Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1917 — PUTTING ONE OVER ON COW [ARTICLE]

PUTTING ONE OVER ON COW

Japanese Solve Problem by Extensive Use of Artificial Milk Derived From Soy Bean. The milk problem Is by way of being solved in Japan, where cows are scarce, by an extensive use of artificial milk derived from the soy bean. First, the Japanese soak the beans, then boil them until the liquid turns white, when they add sugar and phosphate of potash. The boiling is resumed until a fluid results very similar in consistency and appearance to ordinary condensed milk. When water is added soy milk is hardly to be distinguished from fresh cow’s milk. In composition also the artificial milk Is almost like genuine milk. Its proteins, fats and sugars are in very nearly the same proportion, although, of course, they are wholly vegetable in origin. / Whether the substitute' i/ equal to real cow’s milk as a form of nourishment Is not quite clear, for much of the value of milk as a food comes from the enzymes or vltamlnes it contains. The Japanese, however, declare that it serves all the purposes of cow’s milk, and that it has the advan-

tage of being less Hable to infection when properly and carefully manufactured.—Youth’s Companion.