage temperature (summer heat) hastens this action.
The rapidity of thickening in storage increases with the increase
in temperature. This tendency is very much reduced, therefore,
by protecting the goods from high temperatures and by storing
them below 60 degrees F. (See Chapter XVII on "Storage," page
191.)
Lumpy Sweetened Condensed Milk.
Lumps of varying denominations are

not infrequently found in sweetened condensed milk. They ma}^
be soft and permeate the contents of the can throughout, or may
appear especially in the form of a "smear" along the seams of
the can ; or again, they may float on the surface, in which case
they are usually hard and cheesy, and either white or yellow in
color. Their presence gives the contents of the can an unsightly
appearance at best, and in many cases, they spoil its flavor.
They naturally suggest to the consumer that something is wrong
with the condensed milk, and cause him to reject the whole
package.
Causes and Prevention.The chief causes of lumpy con-
densed milk are : poor quality of fresh milk, unclean pipes in fac-
tory, milk from fresh cows, acid flux in tin cans, and unclean
and contaminated tin cans.
Poor Quality of Fresh Milk and Unclean Factory Condi-
tions.
Upon opening the can of condensed milk, even shortly
after it is filled, the lid is covered with large and small lumps and
specks sticking to the tin, presenting a very uninviting appear-
234
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SwKETENED Condensed Milk Defects
ance. This condition can usually be traced back to a poor qual-
ity of fresh milk, containing' too much acid. Very often, too, the
cause lies in the factory itself, where it is due to lack of clean-
liness. A thorough inspection of milk pipes and pumps generally
shows accumulations of remnants of milk which get into the
milk of the succeeding batch. Where this condition exists, it is
noticeable that the first batch of the day contains more specks
and lumps than the succeeding ones. These lumps do not, as a
rule, grow larger in size nor increase in number with the age of
the condensed milk, but they injure its appearance to the eye,
and certainly cannot add to the wholesomeness of the milk. They
might easily be accompanied
^
by the formation qf ptomains.
A more rigid inspection of all the fresh milk as it arrtves at the
factory and thorough scouring of all milk tanks and milk pumps,
pipes and conveyors usually prevents the recurrence of this
defect.
Milk from Fresh Cows.During early spring there is a
strong tendency of the jacket and coils in the vacuum pan to
become coated with a thick layer of gelatinous and lumpy milk.
This is probably due to the fact that milk during these months
comes largely from freshened cows and may contain some colos-
trum milk which coagulates when subjected to heat, or that
the proteids of milk from these fresh cows are abnormally
sensitive to heat. This thickened material usually does not leave
the pan until most of the condensed milk has been drawn oflf.
It, therefore, appears in the last one or two cooling cans. If
the milk in these cans is mixed with the rest of the condensed
milk, the lumps will appear again in the tin cans. The last cans
drawn from the pan should, therefore, be kept separate. The
contents of these remnant cans may be redissolved in hot water
and should be recondensed in a succeeding batch. In this way
the manufacturer sustains practically no loss. In order to pre-
vent these lumps from getting into the cooling cans, some fac-
tories attach a strainer to the outlet of the pan. This practice
is as unnecessary, as it is damaging to the milk in the pan.
Tiie straining greatly retards the removal of the milk from the
pan, and the milk is held in the hot pan so long, as to cause
partial superheating w^hich is otherwise detrimental to its quality.
SwEETKNKD Condense:d Milk Defe:cts 235
Comparative Composition of Gelatinous Coating of the Jacket-
and Coils and of Normal Condensed Milk of the Same
_
Batch, Made April 23, 1908.
Coating of Jacket Normal Condensed
anc Coils Milk
Moisture 24.76
]
per cent 30.34 per cent
Lactose 13.12 13.16
Fat 9.50 7.44
Curd 8.14 7.30
Ash 1.42 1.80
Acid .33 .40
Sucrose 41.36 40.02
98.63 per cent 100.46 per cent
The above anah^ses were made in order to determine the
difference in chemical composition between that part of the batch
which, in the spring of the year, forms a gelatinous coating oil
the jacket and coils and that part which remains normal. The
figures do not show as great a difference, as the physical com-
parison of the two products would suggest. Possibly the most
significant point these analyses show is that, while the proteids
in the coating are higher, the ash is lower than in the normal
condensed milk."
A large portion of the ash of milk is present in chemical
combination with the casein, which does not curdle by heat,
while the albumin, which is coagulated by heat, contains only
a very small amount of ash. Therefore, the fact that an increase
in the proteids of this gelatinous coating is accompanied by a
decrease in the ash content, would suggest that the proteids of
the coating of the jacket and coils consist of more albumin and
less casein than the proteids of the normal condensed milk of
the same batch. Since this coating of the jacket and coils occurs
only in the spring of the year, when most of the cows freshen,
it is reasonable to assume that this coating is the result of the
acceptance at the factory of milk too soon after calving and
which contains excessive quantities of proteids and other sub-
236 SwE:eTE:NE:D Conde^nsed MiivK De:êcts
stances which are highly sensitive to heat, such as albumin,
colostrum, etc.
Excess of Acid in Condensed Milk and Acid Flux in Tin
Cans.The presence in the condensed milk of organic and
mineral acids, in excess of the amount which normal fresh milk
contains, is conducive of the formation of lumps.
Excessive amounts of acid in condensed milk may be the
result of fermentations, usually due to a poor quality of sugar,
or of the use of acid flux in the making and sealing of the tin
cans. Condensed milk that shows acid or gaseous fermentation
usually contains lumps. The acid which it develops as the result
of the fermentation, curdles the casein with which k comes in
contact.
One of the most common channels through which condensed
milk may become contaminated with acid mechanically, is the
use of cans, in the manufacture and sealing of which acid flux
was used. The acid flux generally used contains zinc chloride.
The flux precedes the solder and some of it is bound to sweat
through the seams into the interior of the cans. This type of
lumps usually has a pink or brownish-red color, especially in the
case of considerable quantities of acid flux. Zinc chloride is a
highly poisonous product and its use in the manufacture of tin
cans, which are intended for receptacles of human food, should
be prohibited by law. Aside from its injuriaus effect on the
health and life of the consumer, its presence, even in small quan-
tities in condensed milk, is a detriment to its market value. In
such cans there accumulate, usully along the seams, lumps and
smeary substances which have been found to consist of casinate
of zinc.
Most commercial soldering fluxes consist largely of zinc
chloride and are highly acid, although many of these are adver-
tised as acid-free fluxes. In order to avoid the appearance in con-
densed milk of lumps from this source, cans should be used, in the
manufacture of which a strictly acid-free flux is used and which
are sealed with acid-free flux. Dry, powdered resin or resin
dissolved in alcohol or gasoline are harmless in this respect and
are just as effective fluxes, as acid flux,
Swe;e;tkne:d Condense:d Milk De:fects 237
Buttons in Sweetened Condensed Milk.Buttons, as known
to the condensed milk manufacturer, represent a type of lumps,
different from those previously described. Buttons are lumps
of curd of a firm and cheesy consistency. They usually float on
top of the condensed milk in the can or barrel. They are suffi-
ciently firm units so they can be readily removed and washed
free from the condensed milk. They are of varying sizes,
depending on the age of the condensed milk and the temperature
at which it was stored. The older the milk and the higher the
Figr. 81.
Tsrplcal bnttous of different sizesAll signs of mold Ixave disappeared
Courtesy of L. A. Rogers, U. S. Dairy Division
Storage temperature, the larger the buttons. Most of the but-
tons are about one half inch in diameter but frequently they
are of sufficient size to cover the entire surface of milk in the can.
These buttons have a whitish-brown to yellowish or reddish-
brown appearance. They appear in old sv/eetened condensed
milk more frequently than in milk that has been in storage for a
short time only. They are entirely absent in freshly made con-
238 Sweetened Condensed Mii.k Defects
densed milk. They themselves have, and they give the con-
densed milk, a cheesy, stale flavor and lend the entire product
an unsightly appearance. They depreciate the market value of
sweetened condensed milk.
Causes of Buttons.Experience has demonstrated that but-
tons are most prone to appear in stored condensed milk, in the
packing of which no attention was given to sanitary conditions
in the factory and of the cans or barrels, and that the use of
clean sterile cans and barrels and a high standard of sanitation
in the handling of the product before packing greatly minimizes
this defect. That they are the result of biological action, direct
or indirect, is fairly obvious, and the fact that the milk during the
process of manufacture is heated to temperatures destructive to
most vegetative types of germlife, strongly suggests, that they
are the product of recontamination of the finished product.
Rogers. Dahlberg and Evans^ of the United States Dairy
Division investigated the causes and control of buttons experi-
mentally. They found that the buttons are caused by the growth
of the mold Aspergillus repens, and possibly by other molds
;
that the development of the mold colony is restricted by the
exhaustion of the oxygen in the can or barrel, and that the button
itself is probably due to enzyme action, continued after the
death of the mold.
These findings corroborate earlier experimental results by
the author, who was unable to develop growing mold colonies
in normal sweetened condensed milk from inoculations with full-
grown buttons.
Rogers and his co-workers demonstrated that the time re-
quired for the development of the various stages resulting in
button formation varies with temperature, amount of air avail-
able and possibly other factors. The mold colony usually ap-
peared in 5 to 10 days. Mold growth is supposed to cease in
two to three weeks on account of the exhaustion of the air. Tn
one month a reddish-brown discoloration became quite evident
and at the end of two months the button had usually assumed
^
L. A. Rogers, A. O. Dahlberg and Alice C. Evans, The Cause and Control
of Buttons in Sweetened Condensed Milk, Jour. Dairy Science, Vol. Ill, No.
2, 1920.
Sweetened Condensed Milk Defects 239
definite form. The disintegration of the mold hyphae (filament)
proved to be a slow process, extending over 5 to 6 months.
Prevention of But-
tons.The prevention
or control of hese but-
tons may be accom-
plished by: 1. exclu-
sion of contamination,
2. low temperature, 3.
exclusion of oxygen.
Exclusion of Con-
tamination.
^Contam-
ination of the con-
densed milk with but-
ton-forming molds is
most likely to occur
during the cooling,
holding and filling
operations and as the
result of contaminated
cans and barrels.
Tig. 82.
Button in growing- state
still very evident
Courtesy of L. A. Rogers,
Dairy Division
,
molds
U. S.
In condenseries where the milk is cooled by the old method
in open 10-gallon cans, revolving in a cold water tank and
stirred with wooden paddlesit is not difficult to understand
the reason for buttons. In this system the condensed milk is
exposed to the air for hours, the 10-gallon cans and the wooden
paddles are never sterile and are an almost sure source of con-
tamination, unless special precautions concerning the sanitary
condition of equipment and of the air are observed.
In condenseries which use the continuous plan of cooling
and holding of the sweetened condensed milk, the product is
protected against the atmosphere of the factory from the time
it leaves the vacuum pan until it enters the tin cans, and if
this equipment is kept clean and is steamed out thoroughly
before use, which is readily and quickly done with this type
of equipment, contamination should be very largely eliminated
and buttons guarded against.
240 Sweetened Condensed Mii.k Deeects
The empty tin cans in many of the plants are kept under
undesirable conditions. They are exposed to diverse channels
of contamination during transportation to the factory and dur-
ing storage in the factory. If these contaminated cans are sub-
sequently filled with the condensed milk, contamination is un-
avoidable and buttons are likely to follow.
The tin cans should therefore be protected against avoidable
contamination, or better yet, they should be sterilized before
filling.
A practical sterilizer of empty cans may be readily devised
by permitting the cans to pass bottom-side-up over a series of
gas fiames, under a hood. This method is used successfully
in some of the European condenseries and has for them solved,
in a large measure, the prevention of buttons. The caps and
filling machines obviously should receive such treatment as to
prevent themfrom becoming sources of contamination. Barrels
should be steamed till piping hot and then paraffined, before
filling.
In factories with wooden floors where the filling and sealing
is done, the danger of mold contamination is much greater than
in the case of concrete floors.
According to Thom and Ayres^ the spores of the mold Asper-
gillus repens, as vêll as of most other common molds, are killed
in 30 minutes at 140 degrees F. The preheating of the milk in
the hot wells, which is done at 180 degrees to 200 degrees F.,
and again evaporation in the vacuum pan at 135 to 150 degrees
F. are, therefore, sufficient to destroy any mold present in the
original milk, so that the cause must be confined very largely
to contamination after the finished product leaves the vac-
uum pan.
Low Temperature.The growth of most molds is retarded,
if not entirely inhibited at low temperatures. This also is the
case with the button-forming mold Aspergillus repens. Rogers
et al., state that this mold grows very poorly at temperatures
of 68 degrees F. or below. They report that they have never
1
Thom and Ayres, Effect of Pasteurization on Mold Spores, Jour. Agr.
Res., Vol. VI, 153-166, 1916.
SWEE^TE^NED CoNDE:NSED M1I.K DEIÊCTS 241
observed buttons on condensed milk held at 68 degrees F. or
below. These temperature limits are not corroborated by expjer-
iments by Hunziker, nor by the experience of the manufacturer.
In commercial manufacture, the storage of sweetened condensed
milk at 68 degrees F. will show copious button formation, if such
milk contains button-forming spores. Reasonably sure preven-
tion of buttons may be secured by holding the sweetened con-
densed milk at about 50 degrees F. or below.
Exclusion of Oxygen.
^Molds need air for their life and

growth. They cannot develop in the absence of oxygen. Accord-
Pifif. 83.
Button development tinder
atmoeperic pressure
Pigr. 84.
Absence of buttons in 20-incli
vacuTun
Courtesy of L. A. Rogers, U. S. Dairy Division
ingly Rogers et al., by careful experimenting, found that by seal-
ing the cans under a vacuum of 20 inches or more, button-for-
mation in condensed milk contaminated with button-forming
molds could be entirely prevented.
It is probable that a similar efiTect, if practicable, could be
accomplished also by charging the cans with an inert gas to the
exclusion of atmospheric oxygen.
242 Sweetened Condensed Milk De:fe;cts
Blown, or Fermented Sweetened Condensed Milk.
General Description.One of the most disastrous troubles
in the manufacture of sweetened condensed milk is the appear-
ance of "swell heads." This term is applied to cans of con-
densed milk, the contents of which have undergone gaseous fer-
mentation, the resulting pressure causing the ends of the cans
to bulge or swell, and frequently to burst open the seams. In
the case of barrel goods, the pressure may cause the barrel head
to blow out. This gaseous fermentation is usually, though not
always, accompanied >
by
the develof&ment of acid and the for-
mation, of lumps.
This fermented milk is worthless for any purpose and means
a total loss to the manufacturer. The loss is generally aug-
mented by the fact that this trouble does not become noticeable
at once; its development requires several weeks, so that large
quantities of condensed milk may have been manufactured before
it is apparent that the milk is defective. Some of the goods may
have reached the market before the cans begin to swell, in which
case the reputation of the respective brand is jeopardized. In
some instances entire batches show this defect, while in others
only a few cans or cases of each batch are blown.
Causes and Prevention.This defect may be brought about
through various channels. In most cases it is due to contamina-
tion of the milk, on the farm or in the factory, with specific
micro-organisms which are capable of fermenting one or more
of its ingredients, in spite of the preservative action of the
sucrose; or the condensed milk may contain highly fermentable
substances such as glucose or invert sugar, so that- the germs
normally present in the condensed milk become active and pro-
duce gas ; or the milk may not be condensed to a sufficient degree
of concentration, or may not contain adequate quantities of
sucrose, to render it immune to the bacteria normally present.
The cans may also bulge without bacterial action, as the result
of exposure to a wide range of temperatures, causing mechanical
contraction and expansion of the contents.
Contamination with Specific, Gas-Producing Bacteria and
Yeast.This is by far the most common cause of blown milk.
While the micro-organisms which, under norriially sanitary pro-
Swke;tknkd CoNDi^Ns^D MiivK Dkfe:cts 243
duction of milk and factory conditions, gain access to the con-
densed milk, are largely inhibited and do not ferment the sweet-
ened condensed milk, there are certain specific forms of bacteria
and yeast whose growth is not retarded by the concentrated
sugar solution of this product. Contamination of the condensed
milk with these specific organisms is usually the result of highly
unsanitary conditions in the handling of the condensed milk.
The products of fermentation depend on the particular type
and species of micro-organisms involved. In most cases the
sucrose is' the chief constituent attacked, but the lactose, also,
is capable of gaseous fermentation, though-înstances of lactose
fermentation in sweetened condensed milk are not common.
The gaseous fermentation of lactose is largely caused by
bacteria, yeast and molds which contain the lactose-splitting
enzyme ''lactase," which has the power of hydrolizing the lac-
tose. While the species of organisms which cause lactic acid
fermentation from lact(5se are very numerous, those containing
the enzyme lactase and thereby causing gaseous fermentation
from lactose, are less frequent, at least, as far as' their access to
milk and condensed milk is concerned. It is generally under-
stood, though not experimentally proven, that species of micro-
organisms which do not contain the enzyme lactase have no
gas-producing action on lactose.
The great majority of cases of gaseous fermentation of
sweetened condensed milk are the result of the action of micro-
organisms on the sucrose, especially those which contain the
enzyme ''invertase." The majority of yeasts secre,te invertase
and ferment sucrose, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide to
the same extent as in the case of glucose fermentations. The
process is considerably slower, however, especially at the start,
owing to the fact that inversion of the sucrose must precede
fermentation. For this reason gaseous fermentations of sweet-
ened condensed milk do not become noticeable until the product
is one or several weeks old.
Contamination with Yeast on the Farm.In most cases of
yeast fermentations of sweetened condensed milk, the source of
contamination lies in the factory. While such contamination
may and often does occur on the farm, the yeast cells, though
they may be spore-bearing, are destroyed by the heat to which
244 Swee:te:ne:d Conde:nse:d Milk De:fe:cts
the fresh milk is subjected in the forewarmers and before it
reaches the vacuum pan. The thermal death point of all forms
of yeast w^hich have come to the attention of the writer in con-
nection with a vast number of investigations of fermented con-
densed milk was below 180 degrees F. If all the milk is properly
heated in the forewarmers to 190 degrees F. or over, there is,
therefore', little danger of fermented milk, caused by contamina-
tion of the fresh milk on the farm with yeast. If, however, the
heating is incomplete, or if some of the milk passes into the
vacuum pan without having been properly heated, there is dan<
ger of milk, contaminated with tffese yeasts, to result in fer-
mented condensed milk.
Contamination with Yeast in the Factory.As* previously
stated, veast fermentation of condensed milk can almost in-
Figf. 85. Gaseous fermentation in
sweetened condensed milled
Fig*. 86. Yeast cells causing*
g'aseous fermentation
This species is capable of
fermenting sugar solutions
containing 85% sucrose.
^
variably be traced back to contamination in the factory. After
the milk leaves the forewarmers, or hot wells, it is never again
heated to temperatures high enough to destroy these destructive
yeast cells. The channels through which yeast contamination
may occur in the factory are many.
1
Hunziker, A Study of the Causes of Fermented Sweetened Condensed
Milk, 1910.
Sw^^rtNHD Conde:nsed Mii.k DEfE:cTs 245
Contaminated Sugar.The sucrose itself may be contam-
inated with yeast. This is frequently the case and especially so
if the sugar is exposed to dampness, and if flies, bees, ants or
cockroaches have access to it.
Again, the sugar may reach the milk through a sugar chute.
The lower end of the. chute is usually located directly over the
steaming milk in the hot well. The vapors arising from below
may be condensed in the chute, causing its inside walls to be-
come damp, and sugar will adhere to the damp surface, forming
a crust. If the crust is not rôved daily, its contamination with
yeast and other dangerous micro-organisms is almost inevitable
and whenever this crust peels ofif and drops into the milk, the
contamination may be carried into the finished product, giving
rise to gaseous fermentation.
Contaminated Machinery and Milk Conveyors.Remnants
of milk may lodge in the condenser, in the vacuum pan, in the
pipes conveying the milk and condensed milk, in the cooling
cans or coils, in the supply tank of the filling machine, or the
filling machine itself. These remnants are all subject to con-
tamination and may become the source of fermented condensed
milk. The strictest attention to scrupulous cleanliness and con-
tinuous inspection of all parts of conveyors and apparatus which
come in contact with the milk are the only consistent safeguards
against trouble from this source.
Contamination Through "Cut-opens."It is customary to
empty the contents of sample cans which are cut open for any
purpose, back into the condensed milk of succeeding batches. If
these samples happen to be contaminated with the fermenting
germs, the defect is naturally propagated from batch to batch
and it is exceedingly difficult to locate the source of the trouble.
It is obvious that all suspicious "cut-opens" should be rejected
and that all "cut-opens" that are utilized should be emptied into
the hot well where their contents are boiled up again.
Dangerous Effect of Poor Quality of Sugar.
Sweetened
condensed milk is not sterile. There is no part of the process
that would render it sterile and, from the time it leaves the
vacuum pan to the time when the tin cans are hermetically
sealed, it is exposed to contamination with microbes, even
246 Sweetened Condensed Miek Defects
though the factory observes the most rigid attention to scrupu-
lous sanitation and cleanliness. Most of these microbes are
harmless and their growth is inhibited by the preservative action
of the cane sugar. If, however, a poor quality of sucrose is used,
w^hich may contain traces of invert sugar, or acid, etc., many of
these common species of micro-organisms, harmless in normal
condensed milk, find an opportunity to develop and cause gase-
ous fermentation. The presence of invert sugar makes unneces-
sary the action of invertase in order to start fermentation ; thus,
microbes which do not secrete invertase and are otherwise harm-
less, may become detrimental in the presence of invert sugar,
added to the milk in the form of a poor quality of cane sugar.
In. a similar wtay the use in condensed milk of commercial glu-
cose, as a substitute of a part of the cane sugar, and in order to
reduce the cost of manufacture, is bound to cause disastrous
results. Nothing but the best refined, granulated sucrose should
be used, the best is the cheapest.
Dangerous Effect of High Acid in Milk.Acids have the
power of inverting sucrose. The inversion by acid is especially
active in the presence of heat. The milk in the vacuum pan is
condensing at 130 to 150 degrees F. These temperatures are
most favorable to inversion of a portion of the sucrose in the
presence of acid. The higher the acid content of the milk, the
more active is the inversion. Since invert sugar is the very
ingredient necessary to cause bacterial action in the finished
product, it is essential that the acidity of the milk to be con-
densed, should be held down to the minimum in order to avoid
trouble from this source.
Contamination with Butyric Acid Bacteria.Frequently the
troublesome microbe is not a yeast, but belongs to a species of
bacteria highly resistant to heat, and v^'hich fail to be destroyed
by heating the milk to the boiling point. In this case, the con-
tamination usually originates on the farm. Organisms of this
kind, which infest the milk on the farm in this connection,
largely belong to the butyric acid group. The most prominent
among them are Granulobacillus saccharo-butyricus mobilis or
Bacillus saccharobutyricus, Bacillus esterificans, Bacillus dimor-
phobutyricus. The putrefactive forms of butyric acid organisms,
Sweetened Condensed Milk Defects 247
such as Bacillus putrificus, Plectridium foetidum, Plectridium
novum, etc., do not seem to thrive in swêetened condensed milk_
The contamination may occur from dust of hay and other
fodder, grain, bedding, or the unclean coat of the udder and sur-
rounding portions of the animal, or from milking with viêt and
unclean hands, or from remnants of milk in unclean utensils.
It is noticeable that the great majority of cases of blown
milk appear during late summer and early fall, when the crops
are harvested and the air in the barn is frequently loaded with
dust from the incoming crops. Gelatin plates exposed in the
stable before and during the filling of silos showed an enormous
increase of colonies on the plates exposed during the filling of the
silos. Milk drawn under such conditions is naturally subjected
to excessive contamination, unless special precautions are ob-
served.
A very common source of these butyric acid organisms also
is remnants of milk in pails, strainers, coolers, cans and any
other utensils with which the milk may come in contact, also
polluted Avater used for rinsing the utensils. The cheese-cloth
strainer, owing to the fact that it is difficult to thoroughly clean
and that it is very seldom really clean, is a very serious menace in
this respect. Under average farm conditions, unless a new cloth
strainer is used at each miilking, it is safe to condemn it entirely
and to recommend the use of a fine wire mesh strainer containing
about eighty meshes to the inch. On some farms the milk is
held in a set of old cans which are kept on the farm and which
never reach the can washer at the factory. Just before hauling
time these cans are emptied into the clean cans from the factory.
These old cans are often not washed properly and sometimes not
at all. The remnants of milk*in these cans breed these undesir-
able germs and contaminate the fresh milk. It is obvious that
such a practice is bound to jeopardize the quality and life of the
finished product and may constitute a continuous cause of blown
milk.
Effect of Amount of Sucrose.
Since the sucrose contained
in sweetened condensed milk is the chief agent preserving it,
it is obvious that enough of it must be added to insure adequate
preservative action. Experience has shown that about 39 to 40
per cent of sucrose is required to preserve the condensed milk
248 Swe:etene:d Condense:d Milk De:fscts
under average conditions. A higher per cent of sucrose would
naturally intensify the preservative action and inhibit the growth
of the bacteria normally present more completely ; but if enough
sugar were added to also inhibit the growth of and make harm-
less those violent gas-producing butyric acid bacteria and yeast
cells, which thrive in sweetened condensed milk containing 40
per cent sucrose, the product would be objectionable from the
consumer's point of view. The logical avoidance of ''swell
heads" as the result of these undesirable germs, therefore, must
ever lie in prevention, rather than cure. The sanitary standard
of production on the farm and of the process in the factory must
be raised to and maintained on a level where the milk is pro-
tected from contamination with these micro-organisms.
The writer^ has isolated yeast from fermented sweetened
condensed milk that produced vigorous gas formation in media
containing as high as 85 per cent sucrose (600 grams sucrose in
100 cc. whey bouillon).
Effect of Too Thin Condensed Milk.Condensed milk that
is too thin is, also, prone to start fermenting, since it is deficient
in the chief preserving agents, i. e., density and per cent of
sucrose. It is not safe to put goods on the market, with a ratio
of concentration much less than 2.5 :1, unless the amount of cane
added is sufficient to raise the cane sugar content of the fin-
ished product to 44 per cent or above.
Effect of Excessively Low Temperatures.The cans of
sweetened condensed milk may also bulge in the case of cans
with non-hermetical seals, exposed successively to excessive cold
and to room temperature. In this case, the condensed milk is
entirely normal and unaffected, ajid the bulging is the result
of mechanical contraction and expansion by cold and heat. This
is possible only where the seal of the cans is not entirely her-
metical. In the case of the Gebee seal with the burr cap, and
the McDonald seal with the friction cap, the seal is not absolutely
air-tight. While the pores betw'een cap and can are microscopic
in size, and not large enough to permit the contents from leak-
ing out, they are sufficient to admit air. The cans are usually
filled with the condensed milk at a temperature of about 70 de-
^
Hunziker, Results not published.
SwEETENKD Condense;d MiIvK De^Dcts 249
low temperature, as may be the case in winter, in store houses or
in transit, the milk and the air in the cans contract. This con-
traction is intensified by the fact that the sweetened condensed
milk does not freeze. Its concentration is so great that its freez-
ing point is usually below the most extreme cold storage tem-
perature. This contraction of milk and air in the cans produces
a partial vacuum, causing air to be drawn into the cans through
the microscopic openings of the seal. When the cans are sub-
sequently moved into places with a more moderate temperature,
the milk and the air in the cans expand, but the milk on the in-
side of the cans forms a seal preventing the escape of the sur-
plus air. The result is that the ends of the cans bulge. Thi^
phenomenon has been experimentally determined by the author.
^
While the contents of such cans are perfectly normal, the pack-
age suggests fermented milk and may be rejected on the market.
It is evident, from the above data, that the swelling of the
cans, as the result of exposure to excessively low temperatures,
can readil}^ be avoided, cither by protecting the cans against ex-
cessive cold, or by using cans that are sealed with solder. The
solder-seals are hermetical so that no air can be drawn into the
cans when a partial vacuum is formed in their interior as the
result of the contraction of air and milk.
Rancid Sweetened Condensed Milk.
Sweetened condensed milk may de-
velop a distinctly rancid flavor and odor, a defect ^\^hich renders
it unmarketable.
According to the best authority, there are many agents
which may be active in the production of rancidity. The fact that
in rancid butter are usually found to predominate certain species
of organisms, such as the fungi of Penicilium Glaucum, Penici-
lium Roqueforti, Cladosporium butyri, Oidium lactis, Actinomy-
coces odorifora, yeast and various bacterial species, such as Bac-
terium fluorescens, Bacterium prodigiosum. Bacillus mesenteri-
cus, etc., and that these species are capable of making butter ran-
cid, has led to the conclusion that they may be the cause of ran-
cidity, either by direct action, or by the secretion of fat-splitting
^
Hunziker, Results not published.
250 Swe:e:te:ne:d Conddnse^d Mii.k Defeicts
enzymes. It is, therefore, quite possible that some of these spe-
cies, or similar groups of species, may be instrumental in develop-
ing rancidity in sweetened condensed milk. It has been further
found that the milk products from certain individual cows, or
cows under certain physiological conditions are more prone to
develop a rancid flavor, than milk products from other cows or
cows under other conditions.
Relation of Polluted Water to Rancidity.Polluted and
filthy water is usually contaminated with fungi and bacteria
belonging to the species enumerated above and which have been
found to be able to produce rancidity. It is, therefore, not im-
probable, where such water is used in the factory in the washing
of cans, conveyors, kettles, pipes, etc., in the condpnser of the
vacuum pan and in the cooling tanks, as is frequently the case,
that the contamination of milk with it may result in the develop-
ment of rancidity.
Relation of Climate to Rancidity.It is frequently claimed
that condensed whole milk shipped to the tropics turns rancid,
owing to exposure of this milk, rich in fat to a warm climate.
Advantage is sometimes taken of this argument, to justify viola-
tions of the law by skimming all, or a part of the milk before
condensing. This matter has been thoroughly investigated. All
experimental results show that sweetened condensed milk, made
properly and in conformance with the law, and containing all
the butter fat of the original whole milk, does not turn rancid
at any temperature.
Putrid Sweetened Condensed Milk.
General Description.Sweetened condensed milk is best
when fresh. With age it gradually develops a stale flavor which
frequently develops into a putrid odor and flavor.
Causes and Prevention.The .purer the fresh milk and the
cane sugar, and the more careful the processor, the longer will
the condensed milk retain its pleasant flavor, provided that it is
stored at a reasonably low temperature. Age, however, will
cause the best sweetened condensed milk to become stale. The
appearance of the stale flavor is usually hastened when heating
the fresh milk with direct steam ; also, where the fresh milk is
not heated to a sufliciently high temperature (below 176 de-
SwKKTKNKD Conde:nskd M11.K Dkfe:cts 251
grees F.) the condensed milk will break down rapidly with age,
usually developing a putrid flavor and odor. This defect rarely_
appears where the fresh milk is heated to 180 degrees F. or
above. This phenomenon is probably due to the presence in
milk of active enzymes, such as galactase, gradually decompos-
ing the proteids. The action of most of these enzymes is
destroyed when the milk is heated to 176 degrees F. or above.
Metallic Sweetened Condensed Milk.
Sweetened condensed milk frequently
is pregnant with a very distinct metallic flavor suggesting copper.
Causes and Prevention.This can usually be traced back to
an unsanitary condition of the dome of the vacuum pan. The
sugar and acid in the boiling milk in the pan tend to cause the
formation of copper oxide and copper salts, on those sections of
the interior surface of the pan which are not daily completely
cleansed.
The dome of the pan is neglected in many condenseries from
the standpoint of thorough cleaning. If it is permitted to go
uncleansed for a considerable period of time, it becomes coated
w'ith copper salts and when the pan is again in operation, the
boiling milk and its spray wash these metallic salts down, incor-
porating them in the condensed milk.
That the copper in the dome is being acted on can be very
readily determined by wiping the inside surface of the dome of
with a wet sponge, then analyzing the expressed liquid that
the sponge has absorbed. This liquid will be found to contain
varying amounts of copper, according to the state of cleanness
of the dome.
In order to avoid metallic flavor in sweetened condensed
milk, the dome should be washed down daily with similar care
as is given the cleansing of the jacket, body and coils, and each
morning, before the milk is allowed to enter the pan, the entire
pan, including dome and gooseneck, should be thoroughly rinsed
down with plenty of clean water.
Brown Sweetened Condensed Milk.
Some of the sweetened condensed
milk on the market has a brown color, suggesting chocolate pud-
ding. In this condition it is usually rejected by the consumer.
252 Unsweetened Condensed Milk Defects
Causes and Prevention.All sweetened condensed milk not
held at a low temperature grows darker in color wnth age. If
manufactured properly and not exposed to unfavorable condi-
tions, this brown color appears very gradually and not until the
condensed milk is many months old. If exposed to high tem-
perature in storage or transportation, when stowed against the
boiler room in the hold of the steamer, or lying on the shelves
of the warm grocery store or drug store, etc., it turns brown
rapidly. Condensed milk in cold storage retains its natural color
indefinitely. Where milk is recondensed (the condensed milk
is redissolved either in water or in fresh milk and condensed a
second time), the product is always darker in color. This brown
color is due to the oxidizing action of heat on both^ the lactose
and the sucrose, a portion of the sugar caramelizing. Experience
has shown that the sugar is more sensitive to the oxidizing
action of the heat of recondensing, than when condensed the
first time.
Chapter XXIII.
DEFECTIVE EVAPORATED MILK AND PLAIN
CONDENSED BULK MILK.
The following are the chief defects of unsw.eetened condensed
milk : curdy, grainy, separated and churned, blown or fermented,
brown, gritty, metallic.
Curdy, Plain Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk.
General Description.Curdy, unsweetened condensed milk
is a term used for milk in which a part of the casein is precip-
itated in the form of lumps of various sizes. The appearance
of lumps of curd in this product is a defect that may render the
goods unsalable.
Causes and Prevention.
-Lumps are usually due to a poor

quality of fresh milk, the use of excessive heat in the sterilizing
process and too high a degree of concentration.
Lumps in Plain Condensed Bulk Milk.
Lumps are prone

to appear in plain condensed bulk milk, as this class of goods is
usually made from fresh milk that may be slightly sour, as is the
case in creameries and in milk plants where the surplus and the
Unswe:e;te:ne:d Conde:nse:d Mii.k Defects 253
returned milk is often manufactured into plain condensed bulk
milk. This defect can be avoided by neutralizing the milk before
heating, with an alkali (sodium bicarbonate or lime water), heat~
ing less intensely, or by not carrying the condensing process quite
so far. If the plain condensed bulk milk comes from the pan in
lumpy condition, it can usually be reduced to a smooth body by
passing it through an ice cream freezer at ordinary temperatures.
Lum.ps of Curd in Evaporated Milk.The danger of lump-
iness, or curdiness in evaporated milk is greatly augmented by
the fact that, in addition to the causes named under plain con-
densed bulk milk, the sterilizing process must be dealt with.
The high sterilizing temperature used, tends to precipitate the
proteids of milk, and the temperature cannot be reduced below
certain limits without impairing the keeping quality of the pro-
duct. Most of the evaporated milk, after sterilization, is sub-
jected to the shaking process in which the coagulum in the cans
is reduced to a homogeneous creamy fluid, provided that the curd
is not too hard. A curd will form in the sterilizer in the majority
of cases. If it is soft enough, so that it can be completely broken
up, no harm is done. If it is so firm that mechanical shaking
fails to cause it to disappear, then the evaporated milk will reach
the market in lumpy condition and is difficult to sell.
Effect of Quality of Fresh Milk.The quality of fresh milk
is all important in preventing lumpy evaporated milk. The milk
must come from healthy cows in good, normal physical condition.
It must not contain colostrum milk nor be stripper milk and it
must receive the best of care on the farm and reach the factory
perfectly sweet. Milk that is not of high quality in every respect
should not be received at the factory.
The acidity of milk due to acid fermentation, lowers the
curdling point of the milk, partly by changing the reaction and
partly by lowering the citric acid content. High acidity there-
fore is one of the causes of curd formation in evaporated milk.
If abnormal curdling is to be prevented, one of the first and fun-
damental essentials is that the milk reach the condensery in as
fresh and sv/eet a condition as possible.
Effect of Relation of Mineral Constituents of Milk.More
recent studies of the heat coagulation of milk, however, by Som-
254 Unsweetkni<:d Condensed Milk Deeects
mer and Hart/ and by Rogers^ show that the titratable acidity
of fresh milk is not the only, and often not the really important
factor, controlling the coagulation of milk, but that the stability
of the casein, or its resistance to the coagulating efifect of ex-
posure to heat, depends on the relation of certain ash constit-
uents.
Sommer and Hart conclude that maximum stability of the
casein demands a proper balance of calcium and magnesium with
the phosphates and citrates, while the sodium and potassium
chlorides in the concentrations present do not have any marked
influence on the coagulating point. Thus these investigators state,
the coagulation of milk on heating may be due either to an excess
or a deficiency of calcium and magnesium. The calcium in the
milk distributes itself between the casein, citrates, and phos-
phates chiefly. ''If the milk is high in citrate and phosphate
contents, more calcium is necessary in order that the casein
may retain its optimum calcium content after competing with
the citrates and phosphates. If the milk is high in calcium,
there may not be sufficient citrate and phosphate to compete
with the casein to lower its calcium content to the optimum.
In such a case the addition of citrates or phosphates makes the
casein more stable by reducing its calcium content. The magne-
sium functions by replacing the calcium in the citrates and
phosphates.
''In most cases the coagulation is due to an excess of calcium
and magnesium. It is possible to balance this excess by citrates,
phosphates, carbonates and other salts." See also Chapter XI
on "Sterilizing," Mojonnier Viscosity Controller.
The factors of relation of ash constituents are influenced
and largely controlled by such conditions as breed, period of
lactation, health and feed of the cows. And tfiis fact in turn
may be accepted to explain, why there is a vast difiference in
the ability of milk produced in different localities, to withstand
dift'erent degrees of concentration and sterilization without
developing a permanent and objectionable curd. It is a well
1 H. H, Sommer and E. B. Hart, The Heat Coagulation of Milk, Jour.
Biol. Chemistry, Vol. XL, No. 1, 1919.
2
L. A. Rogers, Address, Milk Section National Canners' Association,
Cleveland, C, 1920.
Unswekte^ned Conde:nse:d Milk Defects 255
known fact, established by practical experience in processing,
and by analyses of different brands of evaporated milk, that in
some European countries, milk can be condensed to a much
higher degree of concentration than in most sections of this

