Six hundred and forty cakes was the average daily output of this family of eight men and two boys, with their six water buffalo.
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Fig. 78.—A dairy herd of water buffalo owned by a Chinese farmer who was supplying milk to foreigners in Shanghai.
The cotton seed cakes were being sold as feed, and a
near-by Chinese dairyman was using them for his herd
of forty water buffalo, seen in Fig. 78, producing milk
for the foreign trade in Shanghai. This herd of forty
cows, one of which was an albino, was giving an average
of but 200 catty of milk per day, or at the rate of six
and two-thirds pounds per head! The cows have extremely
small udders but the milk is very rich, as indicated
by an analysis made in the office of the Shanghai Board
of Health and obtained through the kindness of Dr. Arthur
Stanley. The milk showed a specific gravity of 1.028 and
contained 20.1 per cent total solids; 7.5 per cent fat;
4.2 per cent milk sugar and .8 per cent ash. In the
family of Rev. W. H. Hudson, of the Southern Presby-
