CHAPTER XLVIII 



THE BABCOCK MILE TEST 



T^HE Babcock Tester is like a mighty search- 

 ■*■ light thrown on the dairy industry. With 

 impartial accuracy.it reveals the profitable and 

 unprofitable cows. It condemns or praises the 

 work of the separator. It reveals the loss of fat 

 in whey and buttermilk, and it puts a check on dis- 

 honesty by having milk and cream sold on the value 

 of their fat content. No dairyman should feel 

 his equipment complete without one. A four-bottle 

 Babcock tester, complete, can be had for five or 

 six dollars. 



The work of the Cow-Testing Association is 

 so rapidly extending that a dairyman of any pre- 

 tensions will soon be ashamed to admit that he 

 does not know the individual productiveness of his 

 herd. 



Milk-testing is not a complicated or tedious 

 thing to do. A careful boy or girl fourteen or fif- 

 teen years old can soon learn to make correct tests. 

 There is no better way of getting the children 

 interested in the cows. 



The Babcock Test is a simple, quick, cheap, and 



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