country, without becoming permanently curdy.
Effect of Forewarming or Preheating on Curdling.As ex-
plained in Chapter XI on ''Sterilizing,'' under "Factors that
Decrease Viscosity of Evaporated Milk," the readiness with
which milk coagulates in the sterilizer is diminished by lengthen-
ing the period of preheating in the forewarmer, or by raising the
temperature of preheating, or both. And vice versa, the shorter
the period of preheating and the lower the temperature (below
210 degrees F.) to which the milk is foreWarmed, other conditions
being the same, the greater the danger of curdling in the steril-
izer.
It is not improbable that here again the modification of the
balance of the calcium and magnesium with the phosphates and
citrates, may be the fundamental cause of these phenomena.
In this case the longer exposure to the forewarming heat, or the
higher temperature of forewarming, or both, may have the effect
of lowering the soluble calcium content by precipitating part of
it as insoluble calcium phosphate. If coagulation is due to an
excess of calcium or magnesium, as it usually is, then this lower-
ing of the calcium content, as the result of preheating, will mini-
mize the danger of coagulation in the sterilizer.
Effect of Addition of Water on Curdling.Addition of ex-
traneous water to the evaporated milk lessens the intensity of
coagulation in the sterilizer. This is a matter pretty generally
understood by the experienced operator, as pointed out in Chapter
XI on ''Sterilizing" under "Factors which Decrease Viscosity
and Tendency to Curdle." It is due to the dilution of both the
casein and the serum in milk.
Effect of Concentration.The more concentrated the evap-
orated milk, the greater the danger of lumpiness. All the con-
ditions causing lumpiness are intensified by the degree of con-
centration.^ The manufacturer must, therefore, study the be-
1
For detailed discussion of relation of quality of fresh milk to curdiness
of evaporated milk see Chapter VIII on "M'anufacture of Evaporated Milk,"
"Quality of Fresh Milk."
256 Unswe:^t^ned Cond^ns^d Milk De:fe:cts
havior of his product at different degrees of concentration, and
then decide how much evaporation it will stand without develop-
ing subsequently a permanent curd in the sterilizer.^
It is obvious that any excess or deficiency of calcium, or
any excess of acid present in the original milk, is magnified in
direct proportion as the concentration increases. Therefore, the
higher the concentration, the more difficult it is tO' put the evap-
orated milk through the sterilizing process without the formation
of a permanent curd.
Effect of Sterilization.The coagulum is formed in the
sterilizer. The higher the temperature, other conditions being
the same, the firmer the curd. The lowest temperature that will
efficiently sterilize the evaporated milk should, therefore, be
used. Since the sterilizing temperature to be maintained cannot
be modified below certain limits, it is necessary, when the milk
is very sensitive to the heat, to lower the degree of concentration.
In some factories fractional sterilization is resorted to with
batches of milk that are suspicious. By so doing, lower tem-
peratures can be used effectively, but this process calls for much
more labor, increases the cost of manufacture and decreases the
capacity of the factory.
Effect of Fractional Curdling.
Experience has shown that,
if the proteids in evaporated milk are partly precipitated by heat
before the milk reaches the sterilizer, the curd or lumps formed
in the sterilizer are less firm and can be shaken out more readily.
It is, therefore, advisable to heat the milk in the forewarmers to
as near the boiling point as possible and to hold it at that tem-
perature for at least five minutes before it is drawn into the pan.
The superheating of the evaporated milk before it leaves the pan
is an additional safeguard against the formation of excessive curd
in the sterilizer.
Effect of Homogenizing Evaporated Milk.
Excessive pres-
sure in the homogenizer tends to so change the physical prop-
erties of the casein as to render it more sensitive to the steriliz-
ing process. Evaporated milk, homogenized under excessive
pressure almost invariably forms a firm, unshakable curd in the
1
For detailed discussion see Chapter VIII, on "Striking," and Chapter XI,
on "Sterillzlngr."
Unswe:s:ts:ned Cond^nse:d Mii.k De)FEcts 257
sterilizer. The homogenizing pressure should be kept down to
one thousand to fifteen hundred pounds.^
Effect of Addition of Bicarbonate of Soda.As shown in'
Chapter XI on ''Sterilizing" the addition to the evaporated milk
of bicarbonate of soda diminishes the viscosity and tendency to
curdle in most cases.
This is due to the fact, that in most cases, the coagulation
is due to an excess of calcium and magnesium, which lowers the
stability of the casein. The addition of carbonates in the form
of bicarbonate of soda reduces the excess of calcium and mag-
nesium, assists in balancing these mineral constituents, and
thereby makes the casein more stable.
Occasionally it happens, however, that the addition of sodi-
um bicarbonate increases, instead of decreases, the viscosity and
coagulability of the evaporated milk, and in such cases, the diffi-
culty increases in direct proportion Avith the amount of bicarbon-
ate added. In this case the viscosity and coagulability of the
evaporated milk are undoubtedly due, not to an excess of calcium
as is usually the case, but to a deficiency of calcium. Under such
conditions a soluble calcium or magnesium salt should be added
in the place of bicarbonate, in order to diminish the viscosity
and to render the casein more stable.
Acid Flux in the Cans Causes Lumps.Similar as in the case
of the Sweetened condensed milk, the presence of acid flux in the
cans of evaporated milk causes lumpiness. The acid that reaches
the interior of the cans causes the milk coming in contact with
the seams to curdle. Only acid-free flux should be used in the
manufacture and seah'ng of the cans.
Grainy Evaporated Milk.
General Description.Tliis term is sometimes applied to
lumpy milk, in which case it means the same. By grainy milk,
however, is generally understood milk which contains a sediment
of a white granular appearance, which is insoluble.
Causes and Prevention.This granular sediment is largely
found in the hermetically sealed cans after the sterilizing process.
It is due to excessively high sterilizing temperatures or too long
1
For detailed discussion of the effect of homogenizing on curdiness see
Chapter IX on "Homogenizing" and Chapter XXIII on "Separated and Churned
Evaporated Milk."
258 Unswê:tene:d Condknse:d Mii.k De:^kcts
exposure of the milk to the process. It consists largely of the
mineral matter of milk, rendered insoluble and precipitated by
heat. The use of lower sterilizing temperatures or the shorten-
ing of the period of sterilization will help to avoid this defect.
Evaporated milk in the condensation of which the ''Continu-
ous Concentrator" was used, has a tendency to show slight grainy
condition, though this is barely perceptible.
Separated and Churned Evaporated Milk.
General Description.This is a very common defect. A
portion of the butter fat of the contents of the hermetically
sealed cans, has separated and appears in the form of lumps of
cream or of churned butter, on top of the evaporated ttiilk. While
this separated evaporated milk is normal in quality and whole-
someness, its appearance condemns it.
Causes and Prevention.x\s explained in Chapter IX on
"Homogenizing," the fundamental cause of separated and
churned evaporated milk lies in the difference of the specific
gravity between the butter fat and the rest of the milk constitu-
ents. The fat globules, being lighter than the serum, tend to
rise to the surface, forming a layer of thick cream. When this
separated evaporated milk is subjected to agitation, as is the
case in transportation, this cream churns into lumps of butter.
This tendency of the fat to separate in storage and churn in
transportation, increases with the increase of the size of the fat
globules, because the larger the globules, the larger is their cubic
content in proportion to their surface. This fact is based on the
well known physical law, that the surfaces of two spheres are
to each other as the squares of their diameters, and the cubic
contents of two spheres are to each other as the cubes of their
diameters. The cubic contents determine the gravity force, or
buoyancy, while the surfaces control the resistance force. There-
fore, the larger the fat globules the greater is their buoyancy
and the weaker is the relative resistance which they must over-
come in their upward passage.
Effect of Locality and Season.Since the predominating
size of fat globules in milk, varies with breed and period of
lactation of the cows, the ease with which evaporated milk
Unsweetened Condensed Milk Defects 259
separates and the difficulty of overcoming this defect, differ
greatly with locality and season of year. The fat globules in
milk from the Channel Island breeds, average two to three times
as large as those in milk from the Holsteins and Ayrshires.
Therefore, factories located in Holstein and Ayrshire territories
are not troubled nearly as much with fat separation in evap-
orated milk, as factories in localities where Jerseys and Guernseys
predominate.
Again, the fat globules are largest at the beginning of the
period of lactation and decrease in size as the period of lactation
advances.
In order to equalize the output of evaporated milk through-
out the year, condensing concerns make every effort to induce
their patrons to time the breeding of their cowls in such a way
that the fresh cows are distributed throughout the year. The
result of this practice is, that the milk supply of these factories
represents at all times a mixture of milk from cows at all stages
of their period of lactation. This naturally equalizes the be-
havior of the finished product as far as separation of the fat is
concerned, facilitating the control of this separation. On the
other hand, in localities of factories, newly established, summer
milk is largely produced and the majority of cows freshen in the
spring. This causes a marked increase of the size of the average
fat globules in early summer, rendering the manufacture of
evaporated milk, that does not separate its fat, more difficult.
Effect of Degree of Concentration.
Other conditions being

the same, the more concentrated the product, the less the danger
of fat separation in the finished product. The leason for this
lies in the fact that with the concentration the viscosity and the
resistance force of the evaporated milk increase, hindering the
fat globules in their upward passage. This is partly offset by
the increase in the specific gravity of the product, but the in-
crease of the resistance force exerts a stronger influence against
separation of the fat, than the increase of the gravity force exerts
in favor of fat separation.
However, as the concentration increases, the evaporated
milk becomes more sensitive to the sterilizing process iand
beyond certain limits it would be necessary to reduce the tem-
perature or the length of exposure to heat, or both, in order to
260 Unsweetened Condensed Mii.k Defects
prevent the more highly concentrated milk from becoming per-
manently curdy. If, in order to increase the viscosity, the degree
of concentration is carried so far that the sterilizing process has
to be shortened, nothing is gained but much may be lost. It
is obvious, therefore, that the degree of concentration does not
furnish a practical basis for controlling fat separation.
Effect of the Sterilizing Process.Prolonged exposure of
the evaporated milk to the sterilizing heat tends to so change the
physical properties of the albuminoids, as to render the product
more viscous. Within the limits of the necessary sterilizing heat,
long exposure to moderate heat is more effective in this respect
than short exposure to a high degree of heat. Since the greater
viscosity tends to keep the fat globules from rising*, the use of
a prolonged sterilizing process, in which the heat is applied
slowly, is more effective in preventing fat separation in the
evaporated milk than a rapid, short process, in which the tem-
perature used is very high.
It should be understood from the discussion in previous
chapters that, in regulating the process of sterilization, the pro-
cessor should be governed by the condition and behavior of the
milk and that on the one hand the degree and duration of heat
should always be sufficient to insure absolute sterility of the
product, while on the other he must guard against the formation
of an unshakable curd.^
Effect of Superheating.The superheating of the milk be-
fore sterilization and the stopping of the reel of the sterilizer
as explained under ''Sterilization," also tend to so increase
the viscosity of the evaporated milk as to minimize its tendency
to separate its fat. But here again good judgment is required,
otherwise there is danger of spontaneous thickening of the prod-
uct after manufacture.
Turning the Cans in Storage.Many manufacturers, in an
effort to avoid fat separation, have adopted the practice of turn-
ing their goods in storage at regular intervals. This operation
naturally interferes with and retards the rising of the fat to the
surface, as long as the goods remain in the factory. After they
leave the factory this control must of necessity cease and if the
1
For detailed discussion see Chapter XI on "Sterilizing."
Unswe:e:te;n^d Condensed Mii^k Ds:êcts 261
evaporated milk, owing to the process of manufacture and the
condition of the product, is destined to separate its fat, the turn-
ing of the cases, while at the factory, cannot permanently prevent
separation. Where the goods are consumed immediately after
they leave the factory, this practice may serve the purpose; but,
since the large bulk of evaporated milk manufactured, is exposed
to prolonged storage, its advantage is very limited.
Effect of Homogenizing.Under average conditions careful
attention to the precautions above discussed will greatly mini-
mize and often prevent fat separation. At best, however, much
of the evaporated milk on the market shows signs of separation
after sixty to ninety days and some of it even after two weeks,
for the fundamental cause of separation, the difference in gravity
between the fat globules and the rest of the milk constituents,
is still present; then again, under less favorable conditions, even
the above precautions may not prove adequate to keep the fat
from separating.
The introduction of any agent or process, therefore, capable
of permanently removing this fundamental cause, must prove
a lasting benefit to the manufacturer of evaporated milk. This
agent has been found in the homogenizer. The homogenizer
makes it possible to divide the fat globules so finely, that their
buoyancy or gravity force is not great enough to overcome the
resistance of the surrounding liquid. They are unable to rise to
the surface, but remain in homogeneous emulsion.
It is quite probable that aside from the reduction of the size
of the fat globules, the efiRciency of the homogenizer to prevent
fat separation is due also to the physical change of the casein as
the result of homogenization. The casein becomes more viscous.
The chief objection to the use of the homogenizer is its
efifect on the casein of the milk, when subjected to excessive pres-
sure. Beyond certain limits of pressure homogenization so
affects the casein, that the latter is more prone to curdle in the
sterilizer. However, experience has amply shown that the maxi-
mum pressure required to prevent fat separation in the finished
product, is not great enough to seriously affect the behavior of
the casein during sterilization. Hence, the proper regulation of
262 Unswee:tenkd Condensed Miek Deeects
the pressure and the intelligent use of the homogenizer, furnish
a satisfactory and reliable means to prevent fat separation.^
Fermented Evaporated Milk.
General Description.Fermented evaporated milk is evap-
orated milk, w^hich after sterilization, has undergone fermenta-
tion. The type of fermentations found in this product varies
with locality, season of year and factory conditions. The con-
tents of the cans may have soured with curd formation, or a
curd* may have formed without acid development, or the fer-
mentation may be gaseous, in which case the cans bulge, and
these gaseous fermentations may be accompanied by acid forma-
tion or by putrefactive products. Tn all cases of fernjented milk
the product is entirely worthless. These defects are usually,
though not always, detected during the period of incubation.
Fermented evaporated milk is the result, either of incomplete
sterilization, or of leaky cans. The causes of fermented evap-
orated milk differ Avith the specific type of fermentations pro-
duced; they will be discussed separately and as relating to the
respective types of fermentations.
Acid Fermentation, Sour, Curdled, Evaporated Milk.
General Description.Upon opening the cans the contents
are found to be sour and curdy.
Causes and Prevention.This condition is the result of the
presence of acid-producing species of micro-organisms, usually
of the lactic acid type, which sour the milk, and the acid produced
curdles the casein. Since the majority of the lactic acid bacteria
are not resistant to heat and are destroyed at relatively low heat,
this defect is not usually caused by incomplete sterilization. The
temperature of sterilization, though it might be insufficient to
kill spore forms, is high enough to make it impossible for lactic
acid bacteria to pass the process alive.
The only way in which this defect can occur is through sub-
sequent contamination of the contents of the cans with these
germs, and the only possible channel, through which this sub-
sequent contamination may occur, is leaky cans, or leaky seals.
1
For details on the use of homogenizer see Chapter IX on "Homogeniz-
ing."
UnswEe^tened Condensed Milk Defects 263
A careful examination of the cans of sour, curdled evaporated
milk usually shows faulty cans or faulty seals.
Bitter Curd.
General Description.A\'hen the cans are opened the con-
tents present a solid coagulum, generally noticeably white in
color and very bitter to the taste, similar to the bitterness of
dandelions. There is a separation of practically clear whey, the
curd does not break down readily upon shaking- and the acid
reaction of the mixture of curd and whey is about .35 to .40 per
cent, which is normal for evaporated milk.
Causes and Prevention.Microscopic examinations under
high magnification of cultures in sterile milk show the presence
of very small bacilli. The milk forms a firm coagulum in five to
seven days and when over one week old the curd has the same
strong, bitter taste as that in the cans. The bitterness increases
with age. These bacilli grow best at 90 degrees F. They are
facultative anaerobes, developing both, in aerobic and anaerobic
media, but prefer anaerobic conditions.
In the cases under observation no spores were detected and
exposure for fifteen minutes to 212 degrees F. destroyed these
germs. The above findings do not exclude the possibility of spore
formation under conditions very unfavorable to growth and life.
The presence of this species of bitter curd organisms sug-
gests incomplete sterilization of the evaporated milk. The strik-
ing whiteness of the curd in all cases that have come to the
writer's attention, is further proof of the correctness of this de-
duction. It indicates that these cans received relatively little
heat in the sterilizer, otherwise the curd wôuld have a darker
color. This defect usually does not show up in all the cans of
one and the same batch, but only in a limited portion of each
batch. This fact suggests that the distribution .of heat in the
sterilizer is not uniform, some cans getting less heat than others.
This defect occurs generally in summer, a fact which may be
due to one or both of the following conditions
:
While it is well known that there is a group of species of
bacteria, yeast and torula that are capable of producing a bitter
curd, either direct, or through the secretion of casein-curdling
264 Unswê;tenkd Conde:nse:d Mii.k Di^îvCTs
enzymes, and while these different species of micro-organisms
come from a variety of sources, the most common sources are,
the soil, pasture, water and the udder itself. It is a noteworthy
fact that this defect is most commonly found in milk and milk
products when the cows are on pasture. It is, therefore, probable
that, in most cases, this troublesome germ is carried into the milk
on the farm.
Again, in summer, at a time when this defect generally
occurs, the eft'ect on the cows of the summer heat and flies, and
the tendency toward high acid in milk, render the milk most
sensitive to the sterilizing heat. The operator finds it difficult
to avoid the formation of a disastrous curd in the sterilizer. In
order to guard against this trouble he is tempted to either lower
the temperature, or shorten the duration of the sterilizing process.
This tends towards incomplete sterilization. A very frequent
result of this incomplete sterilization in the late summer
months, is the formation of a bitter curd. When the processor
returns to the proper sterilizing process, the occurrence of bitter
curd in the cans disappears and the product is normal.
A further safeguard against the recurrence of this trouble
lies in providing for uniform distribution of heat in the sterilizer.
If the cans have to be stacked in deep tiers, which is un-
desirable and should be avoided, slats should be placed over
the top of every second row of cans. This will make possible
the free access of steam tO' at least one end of each can. If the
circulation of steam in the sterilizer is poor, the uniform distribu-
tion of heat can be facilitated by filling the sterilizer about one-
third full of water so that, with every revolution of the frame-
work, the cans have to pass through this water once. The water
reaches every nook in the interior of the sterilizer, distributing
the heat much more uniformly than the steam. Uneven distribu-
tion of the heat may also be due to an improper condition of the
steam-distributing pipe located in the bottom of the sterilizer.
Some of the perforations in this pipe may have become too large
by wear, or may have become clogged with scale or the cap
at the end of the pipe may have come off. In all of these cases
the distribution of the heat in the sterilizer is found to be irregular,
interfering with the uniformity and dependability of the process
of sterilization. The processer shovild make sure, by daily in-
UnsweiStened Conds^nsed MiIvK Defects 265
spection, that the steam-distributing pipe is in proper operating
condition. If these precautions fail to remedy the trouble, then
the entire process is inadequate and either more heat, or longer
exposure to the same heat is necessary.
Spitzer and Epple^ investigated a case of bitter evaporated
milk, in which the troublesome organism appears to have been
of a diflferent type than was the case in the bitter .evaporated
milk epidemics Under observation by Hunziker, as described
above. Spitzer and Epple found the bitterness to be due to the
presence in the evaporated milk, of an organism that corresponds
with Migula's (1900)
classification of Bacillus panis as described
by Lawrence and Laubach.^
This organism is a non-motile bacterium, rod-shape, with
rounded ends and measuring about .4 by 2.0 microns. It is spore-
bearing, the spores forming readily in 48 to 72 hours and ap-
pearing usually near the center of the rod. The organism is
capsulated and is very resistant to heat. Spitzer and Epple
found it to survive a temperature of 250 degrees F. for 8 minutes,
but was destroyed at the same temperature upon 10 minute
exposure. The organism does not form gas, it does not swell
the cans, nor does it coagulate the casein. The contents of the
cans appear perfectly normal to the eye, the only change noticeable
is the intensely bitter taste. It is an active proteolytic germ
capable of secreting enzymes which are proteolytically active,
rapidly breaking down the proteids of milk into large quantities
of peptones and lower nitrogenous compounds of complex nature.
The authors suggest that the excessive peptonizing function of
this organism may be the primary cause of the bitterness.
The description of the cultural characteristics and thermal
death-point of this organism suggests that the presence of this
germ in the evaporated milk, and the spoilage of the product,
are not due to a faulty process of sterilization, but are the result
of conditions in the factory that permit this germ to lodge and
to contaminate the milk. Unsanitary condition of pipes, pumps,
homogenizer, filling machine, etc., would be the most likely
breeding places and sources of contamination.
1
Spitzer and Epple, Bitterness in Evaporated Milk, Journal of Dairy
Science, Vol. III., 1920.
2
Lawrence and Laubach, Studies on Aerobic, Spore-bearing, Non-path-
ogenic Bacteria, Journal of Bacteriology, Vol. I., p. 493.
266 Unsweetened Condensed Mii.k Defects
Blown Evaporated Milk (Gaseous Fermentation).
General Description.The ends of the cans bulge out very
noticeably, frequently so much so that the seams of the cans
burst open. This is due to gaseous fermentation causing high
pressure in the cans. The pressure is Oiften so great that upon
opening the cans, most of the contents are blown out with tre-
mendous force. In some cases of blown evaporated milk, the
contents have an acid odor, pleasant and aromatic. In most
instances, however, they give off very foul odors and suggesting
hydrogen sulfide, not unlike aggravated cases of Limburger
cheese. These odors are exceedingly penetrating and difficult to
remove from anything they come in contact with.
Causes and Prevention.The bacteria causing gaseous fer-
mentations in evaporated milk usually belong to the anaerobic
group of butyric acid species and in most cases, though not al-
ways, the putrefactive types prevail, such as Bacillus putrificus,
Plectridium novum and Plectridium foetidum, especially the lat-
ter, because of its extraordinary power of resistance to heat.
Plectridium foetidum is an obligatory anaerobe and it absolutely
refuses to grow under aerobic conditions. It is an actively motile,
medium-sized organism with flagella and spores. At one end it
has an Indian club-like enlargement, in which appears the spore.
The bacillus resembles a kettle-drum stick similar to B. tetani.
Under strictly anaerobic conditions, and incubated at 90 degrees
F., it ferments milk in four days. The milk first curdles, then
gradually the curd dissolves (digests) completely, leaving a clear
yellow liquid, similar in appearance to butter oil. The fermenta-
tion is accompanied by the evolution of a penetrating foul odor.
This organism survives exposure for 15 minutes to 245 degrees
F. Its thermal death point lies between 245 and 250 degrees F.^
Plectridium foetidum, as well as most of the other species of
anaerobic, spore-bearing butyric acid bacilli and bacteria, is
present abundantly in cultivated soil, in field crops and even on
the kernels of the grain. Since this type of evaporated milk
defect is characteristic, especially, of the product manufactured
during the late summer and early fall months, it is very probable
that the dust incident to the harvesting of the field crops, fur-
1
Hunziker, A Study of Gaseous Fermentation in Evaporated Milk.
Unswe:kte:ne:d Condensed Milk Defects 267
nishes the chief source of contamination of the milk, though it
is quite possible that contamination with these germs may also
result from the use of unclean equipment in the factory.
In order to avoid the occurrence of blown, fermented, evapo-
rated milk, therefore, it is necessary to employ the highest steriliz-
ing temperatures, or tlie longest exposure to the sterilizing heat,
or both, consistent with freedom of the milk from curdiness. Ex-
perience has shown that the use of the ranges of temperature and
/
Pig The result of gfaseous
fermentation
Tig. 89. Plectridium foetidum,
a highly resistant species of
anaerohic micro-organisms,
causing "swell heads" of
evaporated milk
time of exposure, given under Chapter XI on "Sterilizing," guard
effectively against this defect.
Blown Evaporated Milk Due to Freezing.If the evapo-
rated milk is exposed to storage temperatures below the freezing
point of w'ater, the contents of the cans will freeze. While freez-
ing, the contents expand sufficiently to cause the ends of the cans
to bulge. When the cans are subsequently transferred to warmer
temperatures, so that their contents melt again, the milk contracts
and the cans resume their normal shape.
While the wholesomeness and flavor of the product are not
affected by the freezing process, the remelted evaporated milk
is usually less smooth and often slightly grainy. This is due to
the fact that, during the process of freezing, there is a partial
.separation of the watery portion from the caseous material. The
casein contracts and the watery portion freezes. When melted,
the emulsion is less complete than it was before freezing. The
268 Unswe:e:tene:d Condknskd Mii.k Defects
casein remains in its contracted form and robs the product of its
original smoothness.
Blown Evaporated Milk Due to Chemical Action.While
properly processed evaporated milk is perfectly sterile, and from
the biological point of view, keeps indefinitely, the cans of very
old evaporated milk may bulge, as the result of the action of the
acid in the milk on the container. Evaporated milk contains
from .35 to .50 per cent acid (calculated as lactic acid). When
the tin cans are filled with the evaporated milk, the tinplate is
bright and untarnished, .both, inside and out. After the sterilizing
process, the inside surface of the cans is dark and dull. This is
caused by the combined action of acid and heat, whi(;h seems to
weaken the tinplate. This phenomenon is further illustrated by
the fact that where creameries pasteurize their skimmilk and
return it to the patrons in the milk cans hot, the milk cans are
short-lived; they soon corrode and begin to leak.
The acid in the evaporated milk continues to act on the tin-
plate of the can after manufacture and in the case of very old
evaporated milk, the îd may decqmpose a considerable part of
the iron. This action is accompanied by the evolution of hydro-
gen gas, which causes the cans to bulge. This action is hastened
by continued exposure of the goods to high temperatures (sum-
mer heat). This fact was experimentally demonstrated,^ also,
by scratching the bottom of tin cans on the inside with a file,
then filling the cans with a .4 per cent solution of lactic acid and
acetic acid, respectively. After sealing, the cans were sterilized
in the autoclave, so as to avoid any possibility of bacterial action.
After cooling, these sterilized cans were incubated for some time
at 90 degrees F. The cans containing the dilute acid began to
swell, while the check cans, containing distilled water only,
remained normal.
Blown Evaporated Milk Due to Change in Altitude.Cans
of evaporated milk when filled in factories located at a low
altitude (near the sea level) may bulge when transferred to a high
altitude. The danger from this source is intensified, if the evap-
orated milk happens to be cold at the time of filling, and when the
1
Hunziker and Wright, Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station. Re-
sults not published.
Unsweetened Condensed Mii^k DeiÊcts 269
temperature to which the cans are exposed at the high altitude
is high. -
This type of swelled cans obviously has nothing to do with
the quality of the contents, nor is it the result of fermentation or
chemical changes. It is caused by the fact that the pressure in
a can sealed at the sea level is somewhat greater than the atmos-
pheric pressure surrounding the can when transferred to a high
altitude. If, at the same time, the milk packed at the sea level
goes into the can at a low temperature and the "atmospheric
temperature at the high altitude, to which the sealed cans are
shipped, happens to be high, the difference in pressure between
the interior and exterior of the can is further increased, due to
the expansion of the milk and of the air in the can. The com-
bination of these factors is sufficient to cause the ends of the can
to bulge, making it erroneously appear that the package contains
fermented goods.
This has actually happened in the case of one factory filling
a Government war contract, the whole shipment of evaporated
milk being rejected by the Government, because of the bulged
cans.
Occurrences of this type can be prevented by filling cans,
intended for markets in high altitudes, with the evaporated milk
while warm.
Brown Evaporated Milk.
General Description.It is the aim of the processor to so
govern the sterilizing process as to give the evaporated milk a
rich, yellow, creamy color. Frequently, this color limit is over-
stepped to the extent of imparting to the evaporated milk a brov^
color, suggesting coffee with milk in it. In this condition evap-
orated milk fails to appeal to the consumer.

