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"been added ? A. I suppose of course, if somebody went there and 

 put water in they would lower the gravity by putting it in ; I would 

 not be willing to swear in court which had been done. 



Q. Water is a cheaper article ? A. Of course it is cheaper than 

 milk. 



By Mr. WAEHNER Q. Look at sample bottle No. 3 in relation to 

 that matter ; have you a practical knowledge in such case of change 

 of milk of the sample brought from Mulford's establishment by you ? 

 A. I have several cases. 



Q. Give me the one that was tested by yourself and your father, 

 which you brought from Mulford's ? A. I did not bring it from 

 Mulford's, I brought it from Mr. Clark's ; I cannot state exactly, 

 because at that time my attention was not particularly called to it, 

 but one of the samples I obtained from Mr. Clark ; in fact two 

 samples were obtained from his place. 



By Mr. PRENTICE Q. What numbers were they? A. I do not 

 want to make any mistake ; I know in regard 1 to one ; I may be 

 mistaken in regard to two ; I will limit it to one ; I know that one 

 sample was so much lighter, but only had been kept a short time. 



Q. Which one was that ? A. I cannot say ; I made no record of 

 it at the time ; it may be one of the samples which was here in the 

 list of one of those ; I brought several down which stood near 100 ; 

 it had lessened so much by keeping that I could not verify the 

 reading that I had made on the lactometer by a determination by 

 means of the specific gravity bottle. 



Q. Had it increased or decreased in gravity ? A. It had dimin- 

 ished largely. 



Q. Was this test made in conjunction with your father ? A. It 

 was ; he observed the fact at the time. 



Q. Could you from the evidence of your senses and the lactome- 

 ter, determine whether an article was milk or not ? A. I could not, 

 sir. 



Q. What in your reading have you found to be the range of 

 specific gravity of milk ? A. There are a great many authorities 

 that give the specific gravity of pure milk, whole milk well mixed 

 together, as being much below 1.029. There is a table on the other 

 side copied from " Hassal, Adulterations of Food " ; the specific 

 gravity of milk is given in one case, it goes as low as 1.008. There 



