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MILK AND CREAM TESTING 



Fig. 104. — Milk test bottles, a is very much preferable to b. First, in having a 

 slender neck, which will permit of accurate reading of the fat; second, in having sloping 

 shoulders. Fat will lodge under the abrupt shoulder of b, and thus reduce the reading; 

 third, the top of a is not flaring as b. A milk tested in duplicate in two bottles such as 

 these would not read the same. 



nearly to the top, slip the fore finger over the top of the tube to 

 prevent air entering. This serves to hold the milk in the 

 pipette. Raise the charge and sample nearly to the level of the 