Causes and Prevention.The dark color in evaporated milk
is due to the oxidizing action of excessive heat on the milk sugar,
causing the milk sugar to caramelize. This can be avoided by
reducing the sterilizing temperature, or shortening the sterilizing
process, or both. The storing of evaporated milk at high temper-
atures (summer heat) also tends to deepen its color with age.
270 Unsweejtened CondEnse:d Milk Defects
Gritty Plain Condensed Bulk Milk.
General Description.Grittiness in the unsweetened goods
appears usually only in the plain condensed bulk milk. It is a
defect which renders the product undesirable for ice cream
making.
Causes and Prevention.The chief cause of this defect is
too great concentration. Plain condensed bulk milk which is not
condensed over 3.5 parts of fresh milk to 1 part of condensed milk
does not become gritty. When the concentration exceeds 4:1,
the milk sugar begins to crystallize out, making the product
gritty. Milk sugar requires about six times its weight of water
for complete solution in cold water. When condensêd at the
ratio of 4:1 or over, the plain condensed bulk milk contains con-
siderably less than five parts, by weight, of water to one part
of milk sugar. This high concentration, together with the prac-
tice of storing this product at refrigerating temperatures in order
to preserve it, is responsible for the grittiness. This trouble can,
therefore, easily be prevented by not condensing to quite as high
a degree of concentration.
Metallic Evaporated Milk and Plain Condensed Bulk Milk.
General Description.Both, evaporated and plain condensed
bulk milk may show a metallic and puckery flavor, though this
defect is rather rare.
Causes and Prevention.The metallic flavor may be due
to the same cause as metallic sweetened condensed milk, i. e., an
unsanitary condition of the vacuum pan, in which case its recur-
rence can be readily avoided by thoroughly cleaning all parts of
the pan including the dome and the goose neck, and rinsing down
the whole pan thoroughly with clean water each morning before
operations begin.
Unsweetened condensed milk made by the use of the "Con-
tinuous Concentrator" may have a metallic flavor when the
scrapers in this machine are improperly adjusted, causing them
to cut into the copper walls and thereby incorporating metallic
copper in the product. This source of metallic flavor can be
removed by proper adjustment of the revolving spider and its
essential parts.
Adulterations of Condensed Milk 271
Evaporated milk may also show a metallic flavor as the result
of chemical action of the acid in the milk on the can. This occur^^
usually only upon prolonged storage. Very old evaporated milk
is very prone to have a metallic flavor from this source and
particularly when stored at a rather high temperature. This can
best be avoided by endeavoring to move the goods sufficiently
rapidly to limit the age of the milk to a reasonable period of time
and by avoiding high storage temperatures.
Cans, in the manufacture and sealing of which an acid flux
is used, are prone to give the contents a puckery, metallic flavor,
due to the zinc chloride and hydrochloric acid present. This can
be avoided by using cans only in the manufacture of which a
non-acid flux, such as gasoline-resin flux, is used, and by using
a non-acid flux for sealing the filled cans.
Chapter XXTV.
ADULTERATIONS OF CONDENSED MILK.
It is the sense of the Federal Pure Food Act that the addition
to condensed milk of any substance except sucrose, and the
abstraction of any substance from milk except water, is an
adulteration.
Skimming.Condensed milk made from partly or wholly
skimmed milk must be labeled and sold as condensed skimmed
milk in order to comply with the Pure Food regulations. How-
ever, it is possible for condenseries receiving fresh milk, rich
in butter fat, to skim a part of that milk and have their product
still conform with the food standards.
Skimmed sweetened condensed milk can readily be detected
by its whitish color, while condensed whole milk has normally
a rich yellow color. When diluted, to the consistency of ordi-
nary milk, skimmed condensed milk, both the sweetened and the
unsweetened, foams very profusely when shaken, while diluted
condensed whole milk behaves similar to ordinary whole milk.^
Addition of Artificial Fats.In order to lower the cost of
manufacture, attempts have occasionally been made to skim the
1
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and XXXII.
272 Adulterations of Condensed Milk
fresh milk and substitute the abstracted fat by artificial fats of
animal or vegetable origin.
Recent improvements in the method of manufacture have
made it possible to manufacture evaporated milk, made from
skim milk to which foreign fats, especially vegetable oils, such
as cocoanut oil, have been added. This milk has every appear-
ance of, and will commercially keep as well as genuine evaporated
milk. A representative of this imitation evaporated milk is the
''Hebe" product. This product consists of skim milk to which
have been added vegetable fats to replace the butter fat. The
mixture is homogenized in order to form a complete emulsion,
then it is evaporated, filled in cans and sterilized in a similar
manner as the genuine evaporated milk.
The Federal law requires that the composition and ingredi-
ents of these imitation products appear plainly on the label of the
package.
It should be clearly understood by the manufacturer, the
dealer and the consumer that this imitation milk is inferior to
the genuine evaporated milk, in the fact that it lacks the im-
portant growth-promoting and Curative properties which are
inherent in whole milk. If sold on its own merits, and in accord-
ance with the Federal law, there can be no logical objection to
the imitation product, but if offered to the consumer as the
genuine article, the manufacture and sale of imitation evaporated
milk is a heinous crime against humanity.
FyXperiments conducted at Ohio State University, by Mr.
J.
L.
Hutchison, instructor in the Department of Agricultural
Chemistry under the direction of Professor O. Erf, Chief of
Department of Dairy Husbandry and Dr.
J.
F, Lipman, Professor
of Agricultural Chemistry, demonstrated that "Hebe" milk, when
fed to young white rats, resulted in malnutrition accompanied
by stunted growth, sore eyes and death of some of the experi-
mental rats, in a similar manner as did other rations in which
the fat soluble vitamines were lacking.
The volume of ''filled" evaporated milk manufactured in this
country is assuming large proportions and is growing annually
as shown below
:
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Annual Output of Imitation Evaporated Milk, Made from
Wholly or Partly Skimmed Milk to Which Foreign Fats
had been Added.^
Tear
Case Goods
Pounds
Bulk Goods
Pounds
Total
Pounds
1916
12,000
18,504
41,033,855
62,262,221
14,134,712
17,487,064
7,591,182
2,748,120
14,146,712
17,505,568
48,625,037
1917
1918
1919
65,010,341
Mothers who buy evaporated milk for feeding infants and
children should be cautioned to observe carefully whether or not
they receive the genuine article. Imitation evaporated milk is
not a baby food. -Babies and growing children need butterfat
for their best development. If canned milk is used for infant
feeding, it should be made from whole milk only. (See also
Chapter XX on "Vitamine Properties of Condensed Milk.")
Addition of Commercial Glucose.Commercial glucose be-
longs to a group of starch products in which dextrose is the
leading constituent. It is manufactured by the action of dilute
acids in starch and starchy matter, or occasionally woody fibre.
In this country it is almost wholly made from maize starch.
Starch glucose occurs in commerce in several forms, varying
from the condition of pure anhydrous dextrose, through inferior
kinds of solid sugar, to the condition of a thick syrupy liquid,
colorless and transparent, resembling molasses in consistency
and glycerine in appearance; it contains a large proportion of
dextrin. In connection with the manufacture of condensed milk
the term ''glucose" refers to this thick, syrupy Hquid. It is added
to the condensed milk with a view of substituting a portion of
the sucrose and thus reducing the cost of manufacture. It has
also been suggested that the presence of commercial glucose in
condensed milk prevents the precipitation of sugar crystals. Ex-
periments have shown, however, that condensed milk
containing-
varying amounts of glucose, will become sandy just as readily
as normal condensed milk.
That glucose cannot be used as a substitute for sucrose, is
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274 AduIvTErations of Condense:d Milk
obvious from the fact that its presence defeats the very object
for which sucrose is added. Instead of serving- as a, preservative,
as is the case with the best refined, granulated cane sugar, glucose
acts as a most effective fermentative. It has been explained that
the presence in sucrose of traces of invert sugar, or levulose and
glucose, causes condensed milk to ferment. Glucose belongs to
the monosaccharides. Its chemical formula, like that of levulose,
is CgHiÔg, it oxidizes readily and under the influence of yeast
and other micro-organisms it ferments, yielding mainly alcohol
and carbon dioxide. Its presence in condensed milk, therefore,
is prone to start fermentation, and the manufacturer who uses
it with a view of lessening the cost of manufacture of condensed
milk is, indeed, practicing poor economy. There is n adultera-
tion of sweetened condensed milk that will produce such in-
evitable disaster as the addition to it of glucose. Aside from this
fact, the law prohibits the addition of anything except sucrose.
Addition of Bi-Carbonate of Soda, Ammonium Hydroxide,
Lime Oxide and Lime Hydrate and Other Alkali.These alkalies
and alkaline earths are frequently added to evaporated milk, for
the purpose of neutralizing excess of acid, or balancing the ash
constituents, in order to diminish the viscosity and tendency to
curdle, to facilitate the sterilizing process, and to prevent the
milk from curdling when exposed to heat. If used in reasonable
quantities, they interfere in no way with the quality and health-
fulness of the product, and may in exceptional cases prevent
great loss. If used in excess, the milk will foami very badly in
the vacuum pan, which renders the process of condensing a diffi-
cult one and the finished product has a bitter flavor. Under
ordinary conditions, their use is entirely unnecessary and simply
means additional labor and expense. The above agents and also
viscogen, are sometimes used with the view of thickening sweet-
ened condensed milk and increasing the output. Experimental
results,^ however, showed that these agents cannot be used in
large enough quantities to produce the above results without
materially lowering the quality of the product.
Addition of Cream of Tartar.Cream of tartar is used ex-
tensively in the manufacture of candies and caramels. Its purpose
1
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is to make the sugar in these products precipitate in the form of
very fine and soft crystals. Condenseries, which have been con-
tinually troubled with sugar crystallization and sugar sediment,
have tried to overcome this defect by adding cream of tartar to
the sweetened milk in the vacuum pan. Cream of tartar is an
acid salt (acid potassium tartrate, KH.
0411^08),
and it is this
acid which in the manufacture of candy causes the fine and soft
grain of the sugar. It is obvious that if enough cream of tartar
were added to condensed milk to produce the desired eflfect on
the sugar, the acid present would curdle the milk. Its use is of
no value to the manufacturer of condensed milk.
Addition of Starch.The pasty and thick consistency" of
sweetened condensed milk frequently suggests to the public that
it contains starch. This is erroneous, for it is doubtful if con-
densed milk is ever adulterated with starch. There would be
nothing gained by so doing, and the presence of starch in con-
densed milk could be readily detected with iodine. Iodine gives
the starch cells a deep blue color.
PART VI.
MANUFACTURE OF MILK POWDER
Chapte:r XXV.
DEFINITION.
Milk powder, dry milk, pulverized milk,- dehydrated milk,
desiccated milk, milk flour, is made from cow's whole milk, or
partly or wholly skimmed milk, or from whole milk that has been
enriched by additional butterfat, to which sugar, or*alkalies, or
both may, or may not have been added, and which has been
evaporated to dryness, either under atmospheric pressure, or
in vacuo. Powders made from cream containing 18 per cent
butterfat or more, are called cream powders.
KINDS.
The milk powders on the market vary chiefly in their solu-
bility and fat content. The bulk of the milk powders is produced
from wholly or partly skimmed milk. Most of the milk powders
of the early days of this industry contained added cane sugar
and alkalies. The purpose of the addition of alkalies was to
lend greater solubility to the proteids.
The process of manufacture, however, has been improved
to the extent to where the solubility of the proteids can now
be preserved without the admixture of alkalies. Most of the
milk powders put on the market in this country are free from
admixture of any substances foreign to normal milk,
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY.
The origin and history of the milk powder industry are very
closely related and intimately connected with those of the con-
densed milk industry. The fundamental purpose of the two
products is one and the same, i. e., to preserve milk as nearly
as possible in its natural condition, and to reduce its bulk to the
minimum, so as to make possible its economical transportation
to all parts of the world.
Manuiâcture of M11.K Powder 277
ifference between milk powder and condensed milk
is mainly one of degree of concentration. It is not surprising,
therefore, that the inventions of processes of manufacture of the
two products date back to about the same period, the middle of
last century, and in most cases the inventors of the one product
had also in mind and gave due consideration to the possibilities
of the other.
The first commercially usable process was invented by
Grimwade who secured a patent from the British Government
in 1855. His process consisted briefly of first adding carbonate
of soda or potash to the fresh milk, then evaporating in open
jacketed pans and with constant agitation, until a dough-like
substance was obtained ; then adding cane sugar ; the mixture
was then pressed between rollers into ribbons, further dried
and then pulverized. The alkali, in the form of carbonate of
soda or potash, was added in order to render the casein more
soluble, and the purpose of the admixture of the sugar was to
produce granulation of the dough toward the end of the process
facilitating the removal of moisture during the later stages of the
drying process. The evaporation in open pans was later super-
seded by the use of the vacuum pan. The Grimwade process of
manufacturing milk powder was in practice for some years.
Since the introduction of the Grimwade process, several
modifications thereof have been patented, and numerous new
processes for desiccating milk, that involve principles entirely
dififerent from the Grimwade process, have been invented, have
found wide commercial application and have practically super-
seded the use of the earlier inventions.
The perfection of processes suitable for the commercial
manufacture of dried milk is of relatively recent origin and dates
back largely to the closing years of the nineteenth century and
the first decade of the twentieth centry. Up to that time the
annual output of milk powder was comparatively small. But
within the last score of years rapid progress has been made and
the world war has lent this industry additional impetus. Today
the annual production is assuming large proportions, especially
that of powdered skim milk, though considerable quantities of
powdered whole milk, powdered cream and powdered buttermilk
are also manufactured, as shown below.
278 Manufacture: of Milk Powder
Annual Production of Skim Milk Powder, Whole Milk Powder
and Cream Powder in the United States.^
Kind of Product
Skim milk powder .
Whole milk powder
Cream powder ....
Pounds by Years
1918
25,432,007
4,164,334
654,360
1919
33,076.131
8,660,785
592,070
According to Potts,^ the number of firms manufacturing
powdered milk products in the United States is as follows:
vSkim milk powder
^7
Whole milk powder 15
Cream powder 3
Description of the Principal Processes of Manufacture.
The processes of desiccating milk, which have proven com-
mercially successful and have found wide application, may be
conveniently grouped into three fundamental categories, accord-
ing to the predominating principle upon which they are based.
These are
:
1. Dough-drying processes.
2. Film-drying processes.
3. Spray-drying processes.
For detailed discussion of the more outstanding principles
covered in some of the patents of these processes the reader is
referred to the following brief description and illustrations.
1. Dough-drying Processes.
To this group largely belong the earlier and cruder pro-
cesses. The milk is condensed in any manner, either by heating
in open pans under atmospheric pressure and usually with the
help of mechanical agitation ; or in the vacuum pan with or with-
out mechanical agitation; or in open vats by blowing heated
air through the milk, to a high degree of concentration and to
a dough-like consistency. The concentrated product is then
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spread on trays or other similar containers, and dried to a hard
substance in vacuum chambers or in other vaults or drying ap-
paratus, provided with heating devices or currents of hot air.
The dried product is subsequently ground to a fine powder.
Examples of this type of milk-drying processes are the Wimmer
process, the Campbell process and others.
The Wimmer Process.The milk
is boiled in a vacuum pan similar to
that used in the manufacture of con-
densed milk. The vacuum pan has a
deep steam jacket for heating, but in
the place of the usual coils, the pan is
equipped with a mechanical stirrer.
The milk is condensed at a relatively
low temperature and the stirrer re-
volves until the water content of the
milk is reduced to about 30 per cent
and the milk has become porous and
crumbly, though it still forms a com-
pact mass. The drying is then com-
pleted in the open air and without addi-
tional heating. The product is then
ground to a powder. This is the pro-
cess invented by Ole Bull Wimmer of
Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Campbell Process.This process was invented, pat-
ented and improved by
J.
H. Campbell of New York City, U. S.
patent Nos. 668,159 and 668,161, February
19, 1901; U. S. patent
No.
718,191, January 13, 1903; U. S. patent No.
762,277, June
14, 1904; and by
J.
H. and H. C. Campbell, U. S. patent No.
668,162, February 19, 1901; and by C. H. and P. T. Campbell,
U. S. patent No. 771,609, October 4, 1904.
The Campbell process consists essentially of concentrating
milk
to a high degree of concentration by blowing heated air
through it in an open vat. The milk is reduced to a very thick
consistency, resembling a batter. The concentrated milk is then
removed from the evaporating tank, is reduced mechanically to
small units by means of a pugging or shredding machine, or
Tig. 90. The Wimmer milk
powder machine
280 Manuiâcture: of Milk Powder
otherwise. This subdivided product is then placed on shelves
or trays and dried in a chamber heated to a temperature below
the coagulating point of the albumen.
Tig. 91. Tlie CampbeU milk drier
I. A concentrating vessel, a outlet, b valve, c hot water jacket, c^ hot
water pipe, c^ discharge of jacket, B air pipe, e connecting hose, f stand pipe,
g air-distributing disc, t air chamber.II. E pug mill, 1 cylinder, j hopper,
k chute, 1 horizontal shaft, m blades for stirring, m' projections for scraping
blades, F Vermicelli-machine, n hopper, o cylindrical chamber,
p
piston,
q
spiral screw, q' worm-wheel, o' small holes, j^ endless traveling apron, s tray
with perforated bottom.III. G drier, t body of drier, H blower, t' flue, u
opening to insert trays, u' opening for removing trays, vv endless chains with
projections for supporting trays, w coil heater, w' pipe circulating hot water.
In the processes of the dough-drying principle of desiccation,
the dried product is reduced to a marketable powder by grinding
it and then bolting or or sifting it.
2. Film-Drying Processes.
To this group belong the numerous processes in which the
milk, with or without previous- concentration, is dried on the
surface of one or more steam-heated, revolving drums. The
milk is either picked up by the revolving drums, or it is sprayed
onto these drums, forming a thin film which dries rapidly. The
film of dried milk so formed is atomatically removed with each
revolution of the drum by means of a mechanical scraper. In
some of the processes of the film-drying type the drying cyl-
inders operate in the open, under atmospheric pressure, in others
Manuiâctur^ o^ MiIvK Powder 281
the drying drums are incased in a vacuum chamber and the
drying is accomplished under reduced pressure. Some of the
U. S. patents of the film-drying process that have found wide
commercial application are described below.
The
Just
Process.This process appears to be the first of
its type that found wide application in the desiccating of milk.
It was invented and patented by John A. Just of Syracuse, New
York, U. S. patent No. 712,545, November 4, 1902.
Figf. 92. The Just milk drier
The essential equipment involved in the Just process con-
sists of two horizontal steam-heated revolving metal cylinders.
These cylinders are installed sufficiently close to each other so
that there is contact at their periphery. A milk destributing tank
(7)
with adjustable discharge
(8
and
9)
in the center over and
between the two cylinders. Scrapers or knives
(11) which re-
move the dried film of milk from the cylinders
; and receptacles
(12)
vs^hich receive the finished powder.
282 Manufacture of Mii.k Powder
The patent claims of the Just
process cover the treatment
of the milk with calcic chloride (CaO
+
CaClg), or with the
double salt of sodium and calcium citrate, to reduce the acidity
of the milk, and with alkaline hypochlorite for the purpose of
preserving- the fatty acids in the finished product, the heating
and boiling of the milk by bringing it in contact with a heating
surface of a temperature above 212 degrees F. and below 270
degrees F., allowing the thus treated and heated milk to flow
in regulated quantities on the surface of the steam heated re-
volving metal cylinders, where it is dried in the form of a film
and from which it is removed by mechanical scrapers. The
temperature of the heating surface on the cylinders is to exceed
212 degrees F. and to be below 270 degrees F.
^.
The high temperature to which the milk is heated obviously
reduces the solubility of the. finished powder. The purpose of
neutralizing the acidity of the milk, before drying, is to mini-
mize the solubility-destroying action of the high heat.
The Hatmaker Process.This is similar to the Just
process.
James R. Hatmaker of London, England, purchased the Just
Figr. 93. The Just-Hatmaker milk drier
process for operation in Europe and later secured a patent of
his own, which represents a modification of the original Just
process, and which is known as the Just-Hatmaker process,
Manufacture of Mii^k Powdejr 283
The Gathmann Process.This process and equipment was
invented and patented by Louis Gathmann of Washington,
D. C, U. S. patent No. 834,516, October 30, 1906.
^
-
In this process, similar as in the Just
process, the milk is
dried in the form of a film on a revolving, steam-heated drum,
under atmospheric pressure. In this case, however, only one
drum is used, the drurri (A) is cone-shape instead of cylindrical
and its surface is spirally grooved or corrugated (a) and the
adjacent surface against which the cone revolves is also similarly
corrugated but the spiral grooves (b^) running in the opposite
Fig*. 94. Tlie Gathmann milk drier
direction from those on the cone, as is common in grinding-
mills. Hence when the cone revolves the drying milk is kneaded
and ground between the two surfaces and is gradually carried
or pushed by the corrugated surface of the revolving cone to
the smaller, or discharge end of the machine.
The adjacent corrugated surface against which the surface
of the cone grinds, and which incases the lower half of the surface
of the cone, is steam jacketed (b"), so that the milk is between
two heated surfaces.
A hopper (D) regulates and feeds the flow of the milk to
the cone at its larger end and a brush (G) located near the
smaller end of the cone removes such parts of the dried milk
284 Manufacture of Mii^k Powder
as may adhere to the grinding surface. Baffle boards or dash
boards are provided to receive such of the milk, as may splash
from the cone.
The patent claim covers the drying of the milk by feeding
it to a continuously moving, heated surface, where it is permitted
to form a cofnparatively thin layer, heating it to evaporate the
water, and simultaneously subjecting it to a kneading, which
gradually changes to a grinding action, as the milk solidifies,
and forms a powder.
The temperature of the heating surface is recommended to
be that of boiling w'ater, but may be between 212 degrees F. and
270 degrees F. The milk enters the hopper without preheating
and without other treatment.
^
The Passburg Process.This process was invented and
A
Tig. 95. Tlie Fassburgr milk drier
patented by Emil Passburg of Berlin, Germany, U. S.
patent
No. 726,742, April 28, 1903. This film dryer operates under
reduced pressure. It consists of an outer casing (A) in which
revolves one steam heated, metal drum (T), an automatic milk
Manufacture of Mii.k Powder 285
supply regulating feed (E) which keeps the milk in the vacuum
casing at a constant level, an overflow aperture
(J)
that regulates
the thickness of the film, a vacuum pump, a scraper (S) to
remove the film of dried milk from the revolving drum and an
evacuated receiver (B) for the dried substance.
The milk is drawn into the drum casing or vacuum chamber
by the force of the vacuum in this chamber. By. the proper
adjustment of the feed valve and the overflow valve, the milk
rises to a given level and stays at that level while operatigin is
in progress. The revolving steam-heated drum slightly
dips into the milk in the vacuum chamber and picks up a film
of milk which dries under reduced pressure while the drum
makes one revolution. The dried film is removed by the auto-
matic scraper and the finished dried milk is discharged into the
receiver, while the moisture-laden air and vapors escape through
a condenser located outside of the drying apparatus.
The Ekenberg Process.This is also a film drier operating
in vacuo. This process was invented by Martin Ekenberg of
Stockholm, Swêden, in the year 1899 and is covered by a number
of United States patents, some of the earlier of which are patent
No. 764,995, 1904, and No. 785,600, March 21, 1905. The patents
covering this process are owned by the Ekenberg Company of
Cortland, N. Y., who are operating numerous milk drying fac-
tories in the States of New York and Michigan.
The Ekenberg milk drier is called e:^siccator. It consists
of a revolving, steam heated nickel drum, inclosed in a vacuum
chamber. The ends of the drum form bell-shaped bowls,
dished outward. The drum is equipped with knives or scrapers,
which remove the film of dried milk that gathers on the drum.
Attached to the vacuum chamber there is a smaller chamber
which serves to receive the dried milk as it is scraped from the
drum. This is separated from the large vacuum chamber by a
series of air locks, so that the material may be removed without
breaking the vacuum in the large chamber.
The milk, as it enters the vacuum chamber, is sprayed into
the concave ends of the drum. In this manner it is fore-con-
densed. It is then withdrawn from the vacuum chamber by a
pump, and returned again, this time being sprayed upon the
periphery of the drum. The milk remains on the drum only long
enough for it to make three-quarters of a revolution.
After the dried milk is removed from the exsiccator, it is
placed in a special drying chamber at a temperature of 90 degrees
P. w^here it remains long enough for the milk sugar to crystallize.
This is usually accomplished in about an hour. After this it is
ground and sifted in a similar manner as is the case in the milling
Tig. 96. The Ekenberg exsiccator
Courtesy of Ekenberg Co.
of wheat flour. It is then ready for the market, wliich it reaches
packed in either tins, boxes, or barrels.
The fact that the milk is evaporated under reduced pressure
makes it possible to accomplish the drying at a relatively low
temperature, although the film of drying milk is naturally ex-
posed for a very brief time to the direct heat of the drum, and
which obviously varies with the steam pressure in the drum.
The manufacturers claim that the drying of the milk takes place
Manufacture: of Mii,k PowdKr 287
at a temperature of about 100 degrees F. and that the milk at
no time reaches temperatures higher than 120 degrees F.
The Govers Process.This process and equipment was-
invented and patented by Francis X. Govers, of Owego, New
York, U. S. patent No. 939,495, November 9,
1909.
In the Govers patent the milk is dried on two revolving,
hollow cylinders
(5)
located at such proximity to each other
Fig-. 97. The G-overs milk drier
that there is practical contact at the periphery of the two cyl-
inders, in a similar manner as is the case with the Just process.
These revolving cylinders, however, are inclosed and operated
in an outer casing which serves as a vacuum chamber
(2),
which
connects with a vacuum pump through pipe {27). There is a milk
supply tank
(1)
with regulating valve
(4),
feeding the milk to
the vacuum chamber through pipe
(3).
Plates
(10) which bear
against the opposite ends of the cylinders
(5)
form with the
revolving cylinders a receptacle
(13)
to receive and retain a
288 Manuiâcture) of MiIvK Powdkr
small quantity of the milk to be desiccated. The cylinders are
charged with hot water through pipes
(16). Scrapers
(21) re-
move the dried milk from the cylinders, and a rotating valve
arrangement
(28 and 29) is provided to catch the dried milk as
it is scraped from the cylinders and to carry it from the vacuum
chamber without breaking the vacuum.
In the operation of this machine it is aimed to maintain a
partial vacuum, sufficient to cause the milk to boil at a tem-
perature of about 157 degrees F. Through the revolving metal
cylinders passes a continuous flow of hot water at a temperature
somewhat higher than 157 degrees F. but below 212 degrees F.,
so that the milk is never exposed to 212 degrees F. nor over.
In the small receptacle of milk at
(13)
to which the milk
is continually supplied from the outside, and as rapidly as it
evaporates, the milk is heated, to about 157 degrees F. by the
revolving cylinders. It is partly condensed and a thin film of
this condensed milk coats the surface of the cylinders where it
dries, the dried film is removed from the cylinders by the scrapers
and discharged to the outside of the apparatus through the vanes
of the four-winged valves
(28),
located near the bottom on both
sides of the vacuum chamber.
The Buflovak Process.The principle of drying milk and
other liquids on a steam- or hot water-heated revolving drum
has been put to extensive application through the activities of
the Buffalo Foundry & Machine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. This com-
pany has, during the last decade, invented, constructed and
perfected the "Buflovak" vacuum drum drier. Patents were
granted their engineer, Mr. O. S. Sleeper, by the United States
Government in 1911, 1913, 1914, 1915 and 1916. All these patents
were assigned to the Buffalo Foundry & Machine Co.
These patents pertain to the drum drier as used for whole
milk, skim milk, buttermilk and milk products in general. They
are applicable to other products as well as to milk, but for milk
they are made specially accessible for cleaning and for sanitary
control.
The Buflovak drier consists of a casing in which revolves
a steam-heated, polished drum. The milk is fed to the surface
or periphery of this drum by a pan located beneath the drum
and placed lightly against the drum. The pan has an overflow
Manufacture of Milk Powder 289
along one side for the automatic removal of the surplus milk not
taken up by the drum. To the bottom of this casing is supplied
a quantity of milk. This is pumped to the supply pan under the^
drum, the overflowing milk running back into the lower portion
r
J'
^^ôm^^.
Tig. 98. The Bufiovak vacuum drum drier
Courtesy of Buffalo Foundry & Machine Co.
of the casing. There is slight pressure in the supply pan which
causes the drum to take up a heavy and even coating. Near
the supply pan is installed a leveling arrangement which levels
off and equalizes the layer of milk on the drum. As the drum
290 Manufacture of Milk Powder
revolves and the layer of milk reaches what is termed the front
of the machine it is continuously removed in the form of a dry
film by a stationary scraper. At this point the machine is pro-
vided wnth a breaker which consists of a shaft with a number
of rods projecting through the same, which revolves to break
up the film of dried milk as it leaves the drum. This does not
reduce the film to a powder, but causes the material to be suffi-
ciently broken up to allow it to fall into the receiver where it
can be easily handled for removal.
The receiver is a large cylindrical pan placed below the
scraper at the front of the machine. Observation glasses are
placed so that all internal parts may be seen while being operated.
The receiver is equipped at each end with a door of tl\e full v/idth
of the receiver, facilitating the rapid removal of the dried milk.
Aside from the circulating pump for supplying the milk to
the feed pan, there is a condenser and a dry vacuum pump. Be-
fore the vapors reach the condenser, they pass through a dust
collector. This is water-sealed and prevents the accumulation
in the vapor pipe of any dust that may escape from the drum
and pass to the condenser.
This drier is operated under a high vacuum, permitting rapid
evaporation at a relatively low temperature. The actual drying
time of the film of milk on the drum is about 6 to 7 seconds.
The operation is continuous and at the conclusion of the day's
run the machine is washed out. If subsequently closed up and
evacuated for a few minutes, the entire interior will be dry. in-
suring a sanitary condition of the machine.
3. Spray-Drying Processes.
To this group belong the several processes in which milk is
desiccated by atomizing it into a fine spray and in an atmosphere
or current of heated air. The small particles of the milk spray sur-
render their moisture quickly and drop to the bottom of the drying
chamber in the form of flakes of dried milk while the moisture-
laden air escapes to the exterior, screens or other forms of dust col-
lectors being provided to recover such parts of dried milk as may
escape from the drying chamber with the expelled air. The principle
of desiccating fluid substances by atomizing them into an atmosphere
iof heated air dates back to the invention of Samuel R. Percy in
1872.
The Percy Process.This process was invented and patented-
by Samuel R. Percy of New York City, U. S. patent No. 125,406,
April
9,
1872. The process embraces in its claims, a process of
atomizing and desiccating fluid and solid substances, also any viscid
substance containing water, by the use of dried, heated or cooled air
or gas, which forces the substance into atoms ; the atoms are thrown
forward, and forced into a chamber and dried in consequence of the
dried or heated air which propels them into the chamber and also,
owing to the dried and heated state of the chamber into which they
are thrown.
The Stauf Process.
^The Stauf process represents the first

commercially successful appHcation of the desiccation of milk by
pigr. 99. The Stauf milk drier
the spray-drying principle invented by Percy. The Stauf process
was patented by Robert Stauf of Posen, Germany, U. S. patent No.
666,711, January 29, 1901.
The patent claims are as follows : "The process of obtaining
the solid constituents of liquids, such as blood, milk and the like, in
the form of powder, said process consisting in converting the liquid
into a fine spray, bringing such spray or atomized liquid into a reg-
ulated current of heated air, so that the liquid constituents are com-
pletely vaporized, conveying the dry powder into a suitable collect-
ing space away from the air current, and discharging the air and
vapor separately from the dry powder."
The Stauf patent shows a vertical drying chamber (e) into
which the liquid (milk) to be desiccated is atomized through jets
or nozzles (b) under pressure, into a fine spray. A current of
heated air is admitted at the bottom of the drying chamber (f ) run-
ning in the same direction as, and mixing with, the spray of milk,
and evaporating the watery constituents of the spray. ^The steam
and dried particles are carried upward by the heated air, retaining
the atoms momentarily in the current of hot air and causing them
to surrender substantially all the remaining moisture in the form of
vapor, and the product is prevented by the cooling effect of such
evaporation from undergoing chemical change. The vapors and
dried atoms are guided by a cone
(g)
extending downward from the
top into the drying chamber, into collecting chambers (h) where the
desiccated milk or dry powder gathers in hoppers (i) away from
the vaporizing current. The moisture-laden air or gas is separated
from the dry powder and escapes through the sides of the collecting
chamber, which consist of mill gauze, woolen fabric or like pervious
material.
The McLachlan Process.This process was patented by
John C. McLachlan of Chicago, III, U. S. patent No. 806,747, De-
cember 5, 1905. This process is a modification of the Stauf process.
McLachlan uses a tall vertical drying chamber (B) surrounded
on its sides by a jacket or casing (A), containing steam heating coils
(G) with intake, and outlet of steam ; a circular, perforated pipe
(M) is installed near the top of the chamber for the purpose of dis-
charging into the chamber heated air, an atomizing jet (O^) enters
through the side of the drying chamber near the top, an air pump
(O) forcing heated air into the atomizing nozzle (O^), a slide door
(D) at the bottom of the drying chamber for the discharge of the
dried powder through opening (E), and a perforated covering (K)
over the top of the drying chamber for the escape of the moisture-
laden air.
In this apparatus the spray of the milk enters into the upper
part of the drying chamber and is permitted to drop through an
atmosphere of heated air. As the atoms of drying milk descend,-
they surrender more and more of their moisture and at a certain point
toward the bottom they have discharged substantially all their mois-
Fig-. 100. The Mcliachlan milk drier
ture and are deposited in the form of a dry powder in the bottom
of the drying chamber, from where they are discharged by a slide
door. In the meantime the vapors pass freely up and out of the
upper or open end of the chamber.
This process differs from the Stauf process essentially only in
the fact that the milk descends through an atmosphere of heated air
and that the drying chamber and the collecting chamber are one and
294 Manufacture: of Mii.k Powder
the same, while in the Stauf patent the milk spray ascends and is
carried into separate collecting chambers.
In a later design, U. S. patent No. 1,038,773, September 17,
1912, McLachlan causes the heated air to be forced into the drying
chamber through a rotating discharge head located in the center of
the drying chamber. The rotating discharge head directs the air
currents radially outward toward a deflecting ring.
The milk is blown into the drying chamber through multiple
supply nozzles or atomizers. These supply nozzles enter through the
periphery of the deflecting ring. They discharge in a horizontal
plane and incline to the radius m such a manner as to cause maxi*
mum commingling of the finely divided particles of the milk with the
heated air. The dried powder, deposits in the bottom o( the drying
chamber, a belt conveyor discharges it into a screw conveyor pocket,
whence it is removed to any suitable storage container.
The moisture-laden air leaves the drying chamber through
drums near the bottom and top of the drying chamber. These dis-
charge drums are equipped with suitable arrangement to recover
such parts of the powder as are deposited on their surfaces.
The Merrell-Merrell-Gere Process.This process is similar
to the Stauf process except that the patent covering the Merrell-
Merrell-Gere process specifically refers to the desiccation of pre-
viously condensed milk, while the Stauf patent makes no specific ref-
erence to the use of condensed milk, although the term "milk" may
have been intended to embrace all kinds of milk regardless of the
degree of concentration prior to desiccation.
The Merrell-Soule Co., of Syracuse, N. Y., purchased the
Stauf patent in 1905 and two years later L. C. Merrell, I. S. Merrell
and W. B. Gere, of Syracuse, N. Y., assignors to Merrell-Soule Co.
patented the process as applied to desiccating condensed milk, U. S.
patent No. 860,929, July 23, 1907. Their patent claims read as
follows
:
1. "The process of obtaining the solid constituents of
liquids and semi-liquids, in the form of powder, which process
consists in concentrating the substance by removing a large
percentage of the water therefrom, converting the concentrated
mass into a fine spray, bringing such spray into a current of dry
air or gas having an avidity for moisture so that substantially
all the remaining liquid constituents are separated thereby,
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295
conveying the dry powder into a suital)le collecting space away
from the air or gas current, and discharging the air or gas sepa-
rately from the dry powder.
2. ''The process of obtaining the solid constituents of liquids
and semi-licjuids, in the form of powder, which process consists
in concentrating the substance by removing a large percentage
of water therefrom, converting the concentrated mass into a
spray, bringing such spray into a current of dry heated air or
gas having an avidity for the moisture of the substance treated,
retaining the atoms momentarily in said current so that sub-
stantially all the remaining moisture is converted into vapor
Fig-. 101. The Merrell-Soule milk drier
and the product is preênted by the cooling eflfect of such evap-
oration from undergoing chemical change, conveying the dry
powder into a suitable collecting space away from the vaporizing
current, and discharging the air or gas separately from the dry
powder."
The Merrell-Soule Co. are operating numerous powdered
milk factories, with headquarters in Syracuse, N. Y, This com-
pany has subjected the spray-drying process to much experi-
mental study in efforts to perfect the process and to improve
the quality and keeping properties of the product.
Obviously, during the life of the Stauf patent, which ex-
pired January 29, 1918, no one could make milk powder by the
spray-drying process, whether from milk uncondensed, or from
1
From Plaintiff's Record in the U. S. District Court,
vs. Rico Milk Products Co.
Merrell-Soule Co.
296 Manufacture of Mii,k Powder
milk previously condensed without paying tribute to the owners
ol this patent, the Merrell-Soule Co.
The C. E. Rogers Process.This process was patented by
Charles E. Rogers of Detroit, Mich., U. S. patent No. 1,226,001,
Mav 15, 1917, and No. 1,243,8/8, October 23, 1917.
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desiccating chamber,
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spray nozzles,
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spray pipes,
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hot air inlet con-
duit,
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end of air conduit, deflector,
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air discharge conduits, recovery
screens,

pivots,
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loose screens for vibrating,
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springs,
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rods con-
tacting with
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cams.
The patent claims cover the desiccation by the spray-drying
process of fluids including condensed milk. The apparatus con-
sists of
a
large drying chamber, the spray nozzles are located
near the top on all four sides of the chamber. The hot air is
Manufacture: of Milk Powder 297
admitted near the bottom in the center of the drying chamber,
means for heating the air, blowing it into the drying chamiber
and screens located near the bottom at the periphery of the"
chamber for discharging the spent air are provided.
In this apparatus the sprayed milk falls from near the top
of the drying chamber through an ascending current of heated
air. The milk spray entering on all sides causes an even distribu-
tion of the spray particles and a consequent even deposit of the
dried milk particles on the bottom of the drying chamber. The
previously condensed milk is sprayed into the drying chamber
while heated to a temperature of 140 degrees P\, the temperature
of the air in the drying chamber ranges from 180 to 200 degrees
F. The distance over which the spray falls through the ascend-
ing current of heated air being sufficient to permit the removal
from the milk particles of substantially all the remaining
moisture.
The Gray Process.Chester Earl Gray of Eureka, Calif.,
and Aage Jensen of Oakland, Calif., U. S. patent No. 1,078,848,
November 18, 1913, Chester Earl Gray, Assignor of one-half to
Aage Jensen, U. S. patent No. 1,107,784, August 18, 1914, and
Chester Earl Gray, U. S. patent No. 1,157,935, October 26, 1915,
and U. S. patent No. 1,266,013, May 14, 1918, subjected the pos-
sibilities of spray drying to extensive study and invented and
patented successive improvements and new principles relating
to desiccation of milk and other liquid substances.
Gray patent No. 1,107,784 involves an apparatus with a
circular desiccating chamber A, having a cone-shape lower sec-
tion B, terminating in a discharge opening for the dried sub-
stance, and a discharge opening C for the moisture-laden air.
The heated air is introduced into the desiccating chamber
peripherally in a tangential direction, by means of a blower D.
Between the blower and the drying chamber there is an inclosed
heating coil (steam coil) over and around which the air is blown
into the drying chamber. The tangential entry of the heated air
into the circular chamber sets up a cyclonic current therein and
this effect is augmented by introducing the air at several different
points through tangential openings a. The milk to be desiccated
enters under pressure through a spray nozzle H, located in the
298 Manufacture of Milk Powder
center of the chamber and is atomized. The distinctive features
of this process are
:
1. The heated air enters at the periphery, forms a cyclonic
current moving tangentially toward the center where the moisture-
laden air escapes at C.
2. The atomized milk enters at the center of the cyclonic
air current, partakes of the rotary movement of the air current,
but because of their greater specific gravity the particles of dry-
ing milk influenced by centrifugal force are caused to travel in
Fig-. 104. The Gray milk drier
spiral lines outwardly through the current of air and are finally
arrested by the confining walls of the chamber dowli which
they fall to the discharge end at the bottom.
3. The exhaustiveness of the removal of moisture from the
particles of milk is augmented by the fact that the heated air
moving through the spray of milk spirally toward the center,
where it escapes, has taken up its maximum charge of moisture
by the time it reaches the center, which is the point of its dis-
charge and it is dryest near the periphery. The spray of milk
1
Manufacture of Mii^k Powde;r 299
being discharged into the cyclonic current at the center, carries
its maximum moisture content at that point, gradually surrenders
it to the air, as it moves outwiard to the periphery of the cyclonic"
current. The completion of the drying is accomplished in the
zones of incoming heated air which carry the least humidity.
Therefore, as the outwardly moving particles of milk surrender
more and more of their moisture, they pass through dryer zones
of heated air. This ob^'iously both accelerates the speed of
drying and enhances the completeness of the removal of moisture.
4. Inasmuch as the danger of the solubility-destroying effect
of heat is greatest while the milk is still in the liquid state, and
this effect is practically completely absent in milk from which
the bulk of moisture has been removed, this process has the ad-
ditional advantage of maximum preservation of the solubility
in the finished product. The temperature of the cyclonic air
current is low'est when it reaches the center where the moisture
content of the milk is greatest. By the time the particles of milk
come in contact with the hottest air (at the periphery) their
moisture content is lowest.
5. This process tends to facilitate maximum recovery of
the milk powder. The moisture-laden air escapes in the center,
where the particles of milk are heaviest, and where their greater
specific gravity causes them to partake of the centrifugal motion
moving them outward until when completely dried, they strike
the steeply tapered confining walls of the drying chamber and
fall to the bottom of this chamber.
Gray patent No. 1,157,935 involves, in addition to the new
and advantageous features established under patent No. 1,107,784,
and explained above, apparatus and a method for supporting the
milk or other substance to be desiccated on and by the introduc-
tion of a solid, sheet-like, or finely divided substance. In the
case of milk, the supporting or absorbing material used may be
previously desiccated milk.
The desiccating chamber A described in this patent is similar
to the desiccating chamber show^n under patent No. 1,107,784,
and the intake of the heated air B and discharge of the moisture-
laden air C are unchanged. The intake of the milk and support-
ing material into the desiccating chamber is located in the center
300 Manufacture: of Mii^k Powder
near the top of this chamber. The milk and supporting material
enter through an inlet duct E, through which a shaft F extends
Pigr. 105. Tlie Gray milk drier
down to a vaned distributer G, which is revolved by any suitable
power mechanism. The material to be dried enters the duct E
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at the upper end being fed thereto by a screw conveyor H, which
receives the product from the coating chamber I which is located
above the drying chamber. The coating chamber is cone shape?
At the upper end of this chamber there is provided a means for
introducing the nucleus mass or supporting material, in this case
the previously desiccated milk, and distributing the same in the
chamber, as well as a means for maintaining in this chamber an
atmosphere which carries the milk to be desiccated in com-
minuted form. The nucleus mass or supporting material is fed
to a rotary distributer K by a screw conveyor M, receiving its
material from a hopper N. Extending down through a hollow
shaft L is a pipe O terminating in an atomizing nozzle and the
milk to be desiccated is forced through the pipe and nozzle under
pressure. By this arrangement the comminuted milk and the
comminuted supporting material come into intimate contact
whereby the particles of the supporting material become coated
with the milk to be desiccated.
At the bottom of the desiccating chamber a grading mechan-
ism is provided consisting of shaking screens
Q
and Q^ and a
hopper P w'hich separate the desiccated milk into three grades.
Shaking screen
Q
is of relatively large mesh. It is designed to
remove only the larger particles which pass from this screen to
a pulverizing apparatus R where they are reduced to a finer
condition. The material passing through screen
Q
drops on
screen Q-^, the mêsh of which is of such size as to permit the
passage of only the finer particles, while the intermediate sized
particles are discharged into receptacle S as the finished product.
The finer particles pass down onto a shaking floor Q^ and from
there into a receiver U, which may also receive the pulverized
material from pulverizer R. A conveyor V carries the material
from receiver U up into hopper N, this material constituting the
nucleus mass or supporting material used for desiccating the milk.
There is no drying action in the coating chamber.
This apparatus and process may be operated continuously
and after it is once in operation the output is claimed to be equal
to or greater than w!ould be possible, with an apparatus in which
the liquid milk itself is sprayed into the current of heated air.
This process yields a product having particles of appreciable
size, which facilitates ease and completeness of solution in water.
302 Manufacture of Mii,k Powder
It is superior in this respect to the fine state of division of the
product of other processes, in which state the particles are more
difficult of mixture and solution, though they may be equally
soluble.
Gray patent No. 1,266,013 deviates in principle from No.
1,157,935, in that the liquid to be desiccated is distributed on a
desiccating- supporting surface, and the dried milk is removed
from this surface in finely divided form. The operation is made
continuous by causing the spraying or depositing devices to
travel in unison with the devices for removing the dried material,
but so as to deposit the liquid on the supporting surface after the
same has been cleaned of the dried substance.
The d e s i c c ating
chamber
is of large
size and
cone-shape.
The inclined or taper-
ing sides A form the
supporting
surface. It
terminates at its bot-
tom in a suitable dis-
charge opening B, reg-
ulated by a valve b. At
the top in the center
there is an exit C for
the moisture-laden air,
and peripheral inlet
openings D for the
heated air, similar as in
the apparatus of the
two previous patents,
and so arranged as to
create in the drying
chamber a cyclonic
_
action, whereby any
^
particles heavier than
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the air are caused to seek the walls of the chamber and be
deposited thereon. In the center of the upper portion of the
drying chamber is a rotary spray nozzle F, arranged to direct
the milk in a fan-shaped spray against the inclined wall A. The
The Spray Process 303
milk reaches the spray nozzle under pressure through pipe G.
The nozzle rotates by means of a traveler I supported by a track
i and a roller arrangement i\ The traveler extends down through--
the desiccating chamber, with driving attachment K and L near
bottom. The traveler is provided with a brush made of a mass
of chain links M, depending from the traveler and resting in
contact with the inner surface of the inclined wall A. This brush
insures the removal of the dried material from the surface in
finely divided form.
If it is desired to control the temperature of the supporting
surface A during the drying operation, the supporting wall may
be jacketed, thereby forming a surrounding chamber N through
which a circulating medium of the desired temperature may be
passed to eflfect the proper control of the temperature of the
surface.
The design and arrangement of the apparatus covered by
the above patent is such that while the major portion of the
surface is constantly exposed to the drying eflfect of the cyclonic
current of the heated air, the brush and the traveler which
propels it, advance around the chamber so as to remove the
dried milk from each portion of the surface in succession and the
spray nozzle operates in such a manner as to direct the spray
of milk against the surface in the rear of the traveler and brush,
or on that portion of the surface from which the dried milk has
been removed.^
Chapter XXVI.
COMMERCIAL MANUFACTURE OF MILK POWDER BY
THE SPRAY PROCESS.
Pre-heating of Milk.It has been demontrated that in order
to preserve maximum solubility of the finished product, the fluid
milk should not be heated above 150 degrees F.
Accordingly the practice has been generally adopted in
plants drying milk by spray-drying to heat the milk to from
140 to 150 degrees F. For this purpose similar equipment is
used as in the manufacture of condensed milk.
Pre-condensing of Milk.While, in the early days of the
use of the spray-drying principle for desiccating milk, the fluid
'
See also Dick process, page 335.
304 The Spray Process
milk, without precondensing', was sprayed, and while this pro-
cedure is entirely feasible, it was soon found that it was more
economical to remove a considerable portion of the water of the
fluid milk and to reduce the product to a concentration of about
4:1 or 4.5:1 before spraying. This is accomplished by condens-
ing the fluid milk by any of the methods for condensing as de-
scribed under the "Manufacture of Condensed Milk" in this
volume. In general practice the vacuum pan is used for this
purpose in most of the milk powder plants.
Effect of Pre-condensing on Economy of Manufacture.
The chief advantage and purpose of pre-condensing, instead

