94 TESTIMONY OF THOMAS H. DOUGHTY. 



THOMAS H. DOUGHTY, sworn and examined by Mr. PBENTICE, 

 testifies as follows : 



Q. What is your business, Mr. Doughty ? A. I am Manager of 

 the Essex County Farmers Milk Association. 



Q. "Where is your place of business? A. In New York, 297 

 Seventh avenue. 



Q. How long have you been connected with this company ? A. 

 About two years and a half. 



Q. How does your milk come to the city ? A. It comes in forty- 

 quart cans. 



Q. How much do you deal in ? A. We use from forty and some- 

 times as high as fifty and sixty cans. 



By the COUET Q. In a day ? A. Yes, sir. 



By Mr. PBENTICE Have you tested the milk of covs with the 

 lactometer ? A. Yes, sir. 



Q. The Board of Health lactometer ? A. It has been compared 

 with the Board of Health lactometer, and it has been found to agree 

 with theirs : I have compared it with officer Jepson's instrument 

 at my office and it agreed ; I will correct that with the Board of 

 Health lactometer. 



Q. What was the standard of that ? A. 1.029. 



Q. And at what degree of Fahrenheit ? A. At 60. 



Q. How many tests have you made ? A. I suppose I have made 

 between two and three thousand tests. 



Q. Have you ever found by the lactometer genuine milk stand- 

 ing below 100 at 60 Fahr. ? 



(Objected to on the ground that it is incompetent and irrele- 

 vant ; objection overruled ; exception.) 

 A. No, sir. 



Q. At what did you find it ? A. I found it to vary from 100 to 

 as high as 112. 



Q. How did you make your tests ? did you use your senses ? 

 A. To a certain extent ; I smell of it to see if it is milk or 

 not. I visit all the farmers myself and I know very thoroughly that 

 it could not be anything else but milk, because the parties are too 

 ignorant to make any chemical preparations. 



