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Watered Skims. Whether they are permissible under the
Adulteration Act, is a matter for lawyers.
Sugar is cheap. No. 185 contains 51 per cent. Certainly
a profit is not without honour. This sample states
honestly (if the label is read by poor people) that the tin
contains skimmed milk with the finest cane sugar. This
very sample, if made up with water according to label, is
skimmed milk (and it must be skimmed by machinery)
containing thirty-eight per cent. of added water. To most
people, who eat more than is good for them, it matters but
little whether the nutritious quality of the milk be more or
less, although one wonders that they do not expect to find
their tea or coffee whitened by the cream of the milk. But
what about the children?
Condensed Milk No. 181 which exhibits a standard,
contains only 44 per cent. of sugar, and when made up with
water, according to label, is really sweetened Skim with
twenty per cent.of added water.
Condensed Milk No. 193 is prepared abroad, I should
have thought might have been kept there with advantage,
although probably the residents are too knowing to use it.
It has a very sickly greenish tint, and is thickened by 44
per cent. of sugar. "It is prepared from the richest cows'
milk, from which only a portion of the original cream has
been extracted before condensation." "It is cheaper and
more convenient than ordinary milk." I quote the label,
and do not doubt its greater cheapness to the Vendor.
There are no directions about the making up as Milk for the
community, but only for Puddings and Pastry, and for