of spraying the fluid, or uncondensed milk, lies in the greater
economy of operation in the case of pre-condensing.
*
The fluid milk contains more water than the condensed
milk; more water must be removed during the spraying process,
hence less milk can be desiccated in equipment of the same capa-
city and in the same space of time than in the case of spraying
pre-condensed milk. The pre-condensing therefore means greater
capacity of the available equipment- shorter hours and greater
economy of operation.
Again, the fuel requirements are greater in the process of
desiccating by the spray method than by evaporation in the
vacuum pan or the film method. The comparative efficiency
of evaporating water by means of air and in vacuum, is well
understood. The heat-transmitting coefficient of air is much
lower than that of steam and metal heating surfaces. The
heat applied in the form of heated air is less completely utilized
than the heat applied in the form of steam in copper jackets and
coils, hence in evaporation by heated air there is greater waste
of heat and fuel. The various factors which enter into the dry-
ing by means of air and the resulting losses of heat transferred
are discussed in detail by E.
Hausbrand^ in his revised treatise
entitled ''Drying by Means of Air and Steam."
Effect of Pre-condensing on Bulkiness of Spray Milk
Powder.Other conditions, such as orifice of spray nozzle,
pressure of milk, and temperature to which the milk is preheated
being the same, the milk powder made by spraying fluid or un-
condensed milk, is somewhat more bulky than that made by
1
Hausbrand. "Drying by Means of Air and Steam," 1901.
The: Spray Process
305
pre-condensing- the milk before spraying. The spraying of un-
condensed milk appears to produce a more flaky powder while
the spraying- of condensed milk results in a more granu4ai^
powder. The flake shape does not pack as closely together as
the granular shape. This is obviously an advantage in favor of
pre-condensing.
However, the physical shape and condition of the powdered
milk can be controlled to a considerable extent by modification
of the coarseness or fineness of the spray. In fact, by such modi-
fication it is possible to make a distinctly granular product froni
uncondensed milk, and a decidedly flaky product from the pre-
condensed milk.
The finer the spray the more flaky the milk powder; the
coarser the spray the more granular the milk powder. The fluid
milk makes a finer spray than the condensed milk ; therefore the
more flaky condition of the powder from the former.
Aside from the concentration of the milk to be sprayed, the
fineness or coarseness of the spray can be regulated by the size
C)i the orifice of the spray nozzles and by the pressure of the
milk. The larger the orifice or the lowter the pressure, or both,
the coarser wall be the spray and consequently the more granular
the milk powder. Therefore, in order to reduce the flakiness
and bulkiness of milk pOAvder made from uncondensed milk, and
to make this milk powder more granular, the orifices of the
spray nozzles must be relatively large or the pressure of the
milk must be relatiyely low, or both. vSuperheating of the milk
(boiling it at 212 degrees F*,) by turning steam direct into it
also assists in minimizing the fluffiness and bulkiness of the re-
sulting milk powder but it diminishes the solubility of the
product.
Effect of Pre-condensing on Keeping Quality of Spray Milk
Powder.Inasmuch as the spray milk powder that is now com-
mercially manufactured does not contain enough moisture,
when properly desiccated and protected from dampness, to
sustain bacterial action, the keeping quality of this product does
not materially depend on bacterial decomposition or freedom
therefrom.
Milk powder does became stale with age, however, and
much of it gradually develops a tallowiy flavor and odor. . This
must be attributed to chemical changes, one of the chief of which
is oxidation. While there are numerous agents, which come in
contact wath, or enter into, the composition of milk powder, that
may bring about, or may invite oxidation, air is one of the most
likely factors to play an important role.
Air, as is well known, acts as an oxidizing agent. Since
.there is a noticeable tendency of the product from uncondensed
milk to be flakier and bulkier than the product from condensed
milk, it appears that with this increased bulkiness, there may
be more air in a given bulk, varying somewhat with the method
of packing.
But experience has shown that there is enough air contained
both, in a package of milk powder made from uncondensed milk
and in a like package of milk powder made from condensed
milk, to cause deterioration, when other conditions, such as
light, or temperature, or both, are favorable, or when there is
present in the product enough moisture.
There are no experimental results available that show any
difference in the keeping quality of the two products and the
experience of the commercial manufacturer points to the con-
clusion that the milk powder made from uncondensed milk
keeps as well as the product made from pre-condensed milk.
Effect of Pre-condensing on Solubility of the Spray Milk
Powder.The flaky and fluffy powder of the uncondensed milk
goes into solution at the start somewhat slower than the more
granular powder made of condensed milk. This is due to the
fact that the flaky particles with their relatively large exposed
surfaces, coming in immediate contact with the A\''ater, dissolve
and take up water so rapidly, that they run together and paste,
forming a coating around the remaining mass of the product,
which renders the penetration of the water into the mass some-
what slower at the start. HowcAêr, this is no indication that
the flaky powder is less soluble than the granular powder, in
fact the flaky powder, because of the large relative surfaces of
its particles and, therefore, the greater area of contact, does
dissolve more rapidly when it actually comes in contact with
water.
Experiments conducted by Hunziker indicate that the differ-
ence in speed of solution between the two products is very slight
The; Spray Process
307
and that the total solubility is very slightly greater in the case
of the more flaky milk powder made from uncondensed milk.
In these experiments the amotmt of milk powder, the amoiint-
and temperature of the water and the kind and amount of me-
chanical agitation were exactly alike. At the end of one minute
from the time the milk powders were put into the water, the
amount of solids dissolved was practically the same in the case
of the flaky powder made from uncondensed milk as it was in
the case of the granular powder made from pre-condensed milk.
And after that the percentage of total solids dissolved from the
powder made from uncondensed milk was slightly greater than
the percentage of total solids dissolved at the end of the same
respective periods of time from the powder made from pre-con-
densed milk.
Here again it should be understood that uncondensed milk
may be so atomized and dried (large orifice of spray nozzle and
low pressure) to increase the size and granular condition of
the particles of the resulting powder sufficiently, so that for
all purposes for which milk powders are used commercially and
domêstically the ease or difficulty of solution is no longer any
factor.
Effect of Pre-condensing on Recovery of Spray Milk Powder.
The finer, lighter and more fluffy the milk powder the greater
is the tendency of a portion of the powder to escape from the
drying chamber. Hence it is obvious that the product from un-
condensed milk, when desiccated in such a manner as to intensify
the flakiness at the expense of a granular condition (small orifice
of spray nozzle and high pressure), will tend to escape from
the drying chamber more profusely than the more granular
powder made from pre-condensed milk. Pre-condensing facil-
itates maximum recovery.
It should be borne in mind, however, that the fineness of
some of the particles of dried milk made from either uncon-
densed or pre-condensed milk, makes necessary the use of an
efficient dust collector. Without such a dust collector, a portion
of the finer and lighter particles will be lost in either case. In
the case of the flakier and finer product of uncondensed milk,
the dust collector must be such as to collect a product of that
fineness, in order to be efficient and to accomplish maximum
recovery.
The percentage of recovery of the solids of milk in the form
of milk powder in any given desiccating arrangement then is
largely a matter of efficiency of the dust collector, and the effi-
ciency of dust collectors must increase as the fineness and flaki-
ness of the product increases. The recovery may be materially
facilitated, however, by such an arrangement of the desiccating
apparatus, as will cause the particles of drying milk to travel
in a direction opposite to that of the escaping air, as indicated
in the Gray patents.
Heating the Air.This is done either by the installation
and operation of a furnace, similar in principle to fiot air fur-
naces, or by steam coils installed in a closed, insulated vault. _
The hot air furnace makes possible the heating of the air
to higher temperatures and it is claimed to be somewhat more
economical from the standpoint of fuel consumption. Its dis-
advantages are that the temperature is somewhat more difficult
to control, it fluctuates rapidly with the condition of the fire.
There is also more or less danger of impure air, because in the
case of even slight leaks between the fire box and the hot air
chamber, soot and ashes tend to be drawn into the heated air
and are thus blown into the drying chamber where they mix
with and deposit in the milk powder.
Steam coils, enclosed in a vault, have been found less
objectionable in this respect. While it is more difficult to attain
quite as high a degree of heat by this method, the heated air
can be maintained more easily at a uniform temperature and
there is no danger of impurities leaking into the air.
The air is drawn into the furnace or hot air vault from the
atmosphere. It may be, but usually is not, filtered by admitting it
through an air filter, located at the intake, into the hot air vault.
Absorbent cotton or other similar pervious material may be used
for this purpose.
The earlier patents also cover an air drying arrangement in-
stalled before the air reaches the hot air vault. This greatly as-
sists in controlling and making uniform fhe results of the drying
process from one day to another, neutralizing the disturbing ef-
The: Spray Proce:ss 309
feet of the uncontrollable fluctuations in the humidity of the at-
mospheric air, as affected by weather conditions. However, in
commercial operation the artificial drying of the atmospheric âir-
is generally omitted.
The air may be blown into the desiccating chamber by a
blower fan, in which case a suction fan is frequently also installed
to draw the moisture-laden air from the desiccating chamber ; or the
injection of the air into the drying chamber may all be taken care
of by a strong suction fan located at the air exhaust end of the
desiccating chamber. It is claimed that the double arrangement
of blowing in and drawing out of the heated" air, requiring less
powerful suction at the exhaust end, minimizes the escape of milk
powder with the moisture-laden air and thereby facilitates the
recovery. The speed of the drying action and the exhaustiveness
of desiccation may be augmented by introducing the air in such a
manner as to produce a
cyclonic air current moving spirally toward
the center of the drying chamber, where it escapes while the milk
spray issues from the center, is acted on by the centrifugal force
and moves tangentially toward the periphery as shown in the Gray
patents.
The temperature of the air as it enters the desiccating cham-
ber is generally held at from
250
to
300
F., the temperature of
the moisture-laden air discharging from the drying chamber ranges
from
150
F. to
200 F.
Spraying and Desiccating.The drying is accomplished by
forcing the milk or condensed milk, in the form of an atomized
spray, into the current of heated air in such a manner, that the
fluid milk particles, or atoms of the milk spray, remain in suspen-
sion sufficiently long to cause them to surrender substantially all
of their moisture. The dried particles or flakes of milk are al-
lowed to deposit at the bottom or sides of the drying chamber or in
a separate collecting chamber, from where they are removed for
sifting and packing through a hopper, while the moisture-laden air
escapes separately to the outside.
The Desiccating Chamber.The desiccatmg chambers in
commercial use vary considerably in size and in shape, as well as
in arrangement of spray nozzles and intake and outlet of heated
air.
310 The: Spray Proce:ss
Most of these chambers are rectangular, measure from about
12 feet in length, width and height upward to much larger dimen-
sions. Some are longer than they are wide and others are much
higher than they are wide and long. Still others are of the circu-
lar type, resembling small silos, and some are cone-shap.
The desiccating chambers are usually completely lined with
tin plate on the inside, making them air tight or nearly so. In
order to prevent waste of heat by radiation through the walls, top
and bottom, they must be properly insulated. This is generally
done with asbestos sheeting.
Spray Nozzles.The milk enters the desiccating chamber
through one or more spray nozzles, under a pressure of about
3,000 pounds. The spray nozzles are generally located in the side
of the drying chamber in close proximity to the top, so as to give
the spray particles as far a distance to fall through the heated air
as the height of the chamber permits. Or the spray nozzle may be
located in or near the center of the drying chamber, in its upper
portion, in which case the spray issues outward radially, or is blown
out of the nozzle tangentially by giving the spray nozzle a rotary
motion.
When more than one spray nozzle is used, the multiple noz-
zles are either arranged in a straight row along one side, or they
may be distributed over two or over all four sides of the desic-
cating chamber.
Different types of spray nozzles or atomizers are used. In
some hot air under pressure, or steam, propels and blows the milk
through the nozzle on a similar principle as the boiler water in-
jector. In other cases the spray nozzle consists of a heavy black
iron cap, about one and one-quarter inch long and with a one-half
inch threaded bore. This cap is screwed on to the end of the
milk pipe, or its laterals. In the center of the closed end, the cap
has a very fine opening with a diameter of from one-half to one
millimeter (.02 to .04 inch). A small brass disc, about one-quar-
ter inch thick and snugly fitting into the iron cap, lays against
the closed end of the cap and covers the small orifice. This brass
disc carries two minute spiral grooves at its periphery, through
which the milk under pressure is forced between disc and cap
The: Spray Proce:ss 311
and escapes through the small orifice in the cap, forming a
fine spray or mist.
The small orifice through which the milk spray enters the-
desiccating chamber increases in size by usage due to wear, and
necessitates the frequent replacing of the old caps or nozzles by
new ones. When in operation, these spray nozzles at times be-
come clogged and must be changed for cleaning. It is necessary,
therefore, for the operator to supervise the process continually,
making sure that all the spray nozzles function properly, so as to
secure maximum efficiency and speed of desiccation.
In order to facilitate the changing of spray nozzles while desic-
cation is in progress, the nozzles are so placed as to connect with
the milk pipe on the outside of the desiccating chamber, the nipples
carrying the spray nozzles connecting with the milk supply pipe by
means of Barco joints (loose joints), can be turned in all directions
sufficiently to withdraw the nozzles from the desiccating chamber
independently and at any time during the desiccating operation.
Spray Pumps.In order to maintain a uniform efficiency of
desiccation and to secure a uniform fineness of spray, it is im-
portant that the pressure of the milk should be uniform. To ac-
complish this requires a special type of pump. The pumps best
Fig-. 107. High pressure pump for spraying* milk
suited for this purpose are three cylinder pumps with large, heavy
valves and with extra deep stuffing boxes that can be packed with
one-half inch packing rings, and special, heavily bolted glands that
can be readily adjusted when the pump is running.
The triple cylinder arrangement insures a steady pressure
and continuous flow through the spray nozzles and the deep stuf-
fing boxes enhance the tightness of the seal. The hardening of
condensed milk on the plungers is prevented by an open pot water-
seal which completely merges the stuffing boxes, the water serving
to both cool and lubricate the packing and to prevent its being hard-
ened by absorbing condensed milk. While the pump is in operation
a small stream of cold water is allowed to run into this water pot
and to -overflow through a suitable opening.
These pressure pumps should also be provided with proper
relief or overflow valves, so as to avoid the danger of excessive
pressure and variation in the spray, in case several of the spray
nozzles should become clogged simultaneously.
At the finish of the run of milk, a quantity of w^ter should
be pumped through these high pressure pumps and pipes and it
is advisable to allow the pumps and pipes to stand full of water
when they are not in use, so as to loosen and remove remnants of
condensed milk,- preventing their accumulation in the cylinders and
avoiding difficulties incident to plugging, and clogging.
The pressure used at which the milk is forced through the
spray nozzles varies from 800 to 3,500 pounds per square inch,
the usual range of pressure employed fluctuates between 2,000 and
3,000 pounds. The multiple nozzles with the fine openings require
less pressure to secure the same atomizing effect than when fewer
or one large nozzle is used.
Hot Air Intake and Discharge.The heated air enters the
drying chamber at points varying with different types of cham-
bers. Where the spray issues forth from nozzles located all on
one side, the heated air often is admitted through a slot located
directly under the spray nozzles and the air travels in the same
direction as the spray and mixes with it.
In desiccating chambers in which the spray nozzles are in-
stalled on all sides, the heated air may enter near the bottom in
the center of the desiccating chamber, pass up through and mix-
ing evenly with the spray that issues from all sides toward the
center. Or the heated air may enter at the top and pass downward
with the spray. Or it may enter at the periphery at various points
near the top, in the form of a cyclonic current moving spirally to-
ward the center, and escaping in the center through the top of the
desiccating chamber.
The Spray Proce:ss 313
The arrangement of the exit of the moisture-laden, spent air
also differs with different drying chambers. In many cases, espe-
cially where the heated air and spray enter at one side, the exit
of the moisture-laden air is on one side, in this case on the side
opposite that of the intake. In other cases the spent air escapes
at the top and in still others near the bottom of the desiccating
chamber.
Hausbrand^ points out that the air always enters the desic-
cating room hotter than it leaves and 'that the spent air is usually
more completely moisture-saturated than the incoming air. The
density of the spent air therefore ;s greater than that of the air
at the intake. The spent air is heavier. It has, consequently, an
inclination to pass downward. Hausbrand accordingly holds, that
in vertical drying rooms the direction of the currents of air should
be from top to bottom, since the movement is then more uniform
than when the heated air enters below and at once takes the shortest
path to the upper exit, without coming in contact with all the dry-
ing material.
It is important that the drying room be protected against
the entry of air from outside. The walls must be free from leaks,
the peep holes or sight glasses, the doors and the shutters in the
hopper at the bottom, must fit tightly.
The outgoing air, in a properly operating desiccating cham-
ber, should have a temperature considerably lower than the incom-
ing air. As previously stated, it usually is, and it is desirable that
it should be below
200
F., and preferably not above about
150
F.
The lowering of the temperature of the heated air in the desiccat-
ing chamber is due to the cooling effected by the rapid evaporation
of the moisture from the spray of milk. This cooling effect in
turn protects the milk solids against changes resulting from contact
with the hot air, and assists in preserving their original solubility.
Recovery of Desiccated Milk.Because of the extreme fine-
ness and lightness of the milk powder made by the spray process
of desiccating milk, a certain portion of the most flaky and fluffy
particles escapes from the desiccating chamber with the outgoing
air. As previously stated, the proportion of powder that thus
escapes varies greatly with the degree of flakiness or granulation
Hausbrand, Drying by Means of Air and Steam, 1901.
of the product. But even in the case of quite granular powders
a very appreciable portion leaves the desiccating chamber. Again,
efforts have been made to prevent this escape of milk powder by
extending the length of the desiccating chamber, thereby augment-
ing the distance between the intake and exit of the hot air. This
arrangement subjects the dried particles over a longer distance to
the gravity force, their opportunity to drop to and deposit on the
bottom of the desiccating chamber before being caught in the out-
going air current is augmented, and the tendency for escape is
diminished. In other cases, see Gray patent, the intake and dis-
charge of the air and the direction of the particles of milk are so
arranged that the moisture-laden air escapes in the center while the
milk spray moves tangentially toward the periphery, thus making
for minimum escape and maximum recovery of the powder.
At best, however, there is need of provisions to recover milk
powder carried off in the air currents escaping from the desiccating
chamber, and diverse contrivances have been designed and are in use
in milk powder factories for this purpose.
These arrangements for the purpose of reclaiming or recover-
ing the milk powder are known as "dust collectors." They are
similar in principle to those used in flower mills. Some of these
dust collectors now in commercial use are guaranteed to accom-
plish 99.9 per cent recovery of such products as corn starch, wheat
flour and the like.
They chiefly consist of vaults or drums or other containers
into which the suction fan, located at the air exit end of the dry-
ing chamber, discharges the outgoing air. These vaults are
equipped with a series of canvas screens or bags on which the par-
ticles of milk powder floating in the outgoing air, are deposited,
and from which by mechanical shaking- or otherwise, the escaping
milk powder is reclaimed and recovered.
In some factories a part of the recovery equipment consists
of a so-called cyclone. This is usually a cylindrical receptacle
with cone-shaped bottom. The air escaping from the drying cham-
ber is blown into this cyclone with great force and, being thrown
against its walls, drops at least a portion of the fine, dust-like milk
powder it contains.
Composition and Prope:rtie:s of Mii.k Powde:rs 315
Bolting.The powdered milk resulting from the spray dry-
ing process of desiccation requires no grinding. It is very floury
in its physical make up, and after sifting it is ready to be packed.
Packing of Milk Powder.The dried milk is put on the

market in packages of various types, such as fibre containers, tin
cans and barrels. The sizes vary from 8 ounce packages to 200
pound barrels. Of the small size packages the 10 pound can with
friction top predominates. The barrels vary some in net weight
with the process of manufacture used, the granular product of
the dough-drying and film-drying processes being heavier than the
flaky product of the spray-drying process.
The bulk of milk powder reaches the market in barrels ; these
are paper lined, similar as sugar barrels.
Chapti^r XXVII.
COMPOSITION AND PROPERTIES
Of
MILK POWDERS.
Chemical Composition of Milk Powders.The chemical
composition of milk powders varies principally with the percent-
age composition of the original milk from which the powder is
made, and to some extent with the process of desiccating.
The percentage composition of the fluid milk is controlled
primarily by locality and season of year, as determined by breed,
period of lactation and feed of the cows. For these reasons milk
powders made by the same process, but in different localities and
at different seasons of the year, often show very considerable
variations in their percentage composition.
Effect of Atmospheric Conditions. The atmospheric con-
dition, especially with reference to humidity of the air, has a
further, frequently quite material effect on the chemical composi-
tion of the powder from the standpoint of dryness or moisture
content. Experience has amply demonstrated that when there is
a high degree of humidity in the atmosphere, the resulting milk
powder shows a higher per cent moisture than when made on a

clear, dry day.
316 Composition and Properties of Miek Powders
Effect of Process of Manufacture.The influence of the
process of manufacture on the composition of the milk powder
refers primarily to modifications of the milk prior to desiccation,
although the method of desiccation itself also exerts a limited
effect.
The greater the percentage of butterfat to which the original
milk has been standardized or modified, the lower must necessa-
rily be the percentage of solids not fat, and this same fact is true
also of the finished powder. Hence the milk powders may vary
from say one per' cent of fat and possibly over 95 per cent of
solids not fat in the case of skim milk powder, to over 70 per cent
of fat and less than 30 per cent of solids not fat in the case of
cream powder. Whole milk powders generally contain from about
26 to 29 per cent fat.
The degree of dryness, or per cent of moisture, aside from
atmospheric conditions is largely governed by the process of desic-
cation. Generally speaking, milk powders manufactured by the
spray-drying process contain less moisture than those made by the
film-drying and dough-drying processes.
The spray-drying process, at its present state of perfection,
makes possible the removal of all but a very small percentage of
moisture. Spray powders containing as low as one per cent
moisture are quite possible; in fact, the moisture content of these
powders, as found in commerce, ranges from about .5 per cent to
3.5 per cent, averaging about 1.5 to 2.5 per cent.
The powders resulting from the film-drying processes generally
contain from about 3 to 6 per cent moisture.
Some milk powders, especially certain brands of foreign man-
ufacture, and particularly those of the dough-drying process, also
contain added sucrose.
Composition and Properties of Milk Powders 317
Chemical Composition of Milk Powders.
Analyses Made or
Reported by-
Whole milk powders
Richmond^
Richmond*
Richmond*
C. Huyge^
Larsen & White'
Otakar Laxa*
Merrell-Soule Co.^ . .
Part skim milk
powders :
Richmond^
C. Huyge^
C. Huyo-e^
Larsen & White-^
Otakar Laxa*
Otakar Laxa*
Otakar Laxa*
Merrell-Soule Co.=^ . .
Skim milk powders :
Richmond*
C. Huyge^
Larsen & White^ .. .
Otakar Laxa*
Stocking"'
Mojonnier Bros. Co."
Mojonnier Bros. Co.*'
Mojonnier Bros. Co.''
Cream powders:
Merrell-Soule Co."' . .
Water
Butter-
fat
6.39
4.92
4.74
3.62
1.40
4.07
1.50
5.15
5.01
8.30
5.00
5.46
4.80
5.85
2.12
3.55
7.40
7.00
7.15
2.40
3.39
i
1.72
1
1.00
I
I
.801
.66 1
.561
27.35
27.98
29.16
26.75
29.20
25.00
28.20
19.90
15.26
13.00
15.12
21.96
17.13
15.72
14.20
2.55
1.00
1.00
1.57
1.35
1.25
1.15
1.97
50.40
65.15
71.15
Protein
%
27.48
24.59
26.66
32.06
26.92
24.84
26.67
31.10
38.39
30.57
33.30
25.69
29.88
30.95
32.26
35.45
37.28
37.00
33.29
37.70
33.94
35.01
34.75
19.19
13.42
11.12
Milk
Sugar
%
31.42
34.16
32.24
31.90
36.48
35.75
37.88
34.96
34.67
48.85
39.70
40.93
40.72
40.67
44.41
45.60
46.30
I
47.00
I
47.23
I
49.94
I
50.88
I 52.24
I
51.92
25.45
17.86
14.74
Ash
Cane
Sugar
6.00
6.24
5.63
5.67
6.00
'6
20
5.75
7.11
6.67
7.28
6.90
5.74
6.84
6.06
7.01
7.89
8.00
8.00
8.03
8.21
7.87
8.03
8.24
4.16
2.91
2.43
13
1.16
5.08
1.46
2.80
^
Richmond, Dairy Chemistry, 1914.
2
C. Huyge. La Poudre du lait, Revue genfirale du lait. V ol 3, No. 14,
1904. Also Leach Food Analyses.
8
Larsen & White. Dairy Technology, 1913.
*
otakar Laxa. Berichte der laktologischen Anstalt der k. k. bohmischen
technischen Hochschule in Prag, Vol. VIII., 1917.
6 Merrell-Soule Co. Descriptive Bulletin Concerning Merrell-Soule Pow-
dered Milk, 1918; also Stocking, Manual of Milk Products, 1919.
"
Mojonnier Bros. Co. Analysis by request of author, 1919.
a
Hydrocarbons in ash.
318 Composition and Properties of AIilk Powders
^Solubility of Milk Powders.
^Tf milk powders are to take

the place of fresh milk or condensed milk on the table of the con-
sumer, and for most of the industrial uses to which they are being
put, they must be readily soluble. One of the greatest obstacles
in the progress of the milk powder industry has been that the
dried milk of most of the processes failed to be readily and com-
pletely soluble. Earlier processes prescribed the admixture to
the milk of alkalies in order to preserve the solubility of the pro-
teids, which otherwise were rendered insoluble by the high heat
of the respective processes. It is obvious that a dried milk, the
solubility of 'which can be retained only by the admixture of al-
kalies, is a poor substitute for milk, and the very principle of add-
ing chemicals to a food product like milk, is contrary to our ideal
of successful manufacture of high quality of product.
The term ''Solubility" is here used in the broader sense of
the word. Milk is not a true solution. It is part solution and
part emulsion. "Solubility" here implies a powder, in which those
constituents which are in complete solution in normal fluid milk,
have retained their original solubility, such as the sugar of milk,
and in which those constituents which are present in normal fluid
milk in the form of an emulsion, as is the case with the casein,
fat and part of the ash, have retained their original emulsifying
power. In short, the term "solubility," as used in this discussion,
means those attributes of the milk powder that enable the pow-
der, when mixed with water, to again form a solution and emulsion
of a character, physically and mechanically, similar to that of nor-
mal fluid milk.
The solubility of milk powders varies principally with the
quality of the fluid milk and with the process of manufacture.
By quality of milk, as here referred to, is meant chiefly the
acidity. The combination of the heat of desiccation and of high
acidity, tends to rob the protein and ash constituents of the re-
sulting powder of their natural solubility. The higher the de-
gree of acid in the fluid milk, the lower "will be the solubility of
the powder. The fresher and sweeter the milk at the time of desic-
cation, the more soluble will be the powder, other factors being the
same.
For this reason many milk powder factories are endeavoring
Composition and Prope:rtie:s of Mii.k Powde:rs 319
to receive their fluid milk twice daily, and some are using alkaline
neutralizers in order to reduce the acidity of the milk before desic-
cation. ^
One fundamental reason why even slight increases in acidity
do very markedly reduce the solubility of the finished powder, lies
in the fact that the high degree of concentration necessarily mul-
tiplies the percentage of acid, and with it the solubility-destroying
effect of the heat of desiccation.
The process of manufa'cture controls the solubility of the milk
powder chiefly by the degree of heat to which the milk is exposed
and by the manner in which the heat is applied.
In the film process of drying, for instance, the milk is exposed
to the heated cylinder charged with steam under pressure, and con-
sequently it is subjected to temperatures far exceeding that of the
boiling point of water. This high heat does materially reduce the
solubility of the resulting powder, though this unfavorable effect
may be minimized to some extent by having the cylinders operate
in a vacuum chamber under reduced pressure.
In the case of the spray-drying process, the milk is not exposed
to a steam-heated metal surface. The fact that the air entering the
spray-drying chamber may have, and usually does have, a tempera-
ture of from 275 degrees F. to over 300 degrees F., appears to not
materially affect the solubility of the resulting powder.
In the spray-drying process the evaporation of the moisture in
the atomized spray is so rapid that it brings about a marked cooling
effect, and it is believed that the milk solids are kept in a relatively
cool condition until they have surrendered substantially all of their
moisture.
This protection of the milk against the solubihty-destroying
action of heat appears to be especially insured by the process of
the Gray patent, in which the coolest strata of the heated air only
come in contact with the incoming moisture-laden milk, and by the
time the milk particles enter the zone of the hot incoming air they
have surrendered the bulk of their moisture.
That a marked cooling effect does take place in the drying
chamber is further borne out by the fact that the moisture-laden air
escaping from the drying chamber has a temperature very much
lower than the entering air. The outgoing air of a properly operated
320 Composition, and Propertiks of Mii,k Powde:rs
spray-drying chamber usually has a temperature of from 150 to
about 180 degrees F.
In the spray-drying process it is customary to heat the fluid
milk or the condensed milk to not to exceed 150 degrees F., and it
appears that when this is done the milk solids are not exposed to
temperatures materially higher than 150 degrees F. until they have
given ofiF their moisture; in fact, it is possible that at least during
the early stages of desiccation they are actually cooled by their
rapid surrender of moisture.

Experimental study has demonstrated that, when a certain de-
gree of concentration has been exceeded, exposure to high heat de-
stroys the solubility of the protein constituents of the milk. This
is a matter of common knowledge to the operator of the sterilizer
in the manufacture of evaporated milk. In the spray-drying process
the change from high concentration of the milk in the liquid state, to
complete dryness, is so instantaneous that no damage is done and
when once dry, exposure to heat does no further harm.
The solubility of the powder resulting from the spray-drying
process may be materially reduced, however, if the fluid milk,
prior to desiccation, is heated to temperatures considerably in ex-
cess of 150 degrees F.
The powders of the properly operated spray-drying process are
practically completely soluble in cold water. The powders of the
film-drying process require hot water for their solution and even in
hot water they fall short slightly, but unmistakably, of complete
solution.
The relative solubility of spray- and film-dried powders is
shown in the following table
:
Composition and Properties o^ Mii,k Powders 321
Solubility of Milk Powders of Film-Drying Process, and
of Spray-Drying Process.
Process of Desiccation
In Cold Water
78.5" F.-
Per Cent
in
Solution
Per Cent
of
Powder
Dissolved
In Hot Water
210" F.
Per Cent
in
Solution
Per Cent
of
Powder
Dissolved
Total Solids
Film-process powders:
Skim milk powder
Cream powder
Spray-process powders:
Skim milk powder (milk heated
to 150 degrees F. before
desiccation)
desiccation)
78.09
80.03
Protein
Filmrprocess powders:
Skim milk powder
Cream powder
Spray-process powders:
desiccation)
"
desiccation)
.41
.49 ....
.65
1.62
2.00 .... 1.97
1.47 1.74
The solubility tests, the results of which are recorded in the
foregoing table, were made as follows:
Two samples of film-process powders and two samples of spray-
process powders were used. Twelve grams of each powder was
added to 200 cc. of water at a temperature of 78.5 degrees F. The
four samples were placed into a mechanical shaker and shaken for
ten minutes.
After shaking, 100 cc. of each lot was poured through a paper
filter and the filtrate analyzed for percentage of total solids.
The remaining 100 cc. of each lot was heated to the boiling
322 Composition and Properties of Milk Powders
point and held there for five minutes. The water lost by evapora-
tion was replaced. The hot solutions were then filtered and analyzed
for total solids.
The results of the above tests show that the spray-process
powder when made from milk that was not heated above 150 de-
grees F. before desiccation, had the power of returning into an
emulsion in cold water that would filter in a similar manner and
would pass through the filter with a similar degree of completeness
as ordinary milk. The powder was substantially completely soluble.
When made from milk that had been heated to the boiling point,
the spray-process powder lost slightly over 10 per cent of its solu-
bility. About one-half of this loss was recovered upon heating the
water and powder mixture to the boiling point.
The film-process powder in cold water went into a filterable
emulsion to the extent of from 60 to 70 per cent of the powder
added, and in hot water to the extent of from 78 to 80 per cent of
the powder added.
The very marked difference in solubility of the powders from
the two processes could be readily observed also without chemical
analysis. When the solutions of the film-process powders were
allowed to remain at rest in test tubes there would always gather
a very considerable deposit of solid matter in the bottom. This was
the case in both hot and cold water, but the deposit was very con-
siderably more voluminous in the cold mixture than in the hot
mixture.
In the case of the spray-process powders no such deposit of
solid matter could be detected, neither in the hot nor in the cold
mixtures.
It is further interesting to note that the percentage of protein
found in the filtrates from all the powders with the exception of
the hot solution from the film-process cream powder, followed very
closely the percentage of total solids in the same filtrates. This
suggests very obviously that the degree to which the solubility, or
better the power of the milk powder to return to the character of
the original milk, is impaired by the process of desiccation, is largely
controlled by and depends on the extent to which the process of
desiccation changes the physical properties of the protein of milk.
Miscibility and Readiness of Solution of Milk Powders.
The rapidity and readiness with which milk powders go into so-
Composition and Properties of Mii.k Powders 323
called solution is a factor which does not always depend on their
actual solubility.
Other conditions being the same, it is obvious that the finer th(
particles of the powder the more rapidly will it dissolve. This fact
is based on the well-known physical law that the smaller a body the
larger is its surface in proportion to its cubic contents. The sur-
faces of two spheres are to each other as the squares of their diame-
ters and the cubic contents of two spheres are to each other as the
cubes of their diameters. This is clearly demonstrated in the fol-
lowing example
:
One sphere has a diameter of 2 inches and the other sphere has
a diameter of 4 inches. The surfaces and the cubic contents of
these spheres are as follows
:
Tig. 108.
Sphere with Sphere with
2-inch dia. 4-inch dia.
Surfaces =
2x2==4 4X4=
16
Cubic contents
=2x2X2
= 8
4X4X4
= 64
The surface of the sphere with the 4-inch diameter is four
times as large as the surface of the sphere with the 2-inch diameter.
But the cubic content of the sphere with the 4-inch diameter is
eight times as great as the cubic content of the sphere with the 2-inch
diameter.
And again, the cube and circular shape of a body has a smaller
surface than the oblong and flake shape body.
The greater the area or surface of a body with a given cubic
content, the more surface is exposed to the solvent and the more
rapidly will it dissolve. Therefore, the finer and more flaky the
particles of milk powder, the more readily and more rapidly will
they dissolve.
The spray-process powders usually are finer and more flaky
than the film-process powders, hence the former should go in solu-
tion more rapidly than the latter.
The above facts concerning the relation of fineness and flakiness
of milk powder to ease and speed of solution prevail to a certain
point. When that point is exceeded mechanical handicaps enter
into the results that tend to retard solution, at least in the beginning.
In the case of excessively fine and flaky milk powders, the exposed
surfaces are so great and the particles so small that when the powder
is placed into water, the rapid solution of the powder that comes
into immediate contact with the water causes the powder to run
together and paste, forming a pasty coating around the remainder
of the powder. This coating hinders and retards the penetration of
the powder by the water and thereby renders complete solution
slower, at least at the start.
This difficulty is generally not experienced with the film-process
powders, which are of a granular nature. It can be largely avoided
in the case of the spray-process powders by so adjusting the orifice
of the spray nozzles and the pressure of the milk, as to increase the
coarseness of the spray. The coarser the spray the less flaky and
the more granular the powder. High pressure and small orifice in
spray nozzles produce a very fine spray and a flaky powder. Low
pressure and large orifice in spray nozzles produce a less fine spray
and a more granular powder.
The concentration of the milk at the time of spraying also in-
fluences the coarseness or fineness of the spray to a considerable
extent. Other conditions being the same, the higher the concentra-
tion of the milk at the time of spraying the coarser the spray and
the less flaky and the more granular the resulting milk powder.
When the milk is sprayed before previously condensing it, a finer
and flakier powder is produced than when the milk is first con-
densed at the ratio of about 4:1, and the condensed milk is sprayed,
always assuming, however, that other conditions, such as orifice of
spray nozzle and pressure of milk be the same. It is possible, even
by spraying the fluid, uncondensed milk, to produce a powder that
is distinctly granular, by the proper adjustment of the above factors.
The miscibility of the dried milk with water depends, aside
from its solubility, readiness of solution and character of the protein,
on the physical condition of its butter fat. If the process employed
is such as to destroy the globular form of the fat globules, it is
Composition and Prope:rtiks of Milk Powde^rs 325
impossible to reduce the dried milk to a homogeneous fluid, similar
to normal fresh milk. The fat in such milk will rise to the surface
quickly, similar to the faj in a mixture of oil and water. ^.__.
Keeping Quality of Milk Powders.
Moisture Content.One of the fundamental reasons for
which milk is reduced to a dry powder lies in the eflforts of the
manufacturer to preserve it.
Bacteria and other micro-organisms require moisture to grow,
thrive and accomplish their work of decomposing the substances in,
which and on which they live. In the absence of moisture bacterial
action ceases.
In properly desiccated milk powders, such as are now manu-
factured and placed upon the market, the percentage of moisture
has been reduced to a point that precludes the possibility of bac-
terial decomposition. If these desiccated milk powders are packed
and stored in such a manner as to protect them against dampness,
they may reasonably be expected to keep indefinitely insofar as
their keeping quality depends on freedom from bacterial action.
Milk powders with excessive moisture content and milk powders
that are exposed to dampness, on the other hand, are prone to be-
come lumpy, moldy and to develop diverse undesirable flavors.
Air, Light and Heat; Relation to Stak Flavor, Tallowy and
Rancid Flavor.In spite of the fact that the low moisture con-
tent renders milk powders practically immune to bacterial action,
they are subject to deterioration with age when certain other con-
ditions, such as air, light and heat are favorable, or when metals and
metallic salts are present, or both, and experience has amply dem-
onstrated that practically all milk powders made from the usual
quality of milk under the present methods of manufacture and
packing", and usual conditions incident to storage, develop a dis-
agreeable stale flavor, which often degenerates into a tallowy or so-
called rancid flavor with age.
Exact data showing the fundamental changes which these pow-
ders undergo are not available, but the findings of iRogers, Hunziker
and others,^ as the result of extensive experimental studies of the
keeping quality of butter strongly suggest, that these changes are
of chemical rather than of biological nature and that oxidation of
Hunziker. The Butter Industry, 1920.
one or more of the constituents of these products plays an important
role. Success in the manufacture of milk powders of superior
keeping quality, therefore, demands also the protection of the prod-
uct against agencies that invite oxidation,
^
Exclusion of Air.The oxidizing power of air is well known.
Milk powder exposed to atmospheric air will not keep; It soon de-
velops a stale flavor, and if it contains a considerable percentage of
butterfat it becomes tallowy.
For this reason milk powder should be, and usually is, packed
in such a manner as to exclude the outside air as much as possible.
The powder packed in bulk is sealed in barrels lined with heavy
paper. Smaller packages consist of tin cans, or fibre cans with tin
ends and friction caps.
^
Unfortunately the body of the milk powder itself is not en-
tirely free from air, so that unless packed under vacuum there al-
ways is some air in the package. While protection against free ex-
posure to outside air, by proper packing, greatly minimizes the de-
teriorating action, and does distinctly enhance the keeping quality
of the powder, the air present in the sealed package is sufficient to
cause slow deterioration when other conditions, such as heat or
metallic salts, or both, are present. The packing of milk powder in
vacuo would undoubtedly assist in preserving the milk powder.
Exclusion of Light.
'The rays of light intensify the oxidiz-

