BUTTER TESTING.
; ;,B!ABCdCSK; : TEST < : Wo do riot testing of .butter for\fat..by/, the- ; ;Babccck ; . test (says' Professor 'Harrington in "Hoard's Dairyman"). l The-results /obtained, arc ;inaccurate because the/ butter-<fafc is-" sucli a ■•' largu^porcontage' of tho butter .that;air the errors of analysis in sampling; weighing, and measuring' must:be to, the butter-fat,;;:and//this: makes' it'; impossible to'.'' get''./. . which, can.. be .depended. ,uppii /as •'■'ad'--curate. v ' It is true'- that'occasionally a> test may; :be > made of : butter -that 'will be very "near., "tho.'coneot'-'frguro,' but •■it./is/ also.;: true'/that "the/results pbtainedi by; the' Babcock. /test may bo from : oner to .-three .per .cent/'off. - ■' /.The best; way ./to determine; that"' fat in butter' at-the-creamery is! to make a.moisture land^a 1 salt-de- . termination of. the 'sample,.' add these' _te the;,sum;add one' per. ;cent;,Z which';represents.':' approxirraately .tne amount of. curd'- in' r 'thq'' butter,- then -subtract this sum /from 100 j-'the difference will'be very nearly '. the fat'/'content of : the butter. • The results .'obtained in this, way will be far more/'nearly- the correct figure .than, the. results, obtained by'trying to test the butter.with the Babcock teste:;/';''
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 901, 22 August 1910, Page 10
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176BUTTER TESTING. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 901, 22 August 1910, Page 10
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