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smellecl like milk and you tested it with the lactometer and found 

 that it was 1.029, applied the thermometer to it and found that it 

 was at a temperature of 60 ; you then withdraw the lactometer and 

 the fluid clung to the glass when withdrawn ; could you from all 

 those tests and facts state whether that fluid was adulterated 

 milk? 



(Objected to ; objection sustained ; exception.) 



Q. We will suppose, Dr. Doremus, that a fluid which you be- 

 lieve to be milk with all the accompanying circumstances embodied 

 in my last question, could you after all those tests pronounce 

 whether it was milk or not ? 



(Same objection and exception.) 



Q. Can any deduction safely be drawn as to the adulteration of 

 milk by water from the manner in which the milk runs from the 

 lactometer when it is taken out ? A. No sensible deduction can be 

 made therefrom ; I have seen samples of milk taken from the cow 

 which ran off from the lactometer in a manner similar to that which 

 has been described as characteristic of adulterated milk ; when I say 

 sensible deductions, I refer to deductions as to adulterations ; there 

 are cows yielding milk which produce a similar appearance on the 

 lactometer, as to running off, as that which has been described 

 as charateristic of adulterated milk ; of course substances could be 

 added to any milk which would simulate any appearance desir- 

 able. 



Q. Chalk, I presume, would effect the clinging to the lactometer ? 

 A. Chalk or oils or a variety of substances ; but I am speaking now, 

 your Honor, of milk just as it comes from the cow ; I have put the 

 lactometer in milk just as it comes from the cow ; you would say if 

 it was purchased in an obscure part of the city that that was adul- 

 terated milk ; the lactometer shows that ; if your Honor desires, I 

 can show it to you. 



By the COURT Q. I understood you to answer that you cannot 

 tell by looking at the milk as it runs off from the lactometer 

 whether it was thick or thin ? A. No, sir ; I did not answer that ; 

 excuse me ; I assert that the milk as it comes from the cow will 

 produce a similar effect. 



By Mr. LAWRENCE Q. Did you hear the testimony of Dr. White, 

 Dr. Doremus ? A. I did, sir. 



