INDEX. 4S3 



Milk, power required for skimming looo lbs., 281 

 preservation ot, by heat, 290, 293 

 price of, per 1000 lbs., 343 

 prices, by measures 272a 

 products, standards of purity for, 266 

 quantity of water or ice required for cooling, 394 

 records, official, 240 



relation of fat to casein, and other solids of, 250 

 relative cheese value of, 334 



required for making one lb. of butter, 315, 316 

 rules for handling, 272 

 skimming and watering of, 267, 268 

 solids, calculation of, 250, 258, 260 

 sjlids, calculation of specific gravity of, 261 

 specific gravity of, temperature correction tables for, 256 

 standards, 262 



standards of purity, government, 264 

 standardization of. 271 



table for converting pounds of, into quarts, 269 

 quarts of, into pounds, 269 

 finding average per cent of fat in, 347 

 testing, a chapter on, 252 

 use of alkaline tablet test with, 304 

 variation in composition, 268 

 watering of, 267 



yield and composition of, of different breeds, 243 

 Milking trials, English, results of, 241 

 rules for, 245 

 utensils, care of, 247 

 Milkings, composition of different parts of same, 349 

 Miner's inch, 177 

 Money, conversion table, 410 

 foreign, value of, 409 

 order fees, 386 

 Monrad rennet test, the, 319 

 Mutton, diagrams of cuts, 205 



sheep, 25 

 Nails, cut, taVjle of, 192 

 New York Board of Health lactometer, comparison with Quevenne 



lactometer, 255 

 Nitrate of soda, prices of, on the ammoniate basiii, 160 

 Nitrogen voided by animals, 153 

 Noer, J., M.D., What to do in case of accidents, 377 

 Noxious weeds, table of 116 

 Number of yjlants for an acre of ground, 86, 87 



trees on an acre, 135 

 Nutrients, 193 



furnished for 25 cents in food materials, 201 

 Nutritive ratio, 2 

 Oats, commercial grades of, 404 

 Oat-smut, prevention of, 127 



