TESTIMONY OP CHABLES F. CHANDLER. 69 



Q. Assuming the quantities to be alike ? A. It would not be an 

 exact mean ; they do not claim to show the specific gravity of the 

 milk after it is mixed ; it is an average of the observations. 



Q. You say that you can distinguish milk from cream by the 

 exercise of your senses ? A. I can distinguish fair cream from fair 

 average milk. 



Q. You say that you can distinguish skimmed milk from pure 

 milk ? A. I can, sir ; from the lactometer and my senses ; that is 

 if it has been well skimmed. 



Q. From the evidence of your senses can you distinguish pure 

 milk from watered milk ? A. With the aid of the lactometer. 



Q. Without the aid of the lactometer, can you ? A. I should 

 hardly dare to declare that the sample was watered milk, without 

 the aid of the lactometer. 



Q. Would your general answer as to what you would distinguish 

 by your senses be subordinate to that qualification ? A. Certainly ; 

 I made it by the aid of the lactometer, as I had it here at the time ; 

 though if I knew that three samples were placed before me, one of 

 which was skimmed milk, another was cream, another watered 

 milk and another genuine milk, I might distinguish them, even 

 without the aid of the lactometer, as my thirteen-year-old daughter 

 did last night when I took those samples home. 



Q. Has your attention ever been called to any case of a healthy 

 <;ow in a normal condition giving milk below 100 '? A. My attention 

 has been called to cows giving milk below 100, but as to whether they 

 were in a healthy or normal condition, the means of proof were not 

 at hand, consequently I cannot say that it ever has been. 



Q. Do you say that it has not been ? A. Not knowing whether 

 those cows were in a healthy or unhealthy condition by absolute 

 proof, I have only an inference as to their condition from which 

 I can infer that their milk exhibited an abnormal specific 

 gravity. 



Q. Had you not the same evidence that they were healthy and 

 normal in their condition that you had that tha milk stood below 

 100 ? A. No ; that milk stood below 100 was indicated by the 

 lactometer ; but that they were in a healthy normal condition I had 

 some evidence to the contrary. 



Q. Had you not the same evidence that they were in a healthy 