ing action of the air. It is, therefore, important that milk powder
be kept in the dark. This is automatically accomplished by sealing
it in the usual commercial packages. If the powder must be held
in the factory for a considerable number of hours before packing,
it should be kept in covered containers. Remnant barrels, or other
broken packages in the home or in industrial estabHshments using
milk powder should be kept tightly covered.
Effect of Heat.Heat, similar as light, intensifies the
oxidizing action of air and of other oxidizers and cataHzers. Milk
powder kept at relatively high temperatures becomes stale and de-
velops other defects quicker than milk powder kept in the cold.
Metals and Metallic Salts.Certain metals and their alloys
1
The sensitiveness of most of the spray process milk powders toward
oxidizing agents is augmented by the fact the atomizing process under high
pressure causes a subdivision of the fat globules, depriving the fat of at
least a portion of the protective gelatinous layer which surrounds each orig-
inal fat globule, thereby exposing the fat more directly to the destructive
oxidizing agents.
Composition and Prope:rtie:s of Mii^k Powders 327
and salts are most active oxidizers. This is especially the case of
copper and its alloys, such as brass and German silver ; also the salts
of copper. Iron, while not inert from the standpoint of oxidation,
is much less active and its salts exert but a slight oxidizing action.
Tin and nickel have no oxidizing action.
On the basis of these facts it is not improbable, that the
holding-, heating and condensing of milk in copper containers,
and the use of copper drums in film-drying and of brass nozzles
in spray-drying, are factors contributory to the deterioration of
the resulting milk powders.
Continuous, or flash heaters through Av'hich the milk passes
rapidly and to the metal surfaces of which it is exposed for a
very short time only, are a negligible factor in this respect.
Even if these surfaces are of untinned copper, there is but very
remote danger of damage to the product.
But not so with containers in which the milk is held for
hours, or in which it is condensed prior to desiccation. Here
the time and conditions of exposure are sufficient tO' invite
chemical action of the acid and lactose of the milk on the copper
surface of the container. If the holding tanks are of copper,
they should be heavily tinned ; or in their place glass enameled
tanks should be used.
The copper vacuum pan is another menace to keeping-
quality. Salts of copper are especially likely to form on the
inner surface of the dome which is exposed to the spray and to
the volatile acids of the boiling milk. After each day's work
the dome, as well as all the other parts of the interior of the
pan, should be scrupulously cleaned to prevent any accumulation
of copper salts, which would otherwise become a part of the
next batch and of the milk powder made therefrom.
In the manufacture of whole milk powder, particularly, due
to the action of the copper of the vacuum pan on the butterfat,
the tendency to cause damage to the finished product; is great.
It is advisable to skim the whole milk, condense the skim milk
only and add the cream after condensing, in order to minimize
this danger.
Sandblasted iron pipes are preferable to so called sanitary
pipes, unless the inside copper surface of the sanitary pipes is
properly tinned and the tin coating is reasonably permanent.
328 Composition and Propertie:s of MiIvK Powders
To what extent the brass nozzles jeopardize the keeping-
quality of the powder is difficult to say. Rut it is well known
that they suffer considerable wear as the result of the spraying,
and this means that the atomized spray carries off particles of
brass w'hich later become a part of the finished powder.
The metal drums used in the film-drying- process are gen-
erally constructed of metal other than copper. Many are of
highly polished steel and some are nickel plated. The desiccat-
ing equipment used in this process is therefore not exposing- the
product to copper and copper salts, thereby largely avoiding the
possibility of injuring the keeping quality of the resulting milk
powder through this channel.
Insects in Milk Powder.
^Milk powder may, andntnder cer-

tain conditions does, become infested w^th insect life, such as
maggots, weevil, etc. This infection may take place in the fac-
tory itself, but more often it is the result of contamination after it
leaves the factory.
Such contamination is generally due to a faulty package.
Whenever the seal is broken the danger of insect invasion is
very great. Manufacturers have found also that packages sent
to the tropics are especially prone to succumb to this nuisance,
the prevention of which necessitated the packing of the powder
destined for the tropics, in hermetically sealed cans.
Lumpy Milk Powder.As previously stated, milk powder
exposed to dampness invariably becomes lumpy, and even when
exposed to atmospheric air of normal humidity it will gradually
form lumps, owing to the highly hygroscopic properties of the
milk powder. In order to prevent lumpiness, the powder must
be stored in a dry place and packed in a manner to protect it
against direct contact with atmospheric air.
At best milk powder has an inherent tendency to ''lump up."
This is especially true of flaky powders. The more granular
pow^ders yield less readily to this defect.
In order to minimize the tendency toward lumpiness. the
milk powder should be allowed to cool, after desiccation and
before sifting and packing. If sifted and packed while still
warm, the soft condition of the fat causes the particles to lump
together after sifting. If sifted and packed after the milk powder
has surrendered its heat, the fat has had an opportunity to
Cost of Manufacture 329
solidify and harden and after sifting- the particles remain separate
and granular and do not so readily stick together in the form
of lumps.
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COST OF MANUFACTURE.
The approximate cost of manufacture of whole milk powder
and skim milk powder is. indicated below:
Cost of Whole Milk Powder.
100 lbs. whole milk V . . .$3,350
Barrels and liners per 100 lbs. milk 100
Labor per 100 lbs. milk 193
Fuel (condensing and drying) per 100 lbs. milk. . .089
Overhead per 100 lbs. milk 074
Interest, insurance, etc., per 100 lbs. milk 050
Total cost per 100 lbs. milk $3,856
Total cost per pound of whole milk powder,
^ calculated on basis of 12.5 pounds of powder
made from 100 pounds of whole milk, when
price of whole milk is $3.35 $0.3085
Cost of Skim Milk Powder.
100 lbs. skim milk $1.13
Barrels and liners 068
Fuel (condensing and drying) per 100 lbs. skim
milk \ ! 089
Labor per 100 lbs. skim milk 193
Overhead per 100 lbs. skim milk 074
Interest, insurance, etc., per 100 lbs. skim milk.. .040
Total cost per 100 lbs. skim milk $1,594
Total cost per pound of skim milk powder,
calculated on basis of 8.5 pounds powder made
from 100 pounds skim milk, when price of skim
milk is $1.13 $0.1875
MARKETS.
The uses of milk powder are very diversified. Whole milk
powder is widely advertised for infant food and for general family
330 Dried Buttermilk and Dried Whey
use. Considerable quantities are used by market milk dealers for
"reconstituting" milk for market milk purposes, especially at times
of shortage of the fluid milk supply. Large quantities of whole milk
powder are absorbed also by chocolate factories in the manufacture
of milk chocolate, the butterfat being one of the essential com-
ponents on which the milk chocolate depends for its superior
smoothness and flavor.
Skim milk powder is used in the consumer's kitchen, in baker-
ies and confedtioners' establishments, in the manufacture of ice
cream, fermented milk beverages, and starters used for cream ripen-
ing where milk and skim milk are not available; in the preparation
of baking powders, of pure cultures of lactic acid bacteria, of drugs,
choice toilet soaps, etc. In European countries the clx)colate fac-
tories purchase vast quantities of skim milk powder in the manu-
facture of milk chocolate and alHed products, and manufacturers of
diverse prepared food products, such as cereals, soups, noodles, and
vegetables, furnish additional markets for this valuable dairy
product.
^
Chapter XXVIII.
DRIED BUTTERMILK AND DRIED WHEY.
These by-products of the creamery and cheese factory can be
reduced to a powder in a similar way and by the same processes
and machinery as are used in the manufacture of dried milk and
dried skim milk.
Dried buttermilk makes a splendid chicken feed, both for egg
production and for fattening chickens, and it is used also to make
up a part of the ration for feeding hogs and young stock. It is best
diluted to about the original buttermilk (one part powder in ten
parts water) and mixed with the grain feed into a mush.
Like fresh buttermilk, so is dried buttermilk a wholesome, nu-
tritious and easily digested food and recommends itself especially to
persons with weak digestion. When properly made, buttermilk
powder keeps indefinitely and may, therefore, be available for im-
mediate use at all times.
The following analyses show the composition of buttermilk
powder and of the fresh buttermilk from which it was made:
Dried ButtermiIvK and Dried Whey 331
Composition of Buttermilk Powder.
Fresh buttermilk Buttermilk powxier
Butterfat 1.17 per cent 11.70 per cent
Proteids 3.00 per cent 36.24 per cent
Lactose 2.97 per cent 35.50 per cent
Ash .85 per cent 8.25 per cent
Acidity .60 per cent 6.00 per cent
Water 91.63 per cent 4.32 per cent
Total 100.22 per cent 102.01 per cent
^
The buttermilk of which the composition is shown in the above
table was made at the plant of the Buffalo Foundry and Machine
Company, Buffalo, N. Y., under the supervision of the writer. The
machine used was of the Buflovak type. The buttermilk was fur-
nished by Schlosser Bros., of Frankfort, Indiana. This batch of
buttermilk happened to be abnormally high in butterfat; therefore
the large butterfat content of the finished product. About thirty
poMds of steam pressure were used in the drying drum, the tem-
perature in the vacuum chamber was 125 degrees F. and the vacuum
twenty-five to twenty-six inches of the mercury column.
This buttermilk powder had a nice, clean, acid taste, it was
nuich relished by all who sampled it and, when fed to chickens for
fattening, produced satisfactory gains in weight.
The annual production of buttermilk in the United States was
4,341,157 pounds in 1918 and 5,278,827 pounds in 1919.
The chief obstacle to extensive production of buttermilk pow-
der lies in the fact that the manufacturing cost involved in reducing
buttermilk to dryness is very high in proportion to the market value
of the finished product, when used for hog and chicken feeding.
Buttermilk powder can be manufactured by any of the processes
described under the manufacture of milk powder. However the
spray process is not as well suited for the desiccation of buttermilk
as is the film, or roller process.
In the spray process there is a considerable tendency for the
milk to clog the spray nozzles. Again, the cost of manufacture by
the spray process is greater than that by the film process. As
stated under the manufacture of milk powder, heat in the form of
1
Hunziker, Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Twenty-sixth An-
nual Report, 1913.
332 Malted Milk
heated air, is not as economically and as efficiently utilized as heat
in the form of steam applied in steamed-heated metal drums.
While, as previously shown, the spray-drying process is the only
process of desiccating milk, that preserves the original solubility of
the milk, this advantage is lost in the case of buttermilk. The acid
in the buttermilk has changed the casein from its fine emulsion,
such as it represents in normal milk, to a condition which renders
the particles of casein, or curd, incapable of permanently remulsi-
fying. The curd in commercial buttermilk does not stay in emul-
sion, but settles to the bottom. Hence nothing is gained by drying
the buttermilk by the more expensive process of spray-drying. The
film process, which is the more economical, is therefore better
adapted for the manufacture of buttermilk powder than*the spray-
drying process.
It is advisable to precondense the buttermilk, before desiccat-
ing, at the ratio of about 2:1.
One gallon of buttermilk yields about .72 pounds of buttermilk
powder, or the manufacture of one pound of powder reqtiires
about 1.39 gallons of buttermilk. The cost of manufacture is esti-
mated at about 2 cents per pound of buttermilk powder or about
1.44 cents per gallon of buttermilk.
Whey powder is manufactured in a similar manner. Its chief
value lies in its usefulness in the diet of infants and invaHds, with
whom the consumption of casein produces digestive disturbances.
Since fresh whey is often not obtainable, the whey powder, the good
keeping quality of which permits of keeping it on hand, furnishes
an admirable substitute. When made from sour whey, it offers
many advantages in cooking and baking and should be especially
well suited for such dishes as pan cakes,. etc.
MALTED MILK.^
Definition.The product known as malted milk is that re-
sulting from the combination of whole milk with the extract of
malted barley and wheat flour, and the mixture is reduced to a
dry
form by desiccation in vacuo.
History of Malted Milk Industry.The process of the manu-
facture of malted milk was invented by Mr. William Horlick, of
1
Information on Definition. History and Process of Manufacture, received
through the courtesy of Horlick's Malted Mill? Co., Racine, Wis., March 8,
1918.
Malted Milk 333
Racine, Wis., in the year of 1883. The product was first placed on
the market under the name of "Malted Milk," given it by its in-
ventor, in 1887.
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Prior to the advent of Horlick's malted milk Mr. Horlick was
making "Horlick's Food.", It was through suggestions of members
of the medical profession, who complained that it was almost im-
possible to obtain first class, pure, clean, wholesome, whole milk, that
Mr. Horlick took up the idea of malted milk. In consultation with
Dr. R. C. Hindley, then Professor of Chemistry at the Racine Col-
lege, who later became Chief Chemist and Superintendent for Mr.
Horlick, the manufacture of malted milk was subjected to consider-
able experimenting by its inventor before the product reached the
market in its perfected form.
The convenience, nutri-
tive value and digestibility
of this product recommended
themselves to and were ap-
preciated by the medical
profession, and its relishing
properties appealed to the
public. The industry grew
rapidly and is today assum-
ing large proportions.
Manufacture of Malted
Milk.A mash is prepared
by mixing wheat flour with
barley malt of good diastatic
quality. This mash is raised
to the proper temperature
for a sufficient length of time
to insure the complete con-
version of the insoluble
starch into the soluble malt
sugars dextrin and maltose.
This conversion is closely
akin to starch digestion in
the human system, hence the
resulting liquid is essentially a predigested product, claimed to
be of much value as a special food for infants and invalids.
Fig*. 109. Vacuum pan for malted milk
334 Malted Milk
This extract is combined with whole milk and reduced to a dry
powder in a vacuum at such a low temperature as will thoroughly
pasteurize the malted milk and yet preserve its digestibility.
Keeping Quality of Malted Milk.Malted milk is the only
milk powder made from whole milk that will keep indefinitely in
any climate. Those who have subjected the manufacture of malted
milk to most intensive study hold, that the keeping quality of malted
milk is due to the fact that the fat globules are very finely divided
and are surrounded by a coating or envelope of gluten, sugars and
salts, which protects the fat against the deteriorating action of the
air.
In dried whole milk the volume of fat is too great and the pro-
portion of other solids too limited, to cause the fat globules to be
properly coated, the air therefore has more or less access to the fat,
causing such changes as are prone to lead to the development of a
tallowy flavor and rancidity.
The use of wheat flour, while originally a survival of "The
Horlick's Food," from which malted milk was developed, may also
be responsible, in part at least, for the keeping quality of malted
milk. Its large amount of gluten may assist in yielding an effective
coating for the protection of the fat globules. Experiments made
with flour of other cereals gave results that did not warrant their
use in the place of wheat flour.
Again, it has been experimentally found that malted milks made
by mere mechanical mixing of the required ingredients, also become
stale and rancid rapidly, and that the only product that has perma-
nent keeping quality is that in the manufacture of which scientific
use is made of the action of enzymes and other ferments, etc.
Uses of Malted Milk.Malted milk is a food of acknowl-
edged high degree of food value and of superior digestibility. Being
a whole milk food, it also contains the indispensable growth-promot-
ing and curative properties contained in whole milk.
It is placed on the market both in powder and in tablet form.
Its high digestibility, nutritive value and health-protective properties
render it most valuable as a wholesome food for infants and in-
valids, and its compactness and keeping quality facilitate its trans-
portation to and use in all parts of the globe. Malted milk, there-
fore, is of special merit for use in countries and territories which are
Mai^ted MiIvK
335
barred by their geographical location and climate from the profitable
husbandry of the dairy cow, and where the limitations of transpor-
tation render the availability of fluid milk difficult or impossible^
The annual output of malted milk in the United States was 15,-
654,243 pounds in 1918, and 17,495,887 pounds in 1919.
Federal Standards for Milk Powder, Skim Milk Powder and
Malted Milk.^The following standards of dried milk products
were adopted by the United States Department of Agriculture
March 16, 1917, and became effective March 31, 1917, as per Food
Inspection Decision 170:
"Dried Mii.k is the product resulting from the removal of water
from milk, and contains, all tolerances being allowed for, not less
than twenty-six per cent
(26%)
of milk fat, and not more than five
per cent
(5%)
of moisture.
DriKd Skimmed Milk is the product resulting from the re-
moval of water from skimmed milk and contains, all tolerances being
allowed for, not more than five per cent
(5%)
of moisture.
Malted Milk is the product made by combining whole milk
with the liquid separated from a mash of ground barley malt and
wheat flour, with or without the addition of sodium chlorid, sodium
bicarbonate and potassium bicarbonate in such a manner as to secure
the full enzymic action of the malt extract, and by removing water.
The resulting product contains not less than seven and one-half per
cent
(7.5%)
of butter fat and not more than three and one-half per
cent
(3.5%)
of moisture."
Dick Process.
2
S. M. Dick invented and patented a spray-
drying apparatus for milk, U. S. patent No. 1,298,470, 1919,
similar to the McLachlan patent No. 806,747. In the Dick dryer
the milk enters by gravity and is sprayed and distributed by a
revolving disc arrangement. Part of the heated air enters at
the top and part at the bottom of the desiccating chamber.. The
air entering at the bottom is hotter than that entering at the top.
1
United States Department of Agriculture, Food Inspection Decision 170,
March 31, 1917.
2
This process came to the author's attention too late for detailed dis-
cussion in this volume.
PART VII.
STANDARDIZATION, TESTS AND ANALYSES
OF MILK, CONDENSED MILK AND
MILK POWDER
Chapter XXIX.
STANDARDIZATION.
Prior to the enactment of the Federal Food and Drugs Act,
which became effective January 1, 1907, the milk condensing
factories made no special effort to place on the market a product
of any definite and specific composition. The milk was con-
densed, either as whole milk, no matter what the original com-
position of the fluid milk was, without modification, or it was
partly skimmed or Avholly skimmed, before condensing. If any
eflTort towards modification of the composition was made, such
effort W/as practically wholly confined to the regulation of the
fat content of the finished product and even in such cases wide
fluctuations were quite frequent.
With the enforcement of the Federal Food and Drugs Act,
the milk condenseries found themselves called upon to manu-
facture a product that would comply with the Federal standards
established and which prescribed the minimum per cent of fat
and milk solids permissible in condensed milk.
It became necessary therefore to guard against the produc-
tion of condensed milk, the per cent fat and milk solids of which
fell below the specified standard. And later, with the rapid
development of the condensed milk industry, competition
gradually compelled the individual concerns to not only avoid
the manufacture of an illegal product by causing its valuable
components to fall short of the percentage required by the
standard, but to so modify the composition as to not have the
finij?hed product materially exceed the required standard, in
order to keep down the cost of manufacture. Furthermore, in
the case of bulk condensed milk, which goes to confectioners and
Standardized Conde:nse:d Mii.k 337
ice cream manufacturers, the buyer often specifies in his order
the desired composition of the product, necessitating standardiza-
tion to meet these special demands. ^^
These factors and conditions inevitably led to the adoption
of the practice of carefully standardizing condensed milk for fat
and milk solids. The details of methods used for standardizing
vary considerably with diflferent manufacturers. The principle
upon which standardization is based, however, is obviously very
much the same under all conditions, and variations in details
afifect the results largely only with reference to the degree of
accuracy.
Some manufacturers standardize the fluid milk before con-
densing, others prefer to standardize after evaporation only,
while still others standardize both, the fluid milk and then again
the finished product just prior to canning. Each of the three
methods is practical and the double method of standardizing
before and after condensation is obviously the most exact. In
the case of sweetened condensed milk standardization before
condensation is preferable inasmuch as the admixture to the
finished product of wtater, skim milk or cream is not advisable
from the standpoint of keeping quality, unless these products
have been previously properly pasteurized. In the case of
evaporated milk, which is much thinner, more miscible and which
is subsequently sterilized, these objections are largely removed.
The materials generally used for standardizing are skim
milk, condensed skim milk, cream, butter and water. Water is
used only to lower the per cent total solids, or the degree of
concentration, and is of service only after condensation of the
milk.
The calculations employed for standardization are identical
for all forms of condensed milk and milk powder, both sweetened
and unsweetened. The addition of cane sugar to the fluid milk
does not alter the ratio of fat to milk solids, since the added
sugar merely displaces a portion of the water in the finished
product.
The per cent total solids in the condensed milk is controlled
primarily by the degree of concentration as determined by the
Beaume hydrometer or by gravimetric analysis and it may be
338 Standardized Condensed Milk
further modified by the addition of water to the finished product
in case condensation has passed beyond the desired point.
Aside from this, the fundamental eflfort of standardization
is confined to securing the desired proportion of butter fat to
milk solids not fat. When this is accomplished all that is neces-
sary to insure the required composition is to subject the product
to the necessary degree of concentration.
Standardizing the Fluid Milk.In order to properly stand-
ardize the fluid m/ilk it is necessary to know the required per
cent fat and solids not fat in the finished product and the per cent
fat and solids not fat in the milk to be standardized and then
to calculate the proportion of fat and solids not fat needed in
the fluid milk. This calculation is most conveniently made by
allegation. This then shows the amount of fat or solids not
fat, as the case may be, that must be added to secure the desired
proportion of these ingredients and from this the amount of
cream, or butter, or skim milk that must be used for standard-
izing can be readily determined.
Example 1.
The standard for evaporated milk is 7.8 per cent fat and
25.5 per cent total solids, or (25.5
7.8)
= 17.7 per cent solids
not fat.
Amount fluid milk in batch, 7,000 pounds.
Fat in fluid milk, 3.3 per cent.
Solids not fat in milk, 9.0 per cent.
Fat wanted in evaporated milk, 7.8 per cent.
Solids not fat wanted in evaporated milk, 17.7 per cent.
What per cent fat should fluid milk contain?
How much cream, testing 25 per cent fat, must be added?
Answer: s. n. f. in c. m. : s. n. f. in r. m. r=
f. in c. m. :
X ;
=
X %
f- required in r. m.
s. n. f. ^= solids not fat.
f. = fat.
c. m. = condensed milk,
r. m. = raw or fluid milk.
17.7 : 9. = 7.8 :
X ; X
= 3.966% fat.
The raw milk must contain 3.966^ fat.
Standardized Condensed Milk 339
How much 25% cream is required to raise the per cent fat
in the 7,000 pounds of milk testing*
3.3'
3.3
25.
fat to 3.966% ?
21.04
.66
21.70
Enough 25% cream must be added to the raw milk so that
each 21.7 pounds of standardized milk contains .66 pounds of
added cream and 21.04 pounds of the original milk. Hence
21.7 : .66 = 7000 :
X ; X
= 213. lbs. of cream.
Total batch, 7000 pounds.
25% cream, 213 pounds.
3.3%c
milk, 6787 pounds.
Example 2.
Amount of fluid milk in batch, 7,000 pounds.
Fat in fluid milk, 4.5 per cent.
Solids not fat in fluid milk, 8.5 per cent.
Fat w'anted in evaporated milk, 7.8 per cent.
Solids not fat wanted in evaporated milk. 17.7 per cent.
How much fat should fluid milk contain? How much skim
milk must be added?
Answer
: 17.7 : 8.5 = 7.8 =
X ; X
^ 3.75^r . The fluid milk
must contain 3.75% fat.
How much skim milk must be added to lower the per cent
fat in the fluid milk to 3.75%??
4.5
T
, 3.75
.75
4^0
Enough skim milk must be added to the fluid milk so that
each 4.5 pounds of standardized milk contains .7^ pounds oi
I
340 Standardized Condensed Milk
added skim milk and 3.75 pounds of original milk. Hence
4.50 : .75 = 7000 :
X ; X
= 1167 pounds of skim milk.
Total batch, 7000 pounds.
Skim milk, 1167 pounds.
4.5%, milk, 5833 pounds.
Standardization of Finished Product.In a similar manner
standardization may be accomplished after condensation. In
this case the proportion of solids is best increased or the propor-
tion of fat reduced by the addition of condensed skim milk in
the place of ordinary skim milk, while the proportion of fat is
increased by the addition of cream as explained under Stand-
ardization of Fluid Milk.

If it is desired to low'er the total solids in the finished
product, without affecting the proportion of solids not fat to
fat, the necessary amount of water required is determined as
follows
:
Example 3.
Evaporated milk in batch, 3000 pounds.
Total solids in evaporated milk, 27.%.
Total solids desired, 25.5%.
How much water .must be added?
Answer
:
27.
0.
25.5
1.5
To each 25.5 pounds evaporated milk must be added 1.5
pounds water. Hence 25.5 : 1.5 = 3000 :
X ; X
= 176.5 pounds
of water.
Original batch evaporated milk, 3000 pounds.
Water added, 176.5 pounds.
Standardized evaporated milk, 3176.5 pounds.
The results of standardization in which cream is used to
alter the proportion of fat to solids not fat, are not absolutely
mathematically accurate, because oi the fact that the per cent
Standardize:d Conde:nse:d M11.K 341
of solids not fat in the cream is somewhat lower than in milk.
This causes a slight shortage of solids not fat in the standard-
ized product. This error is so slight, however, that it may I5e~
considered within the limits of the experimental error and for
all practical purposes this method of standardization may be
accepted as reliable and accurate.
Standardization of Sugar (Sucrose) in Sweetened Condensed
Milk.This is most readily accomplished by standardizing
the proportion of sugar to the per cent total soHds in the fresh
milk.
If it is desired to secure a
sweetened condensed milk, the milk
solids of which merely comply with the Federal standard of 28 per
cent, it is desirable and necessary, from the standpoint of keeping
quality, to add enough sugar (sucrose) so as to have the finished
product contain at least 44 per cent sucrose.
Example 4.
Amount of fluid milk in batch, 15,000 pounds.
Fluid milk contains 12 per cent total solids.
How much sugar must be added in order to insure the sweet-
ened condensed milk to contain 44 per cent sucrose, when the milk
has been condensed sufficiently to contain 28 per cent milk solids ?
Answer : 28 : 44 = 12 :
X
:
X
= 18.87.
To every 100 pounds of fluid must be added 18.87 pounds
sucrose.
To 15,000 pounds fluid milk must be added
18.87
X
15,000
^^^^
-
,
= 2830.? pounds sucrose.
100
If it is desired to produce a sweetened condensed of heavy
body and containing a high per cent of milk solids, as for instance,
32 per cent milk solids, the per cent sugar contained in the finished
product may be considerably reduced. Such sweetened condensed
milk may contain, say 40 per cent sucrose.
Example 5.
Amount of fluid milk in batch is 15,000 pounds.
Fluid milk contains 12 per cent total solids.
How much sugar must be added to insure the sweetened con-
342 Chemical Tests and Analyses
densed milk to contain 40 per cent sucrose when the milk has been
condensed sufficiently to contain 32 per cent milk solids?
Answer : 32 : 40
== 12 :
X
:
X
= 15.
To every 100 pounds of fluid milk must be added 15 pounds
of sugar.
To 15,000 pounds fluid milk must be added
15
X
15,000 _-^
, ,
r= 2250 pounds of sucrose.
100
.
Chapter XXX.
CHEMICAL TESTS AND ANALYSES OF MILK, SWEET-
ENED CONDENSED MILK, EVAPORATED *MILK
AND MILK POWDERS.
In assembling these methods of analyses, preference has
been given the "Official and Provisional Methods of Analysis,"
published by the American Association of Official Agricultural
Chemists.^ The official methods have been modified and supple-
mented by other methods in numerous cases wherever, in the
judgment of the waiter and others, such modifications and sub-
stitutions are better adapted for analysis of these special prod-
ucts. A special effort has further been made to include in this
chapter modifications and abbreviations of tests and analyses,
adapted for the use of the factory operator, whose knowledge,
skill, facilities and time are too limited to enable him to success-
fully follow the directions of the official methods, or to execute
delicate and difficult chemical analyses.
For practical factory tests of fresh milk on the receiving
platform, determining its fitness for condensing, the reader is
referred to Chapter HI, "Inspection of Milk at the Condensery."
MILK.
Specific Gravity.
Aerometric Method by Means of the Quevenne Lactometer.
-
Use an accurate Quevenne lactometer with thermometer at-
tachment and a lactometer cylinder about ten inches high and
1
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No. 107, 1912. Also Journal of the Assn. of Official Agr. Chemists, Vol. II,
No. 3, Nov. 15, 1916.
Chemical Tests and AnaIvYSEs 343
one and one-half inches wide. Fill the cylinder with milk at a
temperature betwêen 55 and 65 degrees F. Insert the lactometer
and when it has found its equilibrium, note the point on the scale__
at the surface of the milk. The correct temperature is 60 degrees
F. For every degree Fahrenheit -above 60 add one-tenth point
to the observed reading, and for every degree Fahrenheit below
60 deduct one-tenth point from the observed reading. This rule
holds good only when the range of temperature is within the
limits of 55 degrees and 65 degrees F.
The specific gravity is calculated by adding 1,000 to the
lactometer reading and dividing the sum by 1,000. Example:
Lactometer reading is 31 at 65 degrees F. Corrected reading is
31.5;
.^
.
. 31.5
+
1000
.^..-
specinc gravity is

=
1.0315.
lUUU
Gravimetric Determination.This consists of the filling of
a perfectly dry picnometer or other graduated flask of known meas-
ure with milk at the standard temperature
(60
degrees F., or 15.5
degrees C.) and weighing the flask and contents. The weight of
the flask is then deducted from the weight of the flask plus con-
tents and the difference is divided by the weight of an equal volume
of water at standard temperature. The result is the specific gravity
of the milk.
The Westphal balance method furnishes another accurate means
of determining the specific gravity. Both the gravimetric method
and the Westphal balance method, while accurate when operated
by the skillful chemist, require considerable time. Experimental
comparisons have demonstrated that for all practical purposes the
Quevenne hydrometer, when accurately graduated, yields correct
results, and the simplicity and rapidity of its operation render its
use in the determination of the specific gravity of milk highly ad^
vantageous and satisfactory.
Total Solids.
By Means of the Babcock Formula.For rapid and reason-
ably accurate work the total solids of milk may be determined by
the use of the Babcock formula, which is as follows
:
Total solids =-^+ 1.2
X
f-
344 Che:micaIv Tests and Anai^yses
L
= Quevenne lactometer reading,
f = per cent of fat.
Example : Lactometer reading is 32
;
per cent fat is 4.
Total solids =
^_|-
1.2
X
4 = 12.8 per cent.
Gravimetric Method.--*' Heat from three to five grams of
milk at the temperature of boiling water until it ceases to lose
weight, using a tared flat dish of not less than 5 c.c. diameter. If
desired, from fifteen to twenty grams of pure, dry sand may be
previously placed in the dish. Cool in a desiccator and weigh rapid-
ly to avoid absorption of hygroscopic moisture."
Ash.
"Weigh about twenty grams of milk in a weighed dish, add

