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Show U. S. SHOULD PRODUCE BETTER QUALITY CASEIN An exhibit entitled "Casein An Important Milk By-Product" was shown by the Bureau oE Dairy Industry Indus-try of the U. S. Department of Agriculture' Agri-culture' at the National Dairy Exposition Exposi-tion at St. Louis, Mo., this year, as a part of its program to help domestic casein manufacturers to improve the quality of their product. An increase in the tariff from 2',i to 5 cents per pound, and a growing realization of the advantages to be gained from the application of labor-saving equipment in large-scale production, have helped to create a new interest in casein on the part of plants in the United States which make casein or which could make it. The annual domestic production pro-duction of this by-product of the dairy industry has been less than the volume vol-ume of imports with but one or two exceptions in the last decade. The main use of casein is in coating printing print-ing papers to give them a smooth printing surface. Early this year the Bureau of Dairy Industry offered to assist American manufacturers of casein in putting into in-to practice methods which will enable the domestic producers to compete more successfully with the imported product. As a result of this announcement an-nouncement the bureau has received many requests for advice and assistance assist-ance and has assigned experts to render this service and carry it on, says 0. E. Reed, chief of the bureau. Some facts about the casein situation situa-tion were presented in the exhibit. Figures were given to show that the net returns for high-quality casein may be very large. .Factors in the manufac ture of high-quality high-quality casein were outlined, and samples of different types of coated paper were show. It is estimated that approximately 45,000,000 pounds of casein were used in the United States in 1929 for paper-coating purposes. This was 75 to 80 per cent of all the casein domestic and imported, consumed con-sumed in the United States in that year. , n |