Animal products; . f the ewe is richer than that of thecow in fat, and contains rather more sugar than that of otheranimals. The Calmucks, and most of the tribes of Central Asia,prepare a beverage from camels and mares milk, which is alsofermented and distilled into an alcoholic beverage. This koumis,as it is termed, has lately been recommended medicinally in thiscountry. The milk of the mare is inferior in oily matter to thatof the cow, but contains a fair proportion of sugar and other milk of the ass approaches that of human milk in several of MILK OF VARIOUS ANIMALS. ii its qualit
Animal products; . f the ewe is richer than that of thecow in fat, and contains rather more sugar than that of otheranimals. The Calmucks, and most of the tribes of Central Asia,prepare a beverage from camels and mares milk, which is alsofermented and distilled into an alcoholic beverage. This koumis,as it is termed, has lately been recommended medicinally in thiscountry. The milk of the mare is inferior in oily matter to thatof the cow, but contains a fair proportion of sugar and other milk of the ass approaches that of human milk in several of MILK OF VARIOUS ANIMALS. ii its qualities, and is recommended for invalids in pulmonary com-plaints. Camels milk is poor in every respect, but is employedin countries where the animal flourishes. Every preparation ofmilk, and every separate ingredient of it, is wholesome. Milk, Captain Burton tells us, is held in high esteem by allthe tribes of Central Africa. It is consumed in three forms—fresh; converted into butter-milk; and in the shape of curded. KUHLAND COW, MORAVIA. milk. The latter is everywhere a favourite on account of itsthirst-quenching properties, and the people accustomed to it frominfancy have for it an excessive longing. It is procurable inevery village where cows are kept, whereas that newly drawn isgenerally half soured from being at once stored in the earthenpots used for curding it. Buttermilk is procurable only in thoseparts of the country where the people have an abundance ofcattle. The aggregate consumption of milk in the United Kingdom isvery large, and may be roughly estimated at a quart a week for•each person. At this rate 812,500 gallons would be required for n8 CONSUMPTION OF BUTTER. the weekly supply of London alone, with its population of3,250,000. The average yield of milch kine is variously esti-mated, ranging between 2 quarts and 20 quarts a day; assume-8 quarts as a fair average, about 406,250 cows are requiredto furnish the metropolitan supply alone, and the consumersmust pay
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