6 c.c. of nitric acid, evaporate to dryness and ignite at a tempera-
ture just below redness until the ash is free from carbon."
Total Nitrogen.
Place about five grams of milk in a Kjeldahl digestion flask
and proceed, without evaporation, as described under "Gunning
Method" for the determination of nitrogen. Multiply the percent-
age of nitrogen by 6.38 to obtain nitrogen compounds.
.
Gunning Method.
Apparatus.
(a) Kjeldahl flasks for both digestion and distillation.
These are flasks having a total capacity of about 550 c.c, made of
hard, moderately thick and well-annealed glass. When used for
distillation the flasks are fitted with rubber stoppers and bulb tubes,
as given under distillation flasks.
. (b) Kjeldahl digestion flasks.These are pear-shape, round-
bottomed flasks, made of hard, moderately thick, well-annealed
glass, having a total capacity of about 250 c.c. They are 22 cm.
long and have a maximum diameter of 6 cm., tapering gradually to
a long neck, which is 2 cm. in diameter at the narrowest part and
flared
a Httle at the edge.
(c) Distillation flasks.For distillation a flask of ordinary
shape, of about 550 c.c capacity may be used. It is fitted with a
Che^micaIv T^sts and Analysers 345
rubber stopper and with a bulb tube above to prevent the possibility
of sodium hydrate being carried over mechanically during distilla-
tion. The bulbs may be about 3 cm. in diameter, the tubes being
of the same diameter as the condenser and cut off obHquely at the
lower end, which is fastened to the condenser by a rubber tube."
Preparation of Reagents.
"(a) Potassium sulphate.This reagent should be pulver-
ized before using.
(b) Sulphuric acid.The sulphuric acid should have a
specific gravity of 1.84. It should be C. P., containing no nitrates
nor ammonium sulphate.
(c) Sulphuric acid.N-10 solution.
(d) Standard alkali solution.The strength of this solution
relative to the acid must be accurately determined, N-10 solution.
(e) Metallic mercury or mercuric oxid.If mercuric oxid is
used it should be prepared in the wet way, but not from mercuric
nitrate.
(f) Granulated zinc or pumice stone.One of these reagents
is added to the contents of the distillation flasks, when found nec-
essary, in order to prevent bumping.
(g)
Potassium sulphid solution.A solution of forty grams
of commercial potassium sulphid in one liter of water.
(h) Sodium hydroxid solution.A saturated solution of so-
dium hydroxid free from nitrates.
(i) Indicator.A solution of cochineal is prepared by digest-
ing and frequently agitating three grams of pulverized cochineal in
a mixture of 50 c.c. of strong alcohol and 200 c.c. of distilled water
for a day or two at ordinary temperatures. The filtered solution is
employed as indicator."
Determination.
Place the substance to be analyzed in a digestion flask, employ-
ing from 0.7 to 3.5 grams, according to its proportion of nitrogen.
Add 10 grams of powdered potassium sulphate and from 15 to 25
c.c. (ordinarily about 20 c.c.) of sulphuric acid. Conduct the di-
gestion by starting with a temperature below boiling point and
346 Chkmicai, Te:sts and Analyses
increasing the heat gradually until frothing ceases. Digest for a
time after the mixture is colorless, or nearly so, or until oxidation
is complete. Do not add either potassium permanganate or
potassium sulphid. Dilute, neutralize, distil and titrate with stand-
ard alkali. In neutralizing, it is convenient to add a few drops
of phenolphthalein indicator, by which one can tell, when the acid
is completely neutralized, remembering that the pink color, which
indicates an alkaline reaction, is destroyed by a considerable excess
of strong fixed alkali.
Casein and Albumin.
"(a) Casein.
^The determination should be made*w^hen the

milk is fresh, or nearly so. When it is not practicable to make this
determination within twenty-four hours, add one part of formal-
dehyde to twenty-five hundred parts of milk and keep in a cool
place. Place about 10 grams of milk in a beaker with about 90 c.c.
of water at 40 degrees to 42 degrees C, and add at once 1.5 c.c. of
a 10 per cent acetic acid solution. Stir with a glass rod and let
stand from three to five minutes longer. Then decant or filter, wash
two or three times with cold water by decantation and transfer pre-
cipitate completely to filter. Wash once or twice on filter. The
filtrate should be clear, or nearly so. If it be not clear when it first
runs through, it can generally be made so by two or- three repeated
filtrations, after which the washing of the precipitate can be com-
pleted. Determine nitrogen in the washed precipitate and filter by
the Gunning method. To calculate the equivalent amount of casein
from the nitrogen multiply by 6.38.
In working with milk which has been kept with preservatives,
the acetic acid should be added in small proportioi^s, a few drops
at a time, with stirring, and the addition continued until the liquid
above the precipitate becomes clear or very nearly ko.
(b) Albumin.Exactly neutralize with caustic alkali the fil-
trate obtained in the preceding operation (a), add 0.3 c.c. of a 10
per cent solution of acetic acid and heat the liquid to the tempera-
ture of boiling water until the albumin is completely precipitated,
collect the precipitate on a filter, wash and determine the nitrogen
therein. Nitrogen multiplied by 6.38 equals albumin," or
Chemicai, Tests and Analyses 347
To the filtrate of the casein determination add 0.3 c.c. of 10 per
cent acetic acid, boil until the albumin is completely precipitated and
proceed as directed in previous paragraph. ^
In the place of the above methods the per cent of albumin may
he determined by subtracting the per cent of casein from the per
cent of total nitrogen.
Milk Sugar (Lactose).
Optical Method.
**(a) Acid mercuric nitrate.Dissolve mercury in double its
weight of nitric acid, specific gravity 1.42, and dilute with an equal
volume of water. One cubic centimeter of this reagent is sufficient
for the quantities of milk mentioned below. Larger quantities may
be used without affecting the results of polarization.
(b) Mercuric iodid with acetic acid.Mix 33.2 grams of po-
tassium iodid, 13.5 grams of mercuric chlorid, 20 c.c. of glacial
acetic acid and 640 c.c. of water."
Determine the specific gravity of the milk by means of a deli-
cate hydrometer, or, if preferred, a pycnometer. The quantity of
sample to be taken for the determination varies with the specific
gravity and is to be measured at the same temperature at which the
specific gravity is taken. The volume to be measured is indicated
in the following table, which is based upon twice the normal weight
of lactose (32.9 grams per 100 metric c.c.) for the Ventzke sugar
scale.
Place the quantity of milk indicated in the table in a flask
graduated at 102.6 c.c, add 1 c.c. of the acid mercuric nitrate solu-
tion or 30 c.c. of the mercuric iodid solution (an excess of these re-
agents does no harm), fill to the mark, shake, filter through a dry
filter and polarize. It is not necessary to heat before polarizing. If
a 200 m.m tube is used, divide the polariscope reading by 2( or, if a
400 m.m. tube is used, by
4) to obtain the per cent of lactose in the
sample.
348 ChkmicaIv Tests and Analysi-.:;
Volume of Milk Corresponding to a Lactose Double Normal
Weight.
Volume of Milk Volume of Milk
Specific Gravity
for a Lactose
Double Normal
Specific Gravity
for a Lactose
Double Normal
of Milk
Weight Ventzke
of Milk
Weight Ventzke
Scale Scale
c.c.
C.C.
1.024 64.25 1.031 63.80
1.025 64.20 1.032 63.75
1.026 64.15 1.033 63.70
1.027 64.05 1.034 63.65
1.028 64.00
1.029 63.95 1.035 63.55
1.030 63.90 1.036 t33.50
Low's Volumetric Method Modified.
"(a) Copper sulphate solution.Dissolve 34.639 grams of
CuSOi .5H2O in water and dilute to 500 c.c.
(b) Alkaline tartrate solution.Dissolve 173 grams of Ro-
chelle salts and 50 grams of sodium hydroxid in water and dilute
to 500 c.c.
(c) Mixed solution.Mix equal volumes of solutions (a) and
(b) immediately before use.
(d) Standardization of the thiosulphate solution.Prepare a
solution of sodium thiosulphate, dissolving 24.659 grams of pure
crystals to 1,000 c.c. Weigh 6.36 grams copper foil. Dissolve by
warming in minimum amount of nitric acid and water required.
Boil to expel the red fumes, add 160 c.c. strong bromine water and
boil until the bromine is thoroughly expelled. Remove from the
heat and add a slight excess of strong ammonium hydroxid ; 223 c.c.
is about the right amount. Again boil until the excess of ammonia!
is expelled, as shown by a change of color of the liquid, and partial
precipitation. Now add a slight excess of strong acetic acid (100
to 130 c.c. of 80 per cent acid) and boil for a minute. Cool to
room temperature and dilute to 1,000 c.c. Titrate a known amount
(10 to 15 c.c.) of the copper solution, to which 10 c.c. of a 25 per
cent solution of pure potassium iodid has been added, with the
Che:mical Tests and Anai^ysEs 349
thiosulphate solution until the brown tinge has become weak, then
add sufficient starch Hquor to produce a marked blue coloration.
Continue the titration cautiously until the color due to free iodin_
has entirely vanished. The blue color changes toward the end to
a faint Hlac. If at this point the thiosulphate be added drop by drop
and a little time be allowed for complete reaction after each addition,
there is no difficulty in determining the end point within a single
drop. One cubic centimeter of the thiosulphate solution will be
found to correspond to .00636 grams of copper."
Determination of Copper.
"After washing, the precipitated cuprous oxid, cover the gooch
with a watch glass and dissolve the oxid by means of 5 c.c. of warm
nitric acid
(1 :1)
poured under the watch glass with a pipette. Catch
the filtrate in a flask of 250 c.c. capacity, wash watch glass and
gooch free of copper ; 50 c.c. of water will be sufficient. Boil to
expel red fumes, add 5 c.c. of bromine water, boil off the bromine
and proceed exactly as in standardizing the thiosulphate."
Determination of Lactose.
Place 50 c.c. of the mixed copper reagent in a beaker and heat
to the boiling point. While boiling briskly add 100 c.c. of the lactose
solution containing not more than 0.300 grams of lactose and boil
for six minutes. Filter immediately through asbestos and wash.
Obtain the weight of lactose equivalent to the weight of copper
found from the following table
:
** Table for the Determination of Lactose (Soxhlet-Wein)."
MQli- MilH- MlUi- Millf- Milli- MiUI- MilU- Milli-
Milli- Milli-
gratns grams grams grams grams grams grams grams
grams grams
of of of of of of of of of of
copper lactose copper }&ct6S^ copper lactose copper lactose
copper lactose
100 71.6 160 116.4 220 161.9 280 206.3 340 253.7
101 72.4 161 117.1
1
162.7 281 200.1 341 256.5
102 73.1 162 117.9 163.4 282 209.9 342 257.4
103 73.8 163 118.6 223 164.2 283 210.7 343 258.2
104 74.6 164 119.4 224 164.9 284 211.5 344 259.0
105 75.3 165 120.2 225 165.7 285 212.3 345 259.8
106 76.1 166 120.9 226 166.4 286 213.1 346 280.6
107 76.8 167 121.7 227 167.2 287 213.9 347 261.4
108 77.6 168 122.4 228 167.9 288 214.7 348 262.3
109 78.3 169 123.2 229 168.6 289 215.6 349 263.1
no 79.0 170 123.9 230 169.4 290 216.3 350 253.9
111 79.8 171 124.7 231 170.1 291 217.1
352
264.7
112 80.5 172 125.5 232 170.9 292 217.9 265.5
113 S1.3 173 126.2 233 171.6 293 218.7 353 263.3
lU 82.0 174 127.0 234 172.4 294 219.5 ^ 267.2
115 82.7 175 127.8 285 173.1 295 220.3 356 268.0
116 83.5 176 128.5 236 173.9 296 221.1 356 268.8
U7 84.2 177 129.3 237 174.6 297 221.9 357 269.6
118 85.0 178 130.1 238 175.4 298 222.7 358 270.4
119 85.7 179 130.8 239 176.2 299 223.5 359 271.2
120 86.4 180 131.6 240 176.9 300 224.4 360 272.1
121 87.2 181 132.4 241 177.7 301 225.2 361 272.9
122 87.9 182 133.1 242 178.5 302 225.9 362 273.7
128 88.7 183 133.9 243 179.3 303 226.7 363 274.5
m 89.4 184 134.7 244 180.1 304 227.5 364 275.3
125 90.1 185 135.4 245 180.8 305 228.3 365 276.2
.126 90.9 186 136.2 246 181.6 306 229-1 366 277.1
127 91.6 187 137.0 247 182.4 307 229.8 367 277.9
128 92.4 188 137.7 248 183.2 306 230.6 368 278.8
129 93.1 189 138.5 249 184.0 309 231.4 369 279.6
130 93.8 190 139.3 250 184.8 310 2.J2.2 370 283.5
131 94.6 191 140. 251 185.5 311 232.9 371 281.4
132 95.3 192 140.8 252 186.3 312 233.7 372 282.2
133 96.1 193 141.6 253 187.1 313 234.5 378 283.1
134 96.9 194 142.3 254 187.9 314 235.3 374 283.9
135 97.6 195 143.1 2b5 188.7 315 236.1 375 284.8
136 98.3 196 143.9 256 189.4 316 236.8 376 285.7
137 99.1 197 144.6 257 190.2 317 237.6 .377 286.5
138 99.8 198 145.4 258 191.0 318 238.4 378 287.4
139 100.5 199 146.2 259 191.8 319 239.2 379 288.2
140 101.3 200 146.9 260 192.5 320 240.0 380 289.1
141 102.0 201 147.7 261 193.3 321 240.7 281 239.9
142 102.8 202 148.5 262 194.1 3^ 241.5 382 290.8
143 103.5 203 149.2 263 194.9 323 242.3 383 291.7
144 104.3 204 150.0 264 195.7 324 243.1 384 292.5
145 105.1 205 150.7 265 196.4 325 243.9 385 293.4
146 105.8 206 151.5 266 197.2 326 244.6 386 294.2
147 106.6 207 152.2 267 198.0 327 245.4 387 295.1
148 107.3 208 153.0 268 198.8 328 246.2 388 296.0
149 108.1 209 153.7 269 199.5 329 247.0 889 296.8
150 108.8 210 154.5 270 200.3 330 247,7 390 2^.7
151 109.6 211 155.2 271 201.1 331 248.5 391 298.5
152 110.3 212 156.0 272 201.9 332 249.2 392 299.4
153 111.1 213 156.7 273 202.7 333 250.0 393 300.3
154 111.9 214 157.5 274 203.5 334 250.8 394 331.1
155 112.6 215 158.2 275 204.3 335 251.6 395 302.0
156 113.4 216 159.0 276 205.1 336 252.5 396 302.8
157 114.1 217 159.7 277 205.9 337 253.3 397 308.7
158 114.9 218 160.4 278 206.7 338 2&t.l 398 304.6
159 115.6 219 161.2 279 207.5 339 254.9 399
400
306.4
306.3
Che:micai:. Tb^sts and Anai^yse^s 351
Butter Fat.
The Babcock Test.
Standard Glassware.^
^^
(a) Standard milk test bottles, graduated to 8 per cent and
with sub-divisions of .1 per cent.
(b) Standard pipette graduated to 17.6 c.c.
(c) Acid measure graduated to 17.5 c.c.
(d) Centrifuge-Babcock tester.
(e) Water bath for reading at 130 to 140 degrees F.
(f) Calipers for measuring fat column.
(g)
Sulphuric acid, specific gravity 1.82 to 1.83.
Determination.
of the properly mixed sample of milk
Add 17.5 c.c. of acid and shake until al
dissolved.
into
the
Pipette 17.6 c.c.
the milk test bottle,
curd is completely
Both milk and acid should have
a temperature of 55 to 70 de-
grees F. If milk and acid are
too warm, set the sample bot-
tles and the acid jar into a
trough or tub of water at 55 to
70 degrees F. for thirty minutes
before testing. The test bottles
containing the mixture of milk
and acid are then whirled in
the Babcock tester for five
minutes at about one thousand
revolutions per minute, in the
case of a tester with a twelve-
inch diameter wheel. Fill the
test bottles to the bottom of
the neck with hot water. The
water should be soft, preferably rain water or distilled water.
If hard tap water is used it should be boiled to precipitate the
carbonates, otherwise the test may be difficult to read, owing to
the presence of bubbles of gas on top of the fat column. Revolve
Tig. 110
Courtesy
Babcock tester
of Creamery Package Mfg.
Company
1914.
1
Hunzlker, Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Circulars 41 and 42,
352 Che:micaIv Tests and Analyses
again at full speed for two minutes, fill the test bottles to near
the top of the graduation with hot water. Whirl in the centrifuge
for one minute. Now set the test bottles in the water bath at
135 degrees F. for five minutes. The test is now ready to be
read. The figures on the test bottles represent per cent. In the
case of the 8 per cent standard milk test bottle the sub-divisions
represent tenths per cent. Read from the bottom of the lower
curve to the top of upper curve of the fat column, including the
meniscus in the reading.
Gravimetric MethodPaper Coil.
"Make coils of thick filter paper, cut into strips 6.25 by 62.5
cm., and thoroughly extract with ether and alcohol^ or correct
the weight of the extract by a constant obtained for the paper.
From a weighing bottle or weighing pipette, transfer about 5
grams of milk to the coil, care being taken to keep the end of
the coil held in the fingers, dry. Dry the coil, dry end down, on
a piece of glass at the temperature of boiling water; transfer to
an extraction apparatus and extract with absolute ether or pe-
troleum ether boiling at about 45 degrees C. ; dry the extracted
fat and weigh."
Roese-Gottlieb Method.
"Weigh 10-11 grams of the milk into a Rohrig tube or some
similar apparatus, add 1.25 c.c. of concentrated ammonium h}'-
droxid
(2 c.c. if the sample is sour) and mix thoroughly. Add
10 c.c. of 95 per cent alcohol by volume and mix well. Then add
25 c.c. of washed ether and shake vigorously for thirty seconds,
then 25 c.c. of petroleum ether (redistilled slowly at a tempera-
ture below 60 degrees C.) and shake again for thirty seconds.
Let stand twenty minutes, or until the upper liquid is practically
clear. Draw off as much as possible of the ether-fat solution
(usually 0.5-0.8 c.c. will be left) into a weighed flask through a
small quick-acting filter. The flask should always be weighed
with a similar one as a counterpoise. Re-extract the liquid re-
maining in the tube, this time with only 15 c.c. of each ether,
shake vigorously thirty seconds with each and allow to settle.
Draw off the clear solution through the small filter into the same
flask as before and wdish the tip of spigot, the funnel and the
filter with a few c.c. of a mixture of the two ethers in equal parts.
Chemical Th:sts and Anai.yse:s 353
For absolutely exact results the re-extraction must be repeated.
This third extraction yields usually not more than about 1 mg.
of fat (about 0.02 per cent on a 4 gram charge) if the previous
ether-fat solutions have been drawn ofif closely. Evaporate the
ethers slowly on a steam bath, then dry the fat in a boiling water
oven to conslant weight.
Confirm the purity of the fat by dissolving in a little pe-
troleum ether. Should a risidue remain, remove the fat com-
pletely with petroleum ether, dry the residue, weigh and deduct
the weight. Finally correct this weight by a blank determina-
tion on the reagents used."
SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK.
Preparation of Sample.
Pour the contents of the can into a bowl or on a glass plate.
Scrape out the can thoroughly, removing all the sugar sediment
from the top and bottom of the can. Mix thoroughly with pestle
or spatula until a homogenous emulsion is secured. This is
important, as it is exceedingly difficult to secure a representative
sample otherwise.
If it is desired to use a 40 per cent solution as directed in
the determination of the individual ingredients, weigh accurately
40 grams of the properly mixed contents of the can into a 100 c.c.
graduated flask. Add 60 c.c. of water. The sweetened con-
densed, milk mixes .somewhat difficultly with the water. Complete
solution is facilitated by adding the water in several install-
ments, shaking after each addition until condensed milk sedi-
ment adheres no longer to the bottom and sides of the flask.
Specific Gravity.
Aerometric Method by Means of Beaume Hydrometer.
Apparatus.
Beaume Hydrometer.Use a specially constructed Beaume
hydrometer with mercury bulb, and a scale of 30 to 37 degrees B.,
graduated to tenths degrees. Length over all, twelve inches;
length of spindle, six inches ; length of empty bulb, four and
354 Chemical Tests and Anai^yses
one-quarter inches ; width of empty bulb, thirteen-sixteenths of
one inch.
Hydrometer Jar.Use a glass or tin cylinder with substantial
base, minium length twelve inches, minimum width one and a
half inches.
Determination.
Use the original undiluted condensed milk. The Beaume hy-
drometer is graduated to read correctly at 60 degrees F. (15.5 de-
grees C). At this temperature the sweetened condensed milk is
too viscous for rapid and accurate work. Warm the condensed
milk to 100 degrees F. or above and correct the Beaume reading
by adding to the observed reading .025 points for every degree
Fahrenheit above 60. At a temperature of 100 degrees F. or above,
the reading can be made in fifteen minutes or less, after the hydro-
meter is inserted in the milk.
The specific gravity is determined by the use of the following
formula
:
q'
'f,
'.
144.3
bpecinc g'ravitv
=
144.3 _B
B = Beaume reading at 60 degrees F.
Example: Observed Beaume reading at 120 is 31.6.
Corrected reading = 31.6
-f
[(120
60)
X
-025] =33.1.
Specific erravitv
=
=.1.2977.
144.3
_
33.1
The following table shows the specific gravity of sweetened
condensed milk when the Beaume reading is known.
Chemical Tksts and Anai^yses 35S
Beaum6
Specific
Gravity
Beaum6
Specific
Gravity
Beaum6
Specific
Gravity
l.OOO 16.5 1130
29.7 1.260
0.7 1.005 17.1 1.135 30.2 1.265
1.4 1.010 1.77 1.140 30.6 1.270
2.1 1.015 18.3 1.145 31.1 .1.275
2.7 1.020 18.8 1.150 31.5 1.280
3.4 1.025 19.3 1.155 32.0 1.285
4.1 1.030 19.8 1.160 32.4 1.290
4.7 1.035 20.3 1.165 32.8 1.295
5.4 1.040 20.9 1.170 33.3 1.300
6.0

1.045 21.4 1.175 33.7 1.305
6.7 1.050 22.0 1.180 34.2 1.310
7.4 1.055 22.5 1.185 34.6 1.315
8.0 1.060 23.0 1.190 35.0 1.320
8.7 1.065 23.5 1.195 35.4 1.325
9.4 1.070 24.0 1.200 35.8 1.330
10.0 1.075 24.5 1.205 36.2 1.335
10.6 1.080 25.0 1.210 36.6 1.340
11.2 1.085 25.5 1.215 37.0 1.345
11.9 1.090 26.0 1.220 37.4 1.350
12.4 1.095 26.4 1.225 37.8 1.355
13.0 1.100 26.9 1.230 38.2 1.360
13.6 1.105 27.4 1.235 38.6 1.365
14.2 1.110 27.9 1.240 39.0 1.370
14.9 1.115 28.4 1.245 39.4 1.375
15.4 1.120 28.8 1.250 39.8 1.380
16.0 1.125 29.3 1.255 40.1 1.385
Gravimetric Determination.
Dilute a measured portion of a 40 per cent solution with an
equal volume of water, use 5 c.c. of the diluted mixture, cor-
responding to 1 gram of the condensed milk and proceed as
directed under "Milk."
Total Solids.
equal volume of water, measure 5 c.c. of the diluted mixture,
corresponding to 1 gram of the condensed milk into an evap-
orating dish containing 15 to 20 grams of pure dry sand and
proceed as directed under "Milk."
Ash.
Ignite the total solids at very low redness, cool, and weigh.
See "Milk."
Proteids.
Determine nitrogen in 5 c.c. of the 40 per cent solution
according to the Gunning method, see "Milk," and multiply the re-
sults by 6.38.
Lactose.
Dilute five grams of a 40 per cent solution to about 40 c.c.
and add .6 c.c. of Fehling's copper solution. Nearly neutralize
with sodium hydroxide, make up to 100 c.c, filter through dry
filter and determine lactose in an aliquot as directed under
''MilkDetermination of Lactose."
Fat.
Modified Babcock Test.
Weigh eighteen grams, or measure 16.1 c.c. of the 40 per
cent solution into a standard Babcock milk test bottle. Add
4 c.c. of commercial sulphuric acid, specific gravity 1.82 to 1.83.
Shake immediately until acid is thoroughly mixed with the milk.
Whirl in Babcock tester for six minutes at full speed. The
centrifuge must run smoothly. Stop the tester gradually and
remove the bottles carefully so as not to break the layer of float-
ing curd. Decant the clear whey by slowly inclining the bottle.
Now add two-thirds of a 17.6 c.c. pipette full of water. After
thoroughly shaking to emulsify the curd and to wash it free
of sucrose, add 4 c.c. sulphuric acid, shake, whirl and decant as
before. Then add one 17.6 c.c. pipette full of water, 17.5 c.c.
of sulphuric acid and complete the Babcock test in the usual
way as directed under "Milk." Multiply the reading by 2.5.
This method yields very satisfactory results with sweetened
condensed milk containing not less than 4 to 5 per cent fat.
With condensed milk of a lower fat content the decanting of the
clear whey is difficult, since the curd in the partly skimmed
product is too heavy to float in the form of a firm cheese.
The Roese-Gottlieb Method.
As practiced in the Dairy Laboratory. Bureau of Chemistry,
Department of Agriculture.
"Weigh out 4 to 5 grams of the homogeneous sample of
condensed milk into a Rohrig tube (Zeit. Unters. Nahr. u. Ge-
nussm., 1905, 9:531) or some similar apparatus and dilute with
water in the tube to about 10.5 c.c.or, if preferred, weigh into
1
Chemicai^ Tests and Anai^yses 357
the tube 10 to 11 grams of a 40 per cent solution of the substance
âdd 11 c.c. of concentrated ammonium hydroxid (2 c.c. if the

sample he sour) and mix thoroughly with the milk. Add 10 ex."
of 95 per cent alcohol and mix well. Then add 25 c.c. of washed
ethyl ether and shake vigorously for half a minute, then add 25
c.c. of petroleum ether (redistilled slowly at a temperature below
60 degrees C. preferably) and shake again for half a minute.
Let stand 20 minutes or until the upper liquid is practically clear
and its own lower level constant. Draw off of the ether solution
as much as possibleusually 0.5 to 0.8 c.c. will be leftinto a
weighed flask through a diminutive quick acting filter, of selected
paper. The flask should always be weighed with a similar one
as counterpoise.
"Re-extract the liquid remaining in the tube, this time with
only 15 c.c. of each ether, shaking vigorously half a minute with
each, and allow to settle.
''Draw off the clear solution through the small filter into
the same flask as before and wash the tip of the spigot, the funnel
and the filter with a few c.c. of a mixture of the two ethers in
equal parts (previously mixed and free from deposited water).
"For perfectly exact results the re-extraction must be re-
peated. This extraction yields usually not more than about a
milligram of fat, if the previous ether-fat-solutions have been
drawn off closely an amount averaging about .02 per cent on
a 4-gram charge.
"Evaporate the ether slowly on a steam bath, then dry the
fat in a boiling water oven until loss of weight ceases.
"Prove the purity of the fat by dissolving in a little pe-
troleum ether. Should a residue remain, wash the 'fat out com-
pletely with petroleum ether, dry the residue, weigh, and deduct
the weight. (This should not often be necessary.)
"Finally deduct the weight obtained by blank determination
on the chemicals used.
"By this method practically absolute results can be ob-
tained."
Sucrose.
Determine by dift'erence, deducting the milk solids (ash
plus proteids plus lactose plus fat) from the total solids, or
358
'
Chemical Tests and Anai^yses
invert the sucrose, determine, the total invert sugar, deduct from
this the lactose calculated as invert sugar and calculate the
difference as sucrose.
Milk Solids.
Deduct the per cent sucrose from the per cent total solids.
The difference represents the per cent milk solids.
EVAPORATED MILK.
Preparation of Sample.
Shake the can of evaporated milk \'igorously before opening.
If, upon opening the can, separated cream or small lumps of
butter are found to adhere to the seams and around the junction
of the ends and the body, set the can in a water bath at 130
degrees F. for ten minutes or until all fat is completely dissolved.
Then pour the entire contents into a. beaker and pour back and
forth several times until a homogeneous mixture is secured. If
it is known before opening the can that the contents are sep-
arated, submerge the whole can in a water bath at 130 degrees
F. for ten minutes, then shake, open and proceed as above.
If it is desired to use a 40 per cent solution, as directed
under the determination of the individual ingredients, weigh
accurately 40 grams of the properly mixed contents of the can
into a 100 c.c. graduated flask. Add 60 c.c. water and mix thor-
oughly by shaking or stirring.
Specific Gravity.
Aerometric Method.
Apparatus.
Beaume hydrometer.Use a special Beaume hydrometer
with a scale ranging from five to twelve points, graduated to
tenths degrees and mercury-weighted. Length over all eleven
inches, 'length of spindle six inches, length of empty bulb four
inches and width of empty bulb seven-eighths inch,
'
Hydrometer jar.'Use a glass or tin cylinder with substantial
base. Minimum height ten inches and minimum width one and
a half inches.
Determination.
The Beaume hydrometer is graduated to read correctly at
60 degrees F. (15.5 degrees C). For every degree Fahrenheit
Chs:micaIv Tests and Anai^yses 359
above 60 add .031v3 points to the observed reading. For every
degree Fahrenheit below 60, dednct .0313 points from the ob-
served reading.
The specific gravity is determined by the use of the following
formula
:
o
-^

145.5
hpecinc gravitv =
tttt
TT
145.5
B
B z=z
Corrected Beaume reading.
Example: Beaume reading at 80 degrees F. is 7.S.
Corrected reading == 7.8
+
[(80
60)
X
.0313] =8.43.
145.5
Specific gravity 1.0615.
145.5
_
8.43
Equally good results may be obtained by diluting the evap-
orated milk with an equal weight of water. Then take the Que-
venne lactometer reading at 60 degrees F. Multiply the reading
by
2, add 1000, and divide by 1000.
Dilute the evaporated milk with four times its weight of
water and proceed as directed under "Milk."
Total Solids.
By Means of Specific Gravity and Babccck Formula.
Determine the specific gravity as above directed. Multiply
by 1000 afid substract 1000. Then use the following formula:
L
=:: The figure derived from the specific gravity by above
calculations.
f = per cent fat.
Example: Evaporated milk tests 7.^ per cent fat and has a
specific gravity of 1.0615.
L
= (1.0615
X
1000)

1000 = 61.5.
61.5
Total solid.'
+
1.2
X
7.8
rrr
24.74 per cent.
For rapid determination of the total solids of evaporated
milk the factory operator is referred to the following tables from
which the per cent total solids may be read at a glance when the
B-eaume reading at 60 degrees F. and the per cent fat are known.
360
Chkmicai. Tejsts and Anai^ysks
Per Cent Solids of Evaporated Milk.
The Beaume Degrees at 60 Degrees F. are Indicated in the
Horizontal Line at the Top. The Per Cent of Fat is Shown
in the Vertical Cohimn at the Left.
Beaume reading at 60 degrees Fahrenheit
8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9
FAT
PER
Solids Solids Soljds Solids Solids Solids Solids Solids Solids Sôllds
CENT
per per per per per per per per per per
cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent.
6.0 21.75 21.94 22.13 22.32 22.52 22.71 22.90 23.10 23.29 23.49
6.2 21.99 22.18 22.37 22.56 22.76 22.95 23.14 23.34 23.53 23.73
6.4 22.23 22.42 22.61 22.80 23.00 23.19 23.38 23 58 23.77 23.97
6.6 22.47 22.66 22.85 23.04 23.24 23.43 23.62 23.82
*24.01
24.21
6.8 22.71 22.90 23.09 23.28 23.48 23.67 23.86 24.06 24.25 24 45
7.0 22.95 23.14 23.33 23.52 23.72 23.91 24.10 24.30 24.49 24.69
7.2 23.19 23.38 23.57 23.76 23.96 24.15 24.34 24.54 24.73 24.93
7.4 23.43 23.62 23.81 24.00 24.20 24.39 24.58 24.78 24.97 25.17
7.6 23.67 23.86 24.05 24.24 24.44 24.63 24.82 25.02 25.21 25.41
7.8 23.91 24.10 24.29 24.48 24.68 24.87 25.06 25.26 25.45 25.65
8.0 24.15 24.34 24.53 24 72 24.92 2511 25.30 25.50 25.69 25.89
8.2 24.39 24.58 24.77 24.96 25.16 25.35 25.54 25.74 25.93 26.13
8.4 24.63 24.82 25.01 25.20 25.40 25.59 25.78 25.98 26.17 26.37
8.6 24.87 25.06 25.35 25.44 25.64 25.83 26.02 26.22 26.41 26.61
8.8 25.11 25.30 25.49 25.68 25.88 26.07 26.26 26.46 26.66 26.86
9.0 25.35 25.54 25.73 25.92 2612 26.31 26.50 26.70 26.89 27.09
9.2 25.59 25.78 25.97 26.16 26.36 26.55 26.74 26.94 27.13 27.38
9.4 25.83 26.02 26.21 26.40 26.60 26.79 26.98 27.18 27.37 27.57
9.6 26.07 26.26 26.45 26.64 26.84 27.03 27.22 27.42 27.61 27.81
9.8 26.31 26.50 26.69 26.88 27 08 27.27 2746 27.66 27.85 28.05
10.0 26.55 26.74 26.93 27.12 27.32 27.51 27.70 27.90 28.09 28.29
10.2 26.79 26.98 27.17 27.36 27.56 27.75 27.94 28.14 28.33 28.53
10.4 27.03 27.22 27.41 27.60 27.80 27.99 28.18 28 38 28.57 28.77
10.6 27.27 27.46 2r.65 27.84 28.04 28.23 28.42 28.62 28.81 29.01
10.8 27 51 27 70 27.89 28.08 28.28 28.47 28.66 28.86 29.05 29.25
11.0 27 75 27.94 28.13 28.32 28.52 28.71 28.90 29.10 29.29 29.49
11.2 27.99 28.18 28.37 28.56 28.76 28.95 29.14 29.34 29.-53 29.73
11.4 28.23 28.42 28.61 28.80 29.00 29.19 29.38 29.58 29.77 29.97
11.6 28.47 28.66 28.85 29.04 29.24 29.^3 29.62 29.82 30.01 30.21
11.8 28.71 28.90 29.09 29.28 29.48 29.67 29.86 30.06 30.25 30.45
Che:micai. Tksts and Anai.yse:s 361
Per Cent Solids of Evaporated Milk (Continued).
The Beaiime Degrees at 60 Degrees F. are Indicated in the
in the Vertical Column at the Left.
Beaume reading at (50 degrees Fahrenheit
FAT
9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4
1
9.5 9.6 9.7
1
9.8 9.9
PER
Solids Solids Solids Solids Solids Solids Solids Solids Solids Solids
CENT
VJCii-^ i-
cent cent. cent. cent cent. cent. cent. cent. cent cent
6.0 23.68 23.88 24.08 24.27 24.47 24.66 24.86 25.06 25.26 25.45
6.2 23.92 24.12 24.32 24.51 24.71 24.90 25.10 25.30 25.50 25.69
6.4 24.16 24.36 24.56 24.75 24.95 25.14 25.34 25.54 25.74 25.93
6.6 24.40 24.60 24.80 24.99 25.19 25.38 25.58 25.78 25.98 26.17
6.8 24.64 24.84 25.04 25.23 25.43 25.62 25.82 26.02 26.22 26.41
7.0 24.88 25.08 25.28 25.47 25.67 25.86 26.06 26.26 26.46 26.65
7.2 25.12 25.32 25.52 25.71 25.91 26.10 26.30 26.50 26.70 26.89
7.4 25.36 25.56 25.76 25.95 26.15 26.34 26.54 26.74 26.94 27.13
7.6 25.60 25.80 26.00 26.19 26.39 26.58 26.78 26.98 27.18 27.37
7.8 25.84 26.04 26.24 26.43 26.63 26.82 27.02 2722 27.42 27.61
8.0 26.08 26.28 26.48 26.67 26.87 27.06 27.26 27.46 27.66 27.85
8.2 26.32 26.52 26.72 26.91 27.11 27.30 27.50 27.70 27.90 28.09
8.4 26.56 26.76 26.96 27.15 27.35 27.54 27.74 27.94 28.14 28.33
8.6 26.80 27.00 27.20 27.39 27.59 27.78 27.98 2818 28.38 28.57
8.8 27.04 27.24 27.44 27 63 27.83 28.02 28.22 28 42 28.62 28.81
9.0 27.28 27.48 27.68 27.87 28,07 28.26 28.46 28.66 28.86 29.05
9.2 27.52 27.72 27.92 28.11 28.31 28.50 28.70 28.90 29.10 29.29
9.4 27.76 27.96 28.16 28.35 28.55 28.74 28.94 29.14 29.34 29.53
9.6 28.00 28.20 28.40 28.59 28.79 28.98 29;18 29.38 29.5S 29.77
9.8 28.24 28.44 28.64 28.83 29.03 29,22 29.42 29.62 29.82 sa.oi
10.0 28.48 28.68 28.88 29.07 29.27 29.46 29.66 29.86 30.06 30.25
10.2 28.72 28.92 29.12 29.31 29.51 29.70 29.90 30.10 30.30 30.49
10.4 28.96 29.16 29.36 29.55 29.75 29.94 30.14 30.34 30.54 30.73
10.6 29.20 29.40 29.60 29.79 29.99 30.18 30.33 30 58 30.78 30.97
10.8 29.44 29.64 29.84 30.03 30.23 30.42 30.62 30.82 31.02 31.21
11.0 29.68 29.88 30.08 30.27 30.47 30.66 30.86 31.06 31.26 31.45
11.2 29.92 30.12 30.32 30.51 30.71 30.90 31.10 31.30 31.50 3L69
11.4 30.16 30.36 30.56 30.75 30.95 31.14 3134 31.54 31J4 31.93
11.6 30.40 30.60 30.80 30.99 31.19 31.38 3158 31.78 31.98 32.17
11.8 30.64 30.84 31.04 31.23 31.43 31.62 31.82 32.02 3222 3241
362 Chemicai. Tests and Analyses
Per Cent Solids of Evaporated Milk (Continued).
The Beaiime Degrees at 60 Degrees F. are Indicated in the
in the Vertical Column at the Left.
Beaume readrn
g
at & degrees Fahrenheit
FAT
10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 10.9
PER Solids Solids Solids Solids Solids Solids Solids Solids SoUds Solids
CENT
cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent.
6.0 25.65 25.85 26.05 26.25 26.45 26.65 26.85
27.05"
27.25 27.45
6.2 25.89 26.09 26.29 26.49 26.69 26.89 27.09 27^ 27.49 27.69
6.4 26.13 26.33 26.53 26.73 26.93 27.13 27.33 27.53 27.73 27.93
6.6 26.37 26.57 26.77 26.97 27.17 27.37 27.57 27.77 27.97 28.17
6.8 26.61 26.81 27.01 27.21 27.41 27.61 27.81 28.01 28.21 28.41
7.0 26.85 27.05 27.25 27.45 27.65 27.85 28.05 28.25 28.45 28.65
7.2 27.09 27.29 27.49 27.69 27.89 28.09 28.29 28.49 28.69 28.89
7.4 27.33 27.53 27.73 27.93 28.13 28.33 28.53 28.73 28.93 29.13
7.6 27.57 27.77 27.97 28.17 28.37 28.57 28.77 28.97 29.17 29.37
7.8 27.81 28.01 28.21 28.41 28.61 28.81 29.01 29.21 29.41 29.61
8.0 28.05 28.25 28.45 28.65 28.85 29.05 29.25 29.45 29.65 29.85
8.2 28.29 28.49 28.69 28.89 29.09 29.29 29.49 29.69 29.89- 30.09
8.4 28.53 28.73 28.93 29.13 29.33 29.53 29.73 29.93 30.13 30.33
8.6 28.77 28.97 29.17 29.37 29.57 29.77 29.97 30.17 30.37 30.57
8.8 29.01 29.21 29.41 29.61 29.81 30.01 30.21 30.41 30.61 30.81
9.0 29.25 29.45 29.65 29.85 30.05 80^5 30.45 30.65 30.85 31.05
9.2 29.49 29.69 29.89 30.09 30.29 80.49 30.69 30.89 31.09 31.29
9.4 29.73 29.93 30.13 30.33 30.53 80.73 30.93 31.13 31.33 31.63
9.6 29.97 30.17 30.37 30.57 30.77 80.97 31.17 31.37 31.57 31.77
9.8 30.21 30.41 30.61 30.81 31.01 31.21 31.41 31.61 31.81 32.01
10.0 30.45 30.65 30.85 31.05 31.25 31.45 31.65 31.85 32.05 32.25
10.2 30.69 30.89 31.09 31.29 31.49 81.69 31.89 32.09 32.29 32.49
10.4 30.93 31.13 31.33 31.53 31.73 81.93 32.13 32.33 32.53 32.73
10.6 31.17 31.37 31.57 31.77 31.97 32.17 32.37 32.57 32.77 32.97
10.8 31.41 31.61 31.81 32.01 32.21 32.41 32.61 32.81 33.01 33.21
11.0 31.65 31.85 32.05 32.25 32.45 32.65 32.85 33.05 33.25 33.45
11.2 31.89 32.09 32.29 32.49 32.69 32.89 33.09 33.29 33.49 33.69
11.4 32.13 32.33 32.53 32.73 32.93 33.13 33.33 33.53 33.73 33.93
11.6 32.37 32.57 32.77 32.97 33.17 33.37 33.57 33.77 33.97 34.17
11.8 32.61 32.81 33.01 33.21 33.41 33.61 33.81 34.01 34.21 34.41
Chemical Tksts and Analyses
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363
equal volume of water, use 5 c.c. of the diluted mixture, correspond-
ing to 1 gram of the evaporated milk and proceed as directed under
"Milk."
Ash.
Ignite the total solids at very low redness, cool, weigh, see
"Milk."
Proteids.
Use 5 c.c. of a 40 per cent solution, determine nitrogen accord-
ing to the Gunning method as directed under "Milk," and multiply
result by 6.38.
Lactose.
Dilute 10 grams of a 40 per cent solution to about 40 c.c. and
add .6 c.c. of Fehling's copper solution ; nearly neutralize with
sodium hydroxide, make up to 100 c.c, filter through dry filter, arid
determine lactose in an aliquot as directed under "Milk."
Fat.
The Modified Babcock Method.^
Carefully weigh 4.5 grams of well-mixed evaporated milk into
the 8 per cent test bottle. Add one 17.6 c.c. pipetteful of water. Add
17.5 c.c. of sulphuric acid and shake until the curd in the test bottle
is completely dissolved. Whirl at usual speed (one thousand revo-
lutions per minute) for five minutes. Mix equal portions of water
and sulphuric acid in glass beaker. For one or two tests, one
pipetteful of water and one acid measure full of acid are sufficient.
Fill test bottle to slightly below the bottom of the neck with the hot
diluted acid. Whirl for two minutes. If the fat collected at the
base of the neck is not clear, shake the bottle until all the curdy
matter is completely dissolved, fill the bottle to about the 8 per cent
mark with hot mater, whirl for one minute and read the test at 135
degrees F. The fat column must be read from the top of the upper
meniscus to the bottom of the lower meniscus. Multiply the reading
by 4. This gives the correct per cent of fat.
Instead of weighing 4.5 grams into the test bottle, a 4.3 c.c.
1 Hunziker and Spitzer, Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin
No. 134, 1909.
364 Che:micaIv Tests and AnaIvYSKs
pipette may be used. After emptying the pipette into the bottle it
should be rinsed twice and the rinsings discharged into the test
bottle.
For making numerous tests
from the same sample it is advis-
able to dilute the evaporated milk
with equal parts of water, by
weight ; then weigh nine grams of
this dilution into the test bottle and
add one-half pipetteful of water.
S.
The Roese-Gottlieb Method.
Proceed as directed under
"Sweetened Condeijsed Milk."
MILK POWDER.
Total Solids.
Weigh 5 grams of the milk
powder in a drying bottle or evap-
orating dish and place in drying
oven at 100 to 105 degrees C. until
constant weight is secured.
Ash.
-B
Read from A to D
D
pigr. Ill
Readingr the Babcock test
Weigh two grams of the milk powder in a weighed platinum
dish and proceed as directed under "Milk."
Proteids.
Use five grams of the milk powder and proceed as directed
under "Milk."
Milk Sugar (Lactose).
Dissolve ten grams of milk powder in 90 c.c. of water. Warm
and stir until a satisfactory solution is effected and proceed as di-
rected under "Milk," and multiply result by 10.
Sucrose.
For the determination of sucrose proceed as directed under
"Sweetened Condensed Milk."
The Mojonnie:r Tdst 365
Fat.
The Babcock Test Method.Dissolve ten grams of milk
powder in 90 c.c. of water. Warm and mix until a complete solu-
tion is effected. Then proceed as directed under "Milk," and mul-
tiply the result by 10.
"Roese-Gottlieb Method.Weigh one gram of the powder
in a 30 c.c. lipped beaker. Rub up with 9 c.c. of water and 2 c.c. of
concentrated ammonium hydroxid, digest on steam bath until the
casein is well softened and the whole resembles milk. Cool, transfer
to Rohrig tube or similar apparatus, using 10 c.c. of 95 per cent
alcohol foi; rinsing, followed, after shaking contents of tube, by 25
c.c. of washed ethyl ether. Shake vigorously for one-half minute
and proceed as in the determination of fat in sweetened condensed
milk."
Chapter XXXI.
THE MOJONNIER TEST FOR FAT AND SOLIDS.^
The Mojonnier test for fat and solids in milk and milk prod-
ucts represents the use of chemical apparatus and mechanical de-
vices of a high degree of precision, ingeniously invented, scientific-
ally modified and especially adapted foraccurate tests of dairy prod-
ucts. It offers methods of fat and solids estimations that combine
the accuracy of official chemical analysis with the rapidity of fac-
tory tests. It has been introduced in and is successfully used by
most of the progressive milk-condensing factories in the country,
and it is admirably filling a long-felt demand for reliable and accu-
rate methods of testing milk, condensed milks and milk powders
and for standardizing these products under factory conditions.
EQUIPMENT.
Install the tester on a solid foundation in a room protected
against excessive fluctuations in temperature.
1. Tester for butter fat.
2. Tester for total solids.

