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retail milk dealers are found with milk verging on the minimum 

 or below in fat and solids not fat, and upon investigation the 

 cause has been brought home to the herd from which the milk 

 was produced. There is a great deal of this poor milk being dis- 

 posed of in large cities, side by side with milk of good quality 

 and at the same price, cheating the consumer of a portion of 

 what he pays for and frequently causing the innocent milk ped- 

 dler to have his good name impugned. Most of this kind of milk 

 is worked off to restaurants and cheap eating places. To reach 

 cases of this nature, where two or more cows in a herd are old 

 and fit only for beef, an amendment to the laws governing the 

 sale of milk might be made requiring Babcock tests of the milk 

 of each cow separately in suspected herds, and if any are found 

 deficient, the sale of milk of such herds should be forbidden until 

 the deficiency is made good by substitution of younger or better 

 animals. In this division about 30 cases of this kind have been 

 investigated during the year, occasioning considerable work and 

 expense without any tangible results, except that in one case 

 two old cows were replaced by two younger ones, with a result 

 of raising the fat content of the herd's milk from 2.8 to 3.5 per 

 cent. 



The total quantity of milk and cream received in Buffalo dur- 

 ing the year has been over 12,000,000 gallons, divided among 

 sources of transportation as follows: 



Gallons. 



Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad 1,081,303 



Erie Railroad 2,500,000 



Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad 866,499 



Pennsylvania Railroad (W. N. Y. & P.) 1,880,730 



New York Central and Hudson River Railroad 864,922 



West Shore Railroad 164,890 



American Express Company 411,830 



Wells-Fargo Express Company 1,747,200 



United States Express Company 400,000 



By wagon 2.200,000 



Total 12,117,365 



