STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



License fees 

 to be 

 paid into 

 state 

 treasury. 



Inspection 

 of Babcock 

 test bottles. 



Specifications 

 for standard 

 Babcock 

 testing 

 glassware. 



licensee fails or has failed to comply with the laws, rules, 

 and regulations under which the license was granted; pro- 

 vided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to 

 individuals, hotels, restaurants, or boarding houses buying 

 milk or cream for private use. 



The money for license fees as provided for in this section 

 shall be paid by the state dairy bureau into the state treasury 

 and shall become a ^art of the funds for the use of the state 

 dairy bureau. (As amended. Stats. 1919, p. 298.) 



SEC. 26. Every person, firm or corporation receiving or 

 purchasing milk or cream on the basis of the amount of butter 

 fat contained therein as determined by the Babcock test, shall 

 use the standard Babcock test bottles, pipettes and accurate 

 weights and scales as defined in this act, and all Babcock test 

 bottles and pipettes shall have been inspected for accuracy by 

 the state dairy bureau* or its agent and shall be legibly and 

 indelibly marked by the state dairy bureau or its agent with 

 the letters "D. B." 



It shall be unlawful for any firm or corporation or any of 

 their agents to use any other than standard test bottles and 

 pipettes which have been examined and marked as provided 

 by this section, to determine the amount of fat in milk or 

 cream received or purchased on the butter fat basis. 



For all testing of glassware by the said state dairy bureau 

 or its agent, a fee of five cents shall be paid by the owner of 

 said glassware to the state dairy bureau for every piece of 

 glassware so examined, and said fee shall be used by the state 

 dairy bureau to defray the cost of testing such glassware. 

 (Added, Stats. 1917, p. 1659.) 



SEC. 27. The term "standard Babcock testing glassware" 

 shall apply to glassware and weights complying to the follow- 

 ing specifications: (a) Graduation for milk test bottles. The 

 total per cent graduation shall be eight. The graduated por- 

 tion of the neck shall have a length of not less than sixty-three 

 and five-tenths millimeters (two and one-half inches) and the 

 graduation shall represent whole per cent, five-tenths per cent, 

 and tenths per cent. The tenths per cent graduation shall not 

 be less than three millimeters in length ; the five-tenths per cent 

 graduations shall be one millimeter longer than the tenths 

 per cent graduations, projecting one millimeter to the left; the 

 whole per cent graduations shall extend at least one-half way 

 around the neck to the right and projecting two millimeters to 

 the left of the tenths per cent graduations. Each per cent 

 graduation shall be numbered, the number being placed on the 

 left of the scale. The error at any point of the scale shall not 

 exceed one-tenth per cent. 



The neck shall be cylindrical and the cylindrical shape shall 

 extend for at least nine millimeters below the lowest and 

 above the highest graduation mark. The top of the neck 

 shall be flared to a diameter of not less than ten millimeters. 



*See note, page 32 hereof. 



