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Show Valuable Protein Is Found in Skimmilk High-Grade Cottage Cheese Offers Outlet for Product. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) tV'NU Service. Profitable utilization of milk byproducts by-products Is now more important than usual to the farmer and the dairy industry, in-dustry, and the bureau of dairy industry, in-dustry, United States Department of Agriculture, is trying to find profitable profit-able uses for skimmilk, says O. E. Reed, chief of the bureau. "In one year's volume of dairy byproducts, by-products, which includes skimmilk, buttermilk, and whey skimmilk being be-ing by far the mos! important there is about 900,000,000 pounds of valuable food protein, a large part of wbich is not being utilized to the best possible possi-ble advantage," says Mr. Reed. "Cottage "Cot-tage cheese, which Is made from skimmilk skim-milk and which is largely protein, is, when properly made and merchandized, merchan-dized, one of the most profitable outlets out-lets available to the dairy products plant for utilizing the skimmilk. In the past many plants have lacked a standard method for making a uniform, uni-form, high-grade cottage cheese. The bureau of dairy industry has, by experimental expe-rimental work both in the laboratory and on a commercial scale, demonstrated demon-strated a method which has consistently consist-ently produced excellent results. "This method produces what is called the low-acid rennet-type of cottage cot-tage cheese. When this type is made properly it has a rich, creamy appearance, appear-ance, a low acidity, good keeping qualities, qual-ities, and distinctive curd particles, and is a product attractive to the consumer. con-sumer. "The bureau is issuing a mimeographed mimeo-graphed circular which gives detailed information on how to make this type of cottage cheese. The title of this circular is 'The Manufacture of Low-' acid Rennet-type Cottage Cheese.' Copies may be obtained free by writing writ-ing the bureau of dairy industry, Department De-partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C." |