76 TESTIMONY OF CHARLES F. CHANDLER. 



Q. Is taste a safe and reliable test to be applied to milk. A. I 

 should not hesitate to taste any milk offered for sale in New York ; 

 I should consider it quite safe to taste it. 



Q. Is it a safe and reliable test to tell whether it is milk or not ? 

 A. In all ordinary conditions it would be. 



Q. Will it or will it not under any and all conditions ? A. In 

 all probabilities it would ; I do not take into consideration the 

 possibility but the probability. 



Q. Will the taste indicate whether it is milk or not to a greater 

 extent than to give a probable indication? A. Without seeing 

 it? 



Q. Well, sir, and sight if you like ? A. Taste would give one a 

 considerable amount of information with regard to the nature of the 

 liquid purporting to be milk, but one might be deceived if he had 

 only taste to rely upon. 



Q. Now, don't you know the test so called was made by your 

 officers in the month of August, when, without thermometers, they 

 applied the same test to milk standing on the sidewalks and to milk 

 standing in the ice box. 



(Objected to ; objection sustained.) 



Q. Now, Doctor, suppose you found in several instances milk 

 coming from healthy, well fed cows which, at a temperature of 60 

 Fahr., fell below 100 on the lactometer, would not that destroy your 

 faith in the instrument as at present adjusted if it was repeated in 

 several instances? A. The question assumed that there is no doubt 

 about the health of the cows ; there is absolute proof that the cows 

 have been healthy efforts have been made to ascertain that fact? 



Q. Yes, sir. A. How many cases ? 



Q. In case you should find milk coming from a healthy, well-fed 

 cow, which, at a temperature of 60 Fahr., fell below 100 on the lac- 

 tometer, would not that destroy your faith in the instrument if it 

 were repeated in several instances ? A. It would not. 



Q. In the Kneib case, were you not asked the question, " In case 

 you should find milk coming from a healthy, well-fed cow which, at 

 at a temperature of 60 Fahr., fell below 100 on the lactometer, would 

 not that destroy your faith in the instrument if it were repeated in 

 several instances," and did you not answer, "Yes, sir? " A. I think 

 very likely ; it was a new idea to ni3 ; I answered it promptly on the 



