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  Seventh 
  Ajjnual 
  Repokt 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  Whoever 
  sells 
  or 
  offers 
  for 
  sale, 
  knowingly, 
  milk 
  from 
  cows 
  

   diseased, 
  sick, 
  or 
  fed 
  upon 
  refuse 
  of 
  breweries 
  or 
  distilleries, 
  or 
  

   upon 
  any 
  substance 
  deleterious 
  to 
  its 
  quality, 
  or 
  milk 
  to 
  which 
  

   water 
  or 
  any 
  foreign 
  substance 
  has 
  been 
  added, 
  or 
  sells 
  or 
  offers 
  

   for 
  sale 
  as 
  pure 
  milk, 
  any 
  milk 
  from 
  which 
  cream 
  has 
  been 
  taken, 
  

   forfeits 
  twenty 
  dollars 
  for 
  the 
  first, 
  and 
  fifty 
  dollars 
  for 
  the 
  sec- 
  

   ond 
  offense. 
  When 
  milk 
  shall, 
  by 
  the 
  gravimetric 
  analysis, 
  be 
  

   found 
  to 
  contain 
  over 
  88 
  per 
  cent, 
  water, 
  it 
  shall 
  be 
  deemed 
  

   prima 
  facie 
  evidence 
  that 
  said 
  milk 
  has 
  been 
  watered, 
  and 
  when 
  

   it 
  shall 
  show 
  less 
  than 
  12 
  per 
  cent, 
  solids, 
  and 
  less 
  than 
  3 
  per 
  cent, 
  

   fat, 
  it 
  shall 
  be 
  deemed 
  milk 
  from 
  which 
  cream 
  has 
  been 
  taken, 
  and 
  

   any 
  milk 
  found 
  to 
  contain 
  any 
  foreign 
  substance, 
  shall 
  be 
  deemed 
  

   milk 
  to 
  which 
  a 
  foreign 
  substance 
  has 
  been 
  added. 
  (R. 
  S., 
  chap. 
  

   38, 
  as 
  amended 
  by 
  Laws 
  1893, 
  chap. 
  255; 
  Laws 
  1897, 
  chap. 
  292.) 
  

  

  All 
  measures, 
  cans 
  or 
  other 
  vessels 
  used 
  in 
  the 
  sale 
  of 
  milk 
  shall 
  

   annually 
  be 
  sealed 
  by 
  the 
  sealer 
  of 
  w^eights 
  and 
  measures, 
  by 
  

   wine 
  measure, 
  and 
  w^hosoever 
  sells 
  by 
  any 
  other 
  measure 
  forfeits 
  

   twenty 
  dollars 
  for 
  each 
  offense. 
  (Laws 
  1887, 
  chap. 
  20.) 
  

  

  Babcock 
  Test. 
  

  

  All 
  bottles, 
  pipettes 
  or 
  other 
  measuring 
  glasses 
  used 
  by 
  any 
  

   person 
  at 
  any 
  creamery, 
  butter 
  factory, 
  cheese 
  factory, 
  or 
  con- 
  

   densed 
  milk 
  factory, 
  or 
  elsewhere, 
  in 
  determining 
  by 
  the 
  Babcock 
  

   test, 
  or 
  by 
  any 
  other 
  test, 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  milk 
  or 
  cream 
  received 
  

   from 
  different 
  persons 
  at 
  such 
  creameries 
  or 
  factories, 
  shall 
  before 
  

   such 
  use 
  be 
  tested 
  for 
  accuracy 
  of 
  measurement 
  and 
  for 
  accuracy 
  

   of 
  the 
  per 
  cent, 
  scale 
  marked 
  thereon. 
  Such 
  bottles, 
  pipettes 
  or 
  

   measuring 
  glasses 
  shall 
  bear 
  in 
  marks 
  or 
  characters 
  ineffaceable 
  

   that 
  such 
  test 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  authority, 
  mentioned 
  below, 
  

   and 
  no 
  inaccurate 
  bottles, 
  pipettes, 
  or 
  other 
  glasses 
  shall 
  bear 
  such 
  

   marks 
  or 
  characters. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  made 
  the 
  duty 
  of 
  the 
  director 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  college 
  experi- 
  

   ment 
  station, 
  or 
  other 
  competent 
  person 
  designated 
  by 
  him, 
  to 
  

   test 
  the 
  accuracy 
  of 
  all 
  bottles, 
  pipettes 
  or 
  other 
  measuring 
  glasses 
  

  

  