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Table XVIII. — Analyses of buffalo milk produced in southern China com- 

 pared with that produced in other countries. 



[Numbers give percentages.] 



I Southern 

 I China. 



India. 



Fat 



Protein . 

 Sugar.. 

 Ash 



Water .. 



12.60 

 6.04 

 3.70 

 0.86 



76.80 



7.95 

 4.00 

 6.18 

 0.78 

 82.09 



Philip- | 

 pine Italy. 1 

 Islands.^ 



6.84 

 4.97 

 5.16 

 0.83 



7.99 

 4.13 

 4.75 

 0.97 



82.20 82.16 



■ Bailey's Cyclopedia of American Agriculture 3 (1908) 295. 



b Philippine Agriculturalist and Forester 6 (1917) 110. 



Note. — Attention may be called to the results recorded by Dovey, Philip. Journ. Sci., 5 A 8 

 (1913) 153-155, showing the constituents of nineteen "authentic samples of pure carabao's 

 milk." Only two of these show less than 7 per cent fat while four show more than 12.60 

 per cent. — Editors. 



the canal banks. Some of the more progressive dairies are be- 

 ginning to grow guinea grass, which does very well on the hill- 

 sides in this region. When well fertilized with manure from 

 the barns this grass produces a crop from 18 to 24 inches high 

 every two to three weeks throughout the rainy season, from 

 April to September. Dry rice straw is also fed. 



COMMON DISEASES 



Rinderpest and tick fever are the principal diseases to which 

 cattle are subject, Prof. C. W. Howard, of the biology depart- 

 ment of Canton Christian College, says that the latter is caused 

 by the same organism (Piroplasma bigeninum) and transmitted 

 by the same tick (Boophilus annulatus) as in the Southern 

 States of the United States. Both the buffalo and the native 

 yellow cow are largely immune to the fever, while the European 

 cows quickly succumb to the disease when exposed to it. However, 

 European calves born here readily become immune. Rinderpest 

 causes heavy losses, especially among buffaloes and European 

 cattle, during the months of March and April. The Hongkong 

 Dairy Farm has had outbreaks of rinderpest among European 

 cattle every year for the past five or six years. The use of rin- 

 derpest serum has checked the disease in every outbreak. It is 

 interesting to note that the Chinese dairies have suffered very 

 little from rinderpest in their herds of European cattle, although 

 in most cases their methods of caring for the cows are not very 

 sanitary. 



According to Dr. C. M. Heanley, of the Hongkong Vaccine and 

 Bacteriology Laboratory, tuberculosis is practically unknown 



