Question

give three uses of lactometer

Answer 1

Use Of The Lactometer Amount of solids must determine the question of adulteration by water. Amount of solids necessary. Milk is essentially the food of the growing animal. Supplied by nature for the rapid development of the young calf, it is, with a little modification, admirably adapted for our young children. It is excellent food, too, for some adults; by no means for all. Those who take much exercise, or follow laborious occupations, may make it a useful portion of their dietary. It is rarely suitable for sedentary persons, or for those who have reached the latter stage of life when the powers diminish, and the habits become less active than heretofore. As a drink at meal time, it is for the most part undesirable; for liquids taken with solid food need not be nutritious, indeed, are better not to be so: they are rather required to dilute and dissolve the latter, nutritive material being for the most part abundantly supplied by the solid constituents of a meal. Milk forms a more suitable form of drink when the fat has been removed, when, in short, it has been skimmed. If the casein is also taken out, as in cheese-making, the whey, which now contains little besides the sugar and the salts, is a very wholesome beverage, when fresh. Milk may be fermented also, and an agreeable light effervescing drink results, known as Koumiss, and largely used in Russian Tartary, where it is made chiefly from the milk of the mare, which slightly differs from that of the cow. The latter, however, is now treated here in the same way, and is in no respect inferior; it is widely recognized as useful in some chronic complaints, and has been more or less successful. Milk is the food of growing animals. Not necessarily always suitable to the adult. Whey. Koumiss. Milk as Diet. Precautions.