. Biggle cow book; old time and modern cow-lore rectified, concentrated and recorded for the benefit of man. Cows. Chapter XXI. DAIRY APPLIANCES. No mere guesswork in the dairy.—John Tucker. There is not a more useful and profitable thing than the Babcock tester in the entire range of dairy appliances. This instrument, or series of instruments, fills a long-felt dairy want, and, I think, does its work more accurately, quickly and cheaply than anything else of its kind on the market. It is primarily useful in enabling the dairyman to know his cows and to accurately determine the cost of milk pr
. Biggle cow book; old time and modern cow-lore rectified, concentrated and recorded for the benefit of man. Cows. Chapter XXI. DAIRY APPLIANCES. No mere guesswork in the dairy.—John Tucker. There is not a more useful and profitable thing than the Babcock tester in the entire range of dairy appliances. This instrument, or series of instruments, fills a long-felt dairy want, and, I think, does its work more accurately, quickly and cheaply than anything else of its kind on the market. It is primarily useful in enabling the dairyman to know his cows and to accurately determine the cost of milk production. To the cream- en' man it is invaluable in the detection of waste, either in defective skimming or de- fective churning. There are several good ' testing systems on the market, including babcock the so-called Leffman-Beam andtheCoch- tester. ran, but I will describe only the Babcock, because it is in widest American use at this time. Briefly, the Babcock test is an apparatus for de- termining the amount of butter fat in milk ; or, it may be said, for determining the actual value of milk, because the value of milk depends on the total solids, and the total solids vary in amount as the fat varies in amount. One chemical (sulphuric acid) is required, and the process demands only ten or fifteen minutes of 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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