PROBLEMS OF THE BUFFALO MOZZARELLA CHEESE PRODUCTION .2. THE MILK CRYOSCOPIC POINT VARIATIONS DURING LACTATION

The milk of ten buffaloes at their third delivery, has been analyzed f or eight months in order to assess the possible influence of milk comp onents on the Delta Tc. The buffaloes belonged to a medium size farm, they all followed the same feed diet and were born in the same day. Th e milk samples, drawn from the daily milking, have been immediately an alyzed in the Farm laboratory. In the calculus of the correlations wit h the freezing point, ''r'' was always significant only for the sample s average, while for single samples and within the single drawing aver age, this significance wasn't constant. The Variation of Freezing mean values showed that the examined buffalo milk presented normal values of Delta Tc (by -0.5561 degrees to -0.5584 degrees C) only in the peri od between the fourth and the sixth month of lactation, while in the f irst and the last months it was higher than the standard.