XIV ILLUSTRATIONS , 



MEXICAN CATTLE. 



Description, 



Pago. 



Cow 



Oxen 



Lull 



Mexican cattle brands. 



BRAZILIAN CATTLE. 



Native oxen and carfc - * 



ITativocow 



SINGHALESE CATTLE. 



Half -breed bullocks and e.xrt . 

 Draught bullocks in Colombo. 



Family bandy 



Tanj ore draught ox 



Halt-breed draught bullock. .- 

 Plowing with oxen in Ceylon. 

 Hauling timber in Ceyjoa .... 

 Ceylon buffalo cart 



SCIENTIFIC DAIRY IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINES. 



Milk test: Specific gravity of milk from different breeds of cows. (Fig. 1) 



Cream test: Cream by volume, from different breeds of cows. (Fig. 2) 



Cream test: Cream by weight, from different breeds of cows. (Fig. 8) 



Milk test : Agreement of specitic gravity of milk with actual weight of cream. (Fi?. 4) . 

 Cream and butter test: Agreement of cream by weight, with butter, by weight, from 



milk of different breeds of cows. (Fig. 5) 



Butter test: Butter from milk, by weight, from different breeds of cows. (Fie:. 6) 



Butter test : Butter from cream, 'i'roni milk of different breeds of cows. (Fig. 7) 



Milk-testing set : Lactometer, creamonieter, and thermometer , 



Guevenno's original lactometer, or lactodensimeter , 



Creamometer on stand 



German creamometer or cream-testing tube , 



Lactobntry ometcr on stand, with stopper 



Feser's lactroacope 



Copper bath, showing three pipettes and three laetrobutrymneter tubes within , 



Aerometer for extracting fats ; Professor Soxhlet's 



De Lavel's Swedish separator ; drum, milk chamber ; cream chamber 



H. C. Peterson's Danish separator 



Fjord'* regular, cream 



Fjord's regulator by this machine any percentage of cream can bo skimmed by the 



Danish separator 1 



Scale showing the value of each system - 



Vertical drum cream separator of Petersen,of Hamburg 



Aarhus cream separator 



Narskov centrifugal separator 



Lefeldt cream separator 



Lefeldt cream separator ........................... . 



BTJTCHEKING AND KILLING CATTLE. 



How the Paris butchers cnt up a beef X. 



How the Lisle butchers cut np a beef 



How the London butchers cnt up a beef. 

 Swiss method of kiting cattle 



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