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from day to day, usually without definite relation to any known 

 cajuses. This bit of experience does not establish a law, but is in 

 itself an event worth noting. 



Total Milk Solids and Milk Fat. 



In this experiment the variations in milk solids were due almost 

 wholly to changes in the percentages of milk fat. The corre 

 sponding rise and fall of the total solids and the fat, and the uni- 

 form percentages of nitrogenous compounds are certainly remark- 

 able and ai-e strikingly shown in the diagramatic chart (Fig. 20). 

 Thifi is not a new observation, for it has been noticed repeatedly 

 that the fat of milk is its most variable compound in percentage 

 relations. 



