liaiities refpefling milk, ought very particulari/ to he at^ 

 tended to ; iome of them are, no doubt, known in part to 

 attentive houfewives, but they have never been conhdered 

 of fo much importance as they deferve, 



APHORISM I. 



OF the milk thai is drawn from any cow at one time, thai 

 which comes off at the jirjt is always thinner^ and of a much 

 •worjc qualiiy, than that which comes afterwards^ and the 

 richnej:> goes o% continually increafmg to the very lajl drop 

 that can be drawn JroT!i the udder at that time. 



Few perfons are ignorant that milk which is taken from 

 the cow laR of all at milking, which in this country is 

 culled Jlro.f kings, (here Jlrippings) is richer than the reft 

 of the milk ; but fewer ilili are aware of the greatnefs of 

 the difproportion between the quality of the hrft and the laft 

 drawn milk from thp fame cov/ at one milking — from fever-t 

 al accurate and important experiments it appears, that the 

 perfon who, by bad rnilking of his cows, loofes but half a 

 pint of the laft milk that might be obtained, loofes in faft, 

 about as much cream as would be afforded by fix or eight 

 pints at che beginning, and loofes behdes, that part of the 

 cream, which alor^e can give richnefs and high flavour tq 

 his butter, 



A P H O R I S M II. 



IF milk he put in a dijh and allowed to Jland till it throws 

 up cream, that portion which rifesjirjl to the fur/ace is rich' 

 er in quality and greater in quantity than what rifes in a, 

 Jccond equal portion of tirnfy and the cream that rifes in the 

 Jecond interval of time is greater in quantity and richer in 

 quality than what rifes in a third equal /pace of time, and fo 

 on, the cream decreafes in quantity and declines in quality con^* 

 tinually, as long as any rifes to ihefurface, 



APHORISM III. 



THICK milk always throws up a f mailer proportion of 

 the cream it actually contains to thefurface, than milk that 

 is thinner, hut that cream is of a richer quality ; and ij 

 water be added to that thick milk, it will afford a confidcra^ 

 hly greater quantity of cream than it would have done if aU 

 lowed to remain pure ; but its quality is at the fame time 

 greatly dehafed. APHORISM 



