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MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCTS PART 



purpose, which was to provide the newly-born calf with a 

 suitable form of nutriment. 



FIG. 3. Microphotograph of Colostrum. 1 The fat corpuscles 

 are stained black with osmic acid. 



In the following table are given, for comparison, the analyses 

 of the milk of different animals, and of woman. These figures 

 are taken from recent investigations, and are the averages of a 

 great many analyses which have been made of the various milks. 



Average Composition of Human Milk and that of Different Animals. 



After a microphotograph by Prof. C. 0. Jensen, Copenhagen. 



