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in the skim milk, and the variation of fat was from .78 per cent 
to 1.51 per cent, or on the average about one-fourth of the total 
fat present in the milk was lost. When ice was used the per cent 
Milk submerged in spring water. 
Fat in 
Time set. par cenh: 
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of fat remaining in the skim-milk averaged .51 per cent for the 
trials made. The*variation in per cent of fat was from .33 to .83 
per cent. The loss in fat was about one-ninth of that present in 
Milk submerged in ice water. 
Fat in 
Time set. Bee oedk 
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the milk as against one-fourth at the temperature of the spring 
water. Fully three-fourths of a pound more of butter per 100 
pounds of milk was secured by the use of ice in the water. 
INFLUENCE OF Foop ON THE BUTTER. 
During the past two years a number of feeding experiments 
have been conducted with milch cows, using various grain foods 
in order to determine something of the influence of these foods on 
the amount of butter produced and on the quality. The results 
of these trials are given in this and former reports, but we may 
in a general way state what seems to be the average résults for 
