XIV ILLUSTRATIONS 



MEXICAN CATTLE. 



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Description. 



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Cow . 

 Oxen. 

 Bull. 



Mexican cattle brands. 



BRAZILIAN CATTLE. 



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ITativo oaea anil cart 

 ITativ 



SINGHALESE CATTLE, 



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Half-breed bullocks and cart . 

 Draught bullocks in Colombo. 

 Family bandy 



Tanjore draught o 

 Half-breed drancli 



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I) t bullock. 



Plowing with oxen in Ceylon. 



Hauling timber in Ceylon. 

 Ceylon" buffalo cart 



SCIENTIFIC 3DAIBY IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINES. 



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Milk test: Specific gravity of milk from different breeds of cows. (Fig. 1). 



Cream test: Cream by volume, from different breeds of cows. (Fig. 2) 



Cream teat: Cream by weight, from different breeds of cows. (Fig. 3) 



Milk test : Agreement of specific gravity of milk with actual weight of cream. (Fig. 4) . 

 Cream and butter test: Agreement of cream by weight, with butter, by weight, from 



millc of* iHilVrpnt forkfuls of cows (Fi* r 5) 

 Butter test: Butter from milk, by weigllt, from different breeds of cows. (Fig. 6) 



265 Butter test: Butter from cream, 'from milk of different breeds of cows. (Fig. 7) 

 283 Milk-testing set: Lactometer, creamometer, and thermometer 



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Guevenne's original lactometer, or lactodensimeter. 



Creamometer on stand - 



German creamometer or cream-testing tnbe 



Lactobutryometor on stand, with stopper 



Feser's lactroscopo 



Copper bath, showing three pipettes and three lactrobutryometer tnbes within 



Aerometer for extracting fats ; Professor Soxhlet's 



De Lavel's Swedish separator ; dram, tiiilk chamber ; cream chamber 



H. C. Petersen's Danish separator 



Fjord'* regular, cream 



Fjord's regulator by this machine any percentage of cream can bo skimmed by the 



Danish separator , - 



Scale showing the value of each system 



Vertical drum cream separator of Petersen, of Hamburg 



Aarhus cream separator 



Uarskov centrifugal separator. 



Lefeldt cream separator 



Lefeldt cream separator , 



BUTCHERING AND KILLING CATTLE. 



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How the Paris butchers cut tip a beef r.. 



How the Lisle butchers cut up a beef 



How the LondoTi butchers cut up a beef. 

 Swiss method of killing cattle 



