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Aphorism III. ♦ 



Thick milk always throws up ajmaller proportion of 

 the cream it aBually contains to thejurface^ than milk 

 that is thinner y hut that cream is of a richer quality \ 

 and if water he added to that thick milky it will afford 

 a confiderahly greater quantity of cream than it would 

 have done if allowed to remain pure ; hut its quality 

 is at the fame time greatly dehqfed. 



This is a fadt that every perfon attentive to a 

 dairy mud have remarked; but I have never heard 

 of any experiment that could afcertain either the 

 precife amount of the increafed quantity of cream 

 that might thus be obtained, or of the ratio in the 

 decreafe of its quality^ but it afcertains the effeds 

 at leaft of mixing water with the milk m a dairy; 

 arid the knowledge of this fadt will enable attentive 

 perfons to follow that pradlice which they think will 

 bed promote their own intereft. 



Aphorism IV. 



Milk which is put into a hucket or other proper vejfely 

 and carried in it to any ccnftderahle diftance, fo as to 

 he much agitated and in part cooled hefore it he put 

 into the milk-pans to fettle for cream, never throws 

 upfo much nor fo rich cream y as if the fame milk 

 had heen put into the milk -pans dire^ly after it 

 ' was milked. 



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