CLARIFICATION OF MILK. 



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in these corpuscular elements there may exist what may be called nutri- 

 tional activators, or bodies which in very small quantities are essential to 

 body maintenance. 



Chemical Analyses of Clarifier Slime. 

 Analysis by Bahbnan. * 



Protein (nitrogen x 6.38) , 



Fat. . 



Milk sugar, 



Crude fiber, 



Silica, 



Oxide of iron. 



Oxide of alumina, 



Calcium phosphate, 



Potassiunl phosphate. 



Sodium and potassium chloride. 



Per Cent. 



67.9 



3.4 



7.8 



2.2 



3.8 



.5 



.6 



3.6 



6.2 



.1 



Undetermined, 



96.1 

 3.9 



100.0 



Analysis by Mclnerney. * 



Analysis by North. ' 



Per Cent. 

 Total solids, .............. 30 



Fat, . . . ' .3 



Ash, ...............' 3 



Nitrogenous organic compounds, .......... 24 



» Bahlman, Clarence: Milk Clarifiers. Am. Jour. Pub. Health, 1916, Vol. VI, No. 8, 

 pp. 855, 856. 



» Mclnerney, T. J.: Clarification of Milk, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. 

 Bulletin No. 389, AprU, 1917, p. 499. 



» North, Charles E.: The Creamery and Milk Plant Monthly, Vol. II, No. 1, p. 19. 



