Reports and notes of the Public Health Laboratories, Cairo. No. 1, 1917.

Date:: 1918

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8 7.1 pao From the above tables it is seen that the variation in composition of milk from individual animals is very large, and that the proportion of non-fatty solids is in most cases remarkably low. This is doubtless due to the fact that in Egypt a herd of goats is constantly driven from place to place, obtaining its food by grazing on the way. This pastoral custom survives in the large Egyptian towns, with the result that in towns the animals are habitually underfed. MeEtTHOoDS oF ANALYSIS. The same methods were used as described for cow milk.