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Show SUBSTITUTE MILK DECLARED SUCCESS SALT LAKE, March G. Final decision decis-ion In tho proposed government adoption adop-tion of a milk substitute invented by J. S. Jelllson of Salt Lake will be mado by the chief of tho dairy division of the bureau of animal industry in the department of agriculture at Washington. Wash-ington. After a test at the federal building yostorday afternoon local government dairy experts were sufficiently suffi-ciently Impressed with tho formula to agree to send it on to national headquarters head-quarters for furthor investigation. Tho substitute contains eight-seventeenths whole milk, eight-soventeon-ths water and ono-sovonteenth of tho formula invented by Mr. Jelllson. It can be put on the market at about two-thirds of the cost of whole milk. The inventor wants the government to take over the formula and publish it broadcast, so that the poor and not the milk dealers may profit from the do-creased do-creased cost, according to a statement ho mado yesterday. "So far as appearance, taste and smell are concerned, no one but a person per-son with a very nice discrimination could tell this substitute from milk," said J. E. Dorman, director of the government's gov-ernment's dairy work in Utah. "Only a chemical analysis, of course, will detect de-tect whether it contains tho necessary solids to enable It to compete with milk In food values. "These food elements would not necessarily have to be fats. Other sub-' stantlal forms of nourishment might make an equally good drink of milk. "The presence of the large amount of water in tho milk substitute when manufactured should cause no alarm," continued Mr. Dorman. "Milk in its purest form is composed of about 84 per cent wator. Tho thing to bo decided de-cided is whether the substances in the formula carry food in quantities that will overcome so great a dilution," Tho chief value of such a substitute, in tho opinion of Mr. Dorman, would bo to increase tho supply of milk at times of shortage. Tho saving of 30 per cent or more in milk costs would also of course mean a great deal to consumers. consum-ers. Samples of the substitute will bo placed in tho hands of H. P. Huoy, inspector in-spector of milk for the Salt Lake board of health, and Herman Harms, stato chemist, for Investigation and analysis, nn |