INDUSTRIES DEPENDING ON ANIMAL PRODUC'IS 



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cut. On being melted out it solidified very quickly forming a greyish lard 

 with a very smooth even surface which did not show the usual depression 

 in the middle with concentric rings radiating outwards. The lard was 

 hard and cut like paraffin. Its constants were determined and compared 

 with those of other fats as follows: 



Abnormal 

 lard 



Solidifying point oc 46.9 



Melting point °C 56.5 



Solubility per 100 parts chloroform at 17OC . . 80 



Refractive ind-. x at 40OC 43.9 



Refractive index of chloroform solution at 17OC 41.9 



Saponification value 159-9 



Reichert-Meisel value 2.5 



Iodine value 23.6 



Ash per cent I 1.24 



Normal lard 



37.2-39.8 

 26.5-28.6 



100 



50.6-50.9 



46.1-47.5 



196-198 



0.3-0.9 



46-47 



traces 



Mutton 

 fat 



34-45 

 49.25 

 71 

 46.85 



47-45 

 196 

 0.25 

 40 



Venison 

 fat 



40.05 



5150 



71 



44-75 



40.55 



The fat diftered so markedly from ordinary lard that it could not be 

 designated as such. It more closely resembled mutton or venison fat. The 

 writer suggests that the abnormal character of the lard was due to the fact 

 that the animal had been fed for a long time on damaged maize. As a rule 

 a maize diet causes the production of a soft and oily fat but in the present 

 case opposite effects were observed and these can onh' be explained on the 

 assumption that the prolonged feeding with the damaged maize resulted 

 in grave metabolic disturbances in the pig and that these interfered with 

 the deposition of fat. 



1222 -The World's Sheep and their Wool with Special Reference to the Product^" 



Australasia. — ■ Dal;ety's Review, Annual Wool Number, Year XXIV, N". 4, pp. 3. 



Sydney, July, i, 1916. 

 The National Association of Wool Manufacturers in America 

 issued two tables in which are given the latest figures for the total nu 

 of sheep in the world, and for the world's production of wool. They ca 

 of course be taken as exact statements for in some cases the figures 

 to pre-war periods ; they are merely meant give an approximate ideu 

 the situation. The tables are as follows : 



Table T. — Distribution of sheep in the world. 



Country Year Number 



North America : 



United .States Continenlr.l 1915 49956000 



Hawaii « 76 719 



Porto Rico » 6 :^63 



Alaska 199 



Total, United States ... 50 039 281 



