did not dare to say was milk. You, gentlemen, have now ar- 

 rived at a point where you, too, will say it was not milk. There 

 is this thing for which they searched the whole country around 

 New York, and could find no place from which it could be de- 

 rived, except the famous farm of Muiford, distinguished in the 

 researches of the Doremus family. This article they proposed 

 as a standard by which, shall be regulated the milk trade of New 

 York, and you will pronounce it, gentlemen, I am convinced, no 

 milk ; that it is not for a standard, and my impression is, that 

 such a sample of their evidence will characterize their whole 

 case. If that is their standard, if that is their evidence of milk 

 which they say is from a. fair, healthy cow, "a fair sample of the 

 average milk mixed and taken to New York," I trust, gentlemen, 

 you will leave that sample and that trade to the gentlemen for 

 the defence, give it to "the distinguished defendant," nourish him 

 on it in the seclusion to which I hope he will be devoted, and let 

 us see if he, and his friends and associates, will not wish for a 

 better milk, as they should wish for a better and more honest 

 trade. Gentlemen, your \ 7 erdict will touch such considerations as 

 these. After the first case was tried, we came to another, where 

 many experts were examined whose testimony you have heard 

 here on this trial, but there was no defence except by the cross- 

 examination of this learned gentleman. 



ME. LAWRENCE. I was not present ; you are mistaken. 



MR. PRENTICE. Your associate, Mr. "Waehner, was present ; 

 I speak of the Joechter case ; there was no appeal in that case. 

 Then we came to the Cox case. In that case there was an 

 appeal, and Cox illustrated by his labors in the penitentiary the 

 dangers and difficulties attending a dishonest trade in the City 

 of New York. Now we have finally come to this case, and they 

 propose, after a year or two of litigation, that this shall be the test 

 case. The issue here, as I stated before, is whether, the defendant 

 had for sale watered milk. I shall not spend time in discussing 

 whether there was an error of one, two, or three degrees on any 

 of the lactometers, or in any of the tests. This man watered his 

 milk fifteen degrees. Take the lowest standard offered by the 

 gentlemen of the defense of milk. I do not call the sample 



