158 TESTIMONY OF JOSEPH T. O'CONNOK. 



milk as I read them from this report of the thirteen cows of Dairy 

 B, Alexander Thompson, showed an abnormal condition of the 

 cattle ? A. I heard him say that. 



Q. Did you not say that the three cows which yielded milk be- 

 low 100 were unhealthy ? A. I do not say those cows as such were 

 in the ordinary sense of the term unhealthy or diseased cows. 



Q. What was their condition ? A. Their condition as I stated 

 in my report, in a period of intense heat, and to my mind improper 

 food, that there were unhealthy cows there, and that I held these to 

 be unhealthy from the fact shown in my report. 



Q. If these three cows had yielded milk that stood above 100 

 by the lactometer would you not have regarded them as healthy ? 

 A. I would not have said anything about it ; my attention would not 

 have been called to it. 



Q. Was there anything about these three cows except the low 

 specific gravity of their milk from which you could infer that they 

 were unhealthy ? A. I saw these cows only cursorily ; 1 made no 

 examination to detect that fact, only from my knowledge of the 

 general influence of temperature did I make up that report in con- 

 junction with what I had previously learned, studied, and observed 

 as regards the milk of healthy cows. 



Q. Then you won't positively swear that those three cows were 

 unhealthy ? A. I am not stating that they were in a diseased state. 



Q. Did you bestow any greater examination upon the other 

 cows than you did upon these three? A. I did, sir. 



Q. Why did you except those three from the examination you 

 gave the others ? A. Which others do you mean ? 



Q. The other cows that you examined at this same farm? A. 

 I saw all the cows, they were simply seen in general. 



Q. You stated a moment ago you examined the other cows with 

 more particularity ? A. I alluded to other cows ; I misunderstood 

 you. 



Q. Did you bestow any greater examination upon the other cows 

 which you supposed to be healthy at this dairy than you did upon 

 those three cows you have stigmatized as being unhealthy ? A. No, 

 sir. 



Q. The cows you examined referred to in this report were of 

 various breeds, were they not ? A. Yes, sir. 



