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out through little holes into spouts provided for 

 the purpose of carrying them into their respec- 

 tive vessels. Of these three methods centrifugal 

 separation is by far the most efficient. 





Fig. 21. A cow with marked dairy temperament. 

 Clean cut features about the head and face, the fine clean neck, 

 the prominence and sharpness of the back bone, hip points and pin 

 bones, the thin, incurving" thighs and the clean, fine shanks in this 

 cow are indications of extreme dairy temperament. 



Fat losses in skim-milk make dairying un- 

 profitable. One of the reasons why dairying, 

 before the invention of the Babcock test and the 

 centrifugal separator, was unprofitable was be- 

 cause of the large losses of butter fat in the skim- 

 milk when separated by the gravity process. 

 No matter how careful the dairyman may be to 



