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TABLE OF ANALYSES.— (Continued.) 



The chemical analyses of iio samples gave average results of 

 13.23 per cent, total solids, 4.49 per cent, fat, and 8.74 per cent, 

 solids not fat.^ Li general it may be said that the solid ingredients 

 contained in the milk were above the legal requirements. Only 

 two samples collected were known to have been watered (about 10 per 

 cent) while 5 other lots were considered somewhat suspicious. Fifty 

 samples, or 44 per cent, of the entire number collected, contained 

 4.5 per cent, or more of fat, and in most cases 13.5 per cent, or over 

 of solid matter, and may be designated as "rich "; twenty samples 

 contained 5 per cent, or more of fat. 



The milk collected west of the Connecticut river was not as rich 

 in solid ingredients as that obtained in the territory of Amherst and 

 vicinity, most of the samples testing between 3.75 and 4.50 per cent, 

 of fat. Such milk may be pronounced of average chemical quality. 



• Probably considerable water added 



2 The Massachusetts standard calls for 13 per cent, solids and 3.7 per cent, fat from 

 October to .^pril, and 12 per cent, solids and 3 percent, fat during the remaining six months. 



