COMPOSITION OF MILK.
'The albuminoids or nitrogenous compounds are casein and albumin, the latter in ordinary cow’s milk constituting not more than one-ninth of the total albuminoids. The ash consists of lime, potash, soda, magnesia, and iron, with phosphoric acid and chlorine. Most of the fat is removed in the cream. The liquid part of the milk, after separation of the fat globules, still retains all the milk sugar and most of the albuminoids. It is worthy of note, too, that skim milk contains the same proportion of water (90 per cent.) as the serum of blood.
The amount of solid matter contained in different samples of milk may fall as low as 10 per cent, and rise as high as 16 per cent.-, corresponding respectively to 90 per cent, and 84 per cent of water. But it is noteworthy that such poor milk as that containing as much as 90 per cent, of water includes more solid matter than turnips, which possess, on an average, about 92 per cent of water.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17008, 22 January 1927, Page 19 (Supplement)
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172COMPOSITION OF MILK. Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17008, 22 January 1927, Page 19 (Supplement)
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