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Show THE CITIZEN 8 4 4 4 that milk of cows, goats WE know other animals has been em- A ployed as food for thousands of years. The more highly civilized and prosperous the population, the greater is the amount of milk consumed. In regions so far north that cows cannot be kept, reindeer milk is used. In regions like India and the Philippines, which are too hot for our breed of cattle, the water buffaloes are the dairy animals. In the deserts the milk of mares and camels serves the purpose. Where people are very poor, goats and sheep are used as milk animals. In parts of South America llamas are so employed and in our United States we gain our supply from the highly bred Jersey, Holstein and other types of cattle. Everywhere civilized man keeps some dairy animal. Probably very soon after the ancients became acquainted with the food value of milk, they tried to find ways to keep it from spoiling. It was, no doubt, through efforts to keep the food substance of milk for a longer time than fresh milk would keep that led to the making of butter and cheese. These foods, while of tremendous importance, contain only part of the good substance of milk, so the real need throughout the ages has been for milk with permanent preservative quality and with none Parent Plant of the Sego Milk Products Co. in Cache Valley. of its food constituents lacking or iinpared. Early in the eighteenth century, Louis Pasteur, famous French chemist, discovered and demonstrated to the world the nature and behavior of microscopic organisms (bacteria, yeasts and molds), and further proved that if food is heated sufficiently to destroy them, then kept away from air that carries germladen particles, it will remain sweet indefinitely. Hence the origin of the Pasteurization formula for treat- ing milk idea of preserving milk by concentrating it and heating it in scaled cans was brought to Illinois state from Switzerland in 1885 by John Meyenburg. It was in a little hamlet .near St. Louis that Meyen-bur- g first prepared evaporated milk on a commercial basis. The consequent unfolding of the industry from there goes hand in hand with several significant world-wid- e events. Twelve years after this process had been perfected, the Spanish American War began. Up to this time evaporated milk had been used only in out of the way places where 4 other milk was unobtainable. Our government bought it for the army. It was so chosen for the reason it furnished the necessary demand for milk with a concentrated product easily transported, doubly nutritive and one that would not deteriorate with age. Thousands of men learned about it and when they returned to their homes they continued to use it and passed the word along to their friends. It soon came into popularity in every city and village in America. HTHE same condition held true, though in a larger sense, during the World War. The armies were now able to have milk in their camps and even in the trenches. Millions of cases of evaporated milk went from America to the allied armies. Millions morfe went to feed the civilian population of England, France, Italy and Belgium. During this period most of the cattle in the warring nations of Europe either were killed or inadequately fed. Consequently, after the Armistice was signed great quantities of this milk continued to go to those countries as well as Germany and Austria. In 1919 alone the United States exported close to 730,000,000 pounds. It could very well be said that by virtue of the strength and Q? |