3. Fat extraction flasks.
1
Directions furnished through courtesy of Mojonnier Bros. Co., Milk
Engineers, Chicago.
366 The Mojonnier Test
4. Eight 3^-inch aluminum dishes without covers and with
tall counterpoise which tares the eight dishes, for fat tests.
5. Eight 3-jnch aluminum dishes with covers and short coun-
terpoise, for solids tests.
6. Fat oven. Keep temperature at
135
C.
7. Cooling chamber.
8. Solids oven. Keep temperature at
100
C.
9. 250
C. thermometer for solids oven. Have mercury bulb
8 5 30 31 25 n 7 10 3 13 6 4
23 17 le 29 14 15 19 la 24
risr. 112. Tbe Mojonnier tester
Courtesy of Mojonnier Bros. Company
fit snugly into brass mercury well. Brass mercury well must always
form good contact with hot plate.
10. 250
C. thermometer for fat oven. Observe same precau-
tions as in (9).
U. Vacuum gauge on main suction line, registers either or
both ovens.
12. Solids plate. Must be level and held at
180
C.
13, Fat plate. Hold at
135
C.
Yhe Mojonnikr Test 367
14. Rheostat for fat plate. Lever must make good contact
with one button, not with two at a time. When right button has been
found that maintains constant temperature, mark this point on rheo-
stat rim. When starting tester each day, turn handle on full until
temperature has risen to within right point, then turn back to previ-
ously marked button.
15. Rheostat for fat oven. Observe same precautions as in
(14).
16. Rheostat for solids oven. Observe same precautions as
in
(14).
17. Rheostat for solids plate. Observe same precautions as
in
(14).
18. Handle for centrifuge.
19. Snap switches for each hot plate showing temperature and
time for treating samples at various points.
20. Power unit, consisting of vacuum pump, water circulating
pump and motor for same. Keep pump filled to air cock with oil
furnished with tester.
21. Automatic burettes and cans holding the water, ammonia,
alcohol, ethyl ether and petroleum ether, placed in the order in which
they are used. Each division on burettes delivers the proper amount
of the desired reagent for a single extraction.
22. Hood, to be placed over fat dishes when evaporating off
ether.
23. Legs, to be fastened to floor with lag screws.
24. This side need not be fastened to floor. H necessary to
take out power unit disconnect connections in rear of maciiine and
move this part of machine forward.
25. Chemical balance. Keep level, clean and handle carefully.
Raise knife edges gradually and with care. Clean balance daily.
Keep weights clean. When weights show signs of wear, order new
ones.
26. Cock, to exhaust vacuum from oven when cock (27)
is
closed. Must be kept closed when vacuum is turned on oven.
27. Cock, that switches vacuum from main line into vacuum
oven. Set of cocks at right is for solids oven, set of cocks at left
is for fat oven.
28. Hole in top of fat plate holder, communicating with suction
368 Thk Mojonnier Ti:sT
fan, on power unit. Run exhaust pipe on suction fan out of window
and keep hood over the dishes in order to drive all ether fumes
from room.
29. Stool, to be screwed to floor.
DIRECTIONS FOR OPERATING MOJONNIER TEST.
Preliminary directions for tests of both Fat and Solids.
(1)
Wash soHds dishes with warm water and fat dishes
with gasoline. Dry with a towel and place into heated vacuum
oven for five minutes with vacuum on. At the end of five minutes
put these dishes into cooler and, wath the pump still running,
keep them there for five minutes before weighing. Do not turn
off motor until last dish is weighed out of cooling charnber.
(2)
While dishes are being heated and cooled, wash
pipettes with water, alcohol and ether and dry by applying
vacuum at exhaust cock upon tester. Always use clean and
dty pipettes for each different sample. Aim to clean pipettes as
well as all glassware, immediately after using.
(3)
It is very important to keep extraction flasks clean.
Wash these with warm water immediately after extraction is
finished. Wash with washing powder and shot when necessary.
(4))
After aluminium dishes have been in cooler for at
least five minutes, weigh accurately to .0001 gram, using the
proper counterpoise. Weigh solids dishes with cover on. Fat
dishes do. not have covers. Fat dishes should be cooled for
seven minutes before being weighed.
(5)
Use weighing pipettes as follows : Fill five-gram pipette
up to five-gram mark for butter fat, and one-gram pipette
up to one-gram mark for total solids. If duplicates are to be run
fill two pipettes from the same sample. As pipettes are filled
place lower end into cleaned and dry rubber tubes which are
pressed upon knobs at ends and center of wêighing cross. Either
five or less samples for butter fat or five or less for total solids
may be pipetted out.
(6)
Weigh the cross with the pipettes containing the milk
on chemical balance accurately to .0001 grafri. Run rtlilk from
pipette into proper flask, or 3-inch dish if making solids test.
The pipettes may be distinguished by the number upon each
Thk Mojonnier Test 369
cross. Replace pipette and weigh again. Difference in weight
gives weight of sample. Repeat until all samples are run into
proper flasks, and into weighed solids dishes if solids are detFr--
mined along with the fat.
For fat in Sweetened Condensed Milk use a five-gram
sample. The five-gram pipette delivers approximately five
grams between _the five-gram mark and the base of the bowl of
the pipette.
Some operators prefer to mix 200 grams of sweetened con-
densed milk with 200 grams of wâter, weighing these carefully
upon a Harvard trip scale sensitive to .1 gram. In this case care
must be exercised to obtain the exact weight of both milk and
water and to stir these thoroughly wath glass or metal rod before
taking sample. A tall tumbler, a one-pound bottle or a quart
cup make good containers in which to make mixture. A ten-
g'ram sample of this mixture is used. This is best weighed out
by using two five-gram pipettes on weighing cross.

For total solids weigh out
J4
(.5000) to
}i
(7500)
gram of
this mixture. If the undiluted milk is used take as nearly
(.2500)
gram as possible.
For regular 8 per cent plain bulk condensed milk use same
size samples and treat same as evaporated milk. For 12 per cent
superheated condensed milk mix 100 grams milk with 300 grams
water upon Harvard trip scale. Weigh ten-gram sample of this
mixture into flask for fat and a two-gram sample into solids
dish for solids. Multiply percentages obtained by four for cor-
rect percentages, when a 1 to 4 dilution is made.
FRESH MILK, SKIM MILK, WHEY, BUTTERMILK.
Butter Fat Determination.
(1) Use the ten-gram pipettes for measuring out ten grams
of milk into cleaned but not necessarily dried Mojonnier extrac-
tion flask. Use only ten-gram pipettes furnished with tester
and do not use 10 c.c. pipettes. The pipette is graduated to
deliver ten grams of milk after allowing all milk to run out
and letting it drain for fifteen seconds longer, then blowing
gently to remove last drop. The pipette must be perfectly clean
and dry before being used. Wash frequently with sulphuric -acid,
water, alcohol and ether to insure having a clean pipette.
370 The: Mojonnier Iêst
(2)
Make extractions exactly as in test for butter fat in
condensed milk, excepting that in second extraction only 15 ex.
of each ether need be used.
(3)
Percentage butter fat is obtained by multipling the
weight of the extracted butter fat by 10.
(4)
If any of these products have soured badly, double the
quantity of ammonia in the regular extraction and shake until
all particles are dissolved.
Total Solids Determination.
(1)
Determine total solids as in evaporated milk, excepting
that a two-gram sample is weighed out, 'and no water need be
added to spread the milk over the bottom of the dish.
SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK, EVAPORATED MILK
AND CONDENSED BULK MILK.
(1)
Remove flask from holder and run 4 c.c. water (one
charge on water burette) into each flask. Be careful not to add
more. Shake well until all of sample is mixed with water. This
can be done without inserting cork.
For Sweetened Condensed Milk
,
if not diluted with water,
add 6 c.c. of hot water with a pipette. To get hot water place fat
dish filled with distilled water upon solids plate. If sweetened
milk has been previously diluted with water and a ten-gram
sample has been used, it is not necessary to add water.
It is very necessary to shake the flasks containing the sweet-
ened condensed milk very thoroughly after the addition of each
reagent. Sweetened condensed milk requires more shaking
than any other liquid milk product.
(2)
Before replacing flask into holder, add 1^ c.c. c.p. am-
monia. Shake well so that all of sample is well mixed with
ammonia. This can be done without inserting cork.
*
(3)
Add 95 per cent alcohol up to base of top bulb of ex-
traction flask. Insert cork, using best quality corks only. Re-
place flask into flask holder. Shake thoroughly and see that no
milk adheres to any part of flask undissolved. In case particles
of milk stick to side of flask, shake thoroughly until these are
Tnt MojoNNiER Test 371
washed away. It is of the utmost importance to shake thor-
oughly at this point.
(4)
Add 25 c.c. ethyl ether, insert cork and shake vigorous-
ly, lengthwise of flask, with liquid in large bulb of flask, and
small bulb extended upward. Stop shaking at end of five seconds
until all liquid has run into large bulb and repeat vigorous shak-
ing for four five-second periods.
(5)
Add 25 c.c. petroleum ether and shake in same way.
(6)
Place extraction flasks into centrifuge and whirl for
thirty turns at speed of about 600 R. P. M. Double time for
SAveetened condensed mjlk.
(7)
Place four 3j^-inch dishes in line on shelf adjoining hot
plate, keeping them in order in which their weights were posted
upon record sheet. Aim to have numbers on flasks correspond
with number of dishes.
(8)
Pour ether extraction to dividing line into proper dishes
and slide dishes over onto hot plate, which should be held at a
temperature of 135 degrees C, as indicated by thermometej; in-
serted in nickel plated mercury well.
(9) Repeat the extraction, adding first alcohol enough to
bring line close up to top of small neck of flask, then 25 c.c.
ethyl ether, and then 25 c.c. petroleum ether, and shake vigorous-
ly after the addition of each of above three reagents for four
5-second periods.
(10)
Whirl in centrifuge for thirty turns.
(11)
Move aluminum dishes back upon shelf adjoining hot.
plate and pour the second extraction into proper dishes. Never
pour extraction into hot dish. Remove dish from hot plate as
soon as ether is all evaporated.
(12) When all of ether has evaporated place dishes into
vacuum oven, which should have a temperature of 135 degrees
centigrade. Keep them there for five minutes after the vacuum
gauge shows at least twenty-two inches of vacuum.
(13)
Place dishes into cooler for seven minutes, with pump
outfit running. See that water is running through cooling plates.
(14)
Place counterpoise for dish and the approximate
weight for fat on right hand balance pan.
372 The: Mojonnii:r Tkst
(15)
Transfer dish to left hand balance pan and weigh
quickly to 0.10 milligram (0.0001 gr.).
(16)^ Weight of fat divided by weight of sample taken,
multiplied by 100, represents per cent butter fat.
'
(1)
The temperature of the hot plate in the solids vacuum
oven must be 100 degrees C. The temperature of the outside
solids plate must be 170 degrees to 180 degrees C.
(2)
To weighed milk* in solids dish add about 1 c.c. water
and distribute mixture evenly over bottom of dish. For sweet-
ened cond^sed milk use hot water.
*
(3)
Place not more than two dishes at once upon hot plate,
which must be perfectly level. Allow all visible moisture to
evaporate. During the evaporation turn the dishes around with
crucible tongs, slowly, so as to produce an even boiling over the
whole bottom surface of the dishes. The dishes must be watched
carefully during the evaporation. This step should require not
more than two minutes. The end point is reached when bubbling
and crackling ceases

and sample shows first trace of brown.
Vigorous boiling without spattering and complete evaporation
are fundamentally essential.
(4)
Place dishes into vacuum oven, wdiich must be at 100
degrees C, and turn on the vacuum. Heat for ten minutes. In
^
tje case of sweetened condensed milk keep it for twentv minutes
in vacn
yrp nvpn
The gauge should register not less than
twenty-two inches of vacuum. If for any reason you cannot
obtain at least twenty-two inches of vacuum then leave dishes
in oven for twice the regular time.
(5)
Remove from oven and place into cooler. AIIoav dishes
to cool for five minutes.
(6)
Weigh dishes with covers on in the same manner that
the butter fat dishes were weighed, being careful to weigh
quickly and very exactly.
(7)
Weight of dry solids divided by weight of milk taken,
multiplied by 100 represents per cent total solids.
Thiv MojoNNiER Tkst
373
POWDERED MILK AND MALTED MILK.
Method of Sampling.
Mix the sample thoroughly, making sure that it is sufficiently
pulverized and representative of the entire lot to be tested. Trans-
fer the pulverized sample promptly to a sealed jar. Mix before
removing portions for testing.
(1)
Weigh out rapidly, to prevent absorption of moisture
from the air, about one gram of milk powder into butter boat.
In case of malted milk, weigh out a 0.5 gram sample.
(2) Add 8.5 c.c. of hot water to flask. Insert cork. Heat
flask in water bath and shake thoroughly until the sample is
well mixed.
(3)
Add 1.5 c.c. (one charge) ammonia, and shake thor-
oughly.
(4) Add alcohol up to line on small neck of flask. Insert
cork. Replace flask into flask holder. Shake flask thoroughly
with cork inserted. Use best quality cork only.
(5)
Cool flask by running cold water over lower end of
extraction flask, if flask is very hot. This is not ordinarily
necessary.
(6)
Add 25 c.c. ethyl ether. Insert cork, shake vigorously
until all butter is dissolved out of boat. Then add 25 c.c. pe-
troleum ether and repeat operation.
(7)
Centrifuge flasks, turning handle thirty turns after cen-
trifuge has reached a speed of about 600 R. P. M.
(8)
Pour off extractions into proper, weighed 354-inch alum-
inum dishes. Repeat above extraction, adding first alcohol, then
25 c.c. of each ether. Excepting for very accurate work a third
extraction is not necessary.
The second extraction will remove all but .10 to .15 per cent
of the butter fat. For factory control work this would be a good
margin of safety.
(9)
Evaporate oft' ether at 135 degrees C. on *'fat plate,"
and when all of ether is off, dry fat in fat oven held at 135 de-
grees C. for five minutes after the vacuum has reached at least
twenty-two 'inches.
(10)
Cool, weigh and calculate per cent butter fat.
374 Bacteriological Analyses
(1)
Use .3000 gram sample. Add 2 c.c. distilled water to
the sample in this dish. Mix milk powder and water thoroughly
with the blunt rod.
(2)
Continue the determination as under evaporated milk,
but continue heating in the vacuum oven for twenty minutes.
Chapter XXXII.
BACTERIOLOGICAL ANALYSES.
While it is obviously beyond the scope and purpose of this
volume to discuss in detail the technique of bacteriological
analyses and microscopic preparations of the milk prod*ucts de-
scribed herein, it is deemed advisable to oflfer some suggestions
that may serve for guidance of those who are not familiar with
bacterial fermentations in condensed milk.
Sampling.Take samples of all products contained in open
receptacles, such as fluid milk, plain condensed bulk milk, barreled
sweetened condensed milk and milk pow^der, in sterile, cotton
plugged test tubes, or in small sterile glass-stoppered bottles,
and keep them in a cool place, preferably not above 35 degrees
F. until ready to use. Keep canned condensed milk sealed in
the original package until ready to use. If already open, invert
a petri dish or a beaker over the can to avoid contamination
from the air.
Dilution for Numerical Counts.Make dilutions in 250 c.c.
glass-stoppered flasks. Before opening sealed cans, thoroughly
wipe off the entire top with a sterile piece of cheese cloth soaked
in a saturated solution of mercuric bichloride or a 5 per cent
solution of carbolic acid and flame the top of the can. Open
evaporated milk cans by punching a hole into their top, large
enough to insert the discharge end of a graduated pipette. Open
sweetened condensed milk cans with a sterile knife or a sterile
can opener.
In the case of fluid milk and evaporated milk, measure with
a sterile graduated pipette two cubic centimeters of the product
and 198 cubic centimeters of sterile water into the 250 c.c. flask.
In the case of plain condensed bulk milk, sweetened condensed
Bacteriological Analyses 375
milk and milk powder, use tared flasks holding about 150 cubic
centimeters, weigh into them two grams of the product and add
enough sterile wâter at a temperature of 98 degrees F. to makt-
up 100 cubic centimeters. Use a sterile spoon or spatula to
transfer the product to this flask. A wide-mouth flask is
preferable.
The above represents the first dilution. The flask should be
carefully shaken until a homogeneous mixture is obtained and
the soluble portions have been completely dissolved.
From this dilution further dilutions are made in sterile
water in glass-stoppered flasks, according to requirements. The
dilutions should be sufficient to limit the number of colonies on
the plates to about 50 to 100 per plate. Whole milk, as it arrives
at the factory, usually show\s from 100,000 to 1.000.000 bacteria
per c.c. Evaporated milk should be practically sterile unless the
can shows signs of fermentation in w^hich case the number of
bacteria present will depend on the age of the sample can;
dilutions as high as 1:1,000,000 are recommended in such cases.
Plain condensed bulk milk when fresh contains from about
1,000 to 100,000 bacteria per c.c, when several days old and in
the absence of refrigeration, its germ content is often much
greater. Sweetened condensed milk averages from about 500 to
500,000 bacteria per c.c.
Plating.
^For plating the following media are recommended :

Media for Total Counts and also for acidifiers
4 grams beef extract
10 grams peptone
30 grams lactose
4 grams sodium chloride
12 grams thread agar
1000 c.c. distilled water.
Acidity 0.1 per cent.
For acidifiers add 1 c.c. of sterile litmus solution to each
plate before pouring the agar.
Media for Liquefiers
10 grams peptone
'^7(^
BactkrioIvOGicaIv AnaIvYses
30 grams lactose
4 grams sodium chloride
150 grams gelatin
1000 c.c. distilled water.
Media for Yeasts and Molds
10 grams peptone
12 grams agar
1000 grams whey
Add 1 c.c. of sterile one per cent tartaric acid solution to
each plate before pouring the medium over the dilution.
Incubation.Incubate agar, litmus agar and whey agar
plates at 35 degrees C. (95 degrees F.) for at least three days
before making counts. Incubate gelatin plates at 21 degrees C.
(70 degrees F.) for four to five days before making counts.
Making Counts.The colonies on the plates are counted
most conveniently by placing the plates over a standard counting-
plate. In the absence of such a plate, place the petri dish upside
down on a dark surface and draw, with a blue crayon, radial lines,
dividing the field into segments. For plates containing not to
exceed 100 colonies eight to sixteen segments are sufficient for
easy counting.
Qualitative Determinations.Numerical counts on the four
kinds of media recommended above usually furnish a fair general
idea of the types of bacteria present.
For the detection of gas-producing species, nutrient bouillon
containing three per cent lactose and three per cent sucrose, re-
spectively, in fermentation tubes, or nutrient agar containing
three per cent lactose and three per cent sucrose, respectively,
in test tubes, are serviceable.
Cans of sweetened condensed milk that show gaseous fermen-
tation (swell heads) are usually due to certain species of yeast,
which thrive best in media containing sucrose.
Cans of evaporated' mdlk that show gaseous fermentation
(swell heads) are usually caused by anaerobic putrefactive bac-
BACTE:Rioi.oGiCArv Anai^ysEs 377
teria, of which Plectridiiim foetidnm is a most frequent repre-
sentative, see ''Blown Evaporated Milk," Chapter XXIII. This type
of micro-organisms requires strictly anaerobic cultural conditioner
Under limited laboratory facilities the anaerobic conditions are
best produced by the use of oxygen-absorbing chemicals, such as
pyrogallol to which potassium hydroxide is added. Use dry
commercial pyrogallol and potassium hydroxide sticks, in pro-
portion of 1 gram pyrogallol to .7 gram potassium hydroxide,
dissolved in about 2 c.c. of water.
Place 50 grams of pyrogallol into the bottom part of a large
size desiccator. Have the rim of the desiccator and the cor-
responding rim of the cover covered with a mixture of half
paraffine and half bee's wax. Pour into the pyrogallol in the
desiccator 100 c.c. of water and then throw in 35 grams of
potassium hydroxide. Quickly insert culture tubes, or plates,
and close the desiccator with the cover, turning the cover so as
to secure a perfect seal. Apply three permanent screw clamps.
Anaerobic germs of the type of Plectridium foetidum grow
best in freshly sterilized milk. In the case of Plectridium foeti-
dum the milk, first curdles, then digests, forming a clear yellow
liquid. The digestion begins at the surface and proceeds down-
ward. These cultures develop a most penetrating foul odor,
resembling that of spoiled eggs.^
The technique and methods for determining the bacteri-
ological flora with reference to cultural and morphological
characteristics of individual species of microbes present, are
identical to those used in the bacteriological study of milk and
other similar products, and which are fully described in standat-d
manuals on bacteriology.
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Review of Existing Methods for Cultivating Anaerobic Bacteria. Journal of
Applied Microscopy and Laboratory Methods, Vol. V, Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6.
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INDEX
Accidents, prevention of 95
Acknowledgments 14
Acid tests
50
Addition of sugar 63
Adulterations 271
Advertisements
384-424
Agitation of sweetened ]
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Air discharge 312
Air intake 312
AllDumin 346
Altitude 88, 89, 90
Anaerobic cultures 377
Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co 21
Annual production of
buttermilk powder 331

condensed buttermilk 184
condensed milk 26, 29
cream powder 278
malted milk 335
milk powder 278
Antineuritic vitamines 215
Antiscorbutic vitamines 216
Antixerophthalmic vitamines 215
Arrangement of machinery 41,42
Ash. 203, 208, 344, 355, 363, 364
Aspergillus repens 238
Atmospheric pressure 88, 89
B
Bacillus panis 265
Bacterioligical analyses 374
Bacteriological media 375
Babcock test 351, 365
Barometric condenser 77
Barrels 110
Beet sugar 63, 64
Beaume hydrometer
99. lOO, 101, 122, 353, 358
Beriberi 215
Bicarbonate of soda 147, 156, 157
Bitter evaporated milk 263
Blow-down valve 76
Boiling point at different vacua... 86, S7
Boiling test 51
Bolting ....315
Borden, Gail 18
Borden's Condensed Milk Co 21
Borden patent 18
Brands of condensed milk 196
Brown evaporated milk 269
Brown sweetened condensed milk... 251
Buflovak process 288
Buflovak rapid circulation evapora-
tor 168
Building and equipment for con-
denseries 33
Bulk milk 162
Butterfat
201, 206, 351, 356, 363, 365, 369, 370, 373
Butterfat test 54
Buttermilk, composition 177
Buttermilk powder 330
annual output 331
composition 331
manufacture 332
Buttons in sweetened condensed
milk 237, 241
Buying milk 43
By- Products Recovery Co 25
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Calcium in milk 253
Campbell process 166, 279
Cane sugar 63, 203
Cans 110, 111
Can testers 135
Can washing 56
Care of milk in factory 57
Casein 346
Casing machines 189
Catch-all 82
Chemical analyses 342
of evaporated milk 358, 370
of malted milk 373
of milk 342, 369
of milk powder 364, 373
of sweetened condensed milk. 353, 370
Citrates in milk 253
Coils in pan 72, 73, 74
Composition of
buttermilk 177
buttermilk powder 331
condensed buttermilk 184
evaporated milk 205
milk powders 315
plain condensed milk 208
sweetened condensed milk 200
Concentrated milk 166
Concentration, ratio of 96, 165, 182
Condensed buttermilk 176
Condensed milk
annual production in U. S 26, 28

in different countries 29
cost of manufacture 217
defects 222
Condensed MiIvK and Milk Powder 381
digestibility 212
factories in U. S 28
history and development 17
purity 211
standards .210
vitamine properties 215
Condensers 76-82
Condensery floors 33
Condensing.... 68, 119, 163, 173, 179-184
Continuous concentrators. . .25, 167, 171
Cooling 103, 129, 165, 174
Cooling in sterilizer 143
Correction of Beaume 100, 122
Cost of manufacture 219, 329
Cream Production Co 25
Curdy evaporated milk 253,259
Defective plain condensed milk 252
lumpy 252
gritty ....270
Defective evaporated milk 252
bitter 263
brown ,
.
, 269
curdy 253
fermented 258
grainy 257
metallic 271
separated 258
Defective sweetened condensed milk. 222
blown 242
brown 251
buttons in 237
cheesy 231
fermented 242
lumpy 233
metallic 251
putrid 250
rancid 249
sandy 223
settled 228
thick 231
Desiccating chamber 309
Distribution of heat in sterilizer 138
Dome 75
Dough-drying processes .... .'7;
. . . .278
Drainage in condenseries
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. 35
Dried buttermilk 330
E
Ekenberg process 286
Equipment for condenseries 39-41
Evaporated milk 117
analyses 358
behavior toward heat 158
composition 205
condensing 119
control 146
cooling 129
falling 132
heating .~r. . 1
18
homogenizing 124
incubation 162
sealing 134
shaking 159
standards 210
standardizing 123, 339
sterilizing 136
viscosity tests 145
Expansion tank 82
Exports 198, 199
F
Factory sanitation 54
Fat-soluble vitamines 215
Fat standard for export 211
Federal standards 210, 335,378
Fermentation tests 53
Fermented evaporated milk 262
Fermented sweetened condensed
milk 242
Filling evaporated milk 132
Filling machines 110
Film-drying processes 280
Floor plans 35-39
Flux 115
P ractional sterilization 144
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Gaseous fermentations 242, 266-268
Gas generators 115
Gas supply 115
Gathmann process 283
Gaulin homogenizer 126, 127
Gebee seal Ill
Glass-lined tanks 47, 57, 58, 131
Glucose 273
Covers process 287
Grainy evaporated milk 257
Gray processes 297, 299, 302
Grimwade process 277
Gritty plain condensed milk 270
Gunning method 344
H
Hatmaker process 282
Heating milk 59-62, 118
Heating the air 308
Hebe product 216, 272
Helvetia Milk Condensing Co 22
High pressure pumps 107
Holding tanks 130, 131
Homogenizers 127
Homogenizing
124, 129
Hotwells 61
382 Condensed Milk and Milk Powder
Imitation evaporated milk 216
annual output "... .273
Imports 198, 199
Incubation 162, 376
Index to advertisers 384
Inder to contents 380-383
Insects in milk powder 328
Inspection of cans 187
Insulation of piping 42
Jacket in pan 71
John Wildi Evaporated Milk Co.... 24
Just process 281
Keeping quality of
malted milk 334

milk powder 325-328
Labeling 187
Labeling machines 187
Lactose 202, 208, 347, 356, 363, 364
Legal standards of dairy products by
states 378, 379
Loading the sterilizer 138
Locations for condenseries 29
Lumpy milk powder 328
Lumpy sweetened condensed milk...
233-236
M
McDonald seal Ill
McLachlan process 292, 294
Making bacterial counts 376
Malted milk 332-335
Marking cases 190
Market prices 196
iMarkets 184, 194, 195, 329, 334
Mercury column 75
Merrell-Merrell-Gere process 294
Metallic evaporated milk 270
Metallic sweetened condensed milk.. 251
Meyenberg, John B 23
Milk analyses 342
Milk inspection 49
Milk powder 276-335
Milk powder factories 278
Milk prices 45
Milk quality 47, 48
Milk solids 201, 205, 358
Milk sugar 202, 208, 347, 363, 364
Milk supply 30, 43
Milk trap 82
Mineral matter 203, 208
Miscibility 320
Modified Babcock test 356, 363
Mojonnier evaporated milk control.. 145
Mojonnier test for fat and solids 365
N
Nailing machines 189
Nestle-Cham Condensed Milk Co... 21
New York Condensed Milk Co... 20, 21
i\ itrogen determination 343
operation of pan 94
P
Packing
183, 189, 315
for export 191
Passburg process
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Percy process
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Phosphates in milk 253
Pilot sterilizer 142, 143
Plain condensed bulk milk. 162-165, 208
Plating 375
Plectridium fcetidum 267
Polyneuritis 215
Precondensing for drying 303-307
Preface 7, 8
Preheating 163, 173, 303
Progress homogenizer 127
Proteids .... 145, 202, 207, 354, 363, 364
Putrid sweetened condensed milk 250
Q
Quality of milk. 117, 163, 253
Quevenne lactometer 342
R
Rancid sweetened condensed milk.. 249
Rapidity of evaporation 91
Ratio of concentration 96, 165, 182
Retardation 152
Recovery 307, 313
Rim speed 173
Rogers process 296
.Ji^se-Gottlieb method. 352, 356,
364jJ^
Riittcondensing evaporator .TlT?"
Rust spots on labels 188
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Sampling sweetened condensed milk. 102
Sandy sweetened condensed milk...
223-228
Sanitary ' can*
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111, 112
Science and practice of evaporation
in vacuo 85
Scurvy 216
Sealing 112, 134
Sediment test 52
Condensed Mii.k and MiIvK Powder 383
Separated evaporated milk .258-261
Settled sweetened condensed milk..
107,
228-230
Sewage disposal
32
Shaking
159
Shakers
160
Size of cans in sterilizer 142, 156
Solder
114
Soldering devices
113
Soldering flux 115
Solder seal Ill
Solubility of milk powders. 318
Sour, curdled evaporated milk 262
Specific gravity
101, 123, 204, 208, 342, 353, 358
Spray-drying processes
290-315
Spraying milk 309
Spray nozzles
310
Spray pumps
31
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Spy glasses 75
Stamping of cans 186
Standardizing
evaporated milk 123, 336

