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up the Hudson river, where a vast number of cows were kept and 

 the milk was there in our presence solidified. I made a report 

 upon the subject. Some years later I was requested by the Common 

 Council of this city to make an examination of the milk of cattle 

 that were kept in stables under confinement and known popularly 

 under the name of stump-tailed cow milk. With the late Dr. Chil- 

 ton of this city, I made a series of analyses and the report is now in 

 the archives of this city. This was at the request of the Common 

 Council. I have since that time made repeated examinations of 

 milk both from the country, and more especially with medical 

 students have discussed the matter of the examination of milk, for 

 we claim that our medical graduates should be familiar with the 

 methods of distinguishing between the milks of wet nurses as to their 

 capacity of yielding the proper variety of milk. I also made ex- 

 aminations of milk in connection with this matter of the lactometer 

 as employed by the Board of Health. 



Q. Do you remember, Professor, visiting Orange County in this 

 State, and testing milk there in September, of 1875 ? A. I did, 

 sir. 



Q. Will you state what you did there ? A. I went with two 

 gentlemen to a locality in Orange County, which county, as is well 

 known, is celebrated for its fine cattle and milk as supplied to this 

 city ; I went for the especial purpose of determining the gravity of 

 milk by the lactometer as then used by the Board of Health ; I 

 made a series of observations, and if your Honor will permit I will 

 read from the notes taken at that time ; at a locality in Orange 

 County, up in a beautiful mountainous region celebrated for its fine 

 pasturage, at a Mr. Mulford's, at Greenville, I obtained milk, seeing 

 the cow milked, from a cow known as the bob-tailed cow ; I cooled 

 the milk to a temperature of 60 Fahr. ; I found the gravity of that 

 milk to be 92 degrees on the lactometer as then used by the Board 

 of Health ; another cow, known as Hetty Ann, I also saw milked ; 

 I cooled the milk, as in the previous case, to the temperature of 60 

 and found the lactometer of the Board of Health to stand at 90 ; 

 another cow, Pikery, I saw milked, and cooled the milk to 60 and 

 found the gravity 95 ; another cow, part Alderney, I saw milked and 

 cooled the milk to 60 and found the gravity 112 ; another called 

 Sukey at 104 ; I went to a Mr. Charles Clark and there obtained 



