64 TESTIMONY OF CHARLES F. CHANDLER. 



and state whether from that the one at 100 did not contain more 

 water than the one at 95 ? A. In answering the question I presume 

 healthy milk ; you asked me whether the one that is at 100 has the 

 most water? 



Q. Yes, sir. A. Yes, sir, the one which stood 100 indicates a 

 higher percentage of water than the one that stood at 95. 



Q. Has not the one that stood at 100 a less percentage of butter 

 than the one that stood at 95 ? A. It has. 



Q. Doctor, please state the proportions in which the ingredients 

 exist in milk ? A. There are no fixed proportions. 



Q. Well, sir, then the usual proportions ? A. May I look at my 

 notes ? there are no two samples of milk that have the same propor- 

 tion. 



Q. Well, sir, look at your notes ? A. I would say that there are 

 no two samples that have same composition, nor is there any such 

 thing as an average composition of milk : you may make an average 

 of 5 samples of milk, or 10 samples, or 100 or 1,000 samples of milk, 

 but the moment you make one additional analysis and introduce 

 the results of that into the previous average, you change the 

 figures ; I will say that as good an average as I can make of several 

 hundred, and I do not know but thousands of published analysis 

 which I took the trouble to elaborate and average, was fat, 3.8 ; 

 caseine, 4.37 ; sugar, 4.54 ; salts, .63 ; water, 86.66 ; I have occasion- 

 ally given different averages from memory as a fair exhibit of the 

 ordinary composition of milk. 



Q. Now, I read you the proportions found in the analysis of milk 

 before referred to at 95 ; the average of water, 87 ; butter, 5 ; 

 sugar, 4.14 ; caseine, 3.68 ; chlorine, .029 ; do not those proportions 

 go to indicate that that milk was from a healthy cow ? A. They do 

 not. 



Q. Can you point out anything abnormal or unhealthy about 

 them ? A. They prove neither one thing nor the other ; they prove 

 neither that the cow is healthy nor unhealthy further than 

 the specific gravity is an abnormal one, and therefore arouse sus- 

 picion that the cow is not in a normal condition or not normally 

 fed. 



Q. That suspicion is not verified when you proceed further and 

 examine the sample of milk ? A. It is not verified, nor is it re- 



