120 EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



The Dairy Laio {Ads and Resolvps for 1012, Chapter 218). 



This act as originally passed in lt)01 required that all persons 

 using the Babcock test as a basis of payment for milk or cream, 

 either in buying or selling, must secure a certificate of pro- 

 ficiency from the experiment station. It also required that 

 Babcock machines be inspected by an experiment station official 

 annnally, and that all glassware be tested for accuracy by the 

 station. The act was amended in 1009 (chapter 425, Acts and 

 Kesolves for 1900), giving to the director of the experiment 

 station the authority to revoke the certificate of an operator 

 found to be using dirty or untested glassware or doing the work 

 in an impro})er manner. 



A redraft of the entire law made to include milk inspectors 

 was presented to and passed by the Legislature of 1912, the full 

 text of which follows : — 



An Act to regulate the Use op Utensils for testing the Com- 

 position OR Value of Milk and Cream.* 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. No bottle, pipette, or other measuring glass or utensil 

 shall be used in this eoinnionwealtli by any inspector of milk or cream, 

 or by any person in any milk inspection laboratory, in determining, by 

 the Babcock or other centrifugal machine, the composition of milk or 

 cream for the purposes of inspection ; or by any person in any milk 

 depot, creamery, cheese factory, condensed milk factory or other place 

 in determining, by the Babcock or other centrifugal machine, the com- 

 position or value of milk or cream as a basis for payment in buying or 

 selling, until it has been tested for accuracy and verified by the direc- 

 tor of the Massachusetts agricultural experiment station, or by his duly 

 designated deputy or deputies. Every such bottle, pipette, or other 

 measuring glass or utensil shall be submitted to the said director by 

 the owner or user thereof, to be tested for accuracy before the same is 

 used in this commonwealth for the purposes aforesaid. The owner or 

 user shall pay to the said director for the use of the said station as a fee 

 for making the test, a sum not exceeding five cents for each bottle, 

 pipette, or other measuring glass or utensil tested. Any bottle, pipette, 

 or other measuring glass or utensil that has Ijeen tested and verified as 

 aforesaid shall be marked by the director or by his said deputy or depu- 

 ties to indicate the fact, or if tested and found to be inaccurate may be 

 marked by him or them to indicate that it is inaccurate. No bottle, 



> Chapter 218, Acta and Resolves of 1912. 



