156 TESTIMONY OF JOSEPH T. o'CONNOE. 



applied by any one who can do those things, who happens to pos- 

 sess the apparatus necessary for the purpose. 



Q. What apparatus does it require ? A. It would require a 

 moderately accurate balance and a good specific gravity bottle 

 indeed we can have any bottle, but it should be accurate in its fit- 

 tings, that is all. 



Q. Will you state as to the cows which you examined in the 

 country last summer, and the examinations which were tabulated 

 in the report published in the City Record on the 17th of August 

 whether those are not to a large extent the same cows that were 

 examined by Dr. J. Blake White ? A. No, sir ; and to no extent ; there 

 is not a duplication there of any one of Dr. White's cows as far as 

 I know and believe. 



Q. Are you quite certain ? A. I am quite certain. 



Q. Did not Dr. White accompany you ? A. He did, sir. 



Q. But he made no report of the cows examined by you ? A. 

 No, sir. 



Q. Nor you of his ? A. That is it exactly. 



Q. I read from your report of Dairy B, Orange county, " Alexan- 

 der Thompson, Turner's Station, June 30, afternoon, July 1st, morn- 

 ing, 13 cows were examined ; " was that correct ? A. Yes, sir. 



Q. I read from Dr. White's report No. 2, Farm of Alexander 

 Thompson, Turner's Station, June 30, P. M., and July 1st, A. M., 1876, 

 13 cows examined? A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Are not those 13 cows the same as you examined ? A. No, 

 sir ; that is to say, I have of course, not being able to recognize the 

 animals as I would men, I have to go by the designations given 

 to the animals by the proprietor or superintendent of the farm, the 

 grotesque and odd names that are given sometimes by the owners or 

 by the milkers ; the cows seem to have certain milkers ; this enables 

 us to separate them, and those tjiat are duplicated in that report I 

 recognize by the names which are given in my record book. 



A. Are there any which are duplicated in those two ? A. No, 

 sir ; not any ; yon will find some of my own duplicates in the 

 Alexander Thompson dairy. 



Q. Do I understand you correctly that 13 cows were examined 

 by him at Alexander Thompson's dairy, and 13 by you ? A. Yes, 



