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HIE OFFEREDLivestock Farmers Want Skimmed Milk for HogsWhile The Times war milk waste was being carried onto the floor of the ' 'hicago city council’s fod price committee today with a promised grand ury investigation by State's Attorney ’rowe, the editor's mail rained brisk-bats and bopqucts. Out of the storm f opinion came a- suggestion that offers a partial solution as to how the flood of skimmed milk into the sewers might he devertcd to decent use.An official of the Lowell Live Stock Vssociation of Lowell, Ind., declares hat the farmers of Lojvcll will sell a ontrolling interest in the big hog farm o the Milk Producers’ Co-operative Marketing Company as an outlet for great quantities of the skimmed milk shat the Producers' Company destroys at Cary and Indiana Harbor.A FOURTH AS COSTDY “Skimmed milk has half the hog-fattening food value of corn and oats and osts one fourth as much, the communication to The Times stated. “The Producers’ Company can ^transport the milk to the hog farm near Lowell by truck and after the cost of transpor tation and labor is paid will fatten the j hogs at least one-third cheaper than j we are feding thdm qow. We are wil- j '.ing to give the Producers Company a controlling interest in the Association.’’ j Chester W. Chapin, manufacturer of j eow feed, indites the following screed j to the editor:“Whoever wrote your 'amazing dls- I closure’ of the milk situation in Lake county might well do some further in- j vestigating.“Why call skimmed milk milk? Does ho know what skimmed milk is worth? If not, ask the Bureau of Markets of the [Vpartment of Markets of the Department of Agriculture at Washington. Does he eat butter and docs he know what it is made of?“The company I am associated with manufacturers feed for dairy cows and it would be to its benefit to have retail I prices down to a basis where the consumption wouWf be larger, but I believe in f Air play and fee I that the producers’ side of the quseiton has been gross-ly misrepresented by you in your i3sue of May 12.The Milk Dealer, a magazine published for distributors, this month contains an article on powdered wuik that is strictly a skimmed milk product. The writer who is an expert makes the following statement:“I am convinced that in milk powder lies the solution of the milk world, and that already the best milk powder now produces is superior to all other forms of milk.”Milk powder is the form in which the 51,000 gallons of milk now poured into l*ake county sewers dally could he economically preserved for shipment to the tenement districts of the cities or to the starving people of Europe and the Orient.Milk powder is but one of the manifestations of skimmed milk about which Mr. Chapin appears so ill Informed especially for a man in an industry so closely allied to that of the dairy farm. The Hammond Dairy company makes cottage cheese of skimmed milk and it finds a ready sale. Skimmed milk is used in the manufacture of candy, baker's frosting and it is canned and sold at a profit. The food value of skimmed milk is an established fact and its wast« is an inexcusable folly. Skimmed milk also has a chemical value, according to the department of agriculture.Sam R. Woods of the Milk Producer’s Company writes The Times as fol-j lows:WHAT SAM WOODS SAYS“Editor Times:—In regard to your article in Thursday’s Times about the milk going in the sewer at Gary and Indiana Harbor, I wish to state that it is a fact and a deplorable fact. (Yon will notice that Mr. Woods calls it milk, not skimmed milk. Skimmed or not, it Is milk.)It is a shame that we have a goo*' product produced at high cost and can’t sell it. Instead of going on strike or shutting down shop, we farmers go 05 producing. We are learning though from the other fellow and it may be in the future through our splendid organi zation that we can limit production to J the nods of the consumer. It won’t blt; two months now until the weather get warm and the demand for**ce cream and the poorer pasture will bring a shortage of milk right here in the Chicag district. We are not the only ones wh have wasted good food products.(Mr. Woods here tells of the waste t in the grain and cotton mills In former days.)“Wo are in our infancy. The milk producing company is now selling stoc?* for a two million dollar enterprise tc build factories and stands to put out product into condensed and powdered 1 milk, cottage cheese fend one hundrei, j and one other things. The only reason the milk is now running down the j sewer is because we haven’t the cqulp-* ! ment to handle it. Some of those numerous families with hungry children had better come out to the farm and help make milk. We are working about sixteen hours a day at mightj small wages and if anybody wants my job he can have it.SAM B. WOODS.GROWTH OF CALUMET DISTRICT CHURCHESC. J. Sharp, president, and D. E. Snyder, district evangelist, have prepared an annual report of the Calumet Christian Missionary booxd which will be submitted this week to the state convention tf the Christian churches of Indiana at TiCon.Revival meetings held by me board at Hammond, Hessville, Indiana Harbor. Griffith, Crown Point, Hobart. Deep River, Tolleston, Harvey and Lowell resulted in 626 additions in thirty-two weeks, the report states. Churches weer organized and buildings erected at Hessville, Tolleston and Griffith.The slump in church attendance and church expansion in the United States is not reflected in the report of the board which was created to meet the 2 emergency arising at the close of the war when, spiritual stock went d«»wn as well as General Motors and Bethlehem steel. The Calumet Christian Missionary Board was put into the field by C. J. Sharpj, former pastor 01 ! the Hammond Christian church, as a! sort of federal reserve hank for the * Christian churches of Lake county and adjoining territory, to keep thqm i solvent and above board. It was a1 good stunt and it w’orked so well other districts are using it.PERHAPS the Milk Producers’ Cooperative Marketing Company is responsible for that hidden river they have found at Lansing. It might be a backwash from the Indiana Harbor sewer.
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East Chicago Times
East Chicago, Indiana, US
Mon, May 16, 1921
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