62 TESTIMONY OF CHARLES F. CHANDLER. 



Q. Now, sir ; is the lactometer correct at 20 ? A. I am not sure 

 that the scale on that lactometer goes down to 20. 



Q. It does ? A. I do not know ; I never have tested the 20 

 mark ; that is a mark we have no occasion to use. 



Q. Why do you put it there ? A. Ask the maker ; 44 is as low 

 as we find 



Q. I beg your pardon, I understood you to be the maker ? A. 

 No, sir ; I am not a maker of lactometers, I simply test them. 



Q. You testified yesterday, did you not, that the four instances 

 outside of your personal knowledge, found by your assistants at 

 which cows yield milk, which when pure at 60 Fahr. stood below 

 the 100 on the lactometer, were the cows in an abnormal unhealthy 

 condition ? A. I said that they were cows that were feeding under 

 abnormal circumstances, and that as two other cases of milk stand- 

 ing below 100 were known to be cows that were sick, and as these 

 cows were feeding under very trying and abnormal conditions, and 

 were exceptions in a very large number of cases, although there was 

 absence of direct proof of an unhealthy condition, there was a rea- 

 sonable ground to suppose that such exceptional cases, at an excep- 

 tional time and season, were due to an unhealthy condition of the 

 animals. 



Q. The milk was sent k> New York during that season, was it 

 not, Doctor? A. I presume it was. 



Q. It arrived in the hands of milkmen at least in as unhealthy 

 condition as it left the cow, did it not? 



(Objected to.) 



A. It reached the milkmen, but mixed with the milk of other 

 cows, by which an average was established. 



Q. If you mix milk from healthy cows and from unhealthy cows, 

 you make it all healthy ; the disease does not spread ? A. You do 

 not make it all healthy, but you lose the few quarts of milk below 

 100 ; the milk of these few exceptional cows is lost in the large 

 volume of milk from healthy cows, and consequently while those 

 four individual cows stand out as having produced milk below 100, 

 those cows produced a very small quantity, in some cases a quart 

 or two of this light milk ; I have forgotten the amount, but the 

 quantity was very small, and the milk is placed in forty-quart cans, 

 which are filled, and consequently it would be impossible from any 



