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Thus ill the only time during the whole course of the experiment 

 in which the conditions approached those of an ordinary season, 

 we seem to see the greatest effect from our grain^ration. 



3. Another peculiarit}- that seems to be traced to climatic con- 

 ditions is seen in the last two weeks of the experiment. Begin- 

 ning on Sept. 6, more or less rain fell on every day but one till the 

 close of the experiment on the 21st. During this period the 

 weather was almost continually cloudy and what may be expres- 

 sively' termed " raw." From Sept. 7th to 2i.st, the percentage of 

 fat in the milk of lot I fell from 4.47 to 4. 10, or nine per cent while 

 the fat in the milk of L,ot II in the same period, decreased from 

 5.77 to 4.61, or twenty per cent. 



4. In view of the fact that a citizen of a neighboring state has 

 been imprisoned for selling milk that was below the legal .standard 

 of twelve per cent of solids, it seems worth while to state that 

 while when the average analysis for three days is taken into ac- 

 count our milk was far above the required standard, (the average 

 for both lots for the whole period was 13.56 per cent total solids 

 and 4.58 per cent fats) yet there was one daj- when the milk from 

 one lot fell below the legal requirement of 12% total solids, and 

 several others on which the percentage of total solids came dan- 

 gerously near the ' 'dead line. ' ' Had a sample been taken on that 

 day by the State authorities we should have been liable to convic- 

 tion under the law and to a fine of not more than two hundred dol- 

 lars and to imprisonment for not more than six months. It seems 

 to us that no law can be just that fixes an arbitrary standard for 

 the purity of milk which may depend upon the results of a single 

 analysis. 



I. P. ROBERTS. 

 HENRY H. WING. 



