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Interesting analyses of koumiss prepared from mare's milk have also 

 been made by Dr. P, Vieth. 1 



The mares from which the milk was taken were on exhibition at the 

 London International Exposition for 1884. These animals were obtained 

 from the steppes of Southeastern Eussia. The mares were from five 

 to six years old, and were cared for and milked by natives of the 

 country from which they were taken. When milked five times daily 

 the best of these mares gave from four to five litres of milk. It is to 

 be regretted that the milk-sugar, the most important ingredient of 

 milk in respect of koumiss manufacture, was estimated by difference. 

 Eleven analyses of the mixed milk gave the following numbers : 



Table of analyses. 



The koumiss from the above milk had the following composition : 



Collecting the above means together, we have the following compara. 

 ive table : 





NOTES. No. 1, mean of 14 analyses of koumiss from mare's milk ; No. 2, mean of 2 analyses of koumiss 

 f rom cow's milk ; No. 3, mean of 9 analyses of koumiss, origin unknown, probably from skimmed 

 c ow's milk ; No. 4, moan of 9 analyses of koumiss made from mare's milk, London Exposition of 1884; 

 No. 5, mean of 8 analyses of koumiss from cow's milk, made by Division of Chemistry, United States 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Landw. Versuchs-Stationen, vol. 31, pp. 353 et seq. 



a By difference. 



