286 REPORT OF THE CHEMIST OF THE 
of its better consistency; third, of its improved aroma; fourth, of 
its increased digestibility; fifth, of its more perfectly answering 
the requirements of a complete food or balanced ration.’ In this 
connection, it is interesting to learn that in Germany the custom 
of selling cheese according to the percentage of fat contained in it 
is rapidly coming into use. 
While the view expressed above is very generally held and is 
based upon experimental work, there have been no extensive com- 
mercial opportunities for demonstrating the matter in a systematic 
way.. but some valuable facts bearing on this point in a most direct 
and practical form have just been developed in the four Wisconsin 
cheese-scoring contests? held during April, May, June and July, 
1908. The facts are all the more interesting because they are merely 
incidental to the general purpose of these contests. The method of 
conducting these competitive tests in Wisconsin cannot be too 
highly recommended to other states, especially because very full de- 
tails are given, unusual under such circumstances, making the work 
of peculiar value in enabling one to study relations existing between 
the composition of cheese and its commercial value. In each of 
these monthly scorings, it is significant that the cheese scoring high- 
est contained the largest amount of fat relative to proteins, while 
the cheese scoring lowest in every case contained the lowest amount 
of fat relative to proteins, as shown by the following data: 
TAPLE J]X.— RELATION OF FAT AND PROTEIN IN CHEESES OF HIGH AND 
Low SCORES. 
EEE eee 


CHEESE SCORING HIGHEST. CHEESE SCORING LOWEST. 
Ratio of Ratio of 
Fat. Proteins. fatito Fat. Proteins. fat to 
proteins. proteins. 
; Fat: Fat: 
Per ct. Per ct. proteins. Per ct. Per ct. proteins. 
Aprile, ore at 36. OTe 1450775 Se 29.2 de? OFOT 
Mica es Were wccle at ahee 35.25 27 34. Le One 35. 29.2 1 20283 
Hane Asse ee aoe 27.5 10a 34.5 29.8 ° 1: 0.86 
Ati) Viste pens once eek 30% 29.46 1: 0.84 34.3 29.3 Ly Osa6 




The most striking difference is shown by the April results, the 
least by those of July. In studying all the available data, the only 
apparent cause that accounts for these differences is the difference 
*N. Y, Prod. Rev. and Amer. Crmy. 26: 182, 348, 504, 652. 1908. 
