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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
invite your attention to some of the uses of milk, which 
are as follows: . ^ f f . 
« ls t_In its normal state it is one of the best of foods 
for young mammals. It is also good food for those further 
advanced in life. 
“ 2 cl _Milk may be condensed, with or without sugai, 
for use in the human family: if with sugar (called preserved 
milk), it will keep good for years. 
« 3d—The caseine of milk may be made into cheese, 
for food. - 
“4th_The caseine may be made into lactinc, largely 
used for stamping or printing calico. 
“5th—'The serum, or whey, of milk may be mixed 
with cereal caseine and made into a nutritious food for man 
in the form of cheese. 
« 6th—Full-cream cheese—a thing that is but rarely. 
found—yet good food for the human family. 
« 7th_Milk is frequently made into koumiss, much 
used as a mild, nutritive stimulant in sickness. It contains 
about one per cent, of alcohol. 
«gth_The whey of milk may be evaporated and 
lactinc, or sugar of milk, obtained, which we trust will be 
largely used some future day for culinary purposes. 
“ 9th—Sour milk is largely used in the United States 
to make jewelry called American coral, celluloid, and jet. 
“ !Oth—The cream, or fatty part, of milk is usually 
made into butter. Butter contains 
Margarine. 
Twitter oil.. 
Summer. Winter. 
40 65 
60 a 1 ; 
100 100 
“ May butter frequently contains—margarine, 68 pci 
cent.; butter oil, 30 per cent., and butznc, caproic and 
capric acids, 2 per cent. 
“ A compound is supposed to exist in margarine con¬ 
sisting of three atoms of carbon united to 2 of hydrogen, 
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