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Show Dehydrated Milk May Sell at Retail For Half Fluid Price Dehydrated whole milk mny sell In the postwar world for 0 lo 10 cents a quart or from a haif to a third of the current price of fluid milk in many sections of the country where there are few dairies, according accord-ing to predictions of agricultural officials. of-ficials. One of the items which is expected expect-ed to make an important contribution contribu-tion to the American diet and simultaneously simul-taneously provide the American dairyman with a year-round stable market for his product, dried whole milk is currently being used in astronomical astro-nomical quantities for the armed forces. Milk processors estimate that Uiis year approximately 200 million mil-lion pounds or almost a billion quarts, of whole dried milk will be produced, the majority of this for men in service. At the outbreak of war military authorities designated dried whole milk as one of the most desperately needed products to maintain a balanced bal-anced diet for American fighters. Yet the product in its prewar packaged pack-aged form frequently developed an off flavor after it had been stored for a short time. Harassed by soldier sol-dier protests that reverberated from Kiska to Australia, government ex- j perts called upon researchers in the ' laboratory of the American Can company to assist in the solution of the problems. These experts developed de-veloped a new high-speed processing machinery which reduced the ran- j cid-producing oxygen content of the milk to a negligible percent and so eliminated headaches both in flavor and production. Nutrition experts express the hope that when the dried product is available avail-able generally for civilian use, milk consumption may be increased from 177 quarts per individual annually which Is the present rate, to the 275 quarts recommended by most physicians. |