CLARIFICATION OF MILK. 



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James M. Sherman^ has also furnished his results of the bacterial 

 counts before and after clarification. 



Table XLI. — Effect of Clarification on the Bacterial Count of Milk 



(Sherman). 



Test No. 



1. 



2, 



3, 



4, 



5, 



6. 



7, 



8, 



», 



10, . . . 

 11, 

 12, 

 13, 

 14, 

 15, 

 16, 

 17, 

 18, 

 19, 

 20, 

 21, 

 22, 

 23, 

 24, 



Average, 



Again there is the decided increase of micro-organisms following clari- 

 fication. 



Although realizing that the usual interpretation of microbial counts in 

 this connection has no basis in actual truth, and there can be no increase 

 because the milk passes through the clarifier so quickly that there is no 



1 Sherman, James M.: Bacteriological Tests of Milk Clarifier. Jour, of Dairy Science, 1917, 

 Vol. I, No. 3, p. 272. 



