Dairy  Cattle  and  the  Butter  Test. 
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Previous  to  these  experiments,,  the  only  writers  who  had 
gone  thoroughly  into  the  subject  appear  to  have  been  Dr. 
E.  Lewis  Sturtevant  and  Professor  Frederick  D’Hont. 
An  abridged  report  by  Dr.  Sturtevant  on  the  “ Dearfoot 
Farm  Centrifugal  Dairy”  will  be  found  in  the  Journal  of 
the  Royal  Agricultural  Society  of  England,*  while  a trans- 
lation by  Mr.  F.  J.  Lloyd,  of  D’Hont’s  paper  on  “ The  Fat 
Fig.  7.— Ayrshire.  Milk  x 500  diam. 
Globules  of  Milk”  appears  in  the  Bath  and  West  of  England 
Society’s  Journal.^ 
Although  some  of  the  conclusions  arrived  at  in  these 
articles  would  not  now  be  accepted  as  correct,  yet  on  the 
question  of  churnability  of  cream,  they  both  agree  in  one 
particular — that  the  “larger  the  globules,  other  things  being 
equal,  the  x[uicker  the  churning,”  to  which  it  is  suggested 
1 Journal  R.A.S.E.,  Vol.  XXXVII.,  Pt.  2,  1882. 
^ B.  and  W.  of  E.  Society’s  Journal,  Vol.  I.,  Ser.  4,  1890-1891. 
