. The water buffalo (often called the mud buffalo) its characteristics and habits together with a description of the preparation of its hide for making rawhide loom pickers . Bullocks or humped cattle at Madras, India. Note the differencebetween these and the water biuffalo is in some cases displacing the hurial() in tlie conditions have a tendency to decrease the num-ber of buffaloes and consequently the supply ot buftalohides. BUFFALO HORNS The horns and sometimes the hocjts ot the animal areused by the natives in making large transparent lanterns,and, before the prohibition o
. The water buffalo (often called the mud buffalo) its characteristics and habits together with a description of the preparation of its hide for making rawhide loom pickers . Bullocks or humped cattle at Madras, India. Note the differencebetween these and the water biuffalo is in some cases displacing the hurial() in tlie conditions have a tendency to decrease the num-ber of buffaloes and consequently the supply ot buftalohides. BUFFALO HORNS The horns and sometimes the hocjts ot the animal areused by the natives in making large transparent lanterns,and, before the prohibition ot opium, large quantitieswere made into cups for packing and storing the are exported in large quantities to Europe and theUnited States— 1,000,000 pounds Irom China alone inI 91 7 — to be used in making combs, shoehorns, knite 30 GARLJND MJNUFJCTURING Showing horns of the Philippine carabao handles, buttons, toilet articles and a clever imitation oteb(jny. ]]UFFAL() MILK The milk of the buffalo is very white and very northern India irhee or a rancid butter used in-stead ut lard is niade ot it, but in Burma it is seldom THE IVATKR BUFFALO 31 used because it is tcmtrarv to the Jjuddhist religion totake the life ot the animal and to drink the milk whichthev sav is the life ot the call. The percentage of fat and protein in the milk of theChinese buffalo cow is very high, higher than that otbuffaloes in other parts of the world. More than eighthundred analyses whicli haye been made during the pasttwo and one-half years of tifty buffalo co\ys haye shownan ayerage of 1 per cent tat. Ten analyses hayeshown the milk to contain percent protein, ^^.noper cent sugar, per cent ash and 76.(So per centwater. Similaranalyses ha\e shown tliat European cowsmilk in southern China contains: Fat, ; proteids,:;; sugar, q.(}
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