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process, and on —, the top of the bag it will be found to offer 
tree asdf Md 20 feet long shovld now be cut and 
trimmed, or if palm-leaf * bamboos " are obtainable, six or eight of them 
can be strongly lashed together. The pole thus obtained should have 
upon which it rests. Gre t pressure can be broug ight t to bear by this 
simple means on the coagulating | juice. Indeed, it will be ters iex 
sable to have the prepared tins replaced i in their wooden 
press the milk in them side by side, by placing a flat board früh block a 
cph irn allowing the pole to rest upon that rather than n: upon 
the zs. Unless some such precautions be taken, the tin will be apt 
to bales, and perhaps burst outwards, when full pressure is oti 
g of sand should weigh about 100 pounds, and should be hung 
as near the tin as possible for 12 med It Mond then be moved along 
the pole gradually until it reaches z eud farthest from the tin, where 
it Nop d be left for two or three da 
ng 
out, Ts vill apo be found to Sdhere to the cloth i in the slightest ak 
ac 
s à white semi-elastic mass, which on exposure to the air will 
gradually turn Wachs and will ge in elasticity as it dries. 
The samples when prepared should not be unnecessarily exposed to 
the sun, but will not be dijs in any way by exposure to rain. They 
will, if anything, be improved by immersion in water. 
The above method was ‘lien ed when preparing the sample which I 
forward as Exhibit No.1. At this season of the year it is difficult to 
obtain large enough quantities of milk for extensive piu and 
is, how 
experiments on which these notes are based when the rains begin and 
the trees yield more sap. A fur as Thaci will then be submitted 
should any new features present them 
Exhibits Nos. 2 and 3 are of Biat, milk coagulated by pressure, 
but as an insufficient weight was appl ied, they s show a cellular structure, 
and are also not free from impur 
Exhibits Nos. 4 and 5 are of hates id sega unwashed milk, and 
are of fair quality. This method, how cannot well be appli ied 
during the rainy season without the ipiko of artificial heat, which 
d have proved to give perg pags results, 
ibits Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5 are the penr of „preliminary experi- 
