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CHAPTER XXL 



Qualities of milk — Adulteration — The black cow — Matter 

 of which milk is composed — Cow's udder — Lactometer — 

 Milking syphon — Dairy-maids — Unruly cows, and hold- 

 ing of their milk — Operation of milking and skimming — 

 Cream steens — Implements — Operation of churning — 

 Upright and barrel churns — Metallic churn. 



Milk, whether it be that of the cow, or of those 

 other creatures that produce it, is universally 

 admitted to be one of the most nutritive ar- 

 ticles of diet, for it is composed of materials 

 containing the most valuable properties of 

 alimentary matter ; which, although varying 

 in their several proportions, according to the 

 nature of the being from which it is obtained, 

 yet exist in the milk of all. It is not only 

 formed into the substantial articles of butter 

 and cheese, but is capable of being con- 

 verted into innumerable delicacies as food ; 

 and, indeed, the care which our beneficent 

 Creator has taken to provide this delicious 

 nourishment for young creatures during their 



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