Medicine: Useful Whey

To James Louis Kraft, cheese tycoon, went news both profitable and philanthropic last week. His Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. used to dump away yearly thousands of gallons of whey (the watery part of milk left after the curds are removed) or return it to farmers for hog wash. That whey contains most of the milk minerals. To make money from this whey Mr. Kraft some time ago gave Rutgers University funds for research. Rutgers fellows developed a powdered whey which chicken farmers use to keep parasites from their fowls. A year ago Kraft...

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