472 INDEX. 



Babcock milk test, the, 252 



application of, 254 



points to be watched, 253 

 Baltimore Canned Goods Exchange, standards of, 102 

 Barley, commercial grades of, 405 

 Barnyard mantire, 152, 153 



composition, 155 

 Beef cattle, 24 



proportion of, to live weight of cattle, 206 

 Bees, honey, and wax produced in the United States, 438 

 Beet-sugar production in the United States, 1901-1903, 436 

 Berkshire swine, 27 



Board of Health (N. Y.) lactometer, 254, 255 

 Boiler, care of, 286 



power, 289 

 Bordeaux mixture, 121 



Boyd, John, Boyd's process of cream-ripening, 301 

 Breed tests of cows, Columbian, 1893, 238 



St. Louis, 1904, 239 

 Breeds of live stock, characteristics of, 21 



registered live stock in U. S., 428 

 dairy cattle, 429 

 Breeders' Associations, co-operative, Constitution , 367a 

 Brown-Swiss Cattle, 234 

 Butter, 295 



American premium, analyses of, 308 



by deep, cold setting and Cooley system, 303 

 shallow-pan creaming, 303 



cheese and condensed-milk factories in the United States, 43/ 



commercial grades of, 309 



composition of, 307 



conversion factor for calculating yield of, 311 



domestic exports of, 1870-1905, 446 



English scale of points for judging, 317 



factories in the United States, statistics of, 434 



fat, highest record for 24 hours, 239 

 official records, 240 

 standard of purity, government, 265 



foreign samples of, composition of, 308 



fresh, composition of, 308 



from separator cream, 304 



foreign, analyses of, 308 



formula for calculating yield of, 311 



loss of, through inefficient skimming, 285 



makers, score in judging proficiency of, 317 



making, 295 



distribution of milk ingredients in, 316 

 use of pure cultures in, 297 



milk, composition of, 273 



milk required for making i lb. of, 315, 316 



overrun, the sliding-scale, 314 



