THE COMPOSITION OF CARABAO'S MILK 



By E. R. Dovey 



(From the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, P. I.) 



With the possible exception of goat's milk, carabao's milk is 

 the principle native dairy product in the Philippine Islands. Its 

 use is almost wholly restricted to the native population. The 

 milk has long been known to be very rich as compared with 

 cow's milk, resembling the milk of other kinds of buffalo in this 

 respect, but its composition has been little studied. Although 

 many analyses of buffalo's milk have been published from time 

 to time, it is a regrettable fact that in many cases the species of 

 animals from which the milk was obtained is unrecorded. The 

 average results obtained by several workers who have examined 

 the milk of various species of buffalo are given in Table I. 



Table I. — Analyses of buffalo's milk. 



Kinds of buffalo. 



Sam- 

 ples. 



Analyst. 



Total 

 solids. 



Fat. 



Protein. 



Sugar. 



Ash. 







Fleischmann a 



Peppel and Rich- 

 mond, b 



Per cent. 

 17.07 

 15.9 



16.26 

 18.27 



18.33 

 22.09 



Per cent. 

 7.46 

 5.56 



*6.76 

 8.11 



9.02 

 10.63 



Per cent. 

 4.59 

 3.86 



3.78 

 4.33 



3.99 

 6.31 



Per cent. 

 4.21 

 5.41 



4.80 

 5.00 



4.50 

 8.73 



Per cent. 

 0.81 

 1.03 



.75 

 .82 



.77 

 .88 



Egyptian (Ga- 

 moose) . 



Indian 



Do 



16 



18 



large 



number 



1 



6 



Meggit and Mann d. 



Unknown 



Carabao 



Bliss* 





a Blyth, Wynter, Foods, their composition and analysis. C. Griffin and Company, London 

 (1910). 



» Trans. Journ. Chem. Soc. (1890), 51, 754. 

 c Analyst (1901), 26, 40. 

 4 Mem. Indian Dept. Agr. (1912), 2, 195. 

 "Chem. Centralbl. (1888), III, 19, 478. 

 « This Journal, Sec. B (1907), 2, 371. 



Table II shows the composition of carabao's milk on the Ma- 

 nila market, where adulteration is known to be practiced ex- 

 tensively. 



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