120 



FOODS AND FOOD ADULTERANTS. 



Water. In a flat platinum dish partly filled with washed and dried 

 sand 2 grams of material were weighed and dried to a constant weight 

 at 100 0. Following are the results of the analyses : 



TABLE No. 16. Analyses of koumiss. 



It will be of interest to compare these results with those obtained 

 by other analysts, both with koumiss from mare's milk and from other 

 sources. As a mean of fourteen analyses of mare's milk koumiss, Konig 1 

 gives the following figures, viz: 



The mean of two samples of koumiss made of cow's milk is given by 

 the same author, as follows : 



In nine analyses of koumiss 2 probably made of cow's milk the means 

 are as follows : 



1 KoDig, Nahrungsmittel, vol. 1, p. 68. 



8 Op. oil., vol. 1, p. 68. 



