. Biggle cow book; old time and modern cow-lore rectified, concentrated and recorded for the benefit of man. Cows. '12 BIGGLE COW BOOK. In actual creamery practice tests are made of com- posite samples of each customer's milk ; that is, of samples made day by day and kept in a jar, thus representing the average of a week or more. A special bottle is used for testing skimmilk. It has a side tube for the addition of the acid (a mere convenience), and the graduated neck is much ia | smaller than in ordinary test bottles. This is II done to make small amounts of fat more accur- k ately read. A so-
. Biggle cow book; old time and modern cow-lore rectified, concentrated and recorded for the benefit of man. Cows. '12 BIGGLE COW BOOK. In actual creamery practice tests are made of com- posite samples of each customer's milk ; that is, of samples made day by day and kept in a jar, thus representing the average of a week or more. A special bottle is used for testing skimmilk. It has a side tube for the addition of the acid (a mere convenience), and the graduated neck is much ia | smaller than in ordinary test bottles. This is II done to make small amounts of fat more accur- k ately read. A so-called " oil test churn," for determin- ing the butter value of cream collected in the cream-gathering system of operating a butter factory, is now offered for sale. In this book I cannot mention even by name the thousand and one conveniences now on the | market. It is not my purpose to write a cata- logue for a dairy supply house, but rather to ^ILK „ , - , STRAINER. tell how to read a catalogue. Beginning with the milk strainer, I must call atten- tion to a device in which the milk flow is upward instead of downward through the gauze. There are two gauzes or screens, and I like this imple- ment because it avoids pouring the milk di- r rectly upon the sediment arrested by the strainer, strainer. As to a milk cooler, I have already urged the choice of the one doing the work well and which can be most easily cleaned. This is equivalent to an endorsement of a cooler where the milk runs over an exposed cold surface, rather than through cold pipes. The objection to the former style is that the milk may absorb bacteria. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia, W. Atkinson co
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