78 TESTIMONY OF CHARLES F. CHANDLER. 



Q. Doctor, is the lactometer a reliable guide for testing milk ; 

 I would like an affirmative or negative answer to that question ? 

 A. It is reliable for the purpose for which it is used by the Health 

 Department; it is not reliable for the detection of combined frauds 

 which an instructed dealer in milk might be able to perpetrate. 



Q. Is the lactometer a reliable test for milk ? I ask you to 

 answer that question categorically. A. It cannot be done. 



Q. You cannot? A. No, sir. 



Q. Doctor, are you the editor of the scientific journal called the 

 American Chemist ? A. I am one of them. 



Q. "Will you look at this and see whether this is a number of 

 that periodical page 26, July, 1871 what purports to be an arti- 

 cle over your signature ? A. I remember writing an article about 

 that time. 



Q. In a note to this article, it is stated, under your signature, 

 " The lactometer is a very unreliable guide, as skimming causes the 

 milk to appear better, while watering exerts the opposite effect." 

 Did you write that ? A. I did, I am sure, and should write it again 

 if I had occasion to write to an audience that did not entrap every 

 word I uttered. 



Q. Is the lactometer an unreliable guide for milk ? 



(Objected to. Objection overruled.) 



A. Not for all cases. 



Q. Can you not answer that question yes or no ? A. I answer it 

 no, if it applies to all kinds of milk. 



Q. Can you give a simple negative or affirmative answer ? 

 A. Not to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, 

 which I have sworn to do. 



Q. You say in Paris they reject all milk below 1.030 ? A. So I 

 am informed. 



Q. Whence do you derive your information ? A. It is stated in 

 one of the books that I have here. 



Q. Is it in Quevenne, and where ? A. No, that is an old book 

 published in 1830. It is a recent book. It is that little German 

 book, or possibly that little French one, I have forgotten which. 



Q. I hold in my hand a book entitled, Du Lait, by Quevenne, 

 1857, and I read from pages 2 and 3 a translation : " If the guilty 

 is to be punished severely, it is important above all things that the 



