148 TESTIMONY OF JOHN B. YALE. 



Q. What examination? A. I saw them all eating healthy, 

 while they were getting milked. 



Q. When did you first begin the use of the thermometer ? A. I 

 could not say positively, but I should think it was at the same time 

 that my associate commenced. 



Q. Do you recollect the case of John Kneib, whose milk you 

 tested in the month of August, 1875, and who was tried at the Court 

 of Special Sessions, and convicted of keeping for sale adulterated 

 milk, whose conviction was reversed ; were you present at that trial? 

 A. I was. 



Q. At that time were you familiar with the principles on which 

 the lactometer worked ? A. I was. 



Q. Do you recollect that at that trial I asked you the question : 

 " l Do you know the principles upon which this lactometer operated ", 

 and did you answer, "No, sir; nothing more than I have heard"? 

 A. Well, I could not use it without I knew how it operated. 



Q. Do you recollect that question and answer ? A. I do not. 



Q. Were. you asked that question and did you make that answer? 

 A. I do not know, sir. 



Q. Do you recollect that in the case of Kneib, in the month of 

 August, 1875, you made the same test to the milk standing on the 

 sidewalk that you did to the milk standing in the ice-box, and that 

 you used the thermometer in another case ? 



(Objected to as immaterial ; objection sustained ; exception.) 



Q. In August, 1875, did you test milk without a thermometer ? 

 A. I could not say positively without I referred to my book. 



FRIDAY, December 22, 1876. 

 JOHN R. YALE, sworn and examined by Mr. PRENTICE, testified : 



Q. You are a resident of this city, Mr. Yale ? A. Yes, sir. 



Q. You have the sample of milk taken by you from a cow 

 to-day, a fair average sample of the milk of that cow ? A. Yes, I 

 have. 



Q. State where you got it and how you got it ? A. I got it in 



