60 TESTIMONY OF CHAELES F. CHANDLER. 



Q. But from the lactometer alone that would not appear ? A. 

 No. 



Q. Will you from your senses tell what is in that bottle ? 



(Bottle shown). 



A. No ; I know too much. 



Q. Then you regard the lactometrical test as being as sure a test 

 as analysis ? A. Yes, sir ; for that particular point. 



By Mr. PRENTICE Q. With the two samples of milk given to 

 you, one that has been doctored by the addition of cream and the 

 other by water so that they present in that shape the same grade of 

 specific gravity submitted to an expert in the testing of milk who 

 will use his other senses and all of them necessary, will it be pos- 

 sible for him to distinguish between the two samples ? 



(Objected to objection sustained.) 



By the COURT Q. I ask you in view of the question which I 

 have permitted and which you have answered, now say you took a 

 gallon of milk and you put two quarts in one vessel and two quarts 

 in another and you acid a spoonful of cream to one and a quart of 

 water to the other, will the lactometer tell which the water is in ? 

 A. The quantity of water of course would affect the lactometer more 

 than a small quantity of cream in the same proportion of specific 

 gravity, whatever might be the quantity arranged. 



Q. You put a tablespoonful of cream to two quarts and you add 

 a quart of water to the other, the lactometer would tell the water, 

 would it ? A. Certainly. 



CHARLES F. CHANDLER, recalled by COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENDANT, for 

 cross-examination. 



Q. Now, Doctor Chandler, I understand you to say that the lac- 

 tometers used by the Board of Health are adjusted under your spe- 

 cial personal direction ? A. Yes, sir. 



Q. You take great care, do you not, that they should all be accu- 

 rate and that they should be alike ? A. I take great care that they 

 should be exact at the hundred point, which is the essential point 

 or the lactometer, but when they get down to 44 it is immaterial 

 whether the lactometer reads 45, 44, or 43, or when they get up to 114 

 it is immaterial whether they read 114, 115, or 116 ; the essential 