fluid milk 339
sweetened condensed milk. 118, 340, 341
Standardization of sterilizing pro-
cess 143
Starting the pan 94
Stauf process 291
Sterilizers 137
Sterilizing process 136
Sterilizing sample cans 149
Stopping reel in sterilizer 141
Storage
183-193
Striking 96, 120, 164
Sucrose 203, 357, 364
Sugar 63-67, 203
Superheating. 120, 141, 163, 225, 232, 261
Surface condenser 76
Sweetened condensed milk
analyses 353
composition 200
cooling 103
defects 222
drawing off 103
filling 110
manufacture 59
sampling 102
standard 210
striking 96
T
Table of contents
9-14
Tell-tale thermometers 139
Temperature of storage r. . 193
Temperature in sterilizer 140
Testing for density 178
Testing for viscosity 150
Thermometer for vacuum pan 76
Thick and cheesy sweetened con-
densed milk 231-233
Tin shop equipment 41
Total solids
343, 355, 359, 364, 370, 372, 374
Total solids tables 360-362
Transportation 194
Transportation facilities 31
V
Vâcuo, science and practice of evapo-
ration in 85
Vacuum breaker 76
Vacuum gauge 75
Vacuum pan 68
Vacuum pump 83-85
Vapor belt 72
Venthole cans 133
Venthole fillers 133
Ventilation in condenseries 34
Viscolizer 128
Viscosimeter 151
Viscosity correction 152
Viscosity, factors influencing
153-155'
Viscosity tests 150
Vitamine properties 215-216
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Water 201, 205
Water-soluble vitamines 215
Water supply 30
Wet-vacuum spray condenser 78
Wimmer process 279
Wrinkles on labels 188
X
Xerophthalmia 215
Y
Yeast 242, 376
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Page
American Can Co., New York 385
Alois Aufrichtig Copper and Siieet Iron Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo. 386
Bausch and Lomb Optical Co., Rochester, N. Y 386
Buffalo Foundry and Machine Co., Buffalo, N. Y 387
Burt Machine Co., Baltimore, Md 388
By-Products Recovery Co., Toledo, 389
J. G. Cherry Co., Cedar Rapids, la 390
Colonial Salt Co., Akron, 411
Creamery Package Mfg. Co., Chicago 391
Cream Production Co., Port Huron, Mich 392
Davis-Watkins Dairymen's Mfg. Co., Chicago. ..... .394, 395, 397
F. G. Dickerson Co., Chicago 393
Dry Milk Engineering Co., Chicago 398
Engineering Co., Fort Wayne, Ind 399
J. B. Ford Co., Wyandotte, Mich 400
General Laboratories, Madison, Wise 401
Groen Mfg. Co., Chicago 402
Arthur Harris & Co., Chicago 404, 405
Jensen Creamery Machinery Co., Long Island City, N. Y 403
John W. Ladd Co., Detroit, Mich 423
Lathrop Paulson Co., Chicago 406
Milk Drying Machinery Co., Chicago 407
Mojonnier Bros. Co., Chicago 408
Louis F. Nafis, Chicago 409
Pfaudler Co., Rochester, N. Y 410
C. E. Rogers, Detroit, Mich 412, 413
Rice and Adams Corporation, Buffalo, N. Y 411
E. H. Sargent & Co., Chicago 414
Schaefer Manufacturing Co., Berlin, Wise 414
Sharpies Separator Co., West Chester, Pa 415
L. Sonneborn Sons, New York 416
Spray Drying Corporation, New York 417
Sturges and Burn Mfg. Co., Chicago 420
C. J. Tagliabue Mfg. Co., Brooklyn, N. Y 418
Taylor Instrument Companies, Rochester, N. Y 419
Torsion Balance Co., New York 420
Union Steam Pump Co., Battle Creek, Mich 421, 422, 423
Conde:nsed M11.K AND Milk Powder 385
CONTAINERS
for
Condensed Milk
Evaporated Milk
Powdered Milk
AMERICAN
CAN COMPANY
120 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
CHICAGO, ILL. PORTLAND SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Monroe Bldg. ORE. Mills BIdg.
386 CoND^NSItD MlIvK AND MlIvK PoWDER
Efficiency and Economy
ARE COMBINED IN THE NATIONALLY KNOWN
**AUFRICHTIG" VACUUM PAN
Our Standard
"6' 6""
Pan will condense 10,000 pounds
of milk in one hour with two coil and 12,000 pounds
with three coil system.
Investigate the economically operated Jacketed Hot
Wells.
We manufacture complete equipment used in Milk
Condenseries and Dairies.
Highest grades of materials and best of workmanship
is put into our equipment.
Write for specifications and prices.
Alois Aufrichtig Copper & Sheet Iron Mfg. Co.
Third and Lombard Streets Saint Louis, Missouri
Model FFS8
(auscff'lomk
Microscopes
Standards of Optical and
Mechanical Efficiency
Model FFS8
îT'iT^^'^Ltl^ll:
logical work. Has coarse and fine
focusing adjustments, with adjust-
ment heads on side of arm; two iris
diaphragms, three objectivesinclud-
ing oil immersionin revolving nose-
piece; two eyepieces and an Abbe con-
denser in quick-acting screw sub-
stage. Number of magnifications ob-
tainable ranges from 50 to 1260. Con-
struction is rugged, and black crystal
finish on arm and base unusually
durable.
Write for catalog describing this
and other models.
Bausch
^
Ipmb Optical
(q.
NEW YORK WASHINGTON SAN FRANCISCO
CHICAGO
ROCHESTER. N.Y.
London
Leading American Makers
of High Grade Optical Products.
Conde:nse:d MiIvK and MiIvK Powder 387
Dry Milk Products
Manufactured in
*'Buflovak
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Apparatus
The ''Buflovak" Vacuum Drum Dryer is the
ideal apparatus for converting milk into pow-
der form. The milk is dried without the slight-
est danger of overheating or. contamination.
Every part of the interior is accessible, and can
be easily cleaneda distinctive feature of the
''Buflovak" Dryer.
When considered in the light of steam con-
sumption, drying speed, output, quality and
drying cost, it is the most economical milk
dryer on the market. Dries skim milk, butter-
milk, malted milk and other liquids containing
solids.
The "Buflovak" Rapid Circulation Evaporator
is especially adapted for evaporating milk and
other delicate liquids.
Vacuum Shelf Dryers for drying casein and
other products in pans or trays.
Catalog showing all types of "Buflovak" Dryers
and Evaporators will be mailed on request.
Buffalo Foundry &MachineCa,
20 Winchester Avenue
BUFFALO, N. Y.
NEW YORK OFFICE: 17 BATTERY PLACE
388 Condensed Milk and Mii.k Powder
THIS MACHINE
Plays an Important Part in
Milk Canning
It labels as many cans a day as you require.
Orders are filled promptly and
Storage facilities never overtaxed.
THE BURT LABELING MACHINE
Is used in the small as well as the largest plants because
there is no other way to label cans so fast, neat and cheap.
It applies the label with a hot moisture-proof cement
which sets instantly, thus preventing the label from slipping
while being wrapped around the can and ensuring it always
being applied tight and matched evenly at lap. No paste is
put on the can, so there's no possibility of the label discolor-
ingit always looks as though just from the printerthat
increases the sales value of goods.
Let us tell you more about the Burt Labelerwhat it does
and why you should not be without it. Just state size of cans
used.
BVRT MACHINE COMPANY
Labeling, Wrapping and Casing Machines
BALTIMORE, MD.
CoNDKNSKD Milk and Milk Powde^r 389
The By -Products Recovery Company
109 Chamber of Commerce Building Toledo, Oh i o
Milk Products Department
Automatic Concentrators for ''Evaporated" Milk,
''Preserved" Milk, Dry Milk and
Sugar of Milk Factories
Whole Milk, Skim Milk, Buttermilk and Whey Rapidly and
Economically Reduced to High Concentrates Without
the Aid of Vacuum Pumps, Condensers, Water
or Expert Labor
It is More Economical It is Less Complicated
It is More Simple to Operate
No Water Requirements Excepting for
Cooling
More than 100 Machines Now in Use
For Particulars Write
The By-Products Recovery Co., Toledo, 0.
THE
Cherry Condensed Milk Cooler
Three Special Features
1. It is equipped with the justly famous Cherry Twin
Coil.
2. The coils are of special diameter to assure their being
entirely submerged at all times, thus preventing the incor-
poration of air into the product.
3. It is equipped with a two-speed drive. This drive is a
clutch pulley through steel cut gears. This equipment pro-
vides for operating the coil on high speed for evaporated or
plain condensed and on low speed for sweetened condensed
milk. This feature is exclusive on this type of cooling vat.
A Dependable Outfit
Where condensed milk is concerned the requirements call
for a cooling system enabling the operator to maintain the
desired variation in temperature between the product and the
cooling medium and to save every minute of time it is pos-
sible to save in handling the product. The Cherry Condensed
Milk Cooler is designed to accomplish this purpose and has
proven its efficiency in some of the largest plants in the
country.
BUTTER MAKING EQUIPMENT
For the Condensery needing a complete Butter Making
Outfit there is the Cherry Line of Creamery Equipment to
cover every requirement.
If you are considering the manufacture of butter, let us
quote you prices on your needs. Ask for our special catalog.
J.
G. CHERRY COMPANY
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA
St. Paul, Minn. Tama, Iowa Peoria, 111.
Condensed Milk and Milk Powder 391
The WIZARD
Condensed Milk Cooler
DESIGNED
particularly for the condensed
milk trade. It is made extra deep. Coil
is entirely submerged, thus preventing the incor-
poration of air with the product made.
Coil has two speeds, composed of shifting cut
gears so that coil can be run on high speed for
evaporated or plain condensed and on low speed
for sugared condensed.
Built either with legs high enough to permit a 10 gallon
can beneath gate valve or on standard height legs as desired.
It has the patented Wizard Multiple Feed Coil either
2"
or 2V2" diameter as desired; large built-in brine box; and
the latter can be fitted with direct expansion coils when de-
sired. Made in sizes from 300 to 1000 gallons, equipped
for motor or belt drive.
The Creamery Package Mfg. Company
61-7 W. Kinzie St., Chicago
Saks Branches Everywhere
392 Condensed Mii.k and Milk Powder
Ruff Milk Condensing Evaporator
1920 MODEL NO. 7
The Ruff Milk Condensing Evaporator condenses milk at
145 degrees temperature without use of vacuum, leaving the
albumin milk solids soluble.
Will make a superior quality condensed milk of all grades
sold on the market, such as plain condensed and superheated,
sugared condensed milk, sugared milk condensed for the
chocolate trade, unsweetened evaporated, precondensing for
milk powder, also buttermilk.
A world beater in connection with your pan to pre-heat
milk to 210 degrees for making sugared and unsweetened
evaporated, a saving of 15 per cent to 18 per cent moisture,
which is generally added when milk is heated with live steam.
This evaporator is built of the best material, neat in
appearance, has a large capacity, economical in power and
steam, and is a money-maker to ice cream manufacturers, con-
denseries and creameries. The saving on water and power to
pump would soon pay for this entire equipment.
Apply to
THE CREAM PRODUCTION CO.
PORT HURON, MICHIGAN Mfgs. for United States
B. TRUDEL & CO.
MONTREAL, QUEBEC Mfgs. for Canada
TheDickersonVent Hole Filler
and
Sealer
Baby Machine
||
Tall Machine 11 Combination Machine
for 6 oz. cans I for 16 oz. cans for 16 and 12 oz.
TALL SIZE
Dickerson Fillers give EFFICIENCYACCURACYECONOMY
They are THE WORLD'S STANDARD
The cans have only a vent hole. They are filled and sealed
continuously and automaticallv on the same machine. ONE
MACHINE DOES IT ALL. By using the old style wide-open
cans, you transfer much of the can maker's grief to your filler
room. Get COMPLETED (vent hole) cans and a Dickerson
filler. Besides being neater, cleaner and safer, vent cans cost
less. The process of filling and sealing is also much cheaper.
The government will "get you" if you sell short weights.
You'll not get a "thank you" for a surplus. Fill every can to
correct weight (to the gram) and neither shortage nor sur-
plus will worry you.
A
gram
A
can
A
year=
The F. G. Dickerson Co.,
549 W.Washington Blvd., Chicago
.^m^.
Progress Homogenizer
Progress Homogenizers are built in four sizes. Number 1
handles 90 gallons per hour; Number 2, 200 gallons; Number 4,
400 gallons; Number 8, 800 gallons. Each machine is built
full rated capacity, and it will do the work it is intended for
at small expense and to excellent advantage.
This machine quickly pays its cost, and oftimes it results
in a saving equal to many times its cost in a very short time.
You manufacturers of evaporated milk must avoid the waste
which may be occasioned by "separated" milk. The Progress
Homogenizer so breaks up the fat globules that the cream
cannot possibly separate. It will not injure the casein.
Write to our nearest office for full information and prices
on the size you need. Many plants have several of these
machines. Tell us about the size of your- business so we can
judge as to your requirements. "The Davis-Watkins Line"
includes everything needed in the manufacture of Dairy
Products. Let us quote you prices and co-operate with you.
Davis-W^TKiNS Dairypiens
Mfg.CjO.
ADDRESS NEAREST SALES OFFICE
NORTH CHICAGO. ILL.
JERSEY CITY, N. J.
KANSAS CITY. MO.
DENVER. COLO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAl
Condensed Milk and Mii.k Powder 395
Progress Circular Milk CanWasher
Every valve is accessible and easily flushed. Each can and
cover is drained, washed, rinsed, sterilized and dried inside and out-
side; all in a few minutes, too, and with a reasonable amount of
steam and power. You can't beat it for efficient, economical results.
You save on the keeping qualities of your milk by reducing the
bacteria count to the minimum. You save milk-can money because
none of the tin is scraped off, and they don't rust so badly. You
save labor expense in your plant. The Progress can washer will do
all these things for you. Figure out what this service is worth to
you.
Davis\\^tkins DaikwmenSMFG.CjO.
NORTH CHICAGO. ILL.
JERSEY CITY. N. J.
KANSAS CITY. MO.
DENVER. COLO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
"Davis Pasteurization"
This is an efficient line of our machinery which will
properly pasteurize large quantities of milk at low operat-
ing cost. With this equipment you are insured a natural
raw taste, the big Davis cream line and a low bacteria
count. Tliese are the three big things so essential to the
proper building of any milk business.
"Davis Pasteurization" machinery is automatic in
operation, easily cleaned, requires little power expense
and occupies small floor space. It needs practically no
attention while operating. The milk is all inclosed so
there is no loss from evaporation and no chance of con-
tamination. The right temperatures are applied in the
right way.
This equipment will solve your pasteurization problem
in the simplest way, insure you against competition and
cut your cost of handling to a minimum. Write our near-
est office for complete information. Tell us how much
milk you handle daily. Let our experts help you with
your problems. Such action on your part obligates you
in no way, and it mav help you more than you think. Do
it NOW.
DAVis-AN^TraNS Dairymen's Mfg.Co.
NORTH CHICAGO. ILL.
JERSEY CITY. N. J.
KANSAS CITY. MO.
DENVER. COLO.
SAN FRANCISCO. GAL.
Condensed Milk and Miek Powder 397
A Reliable Butter Maker
Once a Disbrow Owner, always a Disbrow Booster.
Buttermakers everyw^here proclaim the superiority^ of the
Disbrow. Built strong and sturdy, it will stand up well
under heavj' loads. The quality is there. It is like a
pure-bred animal, worthy of its name at all times.
For large capacity and continuous work you need the
Number Eight Heavy Duty or the Number Eight Giant.
The Giant barrel is a little larger in diameter; the cast-
ings and chain are a little heavier. Both barrels are eight
feet long on the inside.
If you are interested in knowing the detailed information
of this wonderfully elficient, combined churn and worker,
write for "The Disbrow Churn Book." It is free and there is
no obligation. There are smaller sizes, if the Number Eight
is too large. The free book shows pictures and gives com-
plete information on the Disbrow Churn your business needs.
Send for it NOW.
DamsWM^KiNS Dairymen's Mfg.Co.
NORTH CHICAGO. ILL.
JERSEY CITY. N. J.
KANSAS CITY. MO.
DENVER. COLO.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
DRY BUTTERMILK
OR
BUTTERMILK POWDER
is in constantly increasing demand
at a price that means
BIG PROFITS
to the wide-awake creameryman
equipped to manufacture same.
Dry Milk Engineering Co.
is building and installing successful
Buttermilk Drying Plants
in Dairy sections everywhere that are
simple, efficient and economical to
maintain and operate, require but
little space and power and insure
MORE REAL PROFIT
than any other method of
Buttermilk disposal.
Full details and suggestions by our Dry Milk Experts and
Engineers are yours for the asking.
DRY MILK ENGINEERING CO
139 N. CLARK ST., CHICAGO
UNIFORM STERILIZATIONI
is secured by using the Fort Wayne Sterilizer. Built in
various sizes, from a small Pilot up to a 144-case machine,
it will handle all sizes of standard cans without change of
equipment. Let us tell you about the recent improve-
ments incorporated in this sterilizer, and why it is used
by all the leading manufacturers of evaporated milk.
We also build straight line and rocker arm shakers of im-
proved design, steel trays and tanks, as well as special
machinery. Our new plant with modern equipment en-
ables us to give good service at a reasonable price.
Tell us your requirements and let us show you what we
can do.
THE ENGINEERING COMPANY
1600 WINTER STREET FORT WAYNE, INDIANA
400 Condensed Miek and Miek Powder
Neither Is
of
Recent Origin
The condensed milk and milk powder industry is
not new, yet little has been written on the subject to
enlighten the manufacturer on its many complexities.
Nevertheless, it has always been the opinion of those
engaged in milk alid milk product production that sani-
tary cleanliness must prevail. Due to the persistent
demand for cleanliness, and assisted by the never fail-
ing service rendered by
*
alryfnan's
the milk and milk powder industry has reached a very
high development.
This cleaner not only appeals to the producer of
milk and milk products because it establishes the most
sanitary and cleanly conditions, but also because it does
this so much more easily, quickly, economically and
profitably than other cleaners.
Indian in Circle
yOUr SUpply hoUSC will fill yOUr
order on our money back
guarantee.
It Cleans Clean.
in every package.
The
J.
B. Ford Co.,
Sole Mfrs.,
Wyandotte, Mich.
Condensed Mii.k and Milk Powder 401
WHAT J^ DOES
THREE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
The different uses for BK are based on three funda-
mental principles. When these are understood it gives
an appreciation of BK and a knowledge that enables man-
ufacturers and handlers of dairy products to apply it in
many ways to lighten labor and produce purer products.
These principles are
:
1. High bacteriacidal power
2. Solvent Action
3. Harmlessness
The bacteria-destroying power of BK is high, so that
it kills the bacteria on coming in contact with them.
The solvent action of BK on albuminsmilk casein,
etc., softens the accumulations on coils, heaters, pasteur-
izers, pipes, etc., making the cleaning operation easier.
Where the metal parts of equipment are not already
coated with casein the application of BK before the daily
run prevents a milk film from adhering and also dissolves
any thin albuminous film that might be there. This sol-
vent action also exposes the bacteria to prompt destruc-
tion.
These two functions of BK insure a high degree of
sterilization and cleansingalso great economy of labor.
BK is a harmless hypochlorite such as used by the
most experienced medical men in and on the human body
adopted by the great surgeons of the allied armies
after trying over 150 different articles for protection of
health and foods of the armies.
The amount of BK needed to make an effective steril-
izing solution is very small and the amount of BK left on
the equipment after using is infinitesimal and negligible.
Authoritative Experiment Station bulletins prove this
point conclusively in their tests on chemical sterilizing.
BK is easy to use everywhere for purifying, deodoriz-
ing and disinfecting. BK has stood the test of timeit
has made good. Those who learn its helpfulness become
constant users.
GENERAL LABORATORIES
19 S. DICKINSON ST. MADISON, WIS.
GROEN
Vertical Condenser
Copper Vacuum Pans
3, 4,
Built in
5, 6 and J ft.
Sizes.
Large Coil
Inlets and Outlets
for
Exhaust Steam.
Write for Blueprint
Specifications
and Prices.
Deliveries made as
promised.
Manufacturers of Copper Vacuum Pans, Hotwells,
Steam Jacketed Kettles and Special
Coppersmith Work.
GROEN MFG. CO.,
Inc.
Coppersmiths
4529-37 Armitage Ave. Chicago, U. S. A
Jensen Vertical Coolers
CONDENSED AND EVAPORATED MILK
ELIMINATE CRYSTALLIZATION.
Furnish Correct Amount of Agitation to Produce a Smooth
Product. Eliminate Air and Gases Thru Rotation of
Double Helical Coil During Cooling Process.
PREVENT CONTAMINATION
as all Packing and Stuffing Boxes are Outside and Above the
Machine.
ASK FOR CATALOG No. 20A.
Jensen Creamery Machinery Company
Long Island City, N. Y. Oakland, California
Southern Distributor:
BLANKE MFG. & SUPPLY CO., ST. LOUIS, MO.
HARRIS COPPER VACUUM PAN
FOR MILK CONDENSING
AWARDED GOLD MEDAL
PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION
ARTHUR
Harris 8c Co.
Pioneer Constructors of
MILK CONDENSING APPARATUS
Z 1 2-2 1 8 CURTIS STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
CoNDKNSKD Milk and Milk Powde:r 405
Harris Copper Vacuum Pans
AND
Milk Condensing Machinery
Have been our Specialty for over
30 years. Over this period we have
continuously produced High
Grade Apparatus which has given
most gratifying results both in
production and service. Large
capacity Harris Copper Vacuum
Pans in service today total in the
hundreds.
We Solicit Your Inquiries
for
VACUUM PANS
STERILIZERS
FOREWARMERS
SHAKERS
VACUUM PUMPS
LABELING MACHINES
COOLING MACHINES
RUBBER PACKED COCKS
PIPE COOLERS
SAMPLERS
RECEIVING TANKS
SUPERHEATER BULBS
STORAGE TANKS
COOLING COILS
FILLING MACHINES
WEIGH SCALE TANKS
PEEPHOLE GLASSES, ETC.
Arthur Harris & Go.
Established i88U
212-218 Curtis St. Chicago, Illinois
406 Condensed MiIvK and Milk Powder
The Lathrop-Paulson Company
J ê w'^^'e
Can Washer of Super-Success. No Waste, Less Work,
Bigger'andJBetter^ReSultS.
This New I..P Entirely Auto-
matic Machine has Capacity
ap to 700 Cans and Covers per
hour. Practical and efficient
in every way. Embodies all
the features of our former
machines with double their
efficiency, at less cost.
Auk. 20. 1907... ... 864,131
U. S. I'A
Jan. 8, 1918.
Tl \ -
1,252,453 Nov.
'>.7
1917... ...1.247,692
AUK. 20, 1907... ... 864,133 Apr. 16, 1918. 1,262,679 T>9.C. 4, 1917... ...1.249,130
Sept. 14. 1909... . . . 934,404 Aug. 20. 1907. 864,132 Feb. ^?. 1918... ...1,255,896
Feb. 22, 1916... ...1,172,808 Mar. 3, 1908: 880,713 Dec 31 1918... ...1,289,824
Dec. 4. 1917... ...1,249,129 Feb. 15, 1910.
CANADIAN
949,121
PATENTS
Apr. 4. 1916... ... 168,585 Nov. 11, 1919. 193,886 Nov. n, 1919... . . . 193,885
Sept. 9, 1919... ... 192,648 Sept. 9, 1919. 192,647 Nov. 25. 1919... ... 194,208
Other U. S. and Foreign Patents Pending
NOTABLE IMPROVED FEATURES:
Does not require even one man
to operate.
Machines are END FED, most
convenient for disposal of can
by milk dumper.
Driven by motor or steam tur-
bine of less than one and one-
half horse power.
Less than one-quarter horse
power consumed in automatic
machine drive.
Water consumption cut seventy-
five per cent.
Drying capacity DOUBLED. Fan
delivering 1800 cubic feet of
dry, sterile, super-heated air
per minute.
WARM SODA SOLUTION WASH
under pressure of 80 to 100
pounds.
CLEAR SCALDING WATER
WASH Immediately following
under pressure of 80 to 100
pounds.
STEAM STERILIZATION under
complete control, any amount
you desire.
Operating at the rate of 700 cans
and covers per hour. EACH
and EVEBir CAN receives
THBEZ: to PIVE minutes of
bacteria-destroying- steriliza-
tion.
Insures Clean, Dry, Sterile re-
ceptacles for the conveyance
of product from producer to
manufacturer at lowest pos-
sible cost.
Machines have the unique fea-
ture of handling cans as fast
or as slow as desired, depend-
ing solely on the speed they
are fed to machine, and cannot
be crowded beyond capacity.
The Lathrop-Paulson Company are Milk Can Washing Machine
Specialists and Solicit Your Inquiries and Requirements
THE LATHROP-PAULSON COMPANY
2459 West 48th Street, Chicago, Illinois
Condense:d MiIvK and MiIvK Powder 407
Milk and Egg
Drying Machinery
WE
have over one hundred plants
in successful operation using
our spray process in United States
and Foreign Countries.
We supply and install complete
Milk or Egg drying plants of any re-
quired capacity, guaranteeing the
highest efficiency at the lowest cost,
and that our finished products are
freely soluble.
We build a tray albumen Egg
Drier, which produces a crystal or
flake product. Also a Buttermilk
Drier, other than the spray process.
Price and particulars on application.
Write for Catalogue
Milk Drying Machinery Company
Designers, Manufacturers and Builders
of
Milk and Egg Drying Machin-
ery. Patented in U. S. and Foreign Countries. Established in 1903.
138 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois
Suite 1017-18 City Hall Square Building
408 Condensed Milk and Mii.k Powder
Mojonnier Milk Tester for Butter Fat and Total Solids
(Process patented April 3, 1917; Apparatus patented February 5, 1918; April 9, 1918; June
11, 1918, and August 5, 1919.)
Otlier patents pending.
Standard Equipment
in all up-to-date ice cream, condensed and evaporated milk
plants and the larger fresh milk plants includes the
TlUaJonilifl^
Tester
It is used by a large majority of the manufacturers of evapo-
rated milk, and with it they standardize their product to
within a few hundredths of 1 per cent of any standard de-
sired upon both butter fat and total solids.
OTHER MOJONNIER PRODUCTS:
Mojonnier Ice Cream Overrun Tester.
Mojonnier Culture Controller.
Mojonnier Evaporated Milk Controller.
Mojonnier Evaporated Milk Can Polisher.
Mojonnier Evaporated Milk Can Opener.
Mojonnier Composite Sample Bottles.
Mojonnier Steam Pressure Copper Kettles.
Extensive line of scientific apparatus and laboratory supplies for chemical
and bacteriological control of milk products
Further injormation cheer ully furnished on any of the above products.
MILK ENGINEERS
7 39 WEST JACKSON BLVD., CHICAGO
Eastern Office 200 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.
Southern Office 4931 Margaretta Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.
Western Office 2679 McAllister Street, San Francisco, Calif.
Condensed MiIvK and Mii,k Powder 409
Are You Getting the Highest
Efficiency From Your
Testing Room

NAFIS
SCIENTIFIC
GLASSWARE
WILL HELP YOU TOWARDS
THAT GOAL BECAUSE OF ITS
Accuracy and
Quality,
Nafis
Testing
Glassware
is the result of years of experi-
ence and scientific study. It is
made to conform with the specifi-
cations of the United States Bu-
reau of Standards as well as those
of the different states.
Test Bottles are made in either
the regular or the Circled Gradua-
tion style.
Send in a trial order and judge
for yourself.
If your dealer cannot supply you
with Nafis Glassware, write for
our illustrated catalogue and list
of our distributors.
Louis F. Nafis, Inc.
Manufacturers of Scientific Glassware for
Testing Milk ond lis Products
542-548 Washington Boulevard
CHICAGO, U. S. A.
410 CONDKNSKD M1I.K AND M1I.K PoWDER
PFAUDLER
GLASS LINED STEEL
CONDENSED MILK
EQUIPMENT
This
Tank is used in Condenseries and
Bottled Milk Plants- to reduce the tem-
perature of incoming milk. It is jacketed
for brine circulation, may be equipped
with either Air or Mechanical Agitating
Device, and the Milk Inlets are provided
with spreading devices which spread the
milk in a tRin film over the brine-chilled
tank wall, reducing it at once to a low
temperature. Sizes, capacities and prices
on request.
Pfaudler Glass Lined Steel
Milk Storage Tank
Pfaudler Glass Lined Steel
Jacketed Forewarmer
pF A U D L E R
^
Fore warm-
ers are made in
the single-shell
type or with jacket and side agitator,
as illustrated. With the latter the major
part of the preheating operation may
be carried out without the introduction
of steam and finished by the injection of
live steam with the regular type of
steam header. It may be had with or
without the copper cover illustrated.
Sizes, capacities and prices on request.
i...:pfe^'
^îp^c^
nPhis Milk Truck Tank is divided
-*-
through the center by a parti-
tion head which is open at the top
and bottom and acts as a baffle to
minimize churning of the contents.
The interior, including both sides of
the partition head, is lined with
Pfaudler Glass Enamel, which ex-
tends to the outer edges of the man-
hole flanges and to the end of the
outlets located at the underside of
the tank.
Write for Dairy Equipment Bulletin
THE PFAUDLER COMPANY
ROCHESTER, N. Y.
NEW YORK CHICAGO ST. LOUIS SAN FRANCISCO
Pfaudler Glass Lined Steel Milk
Truck Tank
Condensed Mii.k and Milk Powder 411
How To Prevent Streaks and
Mottles in Butter
Prof. Himziker asserts that streaks and mottles in butter
are caused by:
(1) Incomplete fusion of salt and water in butter.
(2) Faulty Mechanical condition of the butter workers.
(3) Overloading of the machine.
Not one of these causes but what may be overcome by any
buttermaker who takes pride in his product. With Colo-
nial Salt the buttermaker will never be troubled with in-
complete fusion. The other two causes are mechanical
and can be easily remedied. Flake salt dissolves quicker
than cube salt of the same size grain. Colonial Salt is the
only all flaked Butter Salt on the market. It will produce
over-run, color, flavor and body. Try it in your next
batch of butter.
the salt that melts like snow
FLAKES AND DISSOLVES LIKE MIST
THE COLONIAL SALT CO.
AKRON, OHIO
CHICAGO= BOSTON==ATLANTA==BUFFALO
R & A Hydraulic Can Washer, Sterilizer and
Drier for Clean, Dry Sterile Cans
Fig. 610
Two-tank machine
showing
powerful blower
and hot air drier
RICE &
ADAMS, Inc.
166-182 CHANDLER STREET
BUFFALO
STERILIZERS
In All Standard Capacities
STERILIZER
tOAOINCs END
Equal Heat Distribution
RAPID LOADING
AND UNLOADING
Our Shakers are also good
a E. ROGERS
8731 Witt Street Detroit, Michigan
Condensed Mii^k and Milk Powder 413
HIGH TYPE COPPER
VACUUM
-
PANS
SAVE
Fuel, Water
Milk, Labor
Largest
Capacities
Utilizing either
Live or Exhaust
Steam
Manufactured
complete by
C. E.
ROGERS
8731 Witt Street Detroit, Michigan
414 Condensed Mii^k and Mii.k Powder
SARGENT'S ELECTRIC DRYING OVEN
(T'ATENTED)
May be set for any tempera-
ture from 70
C. to 150 C.
and will maintain that tem-
perature indefinitely. Al-
most a necessity in Milk
Product Laboratories where
the maintenance of the low-
est usable temperature is
jpd
imperative.
Price complete with six-foot
cord, plug and thermometer.
$35.00. Wound for 110- or
220-volt current.
Complete catalogues furnished
upon application.
E. H. SARGENT & CO.
Manufacturers, Importers, Dealers in Chemicals and Chemical
Apparatus of High Grade only.
155-165 East Superior Street CHI C AGO
Schaefer
Manufacturing Company
BERLIN, WISCONSIN
Manufacturers
of
Condensed and Evaporated
Milk Machinery
Sterilizers
Shakers
Test Sterilizers
Fillers
Automatic
Machinery
Can Conveyors
Testers
Can Coolers and
Special Machinery
for Special
Purposes
Condensed Milk and Mii,k Powder 415
Make Your Own Cream
T^HE Sharpies Emulsifier enables you
-*-
to make every day, the exact amount
of cream needed. No shortage. No
surplus. With butter, skim milk powder
and water you make your own cream in
proper quantities at the proper time
with this machine.
The
Emulsifier
emulsifies three times as thoroughly
as any other emulsifier
clarifies the product. The cost

of oil and repairs is guaranteed not
to exceed $2.00 a year. Sharpies
is the most economical.
Write to nearest
office for catalog
describing the Sharpies Emulsi-
fier and containing users' letters.
THE
SHARPLES SEPARATOR
COMPANY
West Chester, Pa.
Chicago
BRANCHES:
San Franciscx) Toronto
416 CoNDE:^rsE:D Milk and Milk Powder
Cemcoat
White Sanitary Washable Interior Coating
Cemcoat is a snow-white coating applied like paint.
It is glossy and mirror-like and increases the light by re-
flecting it from every angle. Paint on the light in your
CondenseryCemcoat your walls. The Boston Bio-chem-
ical Laboratory after an exhaustive test finds that Cem-
coat affords no ground for accumulation of bacteria and
fungi. Heat and cold does not affect Cemcoat
it is
water-proof.
lAPIDOllTH
Hi TRADE-MARK
Dust-proofs and wear-proofs concrete
floors by chemical action
Lactic acid in milk causes deterioration of concrete
floors. Prevent these conditions by flushing on Lapidolith,
the liquid hardener.
A chemical combination is effected through the action
of Lapidolith on the cement, making the floor granite-like
and non-absorbing.
Many dairies and condenseries have thoroughly tested
Lapidolith for a number of years. We will refer you to
these satisfied users and send samples and complete in-
formation.
L. Sonneborn Sons, Inc.
264 Pearl Street NEW YORK
DEPT. SO
Are you going to make
MILK POWDER?
//
you are, your logical choice
of
drying equipment is that
of
the
SPRAY DRYING CORPORATION
WHY?
BECAUSE all the milk powder is recovered within the
spray chamber, and not in a succession of
secondary equipment.
BECAUSE no milk powder escapes with the outgoing air,
a common fault with spray dryers.
BECAUSE it eliminates any need for collecting the powder
by means of cyclone dust separators and great,
rambhng, unsanitary baffle chambers.
BECAUSE of the low fuel power and labor cost.
BECAUSE of the automatic discharge of powder directly
into the barrels without conveying machinery
or hand shovehng.
BECAUSE the space occupied is only a fraction of that of
other spray systems.
BECAUSE no high pressure pump is required for spraying
the milk, steam pressure furnishing the force
with which the milk is sprayed.
BECAUSE we install these dryers at your plant complete
in every detail, and set in operation and relieve
you of any concern in the matter.
BECAUSE the powder is freely soluble in cold water.
BECAUSE there is no royalty to pay.
We build these dryers to operate either with
fluid
milk or condensed milk. In asking
us for estimates please tell us how
much milk you wish to dry.
Spray Drying Corporation
50 VESEY STREET NEW YORK CITY
418 Condensed MitK and Milk PowDEli
Y>^^
y
y
can reduce manufacturing costs
V^^ y^
and improve your product with
TAG-ROESGH Time-Temperature Controllers
Because:
Perfect sterilization of every batch
of milk becomes a daily and
natural occurrence with practi-
cally no labor or attention;
Regardless of a skilled labor
shortage, the quality and the
quantity of production are safe-
guarded forever, because an in-
experienced workman, after 30
minutes of instruction, can effi-
ciently handle a number of steril-
izers;
A rich creamy appearance and
uniformly heavy consistency of
the finished product are de-
velopeddespite the fact that the
condition, properties, and con-
centration of the milk are fixed
because the time and temperature

cycles are adhered to rigidly;
A satisfactory product is assuredseven days in the week
and 52 weeks in the yearin exact accordance with the
pre-determined specifications, because the vital factors of
time and temperature are no longer a "hit or miss" propo-
sition;
No separation of the milk when subsequently placed in
storage, because the milk always obtains sufficient body
or viscosity;
Hard, unshakable curds are avoided, also dark color
formation, due to the fact that excessive time and tem-
perature exposures are eliminated;
Considerable labor and steam are Conserved, which sav-
ings often are sufficient to more than pay for the con-
trollers in one year;
TAG-ROESCH Time-Temperature Controllers can be profit-
ably employed in any milk condensery because this device
can be furnished to handle automatically, any combination
of time and temperatureno matter how unusual or com-
plicated the sterilizing process may be.
IIABBE
MFGCOi
TEMPERATURE ENGINEERS
18-88 Thirty-Third St. Brooklyn.N.Y.
Write for Catalog H-460
and include details of your
sterilizing requirements.
INDlCA-nlNG-RECORDING-CONTROULING
cover every need in temperature equipment of
condensed milk and milk powder plants. The
executive who needs temperature instruments
will find in the list of Tycos products just what
he requires for each especial application.
ANGLE STEM
THERMOMETER
RECORDING
THERMOMETER
Instruments for every
Temperature Need
Angle and Straight Stem Ther-
mometers
Engraved Stem Thermometers
Paper Scale Dairy Thermometers
Dial Thermometers
Recording and IndexThermometers
Temperature and Pressure Regu-
lators
Recording Pressure and Vacuum
Gauges
Hydrometers
Bi-Record Recording
Thermometer
Tycos instruments are made for every
purpose in the Milk Industry from the
time milk enters the hot well until it is
ready to be removed from the condenser
or vacuum pan.
It will be a privilege for us to send
carefully prepared literature, giv-
ing valuable information. Simply
ask for it. No obligation.
SINGLE DUTY
THERMOMETER
TAYLOR INSTRUMENT COMPANIES
ROCHESTER, N. Y.
There is a Tycos and Taylor Thermometer for Every Purpose
Why the Leading
Condensed Milk Makers
Choose Sturges Cans
because they are accurateabsolutely true to measure.
Sanitaryeasy to clean and keep clean. Built extra strong
to withstand long service.
S.
turves
are built of the highest grade of
steel plate, carefully tinned. Seams
soldered smooth as a china bowl, no
places for milk to lodge and sour.
Write for catalog No. 111.
STURGES & BURN MFG. CO.
"Leaders Since 1865"
CHICAGO,
-
ILLINOIS
Torsion Balance Creamery Scales
1
rî^
"^-**^
No Knife-Edges No Friction
No Wear
SENSITIVE and ACCURATE
Tares and balances in one operation.
No loose parts to shift. Work-
ing parts practically in one
piece.
Torsion Balance bottle Cream
Test Scale, Style 1500, used
by collection stations, cream-
eries, etc., on account of its
extreme accuracy.
Your profits depend on your
tests as much as anything
else, probably more so.
Christian Becker
Analytical Balances
The Torsion Balance Co,
Head Office: 92 Reade Street 1
NEW YORK, N. Y.
|
Factory: 147-1.53 Eighth Street I
JERSEY CITY, N.
J.
I
Brunches:
31 West Lake Street
CHICAGO, ILL.
49 California Street
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Condensed Mii,k and Mii,k Powder 421
GONDENSERY and
Powder Plant Pumps
Wet Vacuum
Pumps for ex-
hausting Milk
Pans manufac-
tured in all re-
quired sizes and
styles.
SPE,CI.AL.
HIGH
PRESSURE
PUMPS
Cooling
Sweetened Con-
densed Milk
OR
Spraying into
Drying Cabinets
Bulletins and Detail Information Always Available
UNION STEAM PUMP
GO,
BATTLE. CREEK, MICH.
422 Condensed Mii.k and Milk Powder
COMPLETE
Pumping Equipment
FOR
Condensed Milk and Milk Powder Plants
STEAM, BELT OR MOTOR DRIVEN FOR
ANY service; CAPACITY OR PRESSURE
WELL PUMPS
TANK PUMPS
Spray Pumps
BOILER PUMPS
BRINE PUMPS
VACUUM PUMPS
FILTER PUMPS
Viscoiizers
milk pumps
COOLING PUMPS
All listed and described in Bulletin No. 57
THE FACTORY BEHIND THE GOODS
UNION STEAM PUMP GO
BATTLE CREEK, MICH. .
Condensed Mii.k and Mii,k Powder
*
423
cr/i
The Highest Development in the Art of
Treating Evaporated Milk to Pre-
vent the Separation of Butter
Fat without disturbing the
Natural Emulsion of
Casein and Albumin
NO. 4 VISCOLIZERBOO-GALL.ON CAPACITY
Specially Constructed for Condenseries
Designed as High Pressure Pumps Should be
BUILTPATENTEDGUARANTEED BY
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THE BUTTER
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^A proper and effective system of ventilation

1st layer of tarred felt.

'Rinse with cold water, wash with

^These tests are of great value in the

Addition oj? Sugar 67

SwEETKNKD CoNDENSKD MiLKCoNDKNSlNG 89

.5 = 14.2 pounds per square

^Before drawing the milk into the pan, the

five to thirty-five pounds per square foot of heating surface with

^In order to insure in the finished product

^As soon as the required heat

Arrange in a row five open-top cups, marked

MojonniEr Controller 149

Mojonnikr Controi.i,Er 151

Mojonnikr Controller 153

Mojonnier Controllkr 155

As soon as the controller and viscosimeter tests arQ completed,

As stated elsewhere in this chapter, different sizes of cans

Mojonnier Controller 157

^The sweeter and purer the fresh

^\\'hen the condensation is nearly completed

The ratio of concentration varies

= 265 times per

^This metliod for condensing butter-

^Phe cans are placed into

1919 figures are for ten months only.

McGill, Inland Rev. Dept., Ottawa, Bulletin No. 144, 1908.

Cochran, Special Report of Analysis of Condensed Milks and Infants'

^The fat varies with the per cent, of fat in the

'The proteids vary with the per cent, of total

Hunzlker and Spitzer, Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin

Hunziker, Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 143.

Rosenau, United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal

Bruckler, Jahrbuch fuer Kinderheilk, 66, p. 343, 1907.

Varlot, Comp. rend., 139, p. 1002, 1904.

^Recent discoveries by nutrition ex-

^The absence of this substance in

^This is condensed milk in whicli a por=-

usually prevent further trouble of this sort.

(In as much as the initial cause

Lumps of varying denominations are

^Molds need air for their life and

-Lumps are usually due to a poor

Lumps are prone

higher degree of concentration than in most sections of this

Other conditions being

^The Stauf process represents the first

The chief advantage and purpose of pre-condensing, instead

Packing of Milk Powder.The dried milk is put on the

^Tf milk powders are to take

'The rays of light intensify the oxidiz-

^Milk powder may, andntnder cer-

"Weigh about twenty grams of milk in a weighed dish, add

^The determination should be made*w^hen the

^add 11 c.c. of concentrated ammonium hydroxid (2 c.c. if the

2. Tester for total solids.

^For plating the following media are recommended :

buttermilk powder 331