66 TESTIMONY OF CHARLES F. CHANDLEE. 



Q. Now, sir, on that trial did you not in answer to a question 

 put by Col. Hastings, say : " We have never found any unadul- 

 terated milk which registered as low as 1.029, consequently we con- 

 sidered ourselves perfectly safe " ? 



A. We have now, as I stated yesterday 



Q. Within the past year you have found samples of milk lower 

 than you have ever found before ? A. Yes, sir ; during those very 

 hot weeks in July, when the pastures were dried up and the cows 

 were feverish. 



Q. Milk came to the city, though, the same ? A. Not by itself, 

 mixed with the milk of other cows ; only a very few of those cows 

 were of that kind. 



Q. Have you made any change in the lactometrical scale ? A- 

 No, sir. 



Q. Because of that discovery ? A. No, sir ; we did not consider 

 four cases out of 505 where the milk is mixed with that of a much 

 higher gravity and the average dairy is over 109 on the lactometer, 

 we hardly think it necessary to change the standard of 100. 



Q. Look at these tables and say whether you do not find twelve 

 samples standing at 100 ? 



Mr. PRENTICE I assume so, it is in that report. 



Q. At the time your lactometer was adjusted to its present stand- 

 ard you had never found pure milk as low as that, had you. A. 

 Never. 



Q. Then the milk last summer was in an unusual state conse- 

 quent upon the heat ? A. It was during the first week in July. 



Q. Was it later in the season ? A. Not to my knowledge. 



Q. Do you know whether it was or not ? A. No, I do not ; I 

 presume not. 



Q. Was it the 24th or the 25th of August ? A. I could tell, by 

 reference, the exact state of the weather at that time ; as long as 

 that hot weather lasted the milk was undoubtedly in an abnormal 

 condition. 



Q. Doctor, will you state the causes that will vary the specific 

 gravity of milk? A. Variations in the composition would undoubt- 

 edly modify the specific gravity. 



Q. Proceed and enumerate all that you can think of ? A. The 

 increase of fat, other things remaining constant, would diminish the 



