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The total num'ber of samples of butter taken for analysis during 

 the year was 24. 



FAT TESTS. 



During the month of August we received a request from the 

 management of the Sterling Valley Creamery Company, located 

 in Cayuga county, for an expert to make a test of the milk deliv- 

 ered at their factory. Our expert, upon arriving upon the scene, 

 discovered that there was no suspicion of anyone adulterating 

 the milk, but the factory being a new one, and the patrons being 

 paid according to the butter fat contained in their milk by Bab- 

 cock test^ there was considerable dissatisfaction among them 

 because of the difference in the amount of fat contained in the 

 , different milk. A suspicion having arisen among them that favor- 

 itism was being shown by the butter maker, or that he was either 

 unable to make a correct test by the Babcock method or careless 

 In making the same, after consulting with the officers and a num- 

 ber of patrons, it was decided to take a few samples of milk for 

 analysis and make a test o^f the same milk by the Babcock method. 

 This was done, and a report of the analysis sent to the manager 

 to compare with the report of the butter maker. Having heard 

 nothing from them since, we assume that everything is now in a 

 satisfactory condition. 



CHEESE. 



The cheese being sold throughout this division has been exam- 

 ined, as well as other dairy products^ with the gratifying result 

 that none but full cream cheese was found on sale, with the ex- 

 ception that there was some skim milk cheese being sold as such 

 for free-lunch purposes. 



The price of cheese having, in common with nearly every other 

 product of the husbandman, been lower this year than usual, the 

 same feeling of satisfaction in final results so noticeable in pre- 

 vious years among the patrons of the different cheese factories was 

 entirely missing, and this feeling of dissatisfaction was no doubt 

 the primary cause of the adulterations complained of at the 

 cheese factory located in Lincoln, Wayne county, managed by 

 Mr. Gorham Englert, where, upon examining the milk, our experts 



