44 TESTIMONY OF CHAELES F. CHANDLER. 



past year was a peculiar one, and the inspectors were again 

 sent to the dairies in the hot weather of July. The last week in 

 June and the first week in July, an additional number sufficient to 

 bring the whole to 505 cows were tested in the same way. 



COUNSEL I move to strike that out as having been outside the 

 knowledge of the witness. Your Honor denies that motion, and I 

 except. 



The COURT Yes, sir. 



A.. The result of this investigation was that four cows were found 

 who produced milk below 100 by the lactometer ; one stood at 96, 

 two stood at 95, and one stood at 93, at a time when the pastures were 

 dried up and the cows were in an abnormal condition, a time which 

 y/as so trying to all animals, and which caused the death of nearly 

 twice the usual number of children in New York, and which was a 

 period which subjected the cows to abnormal conditions ; as a proof 

 of this, two cows were found that were sick ; one of them had 

 aborted, and the other one was suffering from what appeared to be 

 rheumatism ; one of these cows furnished milk which stood at 96, 

 and the other furnished milk which stood at 88 by the lactometer. 



By COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANT Q. All that you have testified to 

 is without your personal knowledge ? A. Yes, sir. 



COUNSEL Note an exception. 



By Mr. PRENTICE Q. These facts were embraced in reports to 

 you officially? 



(Objected to as immaterial ; objection overruled ; exception.) 



A. They were. 



Q. Go on, sir? A. Two cows known to be sick furnished milk 

 standing below 100 ; 4 cows out of 505 not proved to have been sick, 

 though it was a time when all animals were suffering from the un- 

 usual heat, furnished milk that stood, the lowest at 93, the highest 

 at 96 ; that was the result of the observations reported to me. 



Q. Have you tabulated these observations of the 505 cows ? A. 

 I have caused them to be tabulated and averaged. 



Q. Have you that here ; have you examined it and know it to be 

 correct ? A. I have not. 



Q. From your reading and observation, and the experiments 

 that you have caused to be made, has there been any experiment or 

 test of milk from a sound, healthy cow that, under normal circum- 



