TESTIMONY OF JOHN BLAKE WHITE. 29 



mind that the fluid tasted was milk, was absent, could you, from the 

 tests as you have described them in your direct evidence, tell 

 whether it was milk ? 



(Objected to ; objection overruled.) 



A. I do not understand your question ; to tell milk it would be 

 necessary to use every possible conceivable means to find out 

 whether it was milk or not ; we enter upon the presumption that the 

 man is selling milk to dealers and then I taste it. 



COUNSEL Q. What is your answer to my question ? A. I think 

 I have answered that question already. 



Q. Now, Mr. "White, in a case where the supposition in your 

 mind that the fluid tasted was milk, was absent, could you, from the 

 tests as you have described them in your evidence, tell whether it 

 was milk ? A. I think, I could. 



By the COURT Can you state any more positively than you have ? 

 A. Yes, I can tell milk. 



By COUNSEL Can you state positively that you can ? A. The 

 result of all the experience in all my life is that I think I can tell 

 whether it was milk ? 



Q. Take this fluid, test it properly by the lactometer and ther- 

 mometer, and state whether it is milk or not ? 



(Objected to ; objection sustained ; exception.) 



Q. Now, sir, being able solely from the tests referred to to de- 

 termine that tha fluid tested is milk, can you tell from what species 

 of animal that milk comes ? 



(Objected to ; objection sustained ; exception.) 



A. Simply by the taste ? 



Q. Can you state whether milk is pure from any species of 

 animal if less than 1.029 or 100 on the lactometer as at present ad- 

 justed ? 



(Objected to.) 



A. I replied earlier in the examination that I had not tested the 

 milk of any other animal. 



By the COURT Can you tell the gravity of milk of other animals ? 

 A. Certainly, sir ; with the same instrument. 



COUNSEL Have you ever tried it ? A. No, sir ; I have not. 



(Counsel's question repeated.) 



A. I have said I have not tested it. 



