108 TESTIMONY OF HENRY MORTON. 



tasting milk and using the lactometer and hydrometer or the senses? 

 A. As a test for butter, caseine and sugar, it is of course infinitely 

 better. 



Q. Analysis is infinitely better ? A. As a test for butter, sugar 

 and caseine. 



Q. What else? A. Salts. 



Q. Is it not as a test for water ? A. For the water in milk ? 



Q. Yes ; for the water in milk, or to see whether it has added 

 water ? A. That is a different question. 



Q. For the water in milk is it not a better test ? A. Certainly ; 

 the lactometer does not show the water in milk at all. 



Q. Is it not a better test for the adulteration of milk by added 

 water ? A. It is not. 



Q. How can you swear that if you have never analyzed milk ? 

 A. Because my opinion is not founded on the matter of analysis, 

 but upon the principles involved in the analysis. 



Q. You give it as your opinion, not as a matter of knowledge ? 

 A. Not as a matter of knowledge in that sense. 



Q. Professor, you see two cows milked,, and each yields a milk 

 of as low a gravity as is ordinarily found can you tell which milk 

 owes its low gravity to the presence of water, and which owes its 

 low gravity to the presence of cream in it ? A. I never tried it. 



Q. Can you tell ? A. I cannot tell whether I could or not. 



Q. "Will you take these two bottles and try ? A. But those are 

 not cows ; I have not seen them milked ; I do not know that either 

 of those are milk. 



Q. Cannot you distinguish by looking at them ? A. No ; not 

 by that alone. 



Q. Cannot you tell by testing them with your senses ? A. Not 

 under all circumstances. 



Q. Stick the lactometer in it and use the thermometer? A. 

 Those are not means of knowing whether the fluid is milk or not I 

 should add to my answer, under all circumstances. 



Q. I understand you on the subject of telling whether eggs are 

 eggs, to say that if you procure an egg at a grocery store, you 

 assume it to be an egg, but if you get it at Heller's establishment, 

 the illusionist, you doubt it ; is that correct ? A. That was not my 

 statement. 